| Kyle Buchanan Pop Culture Reporter | | Hey, movie fans! It's your faithful Carpetbagger. | | Coming to theaters this week, we've got a new take on "The Grinch" from the animation studio that gave you "Despicable Me," an attempt to resurrect hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl in the Spider's Web" and a stew of Nazi and zombies to kill in "Overlord." In a special theatrical engagement, you can also check out the Coen brothers' new western anthology "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," which is due on Netflix soon. | | And then there's "The Front Runner," which opened this week on Election Day in a very misbegotten release gambit. Jason Reitman's film stars Hugh Jackman as the disgraced politician Gary Hart, and opening it opposite cable-news coverage of the midterm results was like opening a football movie on the night of the Super Bowl. Of course, box office results were wan. What were they thinking? | | Aside from "The Front Runner," this season is packed with movies that tackle politics in both veiled and explicit ways. There are the obviously political movies like "Vice," starring Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, and "On the Basis of Sex," where Felicity Jones plays Supreme-to-be Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But you've also got "Mary Queen of Scots," which explores how men might seek to curb women's political capital, and "The Favourite," where canny aides seek to manipulate an easily flattered ruler, a situation that may recall our current administration. Even in "Suspiria," the internecine battles among the witches takes on a political fervor. For which film will you cast your vote? | | |
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