Friday’s openings: Grinches, spiders and zombies

It's just past Halloween, some two and a half weeks until Thanksgiving, and already we're hearing the ad-heavy sounds of Christmas. Seriously, that's the noise made by Friday's national movie-release schedule:

"Doctor Seuss' The Grinch": The familiar Theodore Geisl story gets a facelift, this time with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the title character. Oh, Sherlock, what have they done with ye?

"The Girl in the Spider's Web": Speaking of facelifts, this adaptation of the continuation of the mystery series created by the late Stieg Larsson stars Claire Foy (once Queen Elizabeth) as the title character. Following Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara, Foy take the throne.

"Overlord": American soldiers on D-Day encounter a secret German experiment to create … zombies? Night of the living dread.

That's the news so far. I'll update as the local theaters finalize their listings.