Big screen
Last week, Sept. 23
Storks; The Magnificent Seven; The Dressmaker; Queen of Katwe
This week, Sept. 30
Deepwater Horizon (Lionsgate), PG-13, 107 minutes
About Its a story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded in April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history; Stars Dylan OBrien, Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell; Director Peter Berg
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children (Fox), PG-13, 122 minutes
About When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds Miss Peregrines Home and discovers the childrens special powers as the mystery and danger deepen; Stars Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench; Director Tim Burton
Masterminds (Relativity Media), PG-13, 94 minutes
About In this comedy, a night guard at an armored car company in the South organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history; Stars Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Owen Wilson; Director Jared Hess
American Honey (A24/Universal/Focus Features), R, 163 minutes
About A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of partying, law-bending and love with a band of misfits in the Midwest; Stars Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi; Director Andrea Arnold
Next week, Oct. 7
The Birth of a Nation; The Girls on the Train
Note: Movie descriptions by IMDB, www.imdb.com
Home rentals
The latest top 10 digital movie purchases/rentals based on transaction rate, by Rentrak/Comscore:
1. The Nice Guys
2. The Jungle Book
3. The Angry Birds Movie
4. Now You See Me 2
5. Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice
6. The Man Who Knew Infinity
7. Blood Father
8. The Mechanic
9. Zootopia
10. Now You See Me 1/2
Other recent favorites: Money Monster; Me Before You; Keanu; Love & Friendship; A Hologram for the King; Criminal
Doc spotlight
Our Journey Home
Its a documentary about housing and homelessness in Portland, by local film company Stillmotion on behalf of ReThink: Why Housing Matters initiative, and it focuses on people striving to support families, further education and careers, give back to communities, and have a place to call home. Itll screen at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Living Room Theatres, 341 S.W. 10th Ave. Tickets are $12 and available at www.tugg.com/events. Therell be a discussion with Stillmotions Patrick Moreau after the film.
Upcoming events
The Portland Latin American Film Festival, celebrating 10 years, will screen six films from six different countries from September through January at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd. The series kicks off at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, with the premiere of Mr. Pig by Mexican director/actor Diego Luna, who tackles the old and new in an age of global markets, factory farming and disposable relationships. Danny Glover plays Eubanks, an old-school pig farmer from California who goes on a road trip to Mexico with Howard, his very large pig. The rest of the lineup: The Star Making Machine, 4 p.m. Oct. 1; From Afar, 7 p.m. Oct. 27; Panoramas, 7 p.m. Nov. 17; The Longest Road, 7 p.m. Dec. 15; Truman, 7 p.m. Jan. 19. For tickets/info: www.hollywoodtheatre.org.
The Northwest Film Centers Friday Film Club presents His Girl Friday, one of the more famous Columbia Pictures films of the late 1930s/early 40s, about a newpaper editors wife/reporter whos settling down to a boring housewifes life, but not before she covers the high-profile execution of a convicted murderer. Itll screen at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, at Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 S.W. Park Ave. Tickets are $5. For more: www.nwfilm.org.
Two other events happening: Movies inspired by Shakespeare, Bending the Bard: Cinematic Twists, are showing at Portland Art Museum. For more: www.portlandartmuseum.org. The Manhattan Short Film Festival will be held at the Clinton Street Theater, Oct. 2. For more: www.cstpdx.com.