The week’s openings: ‘Impossible’ but true

The mission might be impossible, but Hollywood just keeps Cruising along … if you know what I mean. That lame play on words is about the best I can do to intro the week’s mainstream movie openings. Anyway, here they are:

Wednesday

“Vacation” : Ed Helms plays Rusty Griswold, the son played by Anthony Michael Hall in the 1983 comedy “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” who wants to make his own family-bonding trek to Walley World. Can you go home again? We’ll find out.

Friday

“Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation” (IMAX and standard; no 3-D): The IMF team faces its greatest foe, the Syndicate, which is bent on destroying Ethan (Tom Cruise) and friends. Expect to see some stuff blown up real good.

“Twinsters” : When two young girls, adopted decades before, connect on social media, they discover their new-found relationship is closer than either could have ever imagined. A documentary that Variety calls “absorbingly personal.”

“Aloft” : Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly portrays a woman who encounters the son she’d abandoned 20 years before. Maybe love does mean saying you’re sorry.

As for the Magic Lantern, I’ll list the openings when they become available.