52 August 22 • 2019
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AT THE MOVIES
Opening last Friday and still in the-
aters is The Informer and Good
Boys. Informer stars Joel
Kinnaman, 39, as a former
special ops soldier caught
up in a convoluted state-
side mess that starts with
him protecting his wife. He
eventually has to take on
the mob, the NYPD and the
FBI. Kinnaman was born and
raised in Sweden, the son
of a non-Jewish American
father and a Swedish
Jewish mother (her family
moved to Sweden from the
Ukraine in 1850).
Boys is a teen comedy
that opens with 12-year-old
Max (Jacob Tremblay) being
invited to a “kissing party.”
Problem is that Max doesn’
t
know how to kiss. Egged
on by his buddies, he uses
his father’
s drone to spy
on neighbors kissing. The
drone crashes and the boys
skip school hoping to find
some way to replace it. They
embark on an odyssey that
involves a lot of weird stuff.
Molly Gordon, 23, has a
large supporting role. Kiev-
born comedy writer Gene
Stupnitsky, 42, makes his
debut as a director with
this film. He and his writing
partner, Lee Eisenberg,
42, wrote Boys. The pair
wrote many episodes of The
Office, the hit TV show.
Angel opened Aug. 21.
It stars Gerard Butler as a
Secret Service agent framed
for the attempted assassi-
nation of the president. He
must evade his own agency
and the FBI as he tries to
uncover the real threat. Tim
Blake Nelson, 55, plays the
vice president.
Ready or Not, which
opens Friday, follows a young bride
(Samara Weaving) as she joins her
new husband’
s rich, eccentric family
(Adam Brody, 39, Henry Czerny, Andie
MacDowell). Somehow, the wedding
turns into a lethal game with everyone
fighting for their survival. Brody’
s par-
ents are from Metro Detroit.
WORTH CHECKING OUT
I have, as I write this, watched the first
two episodes of The Boys,
an Amazon Prime series
and, so far, it’
s very good.
The first eight-episode
season was released July
26 and a second season
is already ordered. The
premise is that somehow
persons with superpowers
pop up around America
and are recruited by a
corporation to foil crimes,
while at the same time the
corporation heavily mar-
kets them for big bucks
(cereal boxes, action fig-
ures, etc.). The corporation
keeps hidden that these
superheroes are not saints
and sometimes do bad
things. Our hero is Hughie,
a young man who is badly
wronged by a superhero
and is then approached
by Butcher, a mysterious
tough guy who offers
to help him avenge this
wrong. Butcher is aided
by Frenchie, who is skilled
in munitions, ordnance,
infiltration and communi-
cations.
Jack Quaid, son of Meg
Ryan and Dennis Quaid,
plays Hughie; Karl Urban
plays Butcher; and Israeli
actor Tomer Capon, 34,
plays Frenchie. You might
know Capon for playing
an Israeli solider in the
Israeli series Fauda and
for his role as an ex-Israeli
commando in the Israeli
series When Heroes Fly.
Both are on Netflix. Capon
was, in real life, a squad
commander in the IDF
Paratrooper Brigade, which
often is asked to do “spe-
cial forces” missions.
Erik Kripke, 45, a Toledo native, cre-
ated the series and wrote the first two
episodes. He also created the TV series
Supernatural and Revolution. ■
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