Friday Releases: Captain America: Brave New World & Paddington In Peru

Captain America: Brave New World

Directed by: Julius Onah
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures | Marvel Studios

Anthony Mackie returns as the high-flying hero Sam Wilson, who’s officially taken up the mantle of Captain America. After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

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Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, Harrison Ford
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, and some strong language)
USA (English)
118 minutes

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Paddington In Peru

Directed by: Dougal Wilson
Studio: Sony | Columbia Pictures

For the past several years, the “Heart Eyes Killer” has wreaked havoc on Valentine’s Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine’s Day, no couple is safe….

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The Gorge

Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Studio: Apple TV+

Two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Directed by: Michael Morris
Studio: Universal Pictures | Peacock

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she’s pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son’s science teacher.

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Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Daniel Cleaver, Mark Darcy. Doctor Rawlings, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Isla Fisher, Josette Simon, Nico Parker. Leila Farzad
Comedy | Drama | Romance
R (for language and some sexual references)
UK | France | USA (English)
124 minutes

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Becoming Led Zeppelin

Directed by: Bernard MacMahon
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970.

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Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham
Documentary | Music
PG-13 (for some drug references and smoking)
UK | USA (English)
121 minutes

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Universal Language

Directed by: Matthew Rankin
Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories

In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.

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Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati, Amir Amiri, Faraz Anoushah Pour, Bernard Arene
Comedy | Drama | International
Not Rated
Canada (Persian & French)
89 minutes

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The Dead Thing

Directed by: Elric Kane
Studio: Shudder

Alex is trapped in a downward spiral of shallow hookups and tepid connections, but she is caught off guard when her dating app swipes lead her into the arms of a mysterious, charming young man Kyle. Despite their passionate night, when the sun rises, the mystery man is nowhere to be found. Alex then sets out to find the one person who made her feel alive. Through her investigation, she reconnects with Kyle, but also digs up a ghastly supernatural secret. The pair quickly descend into a whirlwind of obsession, dependence, lust, and infatuation that has grave consequences.

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Katherine Hughes, Blu Hunt, John Karna, Emily Joy Lemus, Josh Marble
Horror
Not Rated
USA (English)
94 minutes

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Inhabitants

Directed by: Matt McClung
Studio: Gravitas Ventures

A young woman moves in with her lapsed Catholic boyfriend, only to discover that they’re being haunted by the vengeful ghost of his childhood youth minister.

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Anna Jacoby-Heron, Josh Rivera, Kevin Nealon, Ana Auther, Todd Robert Anderson
Horror
Not Rated
USA (English)
112 minutes

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Kid Snow

Directed by: Paul Goldman
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Set in a 1970s sweat-drenched world of tent boxing in outback Western Australia, Kid Snow is a film about breaking free from the cycle of loss and regret.

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Billy Howle, Tom Bateman, Phoebe Tonkin, Hunter Page-Lochard, Mark Coles Smith
Drama | International
Not Rated
Australia (English)
127 minutes

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Rounding

Directed by: Alex Thompson
Studio: Doppelgänger Releasing

A driven young medical resident transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start. There, the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the case of a young asthma patient.

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Namir Smallwood, Sidney Flanigan, Michael Potts, Rebecca Spence, Charin Alvarez
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Not Rated
USA (English)
91 minutes

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Timestalker

Directed by: Alice Lowe
Studio: Level 33 Entertainment

Timestalker follows hapless heroine Agnes through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, gets reincarnated a century later, before meeting him again and starting the cycle anew. It is one story told over many periods, all with the messy thrills and spills that come with daring to follow your heart. Or maybe your loins… Agnes’ only hope in avoiding this violent fate is by finally reaching spiritual enlightenment; but how can she ever wise up when she’s destined to be a fool for love? Some lessons are just too hard to learn in one lifetime.

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Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Nick Frost, Tanya Reynolds, Aneurin Barnard, Kate Dickie
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | International | Romance
Not Rated
UK (English)
89 minutes

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Upon Waking

Directed by: Max Rissman
Studio: Buffalo 8

When two young lesbians struggling with personal demons get carbon monoxide poisoning during a first date and fall into a coma, they discover their spirits have detached from their bodies and are trapped in the spirit realm until they either perish or are resuscitated. Gradually they fall in love, but their love is tested when one of them awakens suddenly and the other remains unconscious.

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Annie Abbott, Rene Aranda, Sulem Calderon, Alexa Cate, Vanessa Dubasso
Romance
Not Rated
USA (English)
107 minutes

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The Long Game

Directed by: Jace Anderson
Studio: Vertical

Ambitious young actress Holly Sloan agrees to help her boyfriend Richard Metzger scam Hollywood legend Mariah McKay, but the two women strike up an unlikely friendship instead. Soon Holly must decide where her true loyalties lie.

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Sekai Abenì, Kathleen Turner, Jackie Earle Haley, Daniel Burgess-Wise, Chris Mulkey
Thriller
Not Rated
USA (English)
86 minutes

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You, Me, & Her

Directed by: Dan Levy Dagerman
Studio: Two Hand Productions

Mags (Selina Ringel), a high-powered, Latinx financial advisor who runs the household and Ash (Ritesh Rajan), Indian-American, a great dad who runs a struggling cannabis start-up, are stuck in a rut. They can’t stop arguing on their first vacation alone together after having a baby until they meet Angela (Sydney Park), a spiritual digital nomad, who takes a romantic interest in Mags. Mags starts to question her own sexuality when she becomes intrigued by Angela. Suddenly Ash and Mags start to reconnect over the idea of having a threesome in hopes that the excitement of the potential sexual experience will save their marriage.

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Sydney Park, Selina Ringel, Graham Sibley, Anna Campbell, Ritesh Rajan
Comedy | Drama
R (for sexual content, nudity, drug use and language)
USA | Mexico (English)
94 minutes

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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Directed by: Beth McCarthy-Miller
Studio: Peacock

Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup of musical performances and comedy guests. This one-night-only SNL homecoming event will bring together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.

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Arcade Fire, The B-52’s, Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Brandi Carlile, Miley Cyrus, Devo, Lady Gaga, Dave Grohl, Post Malone, Chris Martin, Mumford & Sons, Bonnie Raitt, Jelly Roll
Music
Not Rated
USA (English)
180 minutes

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Something Is About To Happen

Directed by: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Studio: Film Movement

A steamy encounter with a new neighbor who has gone missing leads the recently unemployed Lucia to take on work as a cab driver in hopes of finding the man that reawakened her latent sexuality. Using her new vocation as a means of radical connection and self-reinvention, she finds both erotic and intellectual stimulation from her clientele. However, the more Lucia freely gives of herself to strangers, the more it becomes clear that she might be the target of a nefarious plot with violent consequences. Slyly fusing genres while subverting their expectations, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN “transforms from eccentric dramedy into a gripping, metatextual thriller.” (Washington City Paper) Sexy, daring and ultimately liberating, Esparza pushes the mid-life crisis to its exuberant extreme.

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Malena Alterio, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Rodrigo Poisón, José Luis Torrijo, Mariona Ribas
Horror | International | Romance
Not Rated
Spain | Romania (Spanish)
122 minutes

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The Annihilation of Fish
(1999 Re-Release)

Directed by: Charles Burnett
Studio: Kino Lorber

A woman (Lynn Redgrave) who believes a dead composer is in love with her falls in love with a man (James Earl Jones) who constantly fights an imaginary man named Hank.

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Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Margot Kidder
Romance
R (for some sexual content)
USA (English)
108 minutes

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Attack on Titan: The Last Attack

Directed by: Yûichirô Hayashi
Studio: Crunchyroll

The fate of the world hangs in the balance as Eren unleashes the ultimate power of the Titans. With a burning determination to eliminate all who threaten Eldia, he leads an unstoppable army of Colossal Titans towards Marley.

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Natsuki Hanae, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Marina Inoue, Yui Ishikawa, Yûki Kaji
Animation | Action | Drama | International
Not Rated
Japan (Japanese)
145 minutes

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Addy Daddy

Directed by: Patrick VanZandt
Studio: Synergetic Distribution

A lonely young man introduces his new girlfriend to his parents and they immediately hate her for no reason.

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Jared Trevino, Lexi Simonsen, Kyle Tepper, Allan Weedman, Lynn Haro
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Not Rated
USA (English)
118 minutes

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The Vortex

Directed by: Richard Zelniker
Studio: Synkronized

A Paiute woman enters a Las Vegas casino in 1980, triggering strange happenings. The addicted in-house comedian counsels eccentric patrons and must make a pivotal choice.

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Billy Gardell, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jamie McShane, Azita Ghanizada, Emily Alabi
Drama
Not Rated
USA (English)
83 minutes

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