Thank you for dropping in on another edition of the Fridae Movie Club newsletter!

Our pick of the week is The Hedgehog, whose cinematic release coincides this week with the Asian DVD release date of the Oscar-winning Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The heartwarming, sensitive, and endearing French film also features a precocious pre-teen trying to make sense of life, the universe, and everything under the guidance of the tiny unconventional community she lives in.

Fifteen years since the original film, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return in Men in Black 3 as the alien-chasing odd couple from a top secret government bureau. In addition to the usual villains and imminent planetary destruction by conquerors from outer space, MIB3 introduces time travel and Josh Brolin with a hilarious impersonation of Jones's Agent K character!

If you threw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Hound of the Baskervilles together, you'd get Killer Wolf. Despite the cornball premise (yes, the serial killer is a dog!), the Korean thriller plays it very endearingly straight, making it a very memorable mystery thriller.

Equally memorable is ATM. Written by the guy who managed to entertained us with 90 minutes of Ryan Reynolds trapped in a very dark and tiny enclosed space while being terrorised by muhaheedin (in Buried), it's about three people stuck in a very cold and tiny enclosed space while being terrorised by a serial killer.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan