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Spooky Stuff on Screen
PLUS, LOCAL DOCS, WILL SMITH, WILL SMITH AND MORE
By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com
We are deeply entrenched in the spooky
season. Kids and Disney fanatics may be
excited by Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
further retconning one of Disney’s greatest
villains into an antihero. Another sequel,
Zombieland: Double Tap, feels tardy, as
the original zomcom came
out 10 years ago. Limited
releases on the horizon
include Taika Waititi’s Nazi
comedy Jojo Rabbit and
Robert Eggers’ follow-up to
The Witch, The Lighthouse,
starring Willem Dafoe and
Robert Pattinson. Both are
highly anticipated.
As always, Cine has
loads of goodies to offer.
On Oct. 15, one of the
most acclaimed musical
documentaries of all time,
Say Amen, Somebody,
has been restored. The film
celebrates 20th Century
American gospel music. On Oct. 17, dis
cover the mostly unknown filmmaking pio
neer Alice Guy-Blache in Be Natural: The
Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache. If music
is more your thing, dress sharp, comb your
beard and check out ZZ Top: That Little 01’
Band From Texas that same day. The latest
offering in the Return of Schlocktoberfest,
Dario Argento’s giallo classic Deep Red,
runs Oct. 17-19. The nine-time Academy
Award winner The English Patient is
screening Oct. 16 in conjunction with a
visit from the source material’s award-win
ning author, Michael Ondaatje. Bad Movie
Night returns on Oct. 22 with Eyes of the
Werewolf, which sounds like Eric Red’s
Body Parts meets The Wolfman with plenty
of gore and some nudity.
Flicker’s 31 Days of Darkness expands
upon its exceptional lineup with some
classics. On Oct. 17, Pachinko Pop presents
1969’s Horrors of Malformed Men, which
sounds sort of like The Island of Dr. Moreau.
On Oct. 18,1988’s Black Roses attempts
to meld horror movies and rock and roll,
which Rock 'n Roll Nightmare director John
Fasano shows is not as easy as one would
assume. Ghastly Horror Society presents
a night of movies and trivia on Oct. 21.
In 1948’s Abbott and Costello Meet
Frankenstein, the comedy duo not only
meet the titular monster; they run into
Bela Lugosi’s Dracula and Lon Chaney’s
Wolfman, too. 1932’s Island of Lost Souls,
which boasts Charles Laughton as Dr.
Moreau and Lugosi as the Sayer of the Law,
and 1935’s Werewolf of London follow
trivia. 1986’s Gothic, a retelling of how
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein from con
troversial filmmaker Ken Russell, was a pay
cable mainstay of my childhood and screens
on Oct. 22.
The ACC Library offers another chance
to check out two hometown documentaries:
Athens GA: Inside/Out on Oct. 16 and
Athens Rising 2: Transmittance on Oct.
22. The Madison County Library offers up
a Spooky Movie for the family on Oct.
19. A couple of my childhood faves are The
Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked
This Way Comes. The Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Athens offers a soup potluck,
campfire and Coco as part of the UUFA
Intergenerational Film Series on Oct. 19.
Tate offers a chance to prepare for March’s
Godzilla vs. Kong with Kong: Skull Island
and this past summer’s quite entertaining
Godzilla: King of the Monsters on Oct. 18
and 20.
GEMINI MAN (PG-13) Partway through
Gemini Man, I pondered the last time clon
ing was considered a cutting-edge plot
device—the late 1990s? It should come
as no surprise, then, that Darren Lemke’s
original idea has been floating around since
1997. The best soldier ever, Henry Brogren
(Will Smith), wants to retire because he has
a conscience. Fortunately, an evil paramil
itary entrepreneur (Clive Owen, becoming
about as reliably bad as Danny Huston) had
the foresight to clone Henry and raise the
result, Junior (a de-aged Smith), as his son.
The real star of Gemini Man should be
the cutting-edge FX employed by the usu
ally more visionary director Ang Lee, whose
reliance on 120 fps (i.e, an extra high frame
rate) will be more detrimental than revolu
tionary until theaters can actually project
it properly. Were this action flick released
in the late ’90s, it would be
huge. In 2019, it just seems
past its expiration date.
JUDY (PG-13) Renee
Zellweger is exceptional as
Judy Garland in the latest
entry in the stars-in-de-
cline genre—see Stan &
Ollie—and she had better
be, as her performance
is the film. With a less
impressive imitation, Judy
would have been no more
than an unenlightening TV
movie. Other actors are in
Judy—Wild Rose s Jessie
Buckley is the most mem
orable—but nothing happens in the movie
that does not involve Garland. As young
Judy, Darci Shaw might have the tougher
job, as she has to re-create the Wizard
ofOz-era star most people remember.
Nonetheless, Zellweger’s portrayal, which
includes some powerful musical moments,
feels revelatory despite the actress’s
decades-long, Oscar-winning career. ©
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22 FLAGPOLE.COM | OCTOBER 16, 2019