At the movies
A factual thriller (“Bridge of Spies”) and a children’s chiller (“Goosebumps”) are among the titles arriving on this third weekend of October.
The films slated for a theater near you (with all dates highly subject to change) and some On Demand include:
“Beasts of No Nation,” with Idris Elba, Abraham Attah and Ama K. Abebrese in a rating-unknown war drama that imdb.com says provides the story of “a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.” Cary Joji Fukunaga (“Jane Eyre”) directed.
“Bridge of Spies,” with Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda in a factual PG-13 Cold War drama about an American lawyer ordered to exchange a Russian spy for an American pilot. Steven Spielberg (“Schindler’s List”) directed.
“Crimson Peak,” with Charlie Hunnam, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska in an R-rated haunted-house fantasy about a writer in a house plagued by ghosts from her past. Gifted Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) directed.
“The Cut,” with Tahar Rahim in an unrated imported drama about a man who, according to imdb.com, loses his “family, speech and faith” after surviving the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. He then learns that his twin daughters might be alive. Fatih Akin (“Soul Kitchen”) directed.
“Goosebumps,” with Jack Black and Halston Sage in a PG-rated action fantasy in which the supernatural creatures from the children’s horror books by R.L. Stine come to life. Rob Letterman (“Gulliver’s Travels”) directed.
“Steve Jobs,” with Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels in an insightful R-rated biography of the genius behind Apple. Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) directed.
“Victoria,” with Laia Costa, Frederick Lau and Franz Rogowski in an unrated crime drama about a woman who goes on holiday in Berlin, flirts with a local guy and finds herself being asked a dangerous favor. Sebastian Schipper (“A Friend of Mine”) directed.
“Woodlawn,” with Sean Astin, C. Thomas Howell, Sherri Shepherd and Jon Voight in a faith-based, PG-rated factual drama that’s set in the segregated South in the 1970s and deals with a racial crisis involving a high school football team. Roma Downey and Mark Burnett (“The Bible”) served as executive producers, and Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin, who previously teamed on “Moms’ Night Out,” co-directed.