Might as well get this one out of the way now. It seems the only new wide release this Friday will be The Hitcher — a remake of the 1986 film, with Sean Bean in the Rutger Hauer role — and, as often happens with horror movies and their remakes, this movie will not be screened for critics in advance. Unless, that is, you count a Thursday-night preview, which is too late to meet the deadline for the Friday-morning newspapers.
On a semi-related note, I am reminded of C. Thomas Howell — co-star of The Hitcher, Soul Man (1986), Red Dawn (1984), The Outsiders (1983), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and other films from my youth — whenever I point something out to my son, and I say, “See, Thomas?” It’s mildly annoying, but whatchagonnado.
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