Friday Night Special - The Lower Depths

The Interned (2015)

Starring: Robert De Deniro, Amy Adams Directed by: Dame Nancy Meyers Rating: PG Genre: Drama

Review Director and former basketball wunderkind Meyers ("The Diaper", "Hungry Architects", "Dog Walkers 2: The Elder Strolls") knocks it out of the park yet again with this chilling, sexy thriller about young people and the old people who won't stop calling them on their land lines. Adams ("Beaver People", "Diverticulicious: The Eating of Julia Child") stars as a put-upon web "billionaire" whose startup rockets to the top of the intertubes by providing a mobile "app" that matches up women terrified of commitment with men so old that it shouldn't be an issue. De Deniro, so fabulous as the fat, psychopathic rabbi in Dayvid Fincher's "Rabbid" turns yet another cheek as a man so old and so unpleasant that Adams can't resist him. Some will have to look away as they commit sex in the New York Athletic Club's members-only humidor. But if there was ever a reason for 3-D dimensional, this was it. Include me in!

Been There. Done That.

Everest (2015)

Starring: James Brolin, Keira Knightley, Samson Worthington, Jake Gyllylenghall, Emily Longbottom Aleksandr Skarrsgard Directed by: Baltasar Korningdog Rating: PG-13 Genre: Action/Comedy

Review Comedy misfire in which a team of self-proclaimed "nerds" think they can "take" Everest by programming their brains and emotions into robots who are forced to do all of the hard work. Unfortunately Putin-lookalike Skarrsgard ("Willie Wonka 2: Death by Chocolate") has Russian mobsters program weather drones to rain on their parade.   Hollywired is clearly in thrall to Jeff "Amazon" Bozos and weirdball "futurist" hobbit-featured alien Ray "Kurzweil" who plan to "upload" themselves into Roomba vaccuum cleaners and "hoover" across the planet until they can figure out how to reverse the big bang and be there at their own births. Give this one a miss and check out "The Lives and Times of Grizzly Adams" for a movie about how a real man challenges the elements (clue: He guts a bear and inhabits its skin).

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Straight Outa Compton (2015)

Starring: O'Shea Jackson Jr,  Ray Parker Jr, Ernie Hudson Jr, Ice Cube Jr, Tiny Lister Jr, DJ Pooh Jr, TMac  Directed by: F. Gary Gray  Rating: R Genre: Horror/Comedy

Review Weirdball blaxpoitation remake of Ghostbusters somehow  actually works! Michael Jackson/Sinead O'Connor lovechild  O'Shea Jackson Jr is very affecting as the lead "buster"  Dr. O'Shea Jackson Jr (!) who leads a loveable band of  misfits, conmen and minor scientists on a mission to rid  NYC of the ghosts of violent racist policemen. The  finale, in which they detonate a giant marshmallow  version of bloated fathead Donald Trump just in time to  turn Central Park into a massive S'mores party almost  makes up for miserable Kanye West cameo as a street  preacher with a filthy mouth and a heart of gold.