The week’s openings: ‘Impossible’ but true
The mission might be impossible, but Hollywood just keeps Cruising along … if you know what I mean. That lame play on words is about the best I can do to intro the week's mainstream movie openings. Anyway, here they are:
Wednesday
"Vacation": Ed Helms plays Rusty Griswold, the son played by Anthony Michael Hall in the 1983 comedy "National Lampoon's Vacation," who wants to make his own family-bonding trek to Walley World. Can you go home again? We'll find out.
Friday
"Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" (IMAX and standard; no 3-D): The IMF team faces its greatest foe, the Syndicate, which is bent on destroying Ethan (Tom Cruise) and friends. Expect to see some stuff blown up real good.
"Twinsters": When two young girls, adopted decades before, connect on social media, they discover their new-found relationship is closer than either could have ever imagined. A documentary that Variety calls "absorbingly personal."
"Aloft": Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly portrays a woman who encounters the son she'd abandoned 20 years before. Maybe love does mean saying you're sorry.
As for the Magic Lantern, I'll list the openings when they become available.