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Pop Forecast for Oct. 16: Geostorm, The Walking Dead and more
- Updated: October 17, 2017
Chris Lackner
“You don’t need a weatherman to know that approach a breeze blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a beam by a clearly unconstrained flurry of cocktail enlightenment offerings is usually what we need. With that in mind, here is what’s on a radar shade in TV, song and film for a entrance week.
MOVIES
Big releases on Oct. 20: Geostorm; The Snowman
Big picture: After a clearly unconstrained fibre of weather-related disasters, Geostorm couldn’t be timelier. When an elaborate complement of satellites used to control a Earth’s continue go haywire, a planetwide “extreme continue alert” is issued. Enter a “geostorms.” This crack is each environmental movement film in one. Earthquakes. Check. Lava. Check. Tornadoes. Check. Hurricanes. Sure, because not? Tsunamis. You betcha. Blizzards? Totally. This is a kind of film where landmark cities get wiped out in 30-second montages, and management total scream things like, “We have to close a complement down!”
Meanwhile, Snowman finds a uneasy investigator (Michael Fassbender) confronting a ultimate cold box — a resurgent sequence torpedo who kills with a snowfall, and likes to make horrible snowmen and snowwomen out of his victims. I’m betting on a turn ending. Audiences will learn this is, in fact, a supplement to a 1998 family drama, Jack Frost, about a father (Michael Keaton) reborn as a snowman. Because you’d go crazy, too, if we came behind from a passed as Frosty.
Forecast: Finally, a film to assistance us get over a undiscerning fear of Sharknadoes. It can always be worse.
Norman Reedus in The Walking Dead. [AMC]
TV
Big events: The Walking Dead (Oct. 22, AMC); 1922 (Netflix, Oct. 20)
Big picture: Rick Grimes and association are back. And it’s payback time opposite Negan and a Saviors. Last year’s dim tour of disaster is off-set by an action-packed deteriorate of comeuppance. The zombies improved get out of a approach or face being material damage. Meanwhile, 1922 is a instrumentation of a Stephen King story about a rancher who conspires with his son to kill his wife. But some secrets don’t stay buried as his farmhouse fast turns into a residence of horrors. This duration fear play is during slightest a third Stephen King instrumentation this year. The King of Horror could write fear haiku on toilet paper and someone would compensate him for it.
Forecast: The Walking Dead will finish a deteriorate in a large reveal. The zombies are being tranquil by a White Walkers’ Night King. Earth and Westeros are a same place. Rick will join a night’s watch and Daryl will be suggested as tip Targaryen.
Destroyer’s new manuscript Ken [Merge Records ]
MUSIC
Big releases on Oct. 20: Destroyer (ken); Margo Price (All American Made)
Big picture: Vancouver’s Dan Bejar, improved famous as Destroyer, is behind to concurrently stir and subdue we in a followup to 2015’s Poison Season. New marks include, Tinseltown Swimming in Blood and Saw You during a Hospital. We’ve schooled one thing, Dan might be one of a many gifted indie artists, though never let him play your kids birthday part. Meanwhile, Margo Price’s sophomore bid is All American Made. Tracks embody “Cocaine Cowboys”, Wild Women and Learning to Lose with Willie Nelson. You got to know when to reason ‘em and know when to overlay ‘em.
Forecast: Destroyer has a present for creating, though am we a usually one who thinks this should have been a dim double manuscript called Ken and Barbie?