Godzilla x Kong, Concrete Cowboy and 8 more new movies to watch at home

The last week of March ends with a hodgepodge of big ads, with news from Netflix’s The Wizard having finished filming for its second season, Knives out 2 and 3 announced to launch exclusively through Netflix, the launch of new trailers for the fifth season of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty is the new Mountain range movie starring Chris Rock, and the delay of Mortal combat for a week!

It’s a huge week for movie releases too, literally, with Adam Wingard’s debut Godzilla vs. Kong on HBO Max and Wonder Woman 1984 on the VOD. Concrete Cowboy starring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin premieres this weekend on Netflix, as well as several other highly anticipated releases such as the Tina Turner documentary Tina, Shiva Baby, and more. To help you understand what’s new and available to watch, here are the movies you can watch on VOD this weekend.

Godzilla vs. Kong

Where to watch: Broadcast on HBO Max

The pinnacle of Legendary Entertainment’s Monsterverse reimagination of Toho’s most famous Kaiju is finally here at Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong. In a fight between an ancient giant lizard that emits radiation and the big old monkey with a heart of gold and a palm full of sign language, who wins? The answer is obvious: yes! From our review,

Godzilla vs. Kong it is a 113-minute argument for films projected on giant screens in front of crowds. It is a good time for the peaceful brain. Depending on the progress and constraints of recovering from the local pandemic, he will either welcome the moviegoers triumphantly back to the cinemas with a tremendous spectacle, or will make the wait hurt even more, as they watch the film on HBO Max. home, on my 55-inch TV, absolutely furious at not being able to see it at the cinema, or at least project it on the side of my building. But I couldn’t stay angry for long, because I was too busy cheering out loud for the show in front of me.

Concrete Cowboy

Where to watch: Cast on Netflix

Weird stuff‘Caleb McLaughlin stars in Ricky Staub’s (Snow White and the Hunter) Concrete Cowboy like Cole, a wandering teenager from Detroit who, after being sent to live with his distant father Harp (Idris Elba), the leader of a local group of urban cowboys in northern Philadelphia. From our review,

All Concrete Cowboy performances are solid, with McLaughlin carrying the story emotionally and Jerome balancing vulnerability and pride as charming and tempting Smush. Orange Is the New Black star Lorraine Toussaint also stands out as Nessie, the matriarch of the stables’ tough love. In addition to professional actors, the cast also includes members of the Fletcher Street Stables community. Newcomers Ivannah Mercedes and Jamil “Mil” Prattis add warmth and authenticity through their comfort around the horses and in the stalls of the stable. Fletcher Street members also act as a sort of Greek choir, commenting on Cole’s acclimatization to working in the stables.

Wonder Woman 1984

Where to watch: Available for rent for $ 5.99 on Amazon, Apple and Voodoo

Gal Gadot is back as the Amazon demigod Diana of Themyscira in Patty Jenkin Wonder Woman 1984 (s)ans ancient mourning music)! When a power-hungry businessman (Pedro Pascal) and a former colleague (Kristen Wiig) plan to conquer humanity using a mysterious ancient wish-granting artifact, Diana must once again wear her indestructible bracelets, gold tiara and multicolored leotard for more once rescuing the world as Wonder Woman. From our review,

Wonder Woman is a heroine who raises us, who brings her compassion and light to every fight she faces, who has already been willing to lose the Lasso of Truth in the comics to save a single Amazon warrior. This version of Diana is more selfish, torn by her own pain and limited by her own choices. She mirrors Minerva, who has been limited by society, in all but one thing: she still loves the world enough to be able to sacrifice herself. The current universe of DC cinema is always dark, but it seems that with a film steeped in the neon aesthetic of the 80s, they finally found a way to dim even the light of Wonder Woman.

Shiva Baby

Where to watch: Available for rent for $ 4.99 on Amazon; $ 6.99 on Apple and Voodoo

Rachel Sennott is executive producer and Emma Seligman’s star Shiva Baby like Max, a senior in bisexual college who comes across his sugar daddy and ex-girlfriend at a Jewish funeral with his parents. Jude Dry’s review for Indiewire describes the film as “claustrophobic Jewish humor with a sexy premise” that, from the look of the trailer, seems to fully track.

Tina

Where to watch: Broadcast on HBO Max

Homonymous documentary by Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin Tina about Grammy-winning artist Tina Turner is an exhaustive and salient research on the euphoric life and tumultuous trials of the only “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll”. Featuring extensive archival footage of Turner’s lifelong career and interviews with the singer herself, Tina maps his subject’s unlikely rise to stardom and his enduring legacy as one of the indelible pioneers of rock and soul.

Every Breath You Take

Where to watch: Available to rent for $ 19.99 on Amazon, Apple and Voodoo

Casey Affleck as Phillip, looking away with each breath

Vaughn Stein’s psychological thriller Every Breath You Take stars Oscar winner Casey Affleck as Phillip, a psychiatrist whose career is threatened after his patient’s suicide. Inviting his patient’s surviving brother (Sam Clafin) to his home, Phillip soon discovers the life he has built with his wife Grace (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter Lucy (India Eisley) launched into a dangerous spiral of deception and manipulation.

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Bad trip

Where to watch: Cast on Netflix

“And if Punk was a feature-length comedy, but instead of Ashton Kutcher, he starred comedian Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howery (Get out)? This is the short, sweet description of Bad Trip, the new black comedy drama by director Kitao Sakurai (The Eric Andre Show) about two longtime best friends who embark on a trip from Florida to New York City so that one of them can confess his love to his high school sweetheart. Although originally scheduled to be released in theaters last year by Orion Pictures, the film was one of many delayed indefinitely with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Since then, Netflix picked it up and is finally available to watch via streaming.

The father

Where to watch: Available to rent for $ 19.99 on Amazon, Apple and Voodoo

Olivia Colman (The crown) stars in the drama of director Florian Zeller The father like Anne, a woman trying to take care of her father Anthony, played by Sir Anthony Hopkins, how his experiences with the onset of dementia made him more belligerent, disoriented and suspicious. Based on the Zeller play of the same name, critically acclaimed in 2012 and with a soundtrack by virtuosic composer Ludovico Einaudi, the film has already received Hopkins and Colman nominations for the Oscar for Best Actor and Supporting Actor, respectively, at this year’s 93rd Oscars. .

Shoplifters of the world

Where to watch: Available for rent for $ 5.99 on Amazon; $ 6.99 on Apple and Voodoo

How much do you love your favorite band? Enough to keep a radio station DJ at gunpoint and force him to play that band’s entire discography for his boring hometown to hear? That’s what happens at Stephen Kijak’s house Shoplifters of the world, “Based on the true intentions” of an urban legend now unmasked by a young Smiths fan who allegedly attempted such an act of blatant youthful stupidity in 1987, but who actually lost his nerve and surrendered to the police. Kijak’s film takes this premise and turns it into a drama for young adults in a rebel group of four friends who are irritated by the boring boredom of their sleepy British hometown. In addition to its cast of artists, including Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike), Ellar Coltrane (Childhood), Helena Howard (Madeline de Madeline), and Elena Kampouris (Before falling), what has made most audiences and critics talk about Shoplifters of the world is his soundtrack with more than 20 tracks by The Smiths.

The seventh day

Where to watch: Available to rent for $ 6.99 on Amazon, Apple and Voodoo

Guy Pearce stars as Father Peter, a renowned exorcist who guides a young priest (Vadhir Derbez) in the dangerous art of exorcising demons in Justin P. Lange’s supernatural horror thriller The seventh day. While they combine intelligence with an evil unlike anything Peter has ever faced before, the lines between good and evil are blurred and the two are forced to confront their own inner demons in their battle to defeat the other. Think The Conjuring series meets the 2005 Constantine, except not “based on a true story” or a beloved cult comic series Vertigo.

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