Movies Opening in Cinemas On October 24
Every Monday Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Ouija, John Wick, White Bird in a Blizzard, Laggies, Citizenfour, Force Majeure and 23 Blast.
Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.
Opening in Cinemas This Week:
Ouija (2014)
89 minutes – Horror
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
Director: Stiles White
Stars: Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff, Bianca A. Santos
John Wick (2014)
101 minutes – Action, Thriller
An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Directors: David Leitch, Chad Stahelski
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
91 minutes – Drama, Thriller
In 1988, a teenage girl’s life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Director: Gregg Araki
Stars: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Angela Bassett
Laggies (2014)
99 minutes – Comedy, Romance
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.
Director: Lynn Shelton
Stars: Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Mark Webber
Force Majeure (2014)
118 minutes – Drama
A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core, with a question mark hanging over their patriarch in particular.
Director: Ruben Östlund
Stars: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren
23 Blast (2014)
98 minutes – Drama, Sport
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Director: Dylan Baker
Stars: Mark Hapka, Bram Hoover, Stephen Lang, Max Adler
Citizenfour (2014)
114 minutes – Documentary
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Director: Laura Poitras
Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange
What do you think: do any of these appeal to you – which would you see in cinema, which would you see at home – or not at all?
Sound off in the comments! 😀
(top image source: Ouija – Universal Pictures)
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