The week’s openings: Small superheroes, big mountains

It’s a split week, what with the holiday right in the middle. So, according to the national movie-release schedule, we have a Wednesday opening and one on Friday. They are:

Wednesday

“The First Purge” : You can only have so many sequels, so the producers of this franchise have reverted to … a prequel, giving us the background on how the whole Purge process started. Straight from the headlines.

Thursday

“Ant-Man and the Wasp” : Paul Rudd returns as the pint-size (at times) superhero, only this time he is joined by Evangeline Lilly as his new partner — The Wasp.

And at the Magic Lantern :

“Mountain” : This 2017 documentary is basically a love letter the the world’s highest peaks.

As always, I’ll update when the local theater finalize their schedules.