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

This week saw the premiere of Princess“Rapunzel meets RaidThe action series starring Joey King on Hulu, as well as the online premiere of the animated comedy Bad guys on Peacock.

That’s Not All: Edgar Wright’s Giallo-Inspired Thriller Last night in Soho Come to HBO Max, the Norwegian sci-fi comedy Explode and the 2022 drama Beauty premieres on Netflix, 2009 Japanese fantasy series Air doll stream on the Criterion Channel and feature lots of new VOD releases including a 4K recovery of the 1956 epic Ilya Muromets: Sword and Dragon.

To help you stay on top of what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch on streaming and VOD this weekend.

Princess

See where: Available to stream on Hulu

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Joey King (Kissing booth) stars in the play “Rapunzel meets Le Van Kiet” RaidAction movie as a strong-willed princess who, after refusing to marry the evil suitor to whom she was betrothed, is kidnapped and locked up in a remote tower of her father’s castle. . Determined to sabotage her husband’s sinister plot, she will have to carry out a bloody massacre to escape and save her kingdom.

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In essence, it is satisfying to see an imaginary princess in a ragged, bloody wedding dress stabbing men seeking to control her. Princesses and other wealthy women shedding tight dresses and corsets for more combat-ready looks isn’t new: In retrospect, Merida’s dress flared at the seams as she did prepare to bow, Elizabeth trades her cape for a more practical combat outfit in Pirates of the Caribbeanor more recently, Grace fights her predatory new husbands in Ready or not?.

Bad guys

See where: Available to stream on Peacock

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This animated heist follows a group of anthropomorphized animal criminals who get caught, pretend to be rehabilitated, and then find themselves really wanting to be what they’re pretending to be. With a cast that includes Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, etc., we can all agree on one thing: Yes, The wolf man is quite hot.

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It’s all pretty light stuff and after recent major wins like Turn red and Encanto from two different branches of Disney, Bad guys could also enhance DreamWorks’ status as the B team of contemporary American animation, where spectacle is the default and emotional development is a bit light. But the better DreamWorks animations come to life when they’re freed from Disney formulas, rather than running after or faking them. Even Bad guys like the other movies, it steals from them gracefully, with a sensibility and energy of its own.

Last night in Soho

See where: Available to stream on HBO Max

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By Edgar Wright inspired by giallo The psychological thriller stars Thomasin McKenzie as Eloise, a young woman obsessed with the 1960s who moves to London to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer. After she begins experiencing incredible 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 more and more frequent. should be more vivid and violent, blurring the line between illusion and reality.

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Centrally, as a study of Wright’s own nostalgic tendencies, Soho is a fascinating cultural object. He shows interest in the frailty of nostalgia in previous works. In Hot Fuzz and Doomsday of the world, the characters are seen, and are the cause for unrealistic nostalgia. Stylistically, though, he’s always leaning towards reverence, once again going back as far as Distance, with numerous visual and textual references to Hollywood and more esoteric cinema. Respect itself is tied to nostalgia: In Wright’s case, it’s a tribute to the style and aesthetics of the past, and a deep, deep love of cinema over the decades. his footage.

Soho feels like Wright’s clearest interrogation of his own emotional impulses and, at the same time, his most stylistically monumental work. But at the heart of this story is the brutal and violent exploitation of women. This is certainly Edgar Wright at his Edgar Wright-iest, but even if he is arguing against celebrating the past in Last night in Sohohe celebrates it himself, in ways that are hard to get out of and, sometimes, still harder to enjoy.

Explode

See where: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Julianne Leikanger / Netflix

Norwegian sci-fi comedy Explode tells the story of two childhood friends, Sebastian (Axel Bøyum) and Mikkel (Fredrik Skogsrud), who, when reunited at a laser tag themed bachelor party, are on the front lines of a war against alien invaders. Similar to Edgar Wright’s 2013 film Doomsday of the world, Explode seems to tackle the same issue regarding its themes of lifelong friendships, maturation, and arresting growth.

Beauty

See where: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Stephanie Meiling / Netflix

Niecy Nash to star in 2022 TV series Beauty as a talented young singer who struggles to maintain her identity after accepting a lucrative record deal, sparking intense conflict between her, family, studio, and girlfriend when She tries to make her career.

Air doll

See where: Available to stream on the Criterion Channel

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Salesman Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2009 drama tells the story of an inflatable doll (Bae Doona) who develops consciousness and love while her owner is at work.

Long night

See where: Available to stream on Shudder

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A New York organ transplant (Scout Taylor-Compton) and her boyfriend (Nolan Gerard Funk) return to her childhood home in the South in search of clues about her biological parents. However, not long after arriving, a supernatural cult terrorizes the pair as part of their esoteric plot to lead to the apocalypse.

Ilya Muromets: Sword and Dragon

See where: Available to rent for $4.99 on Amazon and Apple

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The 1956 epic film by legendary fiction filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko Ilya Muromets: Sword and Dragon stars Boris Andreyev as a bogatyr (“knight”) who inherits a sword from an aging giant and embarks on a decades-long war against the invading Tugar invaders. threatens his homeland and his family. Edited for television by Roger Corman in the 1960s, and made famous in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000This new version of the original film has been restored in 4K resolution from the original 35mm negative.

Doula

See where: Available to rent for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

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When an LA couple expecting a child unexpectedly face the death of their midwife, they hire her son to take on this irreverent comedy.

Mothering Sunday

See where: Available to rent for $4.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

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Based on the novel of the same name by Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday tells the story of Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), a housemaid living in England after World War I, who has an affair with the son of a neighboring manor, who is engaged to a man other women. The film follows three different periods in Jane’s life when an unexpected turn of events sends her on a journey to become a writer.

Take down the king

See where: Available to rent for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

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Rapper and songwriter Freddie Gibbs stars in 2021 Take down the king as Mercury Maxwell, a famous rapper who, disillusioned with the pressures of being a celebrity, gives up his career to find a new life as part of a small-town farming community. .

Cryo

See where: Available to rent for $6.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

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Science Fiction Thriller in 2022 Cryo followed five scientists who woke up early from hibernation without remembering who they were or how long they slept. When the group learns that a killer is lurking among them, they will have to solve the mystery of how they got there and why they were awakened in the first place.

Rubikon

See where: Available to rent for $5.99 on Amazon; $6.99 on Apple, Vudu

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Science Fiction Thriller in 2022 Rubikon follows the crew of a space station who, after a disaster that engulfed the Earth’s surface, believes he is the only one alive. When an SOS message pierces the planet’s cloudy surface asking for food and aid, the astronauts and scientists on Rubikon face the difficult decision of who deserves to live or die. .

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On the emotional level, Rubikon is a movie about how isolation creates apathy and how easily your vision narrows, even if you can see the curvature of the Earth from your bedroom window me. We can all relate. However, on a moral level – and this is a lot like a moral drama in the guise of a pressure cooker horror movie – it’s about weighing your responsibility to yourself and your family against your responsibility. yours to society. The problem is, its metaphor is exaggerated, with the future of humanity on one side and three people in a tin can, which never quite makes sense.