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October cinema offers up a high school mystery, meddling parents and a serial killer that just won’t die
LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE
I just finished reading this biting 2005 New York Times Best Seller by Jessica Knoll and I was delighted when a roll of the thumb revealed an Insta post with the movie trailer. The writing is razor sharp and dipped in New York elite decadence. Mila Kunis stars as the soon-to-be Ani Harrison, glamorous journalist. She lives a lavish life as fiancé to a rich, handsome man played by American Horror Story’s storyboard lover Finn Wittrock. A bulldozer to the carefully crafted life she has created comes grinding through when a filmmaker wants to make a documentary detailing the horrific and mysterious moments she endured as a high school freshman that became national news. Back then, she was TifAni FaNelli, awkward, an outcast trying to fit in. NETFLIX 10/7
HALLOWEEN ENDS
Michael Myers never seems to die, huh? No matter how many brave victims fight back and manage to bruise him up, he seems to have eternal life. Every Halloween movie, he leaps back onto the screen, giving viewers the same creeps they got from his first round of carnage in 1978. Jamie Lee Curtis is back as the serial killer’s sister Lori Strode. She’s a survivor, a grade A bad-ass who never backs down. Good thing, too, because her murderous brother never really dies and has a thrill for hunting her down. In the latest installment, a young man is accused of murdering a child he was babysitting, bringing up even more hauntings of her past. Is this the final sibling showdown?
IN THEATERS 10/14 TICKET TO PARADISE
Seasoned A-list charmers Julia Roberts and George Clooney are having some fun with this paycheck - but it's money well-spent on two total pros who deliver the goods playing scorned exes that team up to destroy their only daughter’s wedding to a local man in Bali. Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Denver plays the eager newlywed while Scream Queen’s Billie Loude adds flavor as her best friend with her own love story. It’s hilarity and hi-jinks in a tropical paradise with flirty fighting. Clooney and Roberts are romantic comedy gold; in fact, their electric chemistry is so off the charts, who needs a map? This film is more silly than scary, but it’s a nice vacation from the onslaught of horror films and pumpkin spice this month.
