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PICK OF THE WEEK: "First Man"  (PG-13)  

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. Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were the other members of Apollo 11 crew.  Corey Stoll plays Aldrin, the second guy on the moon.  And Lukas Haas is Collins, the pilot who stayed in orbit and never got to step foot on the lunar surface.

"Bad Times at the El Royale"  (R)  

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.

"Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween"  (PG)

Jack Black is back as "Goosebumps" author R.L. Stine.  When two kids find an old manuscript of his at an abandoned house, they accidently 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.


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