This Weekend in Pop Culture: August 9-11

Image credit: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Welcome to the Weekend in Pop Culture! Let's examine what's coming out in theaters this weekend...

Wide

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

A group of teens awaken supernatural forces and must face them down. Am I the only one who wishes this were in smeary black-and-white animation, to look like the freaky illustrations in the book?

The Kitchen

When their husbands are sent to jail, the wives of New York gangsters must take over their husbands' jobs. The title is because it's set in Hell's Kitchen, not because of where the MRAs are saying they should go back to.

Dora and the Lost City of Gold

An adventure with Dora the Explorer, now a teenager... who suddenly has parents? That let her hang out with a monkey and a creature that swipes maps for all those years? Irresponsible.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

A dog recalls the life lessons he's learned from his owner, a racecar driver. Based on one of those books you'd see in Costco and never be curious enough about to pick up.

Brian Banks

A high school football player with dreams of playing in the NFL is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Years later, he fights to clear his name... in a legal sense, not the Hitchcockian “man on the run” way.

Limited

After the Wedding

The manager of an orphanage in Africa travels to New York to meet a potential benefactor. Soon, secrets begin to come to light.

The Peanut Butter Falcon

A young man with Down syndrome runs away from his care home to learn to become a wrestler. No, I didn't just scramble a bunch of words together to make this listing up, that's really the title and that's really what it's about.

So what have you been up to in pop culture? And what do you plan to get up to soon?

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