Welcome to this week’s edition of Back Lot 605’s Coming Soon column! This week, we’ve got a lot of horror (’tis the season!), as well as one of the most infamously delayed blockbusters of the COVID era! Here’s what coming soon for the week of October 8th, 2021:
Featured Title: No Time to Die
It’s been a long and winding road to get to this week’s release of the 25th James Bond movie (and the last to star Daniel Craig as 007, ending his 15-year tenure in the role). From the get-go, the movie had been fraught with production hurdles… namely, the brief participation of Danny Boyle as director and co-writer, before departing in the summer of 2018 due to “creative differences” with the script. A little more than a month later, a replacement was found: Cary Joji Fukunaga, best known for Season 1 of True Detective and Netflix’s first prestige film Beasts of No Nation… but the change in director and the need for a script rewrite pushed the movie’s release date from November 2019 to April 2020. And then, on March 4th, 2020, a little more than a month before its April 8th release date, No Time to Die became the very first movie to be delayed due to the COVID pandemic… the first in a series of COVID-related date moves that would ultimately add up to 18 months in delays. But alas, the time is finally here, and this weekend, we are finally going to see James Bond back in action!
While this movie is intended to tie up Daniel Craig’s five-film run as James Bond, this is in many ways a direct follow-up to 2015’s Spectre, with that film’s main Bond girl Lea Seydoux having a key role in this new installment (and Christoph Waltz’s Blofeld also makes a one-scene appearance as well). In this movie, Bond (who has left MI6) is recruited by his old CIA buddy Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) to rescue a kidnapped scientist from the clutches of terrorist leader Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek). Other new faces include Lashana Lynch as the “new” 007, and Craig’s Knives Out co-star Ana de Armas as a CIA agent. Also of note: this movie features a Grammy-winning title song by Billie Eilish, which first dropped 18 months ago in the lead-up to the original April 2020 release date. (Opens Friday, October 8th in theaters nationwide, including the Century Stadium 14 & XD, the Century East at Dawley Farm, and the West Mall 7 in Sioux Falls, with previews beginning at 4PM on Thursday, October 7th.)
New to Streaming and VOD
South of Heaven
V/H/S94
There’s Someone Inside Your House
The Manor
Madres
Chucky
Returning to Theaters
Scream
Rad
Showing at the State!
The Bride of Frankenstein
Titane
You have one more chance to see the wild and crazy 2021 Cannes Palme d’Or winner at the State, if you hadn’t checked it out last weekend! And after you check this movie out, you can listen to yours truly discuss the movie (in spoiler-filled fashion, mind you) on this week’s Criterion Break podcast! (Showing Thursday, October 7th at the State Theatre.)
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Cat People
The Dakota Independent Film Festival!
Saturday, October 9th:
- 10:30 AM: Doors open
- 11:00 AM: Narrative Feature – No Tomorrow
- 1:30 PM: Documentary Shorts – Agnes Varga; CHOUETTE; Lift: An Ode to Love & Ski Jumping; The Bears on Pine Ridge; The Making of: LOVING ARMS
- 4:00 PM: Panel Discussion
- 6:00 PM: Feature Documentary – I Really Get Into It: The Underground Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
- 8:30 PM: Late Night Shorts – Afraid of the Dark; Aperture; Bitch, Popcorn & Blood; Black Eyed Girl; MeTube: August Sings “Una furtiva Lagrima”; My Friend Al; Office 86; The Fuzzies; The little death; Wee Shadows
Sunday, October 10th:
- 11:30 AM: Doors open
- 12:00 PM: Narrative Shorts – III; 10am Beer; Are Her Digits Worth It?; Broken Branches; Castleway Road; Dogwood; Hand Me Down; Hell in a Handbasket; Kitman; Open; Pale Dawn; Panic Cord; The ink and the willow.; We’ll Always Have Williamsburg
- 4:00 PM: Documentary Feature – Home from School: The Children of Carlisle
- 7:00 PM: Narrative Feature – Poor Mama’s Boy
- 8:45 PM: Awards (hosted by Nathan Hults)
New This Week to Blu-ray and 4K
- Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
- Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
- Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection (a new 4K box set featuring 1931’s Dracula, 1931’s Frankenstein, 1944’s The Invisible Man, and 1941’s The Wolf Man)
- new Scream Factory 4K editions of Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Older Movies New to Streaming
Netflix:
Hulu:
Amazon Prime:
- Lansky (2021) (premieres Friday, October 8th)
Shudder:
- Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979) (premieres Monday, October 11th)
- Possum (2018) (premieres Monday, October 11th)
- Wake Wood (2009) (premieres Monday, October 11th)
- House (1986) (premieres Tuesday, October 12th)
- House II (1987) (premieres Tuesday, October 12th)
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) (premieres Tuesday, October 12th)
Disney+:
- Black Widow (2021) (premieres Wednesday, October 6th)
HBO Max:
- Voyagers (2021) (premieres Friday, October 8th)
- It: Chapter Two (2019) (premieres Sunday, October 10th)
Peacock:
- Dead Silence (2007) (premieres Wednesday, October 13th)
- In Good Company (2004) (premieres Wednesday, October 13th)
Paramount+:
- G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) (premieres Monday, October 11th)
The Criterion Channel:
- Thursday, October 7th: Three Dimensions: Three by Cicely Tyson: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Bustin’ Loose (1981)
- Friday, October 8th: Double Feature: Women on the Verge: Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
- Saturday, October 9th: Saturday Matinee: Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
- Monday, October 11th: True Stories: Rat Film (2016)
- Tuesday, October 12th: Short + Feature: The Present Past: Blessed Land (2019), The Naked Island (1960)
- Wednesday, October 13th: Exclusive Streaming Premiere: Film About a Father Who (2020)
The Shameless Plugs
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