Bring your mood ring 💍
In This Week's Edition: a Movie Mood Board to help with your viewing decision making
THE QUOTE 🎬 💬
“I didn’t say Park Drive.
I said through the park.”
hint: a third in a series that’s better than the second, but quite a bit worse than the first, to say nothing of the fourth (and fifth!)
THINK THOUGHTS 💭
Gonna be a toight one folks. Been doin’ a bit of traveling so we’re doing Movie Mood Board day here at WIT +. Pick your mood, pick you movie. That simple.
NEWSY BITS 👾
Apollo Offers $11 Billion for Paramount’s Hollywood Studio (full article): so many questions, like who even is Apollo? (a private equity firm) So it’s just the movie studio? (yep) Isn’t that a lot of money when Paramount Global - which includes CBS, BET, MTV and more - is (was) worth about $7 billion? Indeed, but they may take on some of PG’s debt too. - Wall Street Journal
EXTRA CREDIT MOVIE(S) 📝
Stormy - if you want to be reminded of the potentially intensely negative impacts of being in the media spotlight, you could watch this documentary on Stormy Daniels, which reviews say doesn’t do a ton beyond refresh our memories and maybe make you feel sad and bad about how “we” treat people. But it does give it’s focal point a voice. Streaming on Peacock Now
NOTABLE NEW RELEASES 🎟 & 📺
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Mood: you’re feelin’ a little fragile and just wanna be enveloped in a warm nostalgia blanket and don’t care if it’s being wrapped around your body by the dead corpse of a beloved franchise.
Out: Friday
Where: Theaters
Details: 1 hr 55 mins | PG-13 | 🍅: 47%
Immaculate
Mood: you’re feeling like an adventuresome heretic who if they were walking by a church at this very moment just might give it the finger, because ya know, screw all that tellin’ you what to do crap, you’re the only one who should be controlling your body and what better for a heretic to do than watch a burgeoning movie star dip into the body horror pool which happens to have a bunch of tropey-floaties.
Out: Friday
Where: Theaters
Details: 1 hr 29 mins | R | 🍅: 77%
Problemista
Mood: you’re trying to expand your movie going sensibilities and want to explore this thing called “film surrealism” you’ve been hearing your barista talk about with their co-worker - who basically just nods repeatedly, never uttering an actual verbal response - and you figure Julio Torres’ Problemista is a worthy entrance, especially because it has Tilda Swinton who your barista says “would easily have more Oscars than Meryl Streep if the world wasn’t full of fucking morons.”
Out: Friday
Where: Theaters
Details: 1 hr 38 mins | R | 🍅: 87%
Road House
Mood: you just mainlined a bag of testosterone and you need an outlet now motherfucker so you figured you could shakily flick on Amazon Prime to watch Jake Gyllenhaal bash some skulls which sounds so amazing you can literally taste the blood on your tongue (because you literally can. because you’ve been biting it for the last 27 minutes).
Out: Thursday
Where: Amazon Prime
Details: 1 hr 54 mins | R | 🍅: 68%
TRAILERS! ⏯
The Crow - violence and vengeance, but most importantly, love.
Alien Romulus - a return to origins.
Atlas - the mayhem will continue.
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver - I just…