What I’m Seeing This Week: I audibled to What Happens Later last week for scheduling reasons, so my choice is once again Priscilla at Cinemapolis.
Also in Theaters: Lots of big movies open later in the week in advance of Thanksgiving, including Wish, a new Disney animated film, at the Regal Ithaca Mall; Napoleon, director Ridley Scott’s latest effort, at Cinemapolis and the Regal; and Saltburn, actor Barry Keoghan’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated performance in The Banshees of Inisherin. My youngest daughter’s next Friday Movie Night selection will probably be Trolls Band Together, which opens at the Regal today. My loving wife and I are looking forward to seeing The Holdovers at Cinemapolis after the holiday. But the best new movie I’ve seen now playing in Ithaca remains Killers of the Flower Moon, which continues its run at the same theater.
Home Video: We celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in my family, so “the holidays” begin for us in early October. This creates a bit of a conundrum during the weeks in early/mid-November when we’re in the mood for something festive but in between horror movies and Miracle on 34th Street (which of course begins with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade). Enter Meet Me in St. Louis, which has all-time great Halloween and Christmas scenes, but also spends half its runtime in the spring and summer months and thus is appropriate for any time of year. The version we’ll actually be watching this weekend is our two-disc special edition DVD release by Warner Home Video, but the film is also available on pretty much every major commercial streaming platform for a rental fee. As far as non-holiday fare goes, I recommend checking out Afire, which I saw at Cinemapolis a few months ago, after it debuts on the Criterion Channel on Tuesday if you subscribe to that platform.
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