Opening This Week: October 30, 2019
Dennis Trillo in “Hellcome Home”
Hellcome Home
Directed by Bob Bonifacio; stars Dennis Trillo, Beauty Gonzalez, Raymond Bagatsing, Teejay Marquez and Alyssa Muhlach
The film is about a family who ends up moving to a house that is haunted.
Dennis says he’s happy about the latest opportunity to cross over to ABS-CBN, with a project that is “as physically draining” as it is “fulfilling.” “For me, the quality of a film is better than how much it makes to the box office,” he says.
Terminator: Dark Fate
Directed by Tim Miller; stars Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, Gabriel Luna, Natalia Reyes, Diego Boneta and Arnold Schwarzenegger
In “Dark Fate,” the sixth film in the popular sci-fi franchise set 27 years after the events in 1991’s “Judgment Day,” Sarah Connor and a cyborg-human hybrid named Grace must protect a young Mexican woman from Rev-9, a liquid Terminator from the future.
William Bibbiani of TheWrap calls it “a breathtaking blockbuster.” He explains, “Whether ‘Dark Fate’ is the last chapter in this story or the first in an all-new franchise is, for now, irrelevant. The film works either way, bringing the tale of the first two films to a satisfying conclusion, while reintroducing the classic storyline in exciting new ways.”
Johnny Oleksinski isn’t as enthusiastic, dissing it for its “tendency to toss in unnecessary confusions.” Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly thinks it’s “frequently bad in a funny way, without the dutiful dullness of the last couple of sequels.”
“Hello World”
Hello World
Directed by Tomohiko Ito; featuring the voices of Haruka Fukuhara, Minami Hamabe, Takumi Kitamura and Minako Kotobuki
A man goes back in time from the year 2027 to correct a bad decision.
Matt Schley of The Japan Times says that “while the ideas get complex, Ito and screenwriter Mado Nozaki never forget to ground their story around its characters. The interactions between Naomi and his grownup counterpart are well-written and charming. The same goes for young Naomi and Ruri, whose unlikely relationship blossoms in a way that doesn’t feel forced.”
“The Addams Family”
The Addams Family
Directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon; featuring the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard and Bette Midler
This is an animated version of Charles Addams’ series of cartoons about a peculiar, ghoulish family. In the film, members of the spooky Addams family, made up of Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester and Grandma, are readily preparing for a visit from their even creepier relatives.
But trouble soon arises when shady TV personality Margaux Needler realizes that the Addams’ eerie hilltop mansion is standing in the way of her dream to sell all the houses in the neighborhood.
Jaden Thompson of The Harvard Crimson calls the film “amusing but unremarkable.” He explains, “‘The Addams Family’ is an adequately diverting and at times witty, if ultimately forgettable, modern spin on the iconically macabre family that Americans have loved for decades.”
