1 Halloween Kills (Opens Friday, October 15) David Gordon Green with a knife after a $255 million worldwide hit.
2 No Time To Die (Opens Friday, October 8) I’ll believe it exists when I see it.
3 Last Night In Soho (Opens Friday, October 29) Has Edgar Wright put Polanski’s swinging-London horror “Repulsion” through a terror time slip?
4 The French Dispatch (Opens Friday, October 22) How long can a genteel yet naughty rosé sit on the shelf before spoiling?
5 Dune (Opens Friday, October 22 on HBO Max and in theaters) How green, gray, grim and grimy do you have to get to be granted gravitas for your greatness?
Ray Pride is Newcity’s film critic and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine.
His multimedia history of Chicago “Ghost Signs” will be published soon. Previews of the project are on Twitter and on Instagram as Ghost Signs Chicago. More photography on Instagram.
Film Top 5: October 2020 Chicago International, "Chicago 7" and "Candyman"'s Chicago; plus "WW1984" braces for social distancing and Kenneth Branagh again tunes up the tonsorial folderol as Hercule Poirot.
Talking Screens, October 15-21, 2021: The Best of the Chicago International Film Fest The fifty-seventh Chicago International Film Festival runs through Sunday, October 24. And, Michael Caplan's "Algren" has its Chicago theatrical run beginning this week via Music Box virtual cinema. Several movies open Friday, including David Gordon Green's "Halloween Kills," Ridley Scott's "The Last Duel," Mia Hansen-Løve's "Bergman Island" and Todd Haynes' "Velvet Underground."
