Welcome to Erik Henriksen Tells You What to Watch This Weekend™, a weekly post in which I, Erik Henriksen, tell you what to watch this weekend! I will continue doing this post until you have watched everything you should watch.
Stan & Ollie is bad and you shouldn’t actually go see it, sorry. (Now playing, various theaters)
Joe Cornish hasn’t directed a movie since 2011’s fantastic Attack the Block. He’s finally back with The Kid Who Would Be King, which Ben Coleman says transforms “the stultifyingly bland public spaces of contemporary Britain into a fantastical playground filled with flaming skeleton knights and enchanted undergrowth.” (Now playing, various theaters)
“Is there anything in the world of film more reliably entertaining,” asks Calendar Editor Bobby Roberts, “than a Christopher Guest mockumentary?” This week the Academy’s got Waiting for Guffman. (Fri Jan 25-Thurs Jan 31, Academy Theatre)
PSU’s Fifth Avenue Cinema has 2015’s Thai, genre-bending gay ghost story The Blue Hour all weekend. (Fri Jan 25-Sun jan 27, Fifth Avenue Cinema)
YOU CAUGHT ME I’M BUSTED sometimes in this post I include movies from the upcoming week, especially if they have Colin Firth in them, like Isn’t She Great: Bridget Jones’s Diary. (Thurs Jan 31, Hollywood Theatre)
John Woo’s second-best movie (Hard Boiled 4 lyfe) plays verrrry slooowwwwly at Grindhouse Film Festival: The Killer @ Hollywood (Tues Jan 29, Hollywood Theatre)
The Six Million Dollar Man beats up Sasquatch at Re-run Theater: Bionic Man vs. Bigfoot. (Wed Jan 30, Hollywood Theatre)
A 1980 samurai classic gets the big-screen treatment with Samurai Sunday: Shogun Assassin. (Sun Jan 27, Hollywood Theatre)
There’s also a bunch of broadcast and streaming stuff, starting with those two Fyre Festival docs that Senior Editor Ciara Dolan watched (I thought the Netflix one was better, but both have delightful amounts of my favorite thing to watch, rich-dipshit schadenfreude), True Detective (which Senior Editor Ned Lannamann says is good again!), and hey, maybe giving The Orville a shot? Your call, I’m not the boss of you.
