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 Senior Editor and Film Critic. He is a contributing editor of Filmmaker magazine.
Ray’s history of Chicago Ghost Signs is planned for publication next year. Previews of the project are on Twitter and on Instagram. More photography on Instagram.
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."
