Patch Weekend Movie Guide: "Get Out," "Collide" and "My Life As A Zucchini"

Collide - Movie Review

Here"s what you need to know about this weekend"s new movies "Get Out," "Collide," "My Life as a Zucchini" and more. Find out what to see and what to skip, plus check out the trailers.

Opening This Weekend

"Get Out" Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, directed by Jordan Peele

Director Jordan Peele steps behind the camera for the first time, and within his favorite genre: horror. When interracial couple Chris (Kaluuya) and Rose (Williams) embark on a weekend of meet-and-greet with her parents, foreboding vibes turn the trip into a truly horrifying premise. For once, the villains of a racially charged horror film aren"t rural southerners but rather self-congratulatory intellectuals in this intensely thoughtful and gory ride.

See it: Like the best of the genre, biting satire of our world underscores thrills and chills.

"Collide" Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins, directed by Eran Creevy

To save his girlfriend"s life, Casey (Hoult) must acquiesce to drug runners" demands and embark on a high-speed escape across the Autobahn highway. "Collide" has been stuck in release limbo after the collapse of Relativity Media, and its years on the shelf don"t seem to have done the film any favors. But it does boast the always epic Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley.

Skip it: This looks like a reproduction of better, cheeky, action-genre fare already out there.

Quick Cuts

"My Life as a Zucchini" (Limited Release) Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Ellen Page, directed by Claude Barras

See it: A talented American voice cast fronts a French director"s stop-motion animation about a set of orphans navigating early life. It"s up for Best Animated Film this weekend, and its crushingly sweet sensibility accompanies a dark comic streak, so consider this PG-13 film only for mature young"uns.

"The Girl With All the Gifts" (Limited Release) Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, directed by Colm McCarthy

Skip it: A high concept "zombie drama," "Gifts" is set in the future at a rural England military base where a group of children is battling a cannibalism-inducing plague. That"s a h**l of an elevator pitch. I won"t seek this one out, but I will watch at home the zombie genre could use some fresh brain um... ideas.

Netflix Picks

"Quiz Show" (1994) Robert Redford directed this "90s classic about true-to-life game show corruption during the 1950s. It"s full of great performances (particularly John Turturro and Ralph Fiennes) and becomes something greater than historiography. A little slow, but worth it.

"Man On Wire" (2008) A spellbinding story that falls under the category of "truth is stranger than fiction," this documentary follows French acrobat Philippe Petit and his illegal high-wire act between the World Trade Center"s twin towers. The retelling of the crew"s plan to set up safe passage for Petit under the cover of night is as suspenseful as the high-wire act itself.

Watch the trailer for "Get Out"

Watch the trailer for "Collide"

Watch the trailer for "My Life as a Zucchini"

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