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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