Cinema Goggles – Friday, October 17

100-Year-Old man who climbed out the window and disappeared

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Starring: David Wiberg, Iwar Wiklander, Robert Gustafsson

Based on the internationally bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it’s not too late to start over. For most people it would be the adventure of a lifetime, but Allan Karlsson’s unexpected journey is not his first. For a century he’s made the world uncertain, and now he is on the loose again.

Snowpiercer

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Starring: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton

Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet, except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Genre: 3D/2D, Action, Fantasy

Starring: Alan Ritchson, Danny Woodburn, Jeremy Howard, Johnny Knoxville, Megan Fox, Noel Fisher, Pete Ploszek, Tony Shalhoub, Will Arnett

Producer Michael Bay (Transformers) presents this big screen reboot of an ’80s TV and movie franchise. When New York City is threatened by the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan, four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Megan Fox stars as ace reporter April O’Neil.

This is where I leave you

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Abigail Spencer, Adam Driver, Ben Schwartz, Connie Britton, Corey Stoll, Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn, Rose Byrne, Timothy Olyphant, Tina Fey

When Judd Foxman’s father dies, the family comes together for the first time in years. However, Judd’s wife, who’s having an affair, is noticeably absent.

Judd, grieving for his father and his marriage, joins his dysfunctional non-practicing Jewish family, as they fulfill his father’s final wish and sit Shivah together, spending seven days and nights under the same roof during which time secrets are revealed, long-time grudges come to the forefront and old passions are rekindled.

Instructions not included

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Alessandra Rosaldo, Daniel Raymont, Eugenio Derbez, Hugo Stiglitz, Jessica C Lindsay, Loreto Peralta

Valentin is Acapulco’s resident playboy until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and takes off without a trace. Valentin leaves Mexico for Los Angeles to find the baby’s mother, but only ends up finding a new home for himself and his newfound daughter, Maggie. An unlikely father figure, Valentin raises Maggie for six years, while also establishing himself as one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen to pay the bills, with Maggie acting as his on-set coach. As Valentin raises Maggie, she forces him to grow up, too. But their unique and offbeat family is threatened when Maggie’s birth mom shows up out of the blue.