The Weekly Podioplex: October 18, 2016

On an all-new edition of The Weekly Podioplex, we're moving into October's back half with a win from The Accountant as it leads the stunning stage bow for Kevin Hart and the stumbling Max Steel. Next week will be action-on-action action as Jack Reacher returns to the silver screen and challenges Affleck for the crown.

 

In home entertainment, Jeff Goldblum and company return to save Earth in Independence Day: Resurgence, while Alice Through the Looking Glass debuts on digtial. In the television department, Bates Motel and Teen Wolf escort the powerhouse Downton Abbey to disc, and to round out the list, we get creepy dolls and creepier serial killers in the return of Child's Play.

 

Cap it all off with Denise and the Quick Flicks, and you have the newest installment of The Weekly Podioplex, brought to you on The Chronic Rift Network.

 

 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for October 18, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – The Accountant – [New Release]
#2 – The Girl on the Train – [-1]
#3 – Kevin Hart: What Now? – [New Release]
#4 – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – [-2]
#5 – Deepwater Horizon – [-2]
#6 – Storks – [-1]

#7 – The Magnificent Seven – [-3]
#8 – Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life – [-1]
#9 – Sully – [-1]
#10 – The Birth of a Nation – [-4]

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – Paranormal Activity 3
2006 – The Prestige
1996 – Sleepers
1986 – Crocodile Dundee
1976 – Marathon Man
 

Box Office Premieres for the week of October 21st, 2016

Wide

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – [PG-13]

Ouija: Origin of Evil – [PG-13]

Keeping Up with the Joneses – [PG-13]

Boo! A Madea Halloween – [PG-13]

 

Limited

American Pastoral – [R]
31 – [R]
Moonlight – [R]
We Are X – [R]
The Handmaiden – [NR]
I’m Not Ashamed – [PG-13]
 

Home Entertainment for the week of October 18th, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Independence Day: Resurgence – [PG-13]

 

New Releases on Digital Video

 

Alice Through the Looking Glass – [PG]

Bad Moms – [R]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Downton Abbey: The Complete Series (2010-2015)
Teen Wolf: Season Five, Part Two (2016)
Bates Motel: Season Four (2015)

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

The Laughing Policeman (1973) – [R]

Child’s Play (1988) – [R]

 

 

Podcast Promos

 

Star Wars Stacks
The Star Wars Stacks is a Star Wars Expanded Universe Bookclub. Once a month, we get together to discuss a different novel from the Star Wars EU.

 

Quick Flicks

 

Final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer
Doctor Strange, the Ancient One, and Rachel McAdams
Don Quixote tilts toward the silver screen
War of the Worlds heads to MTV
The Ghost in the Shell returns to theaters in the UK

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