OPENING The Carnivores (NR) This drama stars Lindsay Burdge and Tallie Medel as a lesbian couple whose marriage starts to come apart under the strain of their dog’s grave illness. Also with Frank Mosley, Vincent James Prendergast, and Jason Newman. (Opens Friday in Dallas) The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do
For an extreme sports documentary, “Super Frenchie,” tracking the increasingly dangerous exploits of gonzo skier/BASE jumper Matthias Giraud, can’t help but feel benignly pedestrian.
Like fellow adrenaline junkie Alex Honnold, whose untethered attempts to scale the formidable El Capitan were chronicled in the Oscar-winning “Free Solo,” Giraud’s white-knuckle pursuit, which takes him from Mt. Hood to the Matterhorn, doesn’t skimp on the anticipated wow factor.
Ultimately, he meets his Waterloo with an ill-fated jump off Pointe d’Areu near Mont Blanc, leaving him in a coma with shattered bones mere days before his wife is due to give birth to their first child.
FAIRFIELD The Warren family returns to the big screen this week as “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” arrives.
The third film in the franchise, the plot centers on one of the most sensational cases handled by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. It starts with a fight
May 27—"Super Frenchie" isn't about the largest French bread or the amazing retired French swimming champion Laure Manaudou. Matthias Giraud, an accomplished skier and base jumper, is known as "Super Frenchie" due to his fearless jumps off mountains simply armed with skis and a parachute. What the average person would perceive as potential suicide, Giraud, 37, regards as a good time. The .