The Princess, The Bad Guys, and 11 more new movies you can watch at home this weekend

This week, the premier of The Princess, the “Rapunzel meets Raid” action film starring Joey King on Hulu, as well as the streaming premiere of animated comedy The Bad GuysPeacock.

That’s not all: Edgar Wright’s giallo-inspired horror thriller Last Night at SohoHBO Max will be hosting the Norwegian comedy-sci-fi series, “The Norwegian Comedy of SciFi”. Get Blasted The 2022 Drama BeautyNetflix premieres the Japanese fantasy drama “Fountain Tales” in its 2009 debut Dolls for AirCriterion Channel has streams and tons of VODs, including the restoration in 4K of the epic 1956 film Ilya Muromets – The Sword and the Dragon.

To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch on streaming and VOD this weekend.

The Princess

You should be watching:Hulu is available to stream

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Joey KingThe Kissing Booth) stars in Le-Van Kiet’s “Rapunzel meets Raid” action movie as a strong-willed princess who, after refusing to marry the cruel suitor to whom she is betrothed, is abducted and locked away in a remote tower of her father’s castle. Determined to undermine her would-be husband’s malevolent schemes, she’ll have to cut a bloody swath of carnage to escape and save her kingdom.

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It’s intrinsically satisfying to see a fantasy princess in a ripped, bloody wedding dress, stabbing the men who seek to control her. Princesses and other wealthy women shedding their constraining dresses and corsets for more battle-ready looks isn’t new: See again, Merida’s dress bursting at the seams as she readies her bow, Elizabeth trading her gowns for more practical fighting attire in Pirates of the Caribbean, or more recently, Grace battling her predatory new in-laws in Ready or not.

The Bad Guys

You should be watching:Peacock is available to stream

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This animated heist movie follows a group of anthropomorphic animal criminals who get caught, pretend to be reformed, and then find themselves actually wanting to be the thing they’re pretending to be. An ensemble cast includes Sam Rockwell (Marc Maron), Awkwafina (Anthony Ramos) and many others. We all can agree that Mr. Wolf looks pretty good.

From our review:

It’s all pretty lightweight stuff, and after recent mainstream triumphs like The Turning of the RedAnd EncantoTwo different Disney departments. The Bad Guys may well shore up DreamWorks’ status as the B-squad of contemporary American animation, where spectacle is the default and emotional growth is a little pat. But the better DreamWorks cartoons come alive when they’re liberated from Disney formulas, rather than chasing after or self-consciously spoofing them. Even when The Bad Guys resembles other movies, it’s stealing from them gracefully, with its own sensibility and energy.

Last Night at Soho

You should be watching:You can stream HBO Max on your computer.

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Edgar Wright’s giallo-inspired psychological thriller stars Thomasin McKenzie as Eloise, a 1960s-obsessed young woman who moves to London to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer. After she begins to experience startling dreams where she is transported to a Soho nightclub in the body of an aspiring singer named Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy), Eloise’s dreams become increasingly more vivid and violent, blurring the line between hallucinations and reality.

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Centrally, as a study of Wright’s own nostalgic proclivities, Soho He is a remarkable cultural object. He’s demonstrated an interest in the frailty of nostalgia in previous works. He is an In Hot Fuzz And The World’s EndCharacters are obligated to unrealistic nostalgia and can be castigated for it. Stylistically, though, he’s always leaned into homage, again going as far back as SpacingWith its many visual and textual references, and to Hollywood and other more obscure cinemas. Homage in itself is adjacent to nostalgia: It’s the celebration, in Wright’s case, of past styles and aesthetics, and deep, wistful love for decades-old cinema percolates through his filmography.

Soho feels like Wright’s most explicit interrogation of his own sentimental impulses, and simultaneously, his most stylistically grandiose work. The brutal and unconcerned exploiting of women is also central to the story. This is certainly Edgar Wright at his Edgar Wright-iest, but even as he’s arguing against celebrating the past in Last Night at Soho, he’s celebrating it himself, in ways that are hard to escape, and at times, harder still to enjoy.

Get Blasted

You should be watching:Netflix streaming available

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Norwegian comedy about sci-fi Get Blasted follows the story of two childhood friends, Sebastian (Axel Bøyum) and Mikkel (Fredrik Skogsrud), who, upon reuniting for a laser tag-themed bachelor party, find themselves on the front lines of a battle against alien invaders. Akin to Edgar Wright’s 2013 film The World’s End, Get BlastedSeems to address similar topics in relation to themes such as lifelong friendship, maturation, and arrested developmental.

Beauty

You should be watching:Netflix streaming available

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Niecy Nah is the star of the drama 2022 Beauty As a talented singer, she struggles to preserve her identity following her acceptance of a record contract. It also sparks conflict with her family, the label and her girlfriend as they try to make their career.

Dolls Air

You should be watching:Criterion Channel streaming available

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Shoplifters director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2009 drama tells the story of an inflatable doll (Bae Doona) that develops consciousness and falls in love while her owner is away at work.

The Long Night

You should be watching:Shudder is available to stream

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Scout Taylor-Compton (a New York transplant) and Nolan Gerard Funk (her boyfriend) go back to their South South childhood home to find clues to help her locate her parents. A supernatural cult attacks the couple shortly after they arrive as part of an esoteric plan to bring on the end times.

Ilya Muromets – The Sword and the Dragon

You should be watching:Amazon and Apple rentable for as low as $4.99

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Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s sweeping 1956 epic Ilya Muromets – The Sword and the Dragon stars Boris Andreyev as a bogatyr (“knight”) who inherits a sword from an aging giant and embarks on a decades-long battle against Tugar invaders who threaten his homeland and his family. Roger Corman edited the episode for TV in 1960s. It was famously riffed upon in an episode. Mystery Science Theater 3000This 4K restoration of the original 35mm film negative has resulted in this updated version.

Doula

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

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A couple in Los Angeles is confronted by the sudden death of their midwife. The pair hires her son for this hilarious comedy.

Mothering Sunday

You should be watching:Rentable for as low as $4.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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Based on Graham Swift’s novel of the same name, Mothering SundayJane Fairchild, a post-WWII English maid who has a secret love affair with the boy of a neighbouring manor and is about to marry another woman. The film follow three distinct eras of Jane’s life as an unexpected turn of events sets her on a journey to become a writer.

Get down with the King

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

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Rapper and musician Freddie Gibbs stars in 2021’s Get down with the KingMercury Maxwell is a well-known rapper, who becomes disillusioned by the celebrity pressures and leaves his job to start a life in a small-town farming community.

Cryo

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

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Horror sci-fi film from 2022 Cryo follows five scientists who prematurely wake from cryosleep with no memory of who they are or how long they’ve been asleep. When the group learns that a killer is hiding in their midst, they’ll have to solve the mystery of how they got there and why they were awoken in the first place.

Rubikon

You should be watching:Rentable for as low as $5.99 at Amazon and $6.99 at Apple, Vudu

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The sci-fi horror of 2022 RubikonThe story follows the crew from a space station, who after an Earthquake, believe that they are the last humans on the planet. When an SOS message breaks through the planet’s clouded surface requesting food and aid, the astronauts and scientists aboard the Rubikon are faced with the hard decision of what, or who, is worth living or dying for.

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It’s an emotional connection. Rubikon This film is about isolation and insularity. It shows how it’s easy for our horizons shrink even though we can see the Earth’s curvature from our bedroom windows. All of us can relate. On a moral level, however — and this is very much a morality play in the guise of a contained, pressure-cooker thriller — it’s about weighing your responsibility to yourself and your family against your responsibility to society. It’s difficult to understand because the metaphor has so many exaggerated elements, such as the future of mankind on one end and three people in the tin on the other that it doesn’t make sense.