The Mario movie, Missing on Netflix, Quantumania, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend
Mamma mia, The Super Mario Bros. Movie finally comes to VOD this weekend! The $1 billion box-office success is at the top of this week’s list of films to watch on VOD, and it’s not alone, with plenty of highly anticipated new releases available to choose from this weekend.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the inaugural installment in the MCU’s Phase Five, is finally available to stream on Disney Plus. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thievesstarring Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez arrives on Paramount Plus, the critically acclaimed thriller Missing arrives on Netflix, and the new White Men Can’t Jump reboot starring Sinqua Walls and actor-musician Jack Harlow comes to Hulu. That’s not all: the historical action-thriller Sisu and the action comedy-drama Polite Society are both available to rent or purchase on VOD.
There’s a lot to cover and only so many hours in the weekend. Here are the new releases you have to choose from on VOD and streaming.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Screenlife thrillerRun time: 1h 51mDirectors: Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick Cast: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung
You might know Storm Reid from her starring role in A Wrinkle in Time, or her role as Riley in HBO’s The Last of Us. She also starred in one of the year’s best movies, a psychological thriller all taking place on screens, in which she plays a teenager looking for her missing mother.
A stand-alone sequel to 2018’s Searching, Missing is the feature debut of directing duo Will Merrick and Nicholas D. Johnson. The “screenlife” thriller is an exciting emerging genre in 21st-century filmmaking — the Unfriended movies remain the pinnacle of it, for me — and it’s rare to get to see an aesthetic trend so
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