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(From left to right) Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, Dane Detlaan as Lucien Carr and Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac in “Kill Your Darlings.”
This week will see new movie releases with “Kill Your Darlings” on Oct. 16 and the remake of “Carrie,” “The Fifth Estate,, “Paradise” and “All is Lost” on Oct. 18.
“Kill Your Darlings” takes place at Columbia University in 1944.
It is the untold story of the murder of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr that brought the great poets of the beat generation together, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Kerouac, Burroughs and Carrs’ lives changed after they were arrested in conjunction with the murder.
The film first premiered in 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival and was later shown at the Toronto International Film Festival.
It stars Daniel Radcliffe as poet Allen Ginsberg, Dane Detlaan as Lucien Carr and Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac.
“The Fifth Estate” is a dramatic thriller about WikiLeaks.
The movie is based on real events that exploit the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into this century’s most debated corporation.
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, become watchmen on the government.
They create a platform that allows those who leak information to leak data on government secrets.
“The Fifth Estate” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange and Daniel Brühl as Domscheit-Berg.
Starring in “Paradise” is Julianne Hough, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Holly Hunter and Russell Brand.
This movie is about 21-year-old Lamb Mannerheim (Hough) who after a nearly fatal accident, begins to realize the world is bigger than her small town in Montana.
With her insurance check, Lamb travels to Las Vegas to check off all the untried sins on her list.
With the help of her new friends (Brand and Spencer), she survives her adventure and discovers what it means to live.
Robert Redford stars in “All is Lost.” This open-water thriller tells the story of a journey of a man who is trying to survive after his sailboat is destroyed at sea.
The film is said to be a “gripping, visceral and powerfully moving tribute to ingenuity and resilience.”
An unnamed man (Redford) is on a solo adventure, deep into the Indian Ocean, when he wakes to find his 30-foot yacht taking on the rough seas after a collision with a ship container.
With no navigation and with his radio equipment disabled, he sails right into the mouth of a violent storm.
Critics say that Redford gives “the performance of his lifetime” as a man struggling to survive.
Also coming out this week is the remake of the 1976 classic horror tale, “Carrie,” based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
Carrie White is “a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her mother, who unleashes a telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far by her peers at the senior prom.”
In New York City, the film’s advertisers did a prank at a coffee shop where a man spilled coffee on a woman’s laptop and she responded with a telekenetic attack.
With special effects, the woman appeared to lift the man against the wall and push all of the tables away from her.
Books came flying off the shelves and the people in the coffee shop witnessing this prank were astonished and fearful.
The prank on YouTube under “Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise – “Carrie” Prank in NYC.”