Netflix’s The Sea Beast, Everything Everywhere, and 15 more new movies to watch this weekend

There are a lot of great new movies this week that you can watch at your home.

The animated comedy adventures are one of many Netflix offers The Sea BeastFrom the co-director Big Hero 6 And Moana. There’s also the highly acclaimed Everything at Once A Thai rom-com comedy slacker and a documentary on a legendary Australian musician (and screenwriter) are available at a lower rental cost. Andrew Dominik, director of Nick CaveThey are to be killed softly).

The following are new films you can enjoy at home this Week.

The Sea Beast

What to Watch:Netflix streaming available

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Imagine yourself in an alternate world, where terrifying monsters reign over the oceans and courageous sailors chase them down. Moana co-director Chris Williams’ The Sea Beast Jacob (Karl Urban), brave monster hunter, is required to look after Maisie (Zaris Angel Hator), who has to stow away on his ship.

Our review:

The Sea Beast There are several ways to break from the monotonous animation trends. The dialogue is written and performed in a vernacular That reaches for a kind of offhand, English-accented poetry — the sea beasts, for example, are described as “nature’s darkest design.” Though the language doesn’t always hit the mark, it’s almost completely free of tinny sarcasm and faux-comic placeholders. (“Awkward!” “Well, that happened,” and the like.) Similarly, the grandeur of the movie’s strongest visuals is allowed to stand on its own, favoring painterly compositions of the ocean’s frightening vastness over busy, desperate-to-please antics.

Everything at Once

What to Watch:Rentable for as low $5.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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Hong Kong film legend Michelle Yeoh stars in EEverything Everywhere at OncThe second feature is e. Swiss Army ManDaniel Kwan (director) and Daniel Scheinert (director), as Evelyn. She is an older laundromat owner who must file her taxes. However, she has to maintain a strained relationship both with Joy (Stephanie Hsu), her daughter and her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan). Evelyn, after being approached by an alternate universe version her husband, must go on a mission for the multiverse to help her broken family.

Our review:

In spite of a long series of Matrix sequels and re-quels, ripoffs and copycats, this is the first movie that authentically feels as surprising, daring, and outright game-changing as the Wachowskis’ 1999 original. With their kaleidoscopic view of shifting forms, the special effects look every bit as innovative today as they did in 1999 when bullet time first appeared. The movie’s heady deconstructive philosophy of the universe feels as ambitious and radical as The Matrix’s Gnostic take on reality did back then. Martial-arts combat feels equally radical now as in Jackie Chan’s or Wooping Yuen’s choreographed fight.

Fast & Feel Love

What to Watch:Netflix streaming available

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Thai comedy of slackers in rom-coms Fast & Feel LoveKao (Nat Kitcharit) is a professional sport stacker aged 30 who has been dumped and abandoned by Urassaya, his girlfriend for many years. He must learn adult skills so he can take control of himself again and win her love.

We say goodbye to everything and we are happy to be here again

What to Watch:Netflix streaming available

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Clare (Talia Ryan Ryder) is a high school sweetheart and Aidan (Jordan Fisher). They make a deal to split up before college. The two of them reminisce on their years and learn from each other, but one question remains: Do they have to split up?

Dangerous Liaisons

What to Watch:Netflix streaming available

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You like Cruel Intentions? You’ll probably like Dangerous Liaisons. Another modern adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 epistolary novel, the film follows the story of Célène (Paola Locatelli), a book-smart high school student who falls for Tristan (Simon Rérolle), a bad boy who unbeknownst to her is only dating her as part of bet he’s made with his stepsister, Vanessa (Ella Pellegrini). As their relationship progresses, Tristan is faced with the choice to either break Célène’s heart or defy Vanessa and grow as a person.

Incantation

What to Watch:Netflix streaming available

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This film is a found-footage story about a mother who tries to protect her little girl from a curse.

Jewel

What to Watch:Netflix streaming available

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The South African tragedy is about two women: one photographer and the other a woman who make a connection with painful memories after they visit the site of a tragic accident.

Enjoy the Night

What to Watch:Rentable for as low as $4.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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This crime thriller is the feature debut for writer-director-actor Seth McTigue. One man employs criminals to pretend to kidnap his younger brother. But when the group goes rogue, and has their own plans, it spirals out of control.

This Is What I Believe to be True

What to Watch:Mubi can be streamed on-demand

Mubi

Director Andrew Dominik (They are to be killed softly, Robert Ford and the Coward Jesse James assassinate Jesse JamesThis is a previous collaboration with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for the 2016 documentary One more time with feeling. This follow-up focuses on the friendship between the two artists, who also contributed to the music on Dominik’s upcoming Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde.

On the third day

What to Watch:Shudder is available to stream

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This Shudder Original is a feature film by Daniel de la Vega. It’s a debut from the director.

The Chelsea Hotel: Dreaming Walls

What to Watch:Rentable for as low as $6.99 via Amazon or Vudu

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This documentary offers an insider’s view of the Chelsea Hotel. It also features the lives of the residents who live there today, despite the massive renovation into a luxurious hotel.

Memory

What to Watch:Rentable for as low $5.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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In the action-thriller 2022, Liam Neeson is the star MemoryAlex Lewis is an experienced assassin known for his surgical precision. When Alex refuses to complete an assignment that goes against his moral code, he’ll have to embark on a mission to kill the people who hired him before they kill him, all while eluding the pursuit of the FBI.

From our review:

Memory is not Liam Neeson’s final action film, and it won’t be the one that defines him. But it’s worth considering as his tenure of mannered cinematic vengeance slowly comes to a close. In this case, it’s with a character suddenly attempting to atone for the man he’s been, right before his own history evaporates from his mind. It isn’t terribly convincing — even though Alex Lewis confesses that he’s been a bad guy, MemoryThe thrill of witnessing a bad guy be unleashed is what keeps the culture alive. There is little that suggests Alex Lewis is all that different from Bryan in the Taken movies, or any of Neeson’s other violent avatars. It’s worth remembering this era of cinema, and everything it says about specifically male fantasies and male rage. But it isn’t necessarily worth remembering Memory itself.

Galena’s Road

What to Watch:Rentable for as low as $6.99 via Amazon or Vudu

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Writer-director Joe Hall’s feature debut follows a man who has it all but leaves it all behind to work as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., before facing yet another life-changing decision.

H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House

What to Watch:Rentable for as low as $2.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Horror Wasteland Pictures International

One graduate student lives in a notorious haunted home and experiments with alternate dimensions. The situation turns spooky.

Three Demons

What to Watch:You can rent for just $3.99 at Amazon, Google Play, or Vudu

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The small-town police officer is looking after a deceased relative until his family arrives to pick it up. But he makes a mistake and summons the evil supernatural.

Cleaning at 11 o’clock

What to Watch:Rentable for as low as $3.99 via Amazon, Google Play and Vudu

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The movie tells the story of a team of individuals who are responsible for cleaning up crime scenes. In this scary horror movie, an ancient Nordic demon threatens to terrorize them and their victims at the latest crime scene.

The Summoned

What to Watch:Rentable for as low $5.99 at Amazon or Vudu

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The horror film is Mark Meir’s feature debut. It follows two strong couples, who visit a retreat for self-help only to discover that it’s the place where their ancestral spirits have left them with a financial debt.