New in Theatres This Weekend

FIRST MAN

Ryan Gosling plays astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, in a movie about his life in the years leading up to his Apollo 11 mission.  Claire Foy from “The Crown” plays his wife June.

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89% (Certified Fresh)

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

It’s a thriller about strangers who meet at a seedy hotel straddling the California – Nevada border in Lake Tahoe in the 1960s. Jeff Bridges checks in as a priest on the run from the law, Jon Hamm stumbles across secret corridors with one-way mirrors, and Dakota Johnson is trying to protect her sister from cult leader Chris Hemsworth.  Bill Pullman’s son Lewis Pullman is the mild-mannered hotel concierge, and the rest of the cast includes Nick Offerman, and Broadway singer Cynthia Erivo

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74% (Certified Fresh)

GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN

Jack Black is back as “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine.  When two kids find an old manuscript of his at an abandoned house, they accidentally release the evil ventriloquist’s dummy Slappy from its pages.  And they need Stine’s help to stop Slappy from destroying the town as he releases more and more Halloween monsters

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 39% (Rotten)