Indeed it's a happy Friday the 13th with six new movies gracing Buffalo screens including Insidious: Chapter II (because a horror film is a requirement) - it doesn't have quite the same buzz as James Wan's previous feature The Conjuring (which arrives at discount theatres while continuing its first run release at a few screens). On the special screenings side there's much to see - including The Rep - at the Screening Room, about a Toronto reparatory house (if you're recovering from TIFF), Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity at the Buffalo Film Seminars, and Squeaky Wheel's West Side Stories, a series of local documentaries about Buffalo's West Side by youth filmmakers (1:30PM on Sunday at the Burchfield Penny). Also of note - at the art house we have three very different new features - all directed by women - - and One Direction: This is Us allegedly getting a re-release in a "extended fan cut". Oh boy.
Here's what arrives this week:
at the Art House
Austenland - a comedy from the wife of Napoleon Dynamite, Jerusha Hess has Keri Russell as a Jane Austin fan going on a retreat to an Austen-inspired ranch.
Screening: Dipson Eastern Hills
Blackfish - The chilling story of Tilikum, a killer whale that lives up to his name and the aftermath. Intimate and chilling this film has gotten an awful lot of buzz - and protest from Sea World.
Screening: Dipson Eastern Hills
In A World - actress Lake Bell writes, directs and stars as a struggling voice over artist, daughter of the voice over king in this Sundance award winning comedy.
Screening: Dipson Amherst
at the Multiplex
The Family -Bobbie De Niro stars as a Mafia boss forced to uproot his family to France in this action comedy directed by Luc Besson and co-staring Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones. This looks fun.
Screening: Regal Elmwood, Dipson Flix, Regal Walden Galleria, Regal Transit Road, AMC Maple Ridge, Regal Hollywood 12, Regal Quaker Crossing, Transit Drive In
Insidious: Chapter 2 - The cast (Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson) is back in this sequel which sees this poor family experiencing even more misfortune, poor folks.
Screening: Dipson Market Arcade, Dipson Flix, Regal Elmwood, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Regal Hollywood 12, AMC Maple Ridge, Transit Drive In, Regal Quaker Crossing
The Ultimate Life - a faith-based drama staring Lee Meriweather, Peter Fonda and Bill Cobbs about a young man who heads to a mission trip to Haiti after a nasty family lawsuit.
Screening: Regal Transit Center 18
in the Cheap Seats
Red 2 (7/10)
Monsters University (7/10)
The Heat (4/10)
White House Down (7/10)Continuing
Lee Daniel's The Butler (8/10)
Blue Jasmine (8/10)
Despicable Me 2 (7/10)
The Conjuring (7/10)
Elysium (7/10)
The Grandmaster (7/10)
We're The Millers (6/10)
Kick-Ass 2 (4/10)
The Spectacular Now (8/10)You're Next (7/10)
The Spectacular Now (8/10)
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