Thunder Force, City of Lies & 10 new movies you can now watch at home

This week, Netflix launched a bombshell announcement that the streaming big had secured the unique U.S. rights to stream Sony Footage’ upcoming slate of releases together with Venom: There Will Be Carnage and the upcoming Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel. Disney simply introduced that Phoebe Waller-Bridge and collection composer John Williams can be becoming a member of the tentatively titled Indiana Jones 5 starring Harrison Ford, and Marvel lastly launched the long-awaited (see: one week) hourlong video of Baron Zemo’s awkward dancing membership scene within the third episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

As for brand new releases of movies accessible to stream and lease at residence, we’ve obtained the much-delayed and at last launched Biggie Smalls homicide thriller Metropolis of Lies, Netflix’s new superhero buddy comedy Thunder Drive starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, the extraordinary homebound horror thriller thriller Held starring Jill Awbrey (All We Have Left) and Bart Johnson (Excessive College Musical), and far more! That will help you get a deal with on what’s new and accessible to look at, listed below are the films you may watch on VOD this weekend.

Metropolis of Lies

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $5.99 on Amazon; $6.99 on Apple and Vudu

Photograph: Saban Movies

Brad Furman’s crime movie Metropolis of Lies, primarily based on Randall Sullivan’s 2003 nonfiction e book on the investigation into Christopher “The Infamous BIG” Wallace’s homicide, was shelved a month earlier than it was set to launch in 2018 amid a number of controversies, together with allegations of home assault directed on the movie’s lead, Johnny Depp. Three years and one pandemic later, it’s lastly right here, for higher or worse. Depp stars as retired LAPD detective Russell Poole who, with the help of journalist Jack Jackson (Forest Whitaker), makes an attempt to unravel the tangled net of half-truths and motivations behind the plot to take Biggie Smalls’ life.

Held

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $6.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photograph: Magnet Releasing

Jill Awbrey (All We Have Left) and Bart Johnson (Excessive College Musical) star in Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing’s horror thriller Held as Emma and Henry, a troubled couple who try and restore their ailing marriage by journeying to a distant trip rental. Their getaway plans are disturbed when the “Voice,” a masked predator who appears like a cross between a Slipknot understudy and the French digital musician Gesaffelstein, crashes the celebration. As occasions get extra brutal, and it’s clear the Voice has an intimate data of their relationship, the couple should work collectively to uncover the reality and discover a manner out earlier than it’s too late.

Moffie

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $5.99 on Amazon; $6.99 on Apple and Vudu

Photograph: IFC Movies

Based mostly on André Carl van der Merwe’s e book, Oliver Hermanus’ romance drama Moffie (a derogatory Afrikaans time period for a homosexual man) follows Nicholas (Kai Luke Brummer), a younger man in 1981 South Africa who’s enlisted into obligatory army service to defend the Apartheid regime. Pressured to endure two years of brutal and racist coaching, Nicholas struggles along with his incapacity to dwell as much as the farcical macho picture anticipated of him by his household, friends, and heritage, all whereas desperately attempting to keep up the key of his homosexuality.

Thunder Drive

The place to look at it: Stream on Netflix

Credit score: Hopper Stone, Netflix

On the floor, Thunder Drive seems like the feminine superhero buddy comedy equal of 2011’s Bridesmaids or 2019’s The Hustle. Set in a world the place supervillains are commonplace, Ben Falcone’s newest comedy follows estranged childhood mates Lydia (Melissa McCarthy) and Emily (Octavia Spencer) who reunite after the latter devises an experimental remedy that offers them superpowers. Endowed with these newfound talents, the pair got down to combat crime and shield town — hopefully with out breaking too many issues within the course of.

The Tunnel

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $6.99 on Amazon, $6.16 on Apple; $3.99 on Vudu

Photograph: Samuel Goldwyn Movies

Director Pål Øie’s 2019 Norwegian thriller stars Thorbjørn Harr (Vikings) as a primary responder despatched to rescue a bunch of individuals trapped in tunnel within the aftermath of horrible truck crash. With a blizzard raging exterior and a nascent wildfire swelling in depth, the mission to rescue the folks trapped inside turns into a race towards time and the weather.

We Don’t Deserve Canine

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $3.99 on Amazon and Vudu; $4.99 on Apple

Photograph: Urtext Movie Productions

Who doesn’t love canine? Nobody, that’s who! Matthew Salleh’s newest documentary is a people-pleasing, albeit unconventional movie: a globetrotting journey throughout 11 nations together with Chile, Uganda, Nepal, Finland, and Romania to seize intimate portraits of the widespread and extraordinary relationships and bonds between canine and their house owners. We Don’t Deserve Canine is a kaleidoscopic odyssey of unconventional portraits of humanity, love, and friendship spanning the world over.

And right here’s what dropped final Friday:

Godzilla vs. Kong

The place to look at it: Stream on HBO Max

Photograph: Warner Bros. Footage and Legendary Footage

The capstone of Legendary Leisure’s Monsterverse reimagining of Toho’s most well-known Kaiju is lastly right here in Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong. In a combat between an historical behemoth lizard that emits radiation and massive ol’ ape with a coronary heart of gold and palm stuffed with signal language, who wins? The reply’s apparent: We do! From our evaluate,

Godzilla vs. Kong is a 113-minute argument for motion pictures projected on big screens in entrance of crowds of individuals. It’s a smooth-brained good time. Relying on native pandemic restoration progress and restrictions, it can both triumphantly welcome moviegoers again into theaters with large spectacle, or make the wait damage that rather more, as they watch it on HBO Max as an alternative. I watched it at residence, on my 55-inch TV, completely livid that I couldn’t see it in a theater, or on the very least, undertaking it on the facet of my condo constructing. However I couldn’t keep mad for lengthy, as a result of I used to be too busy cheering out loud on the spectacle in entrance of me.

Concrete Cowboy

The place to look at it: Stream on Netflix

Photograph: Netflix

Stranger Issues’ Caleb McLaughlin stars in Ricky Staub’s (Snow White and the Huntsman) Concrete Cowboy as Cole, an errant teenager from Detroit who is distributed to dwell along with his estranged father Harp (Idris Elba), the chief of a neighborhood group of city cowboys in North Philadelphia. From our evaluate,

All of Concrete Cowboy’s performances are strong, with McLaughlin carrying the story emotionally, and Jerome balancing vulnerability and satisfaction as charming, tempting Smush. Orange Is the New Black star Lorraine Toussaint can also be a standout as Nessie, the stables’ tough-love matriarch. Along with the skilled actors, the solid additionally consists of members of the Fletcher Road Stables group. Newcomers Ivannah Mercedes and Jamil “Mil” Prattis add heat and authenticity by way of their consolation across the horses and within the steady stalls. Fletcher Road members additionally function a sort of Greek refrain, commenting on Cole’s acclimation to working within the stables.

Surprise Girl 1984

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photograph: Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Footage

Gal Gadot returns because the Amazonian Demigoddess Diana of Themyscira in Patty Jenkins’ Surprise Girl 1984 (sans historical lamentation music)! When a power-hungry businessman (Pedro Pascal) and a former colleague (Kristen Wiig) plot to beat humanity utilizing a mysterious historical artifact that grants needs, Diana should don her indestructible bracelets, golden tiara, and multicolored leotard to as soon as once more rescue the world as Surprise Girl. From our evaluate:

Surprise Girl is a heroine who lifts us up, who brings her compassion and light-weight to each combat she faces, who was as soon as prepared to lose the Lasso of Fact within the comics for the sake of saving a single Amazon warrior. This model of Diana is extra egocentric, curdled by her personal grief, and restricted by her personal decisions. She mirrors Minerva, who has been restricted by society, in all issues save one: she nonetheless loves the world sufficient to be able to sacrifice. The present DC film universe is at all times darkish, however evidently with a film drenched within the neon aesthetic of the ’80s, they’ve lastly discovered a option to dim even Surprise Girl’s gentle.

Shiva Child

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $4.99 on Amazon; $6.99 on Apple and Vudu

Credit score; Maria Rusche

Rachel Sennott govt produces and stars in Emma Seligman’s Shiva Child as Max, a bisexual faculty senior who runs into her sugar daddy and ex-girlfriend at a Jewish funeral service along with her mother and father. Jude Dry’s evaluate for Indiewire describes the movie as “claustrophobic Jewish humor with a horny premise” which, from the appears of the trailer, completely appears to trace.

Tina

The place to look at it: Stream on HBO Max

Credit score: HBO

Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s eponymous documentary Tina on the Grammy Award-winning artist Tina Turner is an exhaustive and salient survey into the the euphoric life and tumultuous trials of the one and solely “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll.” That includes in depth archival footage of Turner’s lifelong profession and interviews with the singer herself, Tina charts its topic’s inconceivable rise to stardom and her enduring legacy as one in every of rock and soul music’s indelible trailblazers.

Each Breath You Take

The place to look at it: Obtainable to lease for $19.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Photograph: Vertical Leisure

Vaughn Stein’s psychological thriller Each Breath You Take stars Academy Award winner Casey Affleck as Phillip, a psychiatrist whose profession is jeopardized within the wake of his affected person’s suicide. Inviting his affected person’s surviving brother (Sam Clafin) into his residence, Phillip quickly finds the life he has constructed along with his spouse Grace (Michelle Monaghan) and their daughter Lucy (India Eisley) thrust into a dangerous tailspin of deceit and manipulation.