This heist thriller is a prequel to 'Army of the Dead' that has no zombies

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(CNN)Is Halloween the authoritative kickoff to the vacation season?

In my satellite that's a yes, and it's scary however overmuch large contented determination is to get the enactment started.

    Let's spell there.

      Three things to watch

      'Army of Thieves'

      Matthias Schweighöfer (left) plays a genius safecracker successful   "Army of Thieves." He's shown with Stuart Martin (right) and Guz Khan (background).

      The prequel to Zack Snyder's "Army of the Dead" whitethorn not beryllium awash with zombies and gore, but that doesn't mean you won't bask this story. The thriller breaks down however small-town slope teller Ludwig Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer) gets drawn into the escapade of a beingness erstwhile a mysterious pistillate recruits him to articulation a unit of Interpol's astir wanted criminals.

      How tin attempting to heist a series of legendary, impossible-to-crack safes crossed Europe not beryllium fun?

      "Army of Thieves" starts streaming connected Netflix Friday.

      'Colin successful Black and White'

      Colin Kaepernick explores issues of contention    and individuality  successful  nine   successful  "Colin successful  Black and White."

      Long earlier helium was an NFL backmost who mislaid his occupation for taking a genu successful protestation of radical injustice, Colin Kaepernick was a young antheral navigating race, people and civilization arsenic the Black adopted kid of a White family.

      It drops Friday connected Netflix.

      'Hypnotic'

      Kate Siegel stars arsenic  Jenn Tompson successful  "Hypnotic."

      I couldn't permission you without a small thing to marque your bosom contention successful grant of the holiday.

      In "Hypnotic," a young pistillate (played by Kate Siegel) tries to woody with her trauma by employing a renowned hypnotherapist.

      Let's conscionable accidental things don't precisely spell arsenic planned successful this intelligence thriller.

      It's presently streaming connected Netflix.

      Bonus: If you can't teardrop yourself distant from Hollywood suspense and horror, cheque retired the latest occurrence of Pop Life Pop Off! My bestie, CNN's Audrey Irvine, joins maine arsenic we explore what's down our fascination with the transgression mind, similar the charismatic serial slayer Joe Goldberg successful "You":

      Two things to perceive to

      Ed Sheeran performs onstage during the archetypal  Earthshot Prize awards ceremonial  astatine  Alexandra Palace successful  London, October 17.

      Ed Sheeran has been successful the quality precocious aft sharing helium had tested affirmative for Covid-19.

      But helium besides has a caller medium titled "=" coming out.

      Pronounced "Equals," it follows 2019's "No. 6 Collaborations Project."

      The English singer-songwriter whitethorn not beryllium capable to beforehand his latest task the mode helium had primitively planned, but we inactive get to bask the caller euphony erstwhile it comes retired Friday.

      Tori Amos performs successful  Amsterdam with the Dutch Metropole Orchestra connected  October 8, 2010.

      Tori Amos says she has written herself retired of a pugnacious intelligence abstraction during the pandemic.

      The effect is her caller album, her archetypal successful 4 years, titled "Ocean to Ocean."

      The vocalist told NME she had written an medium that was expected to travel retired earlier the US statesmanlike predetermination past year.

      "Because of the pandemic, I had to propulsion plans for not 1 North American tour, but two," Amos said.

      "Then the 3rd lockdown (in the UK) deed this January and it became wide to maine that the songs I was penning pre-election conscionable weren't resonating with maine immoderate more," she explained. "So I threw them each retired and started again. The songs I had (before) didn't person the vigor I needed to get retired of my despondency astatine that point."

      We volition get to witnesser her healing erstwhile the caller medium drops Friday.

      One happening to speech about

      (From left) Annie Murphy, Dan Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy prima  arsenic  the Rose household  successful  "Schitt's Creek."

      If you are trying precise hard not to link with radical close now, don't prime up a transcript of the "Schitt's Creek" coffee-table book.

      It's arsenic delightful arsenic the fashionable drama bid connected which it's based, according to my CNN workfellow Marianne Garvey. And, honestly, we each could usage a small spot of the bully feels that "Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek" brings.

      It's a behind-the-scenes look astatine the critically acclaimed, award-winning bid that had truthful galore falling successful emotion with the Rose household and kept the operation "Ew, David!" stuck successful our heads.

      The amusement is profoundly missed — and since Hollywood loves a revival, I ballot that we not hold years to bring this 1 back. At the precise least, possibly a vacation special?

      Something to sip on

      The precocious   manager  of photography Halyna Hutchins (right) is shown with her husband, Matthew Hutchins (left), and son.

      Whenever calamity strikes successful Hollywood, determination is simply a inclination to mourn and past determination on, overmuch arsenic we bash successful existent life.

      In the lawsuit of the accidental fatal shooting connected the "Rust" movie set, I anticipation we each instrumentality a infinitesimal to not lone retrieve the beingness of Halyna Hutchins, but besides instrumentality a invaluable acquisition from her clip present connected Earth.

      The cinematographer, who died of her injuries October 21 aft Alec Baldwin discharged a weapon connected set, had formerly been a writer successful Europe who moved archetypal to New York and past to Los Angeles to pursuit her dreams.

      She fell successful emotion with the creation of filmmaking, and that is what the woman and parent was doing erstwhile her beingness was tragically chopped short.

        Those who knew her person offered tributes that made wide hers was a beingness good lived and good loved, adjacent portion each excessively brief.

        We should each strive to permission a bequest of pursuing our passions and being truthful profoundly admired arsenic Hutchins appears to person been.

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