Doctor Strange 2, Netflix’s The Man from Toronto, and more new movies to watch at home

The arrival of one of the biggest streaming premieres in 2022 is awaited at home this week, with the “The Last of Us” Doctor Strange Following Doctor Strange, in the Multiverse of Madness Disney Plus lands.

That’s not all: There’s a new Kevin Hart movie on Netflix, a new Beavis and Butt-Head movie in the year 2022, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future VOD and more

Doctor Strange, in the Multiverse of Madness

You should be watching: Disney Plus is available to stream

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Doctor Strange, in the Multiverse of Madness, the 28th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, follows Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), the would-be Sorcerer Supreme, as he teams up with America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a teenage girl with the ability to traverse universes, in order to stop a mysterious adversary who seeks to absorb America’s power and destroy the multiverse in the process. Strange needs to enlist the support of his old friends like Wanda, Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), as well as Wong (Benedict Wong), in order to save all existence.

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The scenes that go full Raimi are powerful reminders of how much fun the Marvel Cinematic Universe can be whenever its filmmakers’ idiosyncrasies are allowed to shine through. Multiverse of Madness isn’t a full-on Sam Raimi film — Michael Waldron’s script has a LotMCU legends to be absorbed, there is more MCU magic lasers firing at each others than horror fan might enjoy. Raimi’s style brings a refreshing break from the flying CG magic explosions and establishes the characters. Wanda Maximoff isn’t just capable of crimson energy blasts and mass illusion: She genuinely has mastery of the most disturbing powers in the multiverse. Doctor Strange doesn’t just conjure orange versions of physical weapons, he harnesses forbidden, arguably immoral forces to try and save the day.

Crimes of the Future

You should be watching: Rentable for as low as $19.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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Viggo Mortensen stars in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the FutureAs Saul Tenser, an actor and celebrity performer in a world in which humans are experiencing bodily mutations to adapt to climate change and pollution. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul ritualistically removes his vestigial organs in defiance of this strange metamorphosis. When Saul is approached by a mysterious man who offers his son’s dead body to be a part of Saul’s performance, he finds himself at the heart of a frightening conspiracy to steer the course of human evolution.

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Some of his movies have discomfiting scenes and some are quite horrific. There is also some gnarliness, such as in the recent ones. The Stars and Maps Cosmopolisboth with Stewart’s TwilightRobert Pattinson stars as his co-star. Taylor Lautner is waiting by the telephone, doing some kick-flips. But Crimes is Cronenberg’s first full-on sci-fi/horror movie since 1999’s playful gaming odyssey eXistenZ. His return to the genre is both extremer and more subtle. eXistenZ This is an easier trip for those who are not as receptive to the idea of a wheelchair, however it does offer some advantages. Crimes’ explicitly surgical moments, it’s a more contemplative, sometimes recessive film. It could be called a mood film.

Yang

You should be watching: Rentable for as low as $3.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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Kogonada’s sci-fi drama YangThe story follows the journey of a family that is grieving after Yang, their android companion (Justin H. Min), suddenly stops responding to commands. Combing through Yang’s memories in a desperate search for a way to fix him, Jake (Colin Farrell) realizes how much of his own life has passed him by when seen through the android’s eyes.

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As with many other science fiction stories, Yang doesn’t have answers to its rhetorical questions about the nature of humanity. It suggests, in the most delicate and glancing of ways, that understanding Yang’s connection to Mika helps Jake strengthen his own bond with her. The film also suggests Yang lost more than his family knew and is a greater loss than they could have imagined. It gets at an idea that’s often hard to communicate on film — that everyone contains a vast hidden world, and that every death is a vast loss. The film doesn’t make much distinction between Yang and his human family, apart from letting them into his hidden world after he’s gone. They are shown reliving their childhood memories as well as his past memories. The movie explores the themes of perception, willful blindness and other topics without rushing to any conclusion.

The Universe is Beavis and Butthead

You should be watching:Paramount Plus streaming available

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Mike Judge’s adult animated comedy returns with a sequel to the 1996 movie Beavis and Butthead Do America. Our brave heroes have to go to space camp. Paramount Plus will be reviving the series with this movie.

Toronto’s Man of the Year

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Kevin Hart’s latest Netflix movie sees him play a man who is mistaken for a world-famous hitman (Woody Harrelson) when they end up at the same Airbnb. Kaley Cuoco is also part of the film’s cast.

Massive Talent’s Unbearable Mass

You should be watching: Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $5.99

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Massive Talent’s Unbearable MassNicolas Cage plays Nick Cage. Nick is an actor trying to break through after being turned down for several major films roles. With a depressing home life and dwindling prospects, Nick decides to call it quits — but not before accepting a million dollar offer to attend the birthday party of a wealthy, mysterious super fan named Javi Gutierrez (Pedro Pascal) on his private island. When Nick is unexpectedly recruited by a CIA agent (Tiffany Haddish) to spy on Javi, he’ll have to call his unparalleled skills as an actor to avoid being found out and killed.

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The thing about Nicolas Cage is that he also completely understands what the public wants — he’s a reflexive, audience-aware performer who plays into and against expectations with every line, every expression. The idea behindThe Inexplicable Weight of Large Talent is such a slippery slope: It’s In a movie about Nic Cage’s legend, Nicolas Cage is portrayed as a fictionalized Nick Cage. After Cage himself has spent the last decade, at least, playing right into the public’s idea of Nic Cage’s identity, is a meta-comedy about the man himself just redundant? It’s complicated, as is everything about Nicolas Cage. The film works like gangbusters, and it’s a terrific vehicle for Cage, but not for the reasons people might expect.

Sing 2

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Following up on the box-office smash of 2016, this is Sing, this animated musical comedy brings back most of the voice talent from the first, including Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, and Scarlett Johansson, while bringing in new characters voiced by the likes of Halsey, Pharrell Williams, Eric André, and Bono. Buster Moon (the theater-owning Koala) is trying to persuade Clay Calloway, (Bono), into retiring for one final show. Expect a lot more well-known songs to be performed by many anthropomorphic creatures, just like in the original movie.

Gatlopp

You should be watching:Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $6.99

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A 2022 Horror Comedy Gatlopp stars Jim Mahoney (The OrvilleEmmy Raver – LampmanThe Umbrella AcademyJon BassMolly’s GameSarunas Jackson (InsecureThe group consists of old friends, who have reunited for an evening of drinking and games, almost a decade after being apart. It’s not long, however, before the friends realize that the game they’re playing comes with some serious, terrifying consequences.

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Running at an efficient, high-energy 80 minutes, Gatlopp doesn’t have a lot of time to waste on the characters’ disbelief when their drinking game starts demanding personal information from them, moving pieces around on the board by itself, and imposing supernatural penalties when they dodge questions. By the time they find out that if they don’t complete the game, they’ll have to play it for eternity in hell, they’ve already been given plenty of other reasons to play fair and follow through, even if it means revealing the secrets they’ve been withholding from themselves and each other.

Watcher

You should be watching: Rentable for as low as $6.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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It’s out now and is available to watch on VOD. Maika Monroe is the modern horror queen.It will follow, The GuestWatch (as an actress who spots a stranger (Burn Gorman), spying on it. Watcher is the feature debut of director Chloe Okuno, who directed the “Storm Drain” segment in V/H/S/94.

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It’s a perfect setup for both a minimal indie horror production and a Pandemic-era production. The film was shot in Romania during spring 2021. It is small in scale but it works. Watcher doesn’t rely only on the power of suggestion, or limit itself to emphasizing the symbolic importance of Julia’s fears. Chloe Okuno is making her feature movie debut, having previously directed a segment for V/H/S/94She knows how to keep the flame lit but not let it go out. Using some simple images — a shadowy figure staring out a window, the eerie familiarity of a man on the street, the blurs and shallow focus created by rain on glass — she provokes genuine, instinctive shivers

Click Play

You should be watching: Rentable for as low as $6.99 via Amazon or Vudu

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A romantic Sci-Fi drama Click Play This is kind of how it would be if you were to take The Time Traveler’s WifeMix it up with Butterfly Effect. Clara Rugaard (A Room for LoveStarring as Laura (Lewis Pullman), a young girl who falls for Harrison (Lewis Pullman), her man of dreams. When Harrison dies in a tragic car accident, Laura listens to the mixtape he made for her in order to reminisce and heal — only to realize that each song on the tape transports her back in time to the moment they first listened to it together. Laura finds herself constantly traveling back to the past in order to change the present. This leaves her with the difficult question: Are these the right choices for the person she loves?

Civil: Ben Crump

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Netflix’s documentary Civil: Ben CrumpThis documentary follows Ben Crump for a year. He is best-known as the civil rights advocate who represented Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Andre Hill in civil lawsuits. Offering a behind-the-scenes look at Crump’s upbringing, his journey to practicing law, and his family life, director Nadia Hallgren’s film sheds light on an extraordinary figure in an extraordinary time for civil rights in America.

Love & Gelato

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Based on Jenna Evans Welch’s bestselling romance novel, Love & GelatoLina (Susanna Skaggs), a teenage American girl, spends the summer in Rome to follow her mom’s lead and explore new places. Inspired by her mother’s home country, lina finds love, adventure, and of course — gelato.

Doom of Love

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Turkish Romantic Drama follows a young man after his business fails who finds love in a retreat for yoga.

The Burning Sea

You should be watching: Hulu is available to stream

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It was a disaster of epic proportions The Burning SeaFollow a group of Norwegian researchers including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine Kjath Thorp) who race to save the lives and property of oil rig operators that have been knocked to the bottom by a crack on the ocean floor. They discover that the nigh-apocalyptic events of mass destruction are imminent, and they have no survivors. Large quantities of oil that has escaped from the collapsed platform explode and create a torrential firestorm that could engulf all who are in its way.

Trevor: The Musical

You should be watching:Disney Plus is available to stream

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The latest Disney Plus-produced film of an off-Broadway theatre play is this one. Based on an Oscar-winning short film, this one will be a remake. TrevorThe Trevor Project is named after him.

Rise

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This fictional sports story tells the tale of Antetokounmpo’s brothers who moved from Nigeria and Greece to become NBA basketball players in the United States. Giannis is one of the most respected basketball players worldwide, while his two brothers won NBA championships.

Revealer

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1987 is the year. Chicago is where it all happened. And it’s the end of the word. This horror film features a sex worker trapped inside a booth that sells peep shows.

Yellowstone City murders

You should be watching: Rentable for as low as $3.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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Star-studded actors include Anna Camp, Thomas Jane and Richard Dreyfuss in this new Western. This film follows the story of a Yellowstone City-based prospector who is murdered and how it affects residents as well as visitors.

Flux Gourmet

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Peter Strickland is a well-respected directorThe Duke of Burgundy, In FabricThis captivating drama, set at a culinary school, returns to ), The trailer promises “sensory overload,” Strickland’s typical impeccable costuming and attention to detail, and the unsettling air you often find in his movies.

Bitterbrush

You should be watching: Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $5.99

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Two women drive cattle in Idaho, and this documentary shows them the struggles they are facing as modern ranchers.