Adaptations are all the rage this month of October! From Brad Pitt’s latest blockbuster to the dragons and anguish that love brings, check out what movies are up for this month.
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Fury
Genre: Action | Drama | War
Tempo Prediction: 4.5 stars
Taking place during April 1945, the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines and face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Fun Fact: Shia LaBeouf reportedly pulled out his own tooth and refused to shower during filming, angering the cast and crew.
Directed by: David Ayer
Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman
Revenge of the Green Dragons
Genre: Action | Drama | Crime
Tempo Prediction: 3.5 stars
Two best friends rise through the ranks of New York’s Chinese underworld in the 1980s.
Fun Fact: The first film Wai-keung Lau and Martin Scorsese officially work on together (after Wai-keung Lau’s Infernal Affairs (2002) inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2006)).
Directed by: Wai-keung Lau, Andrew Loo
Cast: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr.
The Best of Me
Genre: Drama | Romance
Tempo Prediction: 3.5 stars
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Fun Fact: James Marsden began his acting career in 1991 during a family vacation in Hawaii. He met actor Kirk Cameron and his actress sister Candace Cameron Bure; the Camerons invited the Marsden family to visit in L.A.
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Liana Liberato, James Marsden
Horns
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Horror
Tempo Prediction: 4 stars
In the aftermath of his girlfriend’s mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
Fun Fact: The movie is based on the Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son) novel Horns.
Directed by: Alexandra Aja
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Heather Graham
