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BEST SELLERS
Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=13ixGoK_MgY Lucy Stanbridge (Aubrey Plaza) inherits her father’s publishing house, but the ambitious would-be editor nearly sinks it with failing titles. She discovers that she is owed a book by Harris Shaw (two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine), a reclusive, cantankerous, booze-addled author who originally put the company on the map decades earlier. In a last-ditch effort to save the company, Lucy and Harris release his new book and embark on a book tour from hell that changes them both in ways they didn’t expect. “Best Sellers aims to provide succor to any viewers fearful that nobody cares for the written word anymore: Here, it’s bound paper that finally holds drifting generations together.” (Variety)
Comedy/drama, not rated, 100 minutes
CRUELLA
Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=gmRKv7n2If8 Walt Disney Studio’s live-action prequel to One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) features Emma Stone (La La Land, The Help) as Estella, an aspiring fashion designer destined to become the notorious Cruella de Vil. She befriends a duo of petty thieves, honing her fashion skills by designing their disguises. This crime comedy features Emma Thompson as Estella’s fashion mogul nemesis, Baroness von Hellman. “Cruella shines as quite possibly one of the strongest new-era live-action Disney films.” (Salon.com)
Available on Sept. 21. Comedy/crime, rated PG-13, 134 minutes, Disney Plus
NIGHT OF THE ANIMATED DEAD
Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=KP_Az90Uiks Director Jason Axinn’s animated remake of George Romero’s horror classic Night of the Living Dead (1968) features the voice work of Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps) as Barbara, who flees a remote cemetery in Pennsylvania after a zombie attack and takes refuge in an abandoned farmhouse along with a small band of survivors. Together, the group struggles against the zombie horde while confronting their own fears and prejudices. Available on Sept. 21. Animation/horror, rated R, 70 minutes
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND
Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=1I6p1yxZ_LE The first English language feature from acclaimed Japanese director Sion Sono (Suicide Club, Cold Fish) stars Nicolas Cage (Mandy, Color Out of Space) as Hero, a notorious criminal who’s sent to rescue an abducted girl (Sofia Boutella) only to find himself trapped in a dark supernatural universe. Hero and his quarry must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland. “It is an excellent introduction to the director for anyone who hasn’t dipped into his filmography. And Cage? It’s another solid, snarling turn from the hardest working action man in Hollywood.” (Little White Lies) Action/horror/thriller, not rated, 103 minutes — Michael Abatemarco