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Fridays are for finishing work early.

My condolences to all of those forced to return to the office, where you must now pretend to be busy until 5PM.

We live in outdated times.

To help you pass the hours, here are three trailers worth a peruse.

We begin with a horror, if that’s your jam. There’s Someone Inside Your House is based on The New York Times bestselling book by Stephanie Perkins.

This one is primed to drop just in time for Halloween, according to Movieweb:

From the producers of Stranger Things and The Conjuring Universe, a high school senior (Sydney Park) and the rest of her new school’s graduating class are being targeted by a masked killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the world.

Sounds a bit Scream-like, right, or does the killer know what they did last summer?

The film debuts on Netflix on October 6:

Let’s lighten the mood a little with Ron’s Gone Wrong, aimed more at the kids and those of us who refuse to grow up.

The Verge below:

This is a story about Barney, an awkward kid, and Ron, his personal robot friend who’s a little off because he’s got some code missing from his programming (but I still love him look how cute he is).

Hijinks ensue, and I don’t think it’s going out on a limb to say some lessons about friendship are on the menu. Also this movie has an all-star voice cast, including Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, and Rob Delaney.

Rob Delaney is one of the stars of Catastrophe, which is a superb series you should watch at once.

Sheesh, that really is an all-star voice cast:

Ron’s Gone Wrong hits theatres on October 22.

I don’t envision either of the two movies above challenging for Oscar glory.

Anything Guillermo del Toro touches is usually in the running, and fresh off winning Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director with The Shape of Water, he’s put together a stellar cast for Nightmare Alley.

This from Gizmodo:

There’s Bradley Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn, and others in what del Toro assures audiences is not a supernatural film, despite the trailer and title strongly suggesting otherwise…

The “man or beast” at the center of Nightmare Alley is Cooper’s character, Stanton Carlisle. He’s a former carnival worker who uses the tricks he learned there to con millionaires out of their money by pretending he’s a mind reader. This, of course, does not go over well and gets the shady character into lots of trouble.

The movie is based on a 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham.

Guillermo del Toro has said that despite what the trailer might convey, this is not a supernatural film and is “based completely in a reality world”.

Fox is opening Nightmare Alley in theatres on December 17, which is perfect timing for an awards season run.

That’s a wrap.

[sources:movieweb&verge&gizmodo]