1. “Bugonia” (R) Trailer
Emma Stone is a corporate CEO who is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons, an unhinged conspiracy theorist who is convinced that she’s an alien and that her company’s experiments are the cause of his mother’s illness.
He starts out by SHAVING HER HEAD so she can’t communicate with the other aliens. (???) And he’s not above torturing her to get what he wants, a trip to her mothership so he can make a case to save humanity.
2. “Anniversary” (R) Trailer (Opened Wednesday)
Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler are celebrating their 25th anniversary when their son brings home his new girlfriend, a former student who publishes a book with radical ideas that lay the foundation for a “unified” single-party, political system.
Things take a dark turn for the family once the book becomes a best seller and America falls more and more under the influence of the new Deep State, whose symbol is a new flag where the stars have moved to the center of the stripes.
3. “Stitch Head” (PG) Trailer (Opened Wednesday)
A light-hearted animated twist on Frankenstein’s monster, where Stitch Head (voiced by Asa Butterfield) rallies the castle’s other monsters to defend themselves against a greedy circus owner and suspicious townsfolk.
4. And now, some limited releases you may or may not care about:
“Violent Ends” a revenge flick starring Billy Magnussen from “Stranger Things” as an honest man pushed too far after his fiancée (Alexandra Shipp) is killed in a botched robbery by his own A-hole cousins. (Trailer)
“Safe House” starring Lewis Tan and Hannah John-Kamen. A group of government agents locked in a high-security L.A. safe house realizes they may also be trapped with a potential traitor after a terrorist attack. (Trailer)
“Self-Help”, a Halloween cult movie about a woman infiltrating a dangerous self-actualization community after her mom gets involved with its leader. (Trailer)
