Mortal Kombat, Netflix’s Stowaway, & 10 new movies you can now watch at home

It’s Friday, and the 93rd Academy Awards are lastly upon us! The nominations for Greatest Image are stacked this 12 months, from movies like Judas and the Black Messiah and Nomadland to Minari and Sound of Metallic. In barely much less well timed however no much less thrilling leisure information, Criterion launched their high-definition restoration of Bong Joon-ho’s 2003 crime thriller traditional Reminiscences of Homicide and Netflix at present premiered their newest fantasy adaptation Shadow and Bone.

Whenever you’re not busy watching a really weird, host-less Oscars ceremony this 12 months, there’s a ton of latest motion pictures obtainable to lease and stream from residence this weekend, from the highly-anticipated Mortal Kombat reboot and the lycanthropic horror thriller Bloodthirsty to the sci-fi drama thriller Stowaway and the darkish romantic comedy We Broke Up. That can assist you get a deal with on what’s new and obtainable to look at, listed below are the flicks you possibly can watch on VOD this weekend.

Mortal Kombat (2021)

The place to look at it: Obtainable to stream on HBO Max

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The battle for Earthrealm returns to the massive (and small) display screen within the long-awaited reboot of Mortal Kombat. Cole Younger lives a reasonably common life as an MMA fighter. That’s, till he’s viciously attacked by Sub-Zero (Joe Talsim, The Evening Comes for Us) ; the otherworldly Cyromancer (*heavy sigh*) and cruel lieutenant murderer of Shang Tsung, the tyrannical emperor of an alternate universe often called Outworld. Fearing for his life, Cole should be a part of forces with Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee, The Meg), and Jax (Mehcad Brooks, Supergirl), in addition to Shaolin warriors Liu Kang (Ludi Lin, Energy Rangers), Kung Lao (Max Huang, Kingsman: The Secret Service), and mercenary Kano (Josh Lawson, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) to coach for an martial arts event not like another… one that may form the destiny of the multiverse for generations to return. From our evaluate,

The movie’s R score earns its hold by means of the movie’s technical prospers: the unsettling sound of a dagger crunching on bone; the jarring great thing about blood and rain blended collectively on flower petals and leaves; the laugh-out-loud grossness of a beating coronary heart being pulled out of somebody’s chest. The important thing right here is tone, and Mortal Kombat is considerate with it. That first battle with Sanada and Taslim is the movie’s most emotionally weighty, and the stakes of the well-shot and well-edited conflict carry by means of the rest of Mortal Kombat.

Bloodthirsty

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

Lauren Beatty stars in director Amelia Moses’ supernatural horror thriller Bloodthirsty as Gray, an indie rock singer. After being invited to work by a profitable music producer with a infamous fame, the musician experiences goals and episodes imagining herself as a werewolf. As Gray’s work with the producer continues, her disturbing visions turn into extra actual and intense with every passing day. —TE

Stowaway

The place to look at it: Stream on Netflix

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Anna Kendrick (Pitch Excellent), Toni Collette (Hereditary), Daniel Dae Kim (Misplaced), and Shamier Anderson (Goliath) star in Joe Penna’s sci-fi thriller Stowaway. When an unintended stowaway on an interplanetary mission to Mars compromises their ship’s life assist programs, a crew of astronauts should discover a method to science their approach out of that shit and make unthinkable selection as a way to survive. —TE

Set off Level

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

Barry Pepper (Saving Personal Ryan) stars in 24 director Brad Turner’s newest motion thriller Set off Level as Nicolas Shaw, a retired U.S. particular operative recruited into an elite group of undercover assassins tasked with taking out the worst of the worst. After he’s framed for the loss of life of his fellow group members, Shaw is pressured to go AWOL as a way to uncover the reality and clear his title, all whereas staying one step forward of the authorities tasked with bringing him down. —TE

Vanquish

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

Dangerous Boys writer-turned-director George Gallo’s newest motion crime-thriller Vanquish stars Ruby Rose as a former Russian drug courier who’s pressured to work as hitman for a retired cop (Morgan Freeman) after he abducts her daughter. There’s neon lighting, shoot outs, and characters wanting sternly by means of glass panel partitions. It ain’t John Wick, but it surely works I assume! —TE

We Broke Up

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

Break-ups are by no means straightforward. Particularly after they happen round huge social occasions like holidays and birthdays. William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) and Aya Money (The Boys) star in director Jeff Rosenberg’s We Broke Up as Doug and Lori, a 10-year couple who — you guessed it! — break up simply days earlier than the marriage of Lori’s little sister. Slightly than chunk the bullet and confront the awkward messiness of their relationship standing to their respective households, Doug and Lori try to fake they’re nonetheless collectively till the marriage is over. Billed as a comedy from the producer of 500 Days of Summer season and Juno, there’s a 50/50 likelihood they’ll find yourself breaking it off amid a life-affirming lesson with some mumblecore laughs alongside the way in which. —TE

And right here’s what dropped final Friday:

No person

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

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“Higher Name Saul’s Bob Odenkirk goes full John Wick” is the gross sales pitch in Hardcore Henry director Ilya Naishuller’s motion crime-thriller No person. Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is, to place it pointedly, a no person; a schlubby, mild-mannered household man who experiences a mid-life disaster within the wake of an tried theft of his residence. Now, most guys on this state of affairs would both hit the gymnasium, set up a shit-ton of Nest digicam, buy an outsized pistol to compensate, or some mix-and-match mixture of the three. However then, most folk aren’t wet-workers who faked their very own loss of life to allude a vengeful drug lord hellbent on skinning them alive as a way to retire and begin a brand new life as a schlubby, mild-mannered household man. With equal components comedy and motion, No person seems like a good time for anyone on the lookout for an explosive underdog motion flick. —TE

New Gods: Nezha Reborn

The place to look at it: Stream on Netflix

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New Gods: Nezha Reborn is a steam/cyberpunk-ish tackle the Ming dynasty novel Investiture of the Gods that follows the story of Li Yunxiang, a younger motorcycle supply driver who discovers that he’s the reincarnation of Nezha, the child-god nemesis of the highly effective Dragon Clan which reigns over the land with an iron fist. It falls to Li to grasp his newfound powers and face off towards his pursuers as a way to settle his ancestor’s 3,000 12 months previous grudge. From our evaluate,

New Gods: Nezha Reborn attracts closely on pan-Asian folklore and fable for its narrative backbone. Nezha particularly has been a well-liked character for hundreds of years, evolving from god to normal to baby to spirit in myths as disparate because the Sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, China’s 1979 animated hit Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, and the 2019 Chinese language CGI function Nez Ha, additionally at present streaming on Netflix. (That movie takes a way more slapstick-driven method to Nezha’s heavenly guardians particularly, and the visible method begins off cartoony and child-centered in comparison with Nezha Reborn. However it will definitely develops its personal resonant emotional drama, and its personal staggering motion sequences. The 2 movies make an gratifying double function, simply to see two radically completely different interpretations of the identical traditional characters.)

Jakob’s Spouse

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

Producer-turned-filmmaker Travis Stevens takes a web page out of Santa Clarita Eating regimen’s playbook along with his new indie horror comedy Jakob’s Spouse, however as an alternative of zombies, it’s vampires! Barbara Crampton (You’re Subsequent) performs Anne Fedder, the dutiful spouse of her small-town minister husband Jakob (Larry Fessenden) who, pissed off and sullen over the mundanity of her life, makes an attempt to provoke an affair with an previous flame. An uncommon flip of occasions yields a serendipitous reply to Anne’s craving for a brand new lease on life within the type of being unexpectedly sired by vampire! Shenanigans rapidly ensue, as Anne and Jakob bond over the previous’s newfound unyielding thirst for blood. —TE

Monday

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

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Weekend flings are all enjoyable and video games till Monday rolls round and it’s time to return to the actual world. Mickey (Sebastian Stan, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Chloe (Denise Gough, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt) study that the arduous approach in director Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ romantic drama, Monday. When Chloe offers up on her life within the states to begin a brand new life in Greece along with her fast-made lover Mickey, tensions quickly start to boil as the 2 progressively understand that neither of them really is aware of what they need out of the connection. And after they do, will there be any hope of a future between them? —TE

Experience or Die

The place to look at it: Stream on Netflix

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Tailored from Ching Nakamura’s manga collection Gunjō, Experience or Die follows Rei (Kiko Mizuhara, Norwegian Wooden), a lesbian in her 20s who decides to homicide the husband of her former classmate Nanae (Honami Sato) when she learns of the brutal home abuse she suffers at his hand. Turning to one another for love and companionship within the aftermath, Rei and Nanae at an emotional deadlock as they battle for that means within the midst of their shared trauma. —TE

The Rookies

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

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Resident Evil and Monster Hunter alum Milla Jovovich stars in Alan Yuen’s Chinese language motion thriller The Rookies. When excessive sports activities athlete and licensed daredevil Zhao Feng (Talu Wang) is recruited by “Bruce” (Jovovich) into the Order of the Phantom Knighthood, a clandestine spy group charged with defending the world, his whole life is thrown for a loop. Assume alongside the traces of a Chinese language riff on the over-the-top motion of Quick & Livid and Mission Not possible with the tongue-in-cheek irreverence of Kingsman: The Secret Service. —TE