Friday’s openings: A demented doll returns

It's going to be a week of contrasts for movie fans, what with the two major openings listed on the national movie-release schedule.

Wednesday

"Annabelle Comes Home": The demented doll returns (following its 2014 inception in "Annabelle"), this time after being released from its protective lair in the home of … the characters from "The Conjuring" series. Does "Chucky" have a playmate?

"Yesterday": When a struggling musician falls into an alternate timeline, he discovers that The Beatles never existed — and that he is the only one who knows their songs. Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra …

No word from the Magic Lantern on Friday openings as yet. I'll update everything as usual when all area theaters finalize their bookings.