Geekery: What to Watch this Week – October 2nd, 2019
This week Batman’s nemesis returns to the big screen and horror takes over Hulu and Netflix. Take a look at what to watch in the theaters and on your couch this weekend.
Movies Opening this Week
Joker – In Theaters Oct 4
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz; Directed by Todd Phillips
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks — the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he’s part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker.
Memory: The Origins Of Alien – In Theaters Oct 4
Directed by Mickey Faerch
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s `Alien’ series, which features Greek mythology, comic books and inspiration from a range of other science-fiction authors.
Dolemite Is My Name – In Select Theaters Oct 4
Starring Eddie Murphy, Wesley Snipes, Keegan-Michael Key; Directed by Craig Brewer
Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
My Soul To Keep – In Theaters Oct 4
Starring Remington Gielniak, Debra Harrison-Lowe; Directed by Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad
Like many 9-year-olds, Eli Braverman believes something evil lives in his basement. When his older sister Emily leaves him home alone one night, Eli discovers if this evil is real or all in his head. What Eli confronts may end up being far more terrifying than his worst nightmare.
Wrinkles The Clown – In Theaters Oct 4
Directed by Michael Beach Nichols
It started with a silent black and white surveillance video uploaded to YouTube that depicted a child sleeping peacefully. Until a disheveled old man disguised as a clown slid out from beneath her bed. Afterward, similar videos started appearing online, showing the clown pushing a cart in a parking lot. Waving alongside a busy highway. Holding balloons in front of a suburban home. The unsettling clips, which immediately went viral, launched Wrinkles The Clown to internet infamy.
Streaming Originals Dropping this Week
Hulu: Into The Dark: Uncanny Annie (Blumhouse movie), Light as a Feather: Complete Season 2
Netflix: Seis Manos (Anime), Peaky Blinders: Season 5, In the Tall Grass (movie), Raising Dion, Creeped Out: Season 2
~ What are you going to see and binge?
