We could have had a brand-new Jason Voorhees film this weekend had Paramount not pulled the plug in what I hope turns out to be a daily ass-kicking around there. So in return, we get a new-ish? horror film and a prestigious biopic.
Happy Death Day
From the hot horror producer of the year Jason Blum comes this week’s sole major horror release: Groundhog Day meets every other slasher flick Happy Death Day. Every so many years, one project or another seems to fulfill the quotient “Groundhog Day + ___ = ???” but this is the first I can recall that has a horror tinge. Blum has a good track record, especially this year after Split and Get Out, so I’ll be interested to see if this exceeds the low expectations I already have for it.
Marshall
Chadwick Boseman stars as young Thurgood Marshall as he tries to stamp out bigotry in this “based on true events” film. Long before becoming America’s first black Supreme Court Justice, Marshall was an accomplished lawyer fighting the status quo of discrimination, including cases such as portrayed here with a black man unfairly accused of a crime for his skin color. All in all, looks really decent and I’ll definitely check it out ... but why is Josh Gad in this movie? Ugh, I despise Josh Gad. See here for more info.
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