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Pop Forecast for Aug. 21: Leap!, Polaroid and more
- Updated: August 21, 2017
Chris Lackner
MOVIES
Big releases on Aug. 25: Leap!; Polaroid.
Big picture: Leap! is Frozen meets Oliver Twist meets So You Think You Can Dance meets Amelie meets The Goonies. (It contingency have been a ruin of a Hollywood representation meeting). Two lovable waif runaways conduct to Paris to follow their dreams — feisty redhead Felicie (voiced by Elle Fanning) and a immature contriver Victor (Dane DeHaan). Félicie contingency fake to be a child of an chosen family to hide in to a prestigious ballet school. There were no maybes involved; Canada’s possess Carly Rae Jepsen got a call to voice a waif dancer’s doubtful mentor, a puzzling propagandize custodian.
Meanwhile, Polaroid is The Ring meets Final Destination meets Needful Things. It also creates me contemplate a unconstrained supply of foolish people in horror-movie scripts. How many people can presumably conflict like this? “Wow! Look during a creepy, goosebump inducing object that we usually detected in this dusty, aged box (attic/basement etc.)? Gosh golly, we consider I’ll keep it!”
In Polaroid, a millennial operative during an antique emporium (oh Tinseltown, such artistic screenwriters!) finds a selected Polaroid camera that knocks off a people it captures in stills — and is substantially inhabited by a suggestion of a sequence killer.
Forecast: we assume a thought of an “ancient” pre-digital camera alone — reduction a immorality suggestion — will be adequate to scare a minds of this film’s immature audience. Not carrying to be resourceful about your photographs, rise photos and no selfie sticks … a horror, a horror.
Lakeith Stanfield and Nat Wolff in a Netflix film Death Note [Netflix]
TV
Big events: Death Note (Aug. 25, Netflix); Disjointed (Aug. 25, Netflix).
Big picture: It’s not even tighten to Halloween yet, though it appears to be a good week for wicked forces. Death Note is large bill Netflix original. The instrumentation of a Japanese manga is radically Hellraiser meets Pan’s Labyrinth meets Aladdin. A high propagandize slacker inherits a book (it literally falls from a sky) that summons a powers of an ancient genocide God — a beasty with a teeth of a piranha, a physique of porcupine and intense orange eyes.
Basically, whoever’s name is created in a creature’s book winds adult gonzo. What starts as a grand practice in holding out bad guys and “making a universe a improved place” fast gets out of palm (as all such skeleton customarily do).
Meanwhile, Disjointed (starring Kathy Bates) is a new sitcom from Chuck Lorre. It’s like Cheers meets Weeds as it follows a staff and customers of a cannabis dispensary.
Forecast: Death Note will be good perceived by genre fans. However, am we a usually one who misses a good out-of-date genie? Three wishes? Maybe a few wisecracks. Then it’s all over. A built-in check on comprehensive power.
Honourable mention: The Tick (Aug. 25, Amazon Prime). The cult superhero animation resurfaces in a second instrumentation into a love-action comedy series. It’s like Power Rangers meets Adam West’s Batman meets BoJack Horseman.
Josh Homme of Queens of The Stone Age [Getty Images]
MUSIC
Big releases on Aug. 25: Iron Wine (Beast Epic); Queens of a Stone Age (Villains).
Big picture: I’ve always favourite Iron Wine since a rope is named after dual of my favourite things. Their new manuscript plays opposite title, scaling behind a group’s epic sonic affairs down to their softer, finer points. In other words, design many stripped-down ballads.
Meanwhile, Josh Homme and association get kinda domestic on Queens of a Stone Age’s seventh album. Nevertheless, they’re still prepared to rock, and they even move a bit of a funk. The band’s singular The Evil Has Landed was expelled on Aug. 10, infrequently prophetic given a headlines that began that week south of a border.
Forecast: Hail to a Queens. They’re prepared to tough stone a nearest locus or a nearest iPod. Villains begone!
Honourable mention: The War on Drugs (Up all Night). Fun amicable experiment. Plan a celebration and entice fans of this Philly band, and supporters of a genuine War on Drugs. Enjoy.