New Movies: ‘Carrie,’ ‘Escape Plan,’ ‘The Fifth Estate’
This weekend we get a remake of a '70s horror classic, Arnold and Stallone finally punching and shooting things together onscreen ('80s action-movie fans, rejoice!) and a based-on-true-events political thriller about that creepy-looking Wikileaks guy.
'Carrie'
This updated version of the 1977 classic introduces us to the shy, troubled high schooler Carrie White, whose religious-fanatic mother and bullying classmates lead her to develop some strange supernatural powers ... which she then uses on her enemies.
Directed by Kimberly Peirce
Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Portia Doubleday, Gabriella Wilde
'Escape Plan'
This thriller features a man whose job it is to escape from prisons getting put inside—you guessed it—an inescapable prison.
Directed by Mikael Håfström
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, Vincent D'Onofrio
'The Fifth Estate'
The story of Julian Assange, whose website Wikileaks released of troves of classified information regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Directed by Bill Condon
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Laura Linney, David Thewlis