The Woman King, Armageddon Time, and every new movie you can watch at home

There are new movies to be watched at home every week as the calendar moves to February. There are two great times to relax on your sofa this week: festival darlings and awards season snubs.

Leading things off is Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical action epic The woman is the KingFinally, it was available on Netflix. You can also find new films from George Miller and James Gray, as well as Sundance’s hit. Infinity Pool from Brandon Cronenberg, one of my favorite action movies of 2022, and two of the goriest movies I’ve ever seen (complimentary).

Let’s get into it!

Netflix: New Features

The woman is the King

You should be watching:Netflix streaming available

Image: Sony Pictures

Genre: Amazing historical events
Run time: 2h 15m
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch

The success of The Old GuardGina Prince-Bythewood, DirectorLove & BasketballThis piece of historical fiction, about Dahomey in West Africa and its women warriors, is a return to action.

Our review:

The woman is the KingIt is an easier-to-understand blockbuster to watch than the majority of summer movies. It’s burdened with many of the issues that typify big studio movies — overstretched CGI, an overstuffed plot — but it shrugs off those issues as easily as the Agojie flip enemy soldiers over their backs and into the dirt. The film is brimming with fire. It also contains a lot of love. Love of freedom and life as well as love of Black culture and Black women.

Hulu has a new feature

Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday

You should be watching:Hulu is available to stream

Image: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Genre: Action comedy
Run time: 1h 36m
Directors: George and Harry Kirby
Cast: Scott Adkins, Ray Stevenson, Sarah Chang

This is the best action film of 2022 that focuses on martial arts. Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday This is the sequel of the 2018 film. Accident ManThe comic strip was written by Scott Adkins (DTV Action Star extraordinaire) and adapted into the movie. Adkins adapted this comic and made two movies together with longtime friend Stu. This second movie is one his best and most notable films. These movies feature great fights as well as a greater number of laugh-to jokes than the first. Hitman’s HolidayFor fans of martial art cinema, this is an absolute must-see.

Prime Video: New!

Halloween ends

You should be watching:Prime Video available for streaming

Universal Pictures

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Prime Video will soon have the last installment of David Gordon Green’s horror trilogy Halloween. It has been available for months on Peacock. It’s a good reason to revisit the whole Halloween franchise and the many faces of Michael Myers.

Our review:

The Halloween saga started by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in 1978 ends in this film, but the end can’t vindicate the existence of this continuation of the story. Even if 2018’s Halloween set out to explore trauma through horror, there’s nothing in This is the endThat pays off the probing. The trilogy wasn’t ultimately about how evil takes hold of us and creates havoc through paranoia. It was an ambitious trilogy, which attempted to make Halloween a reality. The franchise is expanded to new areas, but the idea fails.

Peacock is now available

Armageddon Time

You should be watching:Peacock is available to stream

Photo: Anne Joyce/Focus Features

Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Run time: 1h 54m
Director: James Gray
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong and Banks Repeta

James Gray is a celebrated directorAd Astra, The Immigrant() is back with this story of a coming-of-age tale loosely inspired by his childhood. It’s about a Jewish boy who grew up in Queens 1980s. Gray was nominated for a Palme d’Or at Cannes for the film.

Apple TV+: New!

Sharper

You should be watching:Apple TV Plus is available for streaming

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Genre: Crime thriller
Run time: 1h 56m
Director: Benjamin Caron
Cast: Justice Smith; Briana Middleton; Sebastian Stan

Veteran TV director Benjamin Caron (Andor, The Crown() is his first feature film appearance with SharperThis is a story about a young man feeling rejected. He decides to find a way of having fun: conjuring rich people.

Shudder – New

Huesera – The Bone Woman

You should be watching:Shudder is available to stream

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Genre: Horror drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Cast: Alfonso Dosal Mayra Battalla Samantha Castillo

Director Michelle Garza Cervera’s feature debut is a horror movie about a woman who has dreamed of being a mother, only to suspect something is off once she is finally pregnant. Garza Cervera, a major presence at 2022 festivals, won Best Narrative Director at Tribeca Film Festival. Huesera The Audience Award won at the Morelia International Film Festival.

From our review:

Jump scares are not to be avoided Huesera instead relies on its protagonist’s interiority. The film is focused tightly on Valeria, and Natalia Solián carries the narrative burden with ease. While others fade around Valeria, she is the only one with an actual arc. The supporting characters serve mostly as reflections and foils. Solián’s performance is understated, and it quietly raises a terrifying question about parenthood — if having a child is faking it till you make it, what happens if you never stop faking it?

Part 2 of The Witch: The Other One

You should be watching:You can stream AMC+ or Shudder on Shudder

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Genre: Sci-fi/horror/action
Run time: 2h 17m
Director: Park Hoon-jung
Cast: Shin Siah, Jo Minsu, Park Eunbin

Sci-fi action horror film is the sequel to 2018 Korean movie. It follows a teenage girl with strange psychokinetic abilities, who escapes a secret laboratory. When a criminal organization threatens both her freedom and the life of the man who rescued her, she’ll have to bring the fight to them in order to survive.

MGM+ – New!

Three Thousand years of longing

You should be watching:MGM Plus can be streamed on-demand

Photo: Elise Lockwood/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Genre: Fantasy romance
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: George Miller
Cast: Tilda Swinton and IdrisElba

George Miller’s first movie since Mad Max: Fury Road This is an entirely different type of epic story. It focuses on the adventures of a freed djinn and his academic friend. With some remarkable visual moments (including some really impressive digital effects) and a vignette structure to help with pacing, it’s led by compelling performances from Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

Our review:

There are films that change the nature of the air you breathe after you watch them, as a motif from its score loops in one’s mind and the color of the world outside the theater doesn’t quite live up to what was seen on screen. Three Thousand years of longing is one of those films, a story about stories — a fraught genre prone to self-importance — that isn’t solely interested in their magic as a cloying, unifying force. They’re more than that. This is even more terrifying. It turns out, there are no better ways to learn this than watching people pretend to be experts on stories and trying to figure how it ends.

Fandor: New

Jethica

You should be watching:Fandor is available to stream

Spartan Media Acquisitions

Genre: Comedy/thriller
Run time: 1h 12m
Director: Pete Ohs
Cast: Callie Hernandez, Ashley Denise Robinson, Andy Faulkner

Promoted as an “offbeat genre-bender” by an up-and-coming indie director, this promising new release follows a woman running from a stalker, and the lengths she and a friend will go to in the pursuit of getting rid of him for good. The film’s director Pete Ohs shared a life with its four stars, as they wrote the screenplay together. Jethica together.

VOD – New

Infinity Pool

You should be watching:You can purchase the unrated cut for as low as $14.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu. The unrated cut is on Neon’s website.

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Genre: Horror/mystery
Run time: 1h 57m
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman

David Cronenberg’s son Brandon (Possessor) took Sundance by storm with this horror satire, which I’ve heard described by multiple people as “the best season of White Lotus yet.”

Our review:

Cronenberg’s script for Infinity Pool It is full of dark and wry jokes that many people will find funny, some even laugh out loud. (Early on, Gabi says she’s an actress who specializes in “failing naturally” in commercials.) This movie has many strange touches, but all serve a purpose. Even the Leatherface-esque masks in the trailer perform a double function. They enhance the feeling of depersonalization while also evoking native culture’s commodification. It is unfortunate that the plot’s climax seems to be inevitable right from the beginning. The film has so many flashy, violent decorations that it would be difficult to create a complex storytelling structure. Infinity Pool This is not an easy task. The point is simple: An American with a bottomless entitlement cyclone is as ugly as any nationality.

Project Wolf Hunting

You should be watching:You can rent it for only $3.99 at Amazon, Apple, Vudu and for no charge with a Library Card on Hoopla

Image: Well Go USA Entertainment

Genre: Action horror
Run time: 2h 2m
Director: Kim Hong-sun
Cast: Seo In-guk, Jang Dong-yoon, Choi Gwi-hwa

It is so exciting to be here Project Wolf Hunting It is now more widely available in North America. I saw it in late December and it absolutely blew my mind — it’s a mind-blowing genre mashup about prisoners on a boat with a monster where everyone kills each other in brutal ways and the blood flows. It flows. It flows. If that sounds like your idea of a good time, you’re in for a treat. If it doesn’t, fair enough!

The Outwaters

You should be watching:Amazon: Available for rent at $6.99

Image: Cinedigm

Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Robbie Banfitch
Cast: Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell, Michelle May

The Outwaters Find footage is being pushed in new and exciting directions. As a result of a number of digital camera cards being uncovered by police following an unspecified incident, we witness a group travels to the desert in order to film a music video. The sound design The Outwaters It stands out, and adds an unnerving atmosphere to the chaotic footage. Be aware: It is extremely graphic.

Perhaps you can.

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

Vertical Entertainment

Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Michael Jacobs
Cast: Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey, Diane Keaton

A young couple, Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey, decides to introduce themselves to their parents. It turns out that they know each other very well. Debut director Michael Jacobs, adapting his own play, sports an appealing ensemble cast here — the parents are played by Diane Keaton, William H. Macy, Richard Gere, and Susan Sarandon.

Say it Like a Woman

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

Image: It’s All Together

Genre: Anthology
Run time: 1h 52m
Directors: Silvia Carobbio, Catherine Hardwicke, Taraji P. Henson, Mipo Oh, Lucía Puenzo, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Leena Yadav
Cast: Cara Delevingne Jennifer Hudson Eva Longoria

A film anthology made up of seven sections directed and written by women. Say it Like a Woman was nominated for Best Original Song at this year’s Oscars for “Applause.” It is Diane Warren’s 14th nomination for Best Original Song, and the sixth year in a row she has received a nomination.