This month's Jessica Chastain movie doesn't star Jessica Chastain, it stars Bryce Dallas Howard, but same diff. Remember all the death and disaster the dinosaurs caused in the first three movies? No? Well, neither do any of the people in this movie! There's a new dinosaur theme park operating on a remote Costa Rican island, and it's now open for family vacations. And because whales just love being held in enclosed tanks, I'm sure that aquatic dinosaur that eats sharks isn't going to have a problem keeping his cool in a giant pool!
Jessica Chastain Bryce Dallas Howard is the head of the park, Chris Pratt plays the skeptic, and Vincent D'Onofrio is relegated once again to the role of scary big guy (non-dinosaur edition).
Live From New York! - Embarcadero
I'm not sure what this theatrical documentary about Saturday Night Live can offer us that the two books already written about the subject and the numerous televised retrospectives haven't already, except perhaps the ability to hear people swearing. We get it, SNL; you're forty. BFD. Get back to us when you're fifty!
Testament of Youth - Clay Theater
World War I drama based on the memoir by Vera Brittain, a British Red Cross nurse who became a pioneering pacifist and feminist. Alicia Vikkander, seen most recently as the robot in Ex Machina, stars as Brittain, and Kit Harington of Game of Thrones co-stars as her love interest.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Century
Teen drama based on a popular teen book about a dying teen and the teens who rally to make her life a little more joyful. Thomas Mann is Greg, the me of the title, and he and Earl (R.J. Cyler) make silly short movies based on real movies — things like A Sockworth Orange. Olivia Cooke is Rachel, the dying girl, and she's got some experience with that role, as she also plays a dying girl in the TV series Bates Motel. Careful Olivia! That's a depressing role to be typescast in!
"Pre-apocalyptic" comedy about two guys who drift through life by breaking into and living in empty homes in the Catskills. Their comfortable existence is thrown out of balance when a runaway teen and a mysterious woman join their ranks. Starring Leo Fitzpatrick and Justin Rice.
Does the world really need another heist-gone-wrong flick? Even one that features Kris Kristofferson and Joel Murray? Oh, would that the movie were itself only seven minutes long but, alas, you're in for 90 minutes of mediocre, starring Jason Ritter.
