Not sure how to celebrate the not-time-off Women’s Day weekend? Four new cinema releases are here to tempt you out the house. And they don’t include the Ster Kinekor Throwback re-release of Scorsese’s Casino and this Saturday’s one show-only screening of K-pop concert Runseokjin_EP.Tour in Amsterdam: Live Viewing at select Nu Metros
First up, and most appropriate for Women’s Day is Freakier Friday. In this decades-later mom and daughter comedy, Anna (Lindsay Lohan) now has a teenage daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As the merger of two families draws near, the trio, and Anna’s mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis), find themselves struck by the same body swap curse that changed Tess and Anna’s relationship all those years before, and offered a literal new perspective on each other’s lives.
According to Sam in his review, Freakier Friday is predictable but peppy throwback fun.
If you’re in the mood for something a lot darker and meatier, there’s horror mystery Weapons, the latest from Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger. A small town is thrown into chaos when all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time. Immediately suspicion falls on the kids’ teacher, played by Ozark and The Fantastic Four’s Julia Garner. The impressive cast of Weapons also includes Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan.
Look out for our Weapons review soon.
From the director of The Lincoln Lawyer and City of Lies comes an unusually star-heavy actioner. Scott Eastwood plays a former soldier who is recruited by Robert De Niro’s government official to return to the compound he left many years earlier. Our hero’s mission is two-fold: find his missing wife, and take down a charismatic cult figure known as The Bokushi (Jamie Foxx), who has surrounded himself with devoted and highly skilled US combat veterans seeking “purpose.”
Finally, there’s comedy fantasy Sketch, which looks like a cousin to the whimsical likes of IF and Harold and the Purple Crayon. Struggling with loss, Amber (Bianca Belle) turns to her love of drawing, but when the young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her chaotic and destructive illustrations come to life. With her brother, and emotionally distant father (Tony Hale), Amber must try to stop the disaster she never meant to unleash. Distributed by Angel Studios.