John Wick 4, Shazam 2, and every new movie to watch at home this weekend
Good news, everyone: John Wick: Chapter 4 can finally be seen at home.
Now available for digital rental or purchase, the fourth installment of the genre-changing franchise is one of many new movies available to watch at home this weekend. The Shazam! follow-up Anger of the Gods also comes on newly named Max platformwhich everyone seemed to pass on when it played in actual theaters, so now is the perfect time to catch up.
That’s Not All: There’s a Pair of New Netflix Originals, the Critically Acclaimed Hirokazu Kore-eda Drama Broker on Hulu, the Oscar nominee Women talk on MGM Plus, and much more to watch this week.
Let’s get into it.
New on Netflix
Blood and gold
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Historical action comedy
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Peter Thorward
Form: Robert Maaser, Jördis Triebel, Alexander Scheer
Craving for some more Nazi killing action after watching Sisu? You’re in luck, because director Peter Thorwath’s (Blood red sky) latest historical action thriller is all about that!
Blood and gold follows a former German soldier (Robert Maaser) who, after leaving the SS following a crisis of conscience and sentenced to death, is rescued by a local farmer whose village is terrorized by Nazi troops searching for gold. United by their common enemy, the soldier mounts a relentless counterattack on his former comrades, clubbing and ventilating them to a pulp with an array of weapons and tactics.
Victim/suspect
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h 30m
Director: Nancy Schwartzmann
Form: Rachel deLeon
This documentary follows Rachel de Leon’s four-year investigation into a nationwide series of crimes where victims of sexual assault have been forced by law enforcement to plead guilty to falsifying their reports. Victim/suspect puts a magnifying glass on the insidious institutional bias that punishes rape victims for speaking out.
Where the tracks end
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Comic drama
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Ernesto Contraras
Form: Adriana Barraza, Blanca Guerra, Guillermo Villegas
This comedic coming-of-age drama follows a group of kids growing up in rural Mexico who struggle to get an education as their run-down schoolhouse faces closure. With the help of their benevolent school teacher Georgina (Adriana Barraza), the children learn to overcome life’s challenges and grow as individuals.
New to Disney Plus
Wild life
Where to watch: Available to stream on Disney Plus
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h 33m
Drivers: Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Form: Kristine “Kris” Tompkins, Rick Ridgeway, Jimmy Chin
This documentary follows conservationist Kris Tompkins and her husband Doug as they leave behind the management of the outdoor brands they helped establish (Patagonia, The North Face and Espirit) to embark on a decades-long mission to protect national parks in Chile and Argentina. settle.
New to Hulu
Broker
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Comedy crime drama
Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Form: Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona
Song Kang Ho (Parasite) and Gang Dong Won (Peninsula) star Shoplifters director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest comedy crime drama as two villains who steal babies from church drop boxes and sell them on the adoption black market to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After a baby’s mother returns to make sure her child is delivered to a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right family for the baby.
mummies
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Comedy for children
Duration: 1h 28m
Director: Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha
Form: Joe Thomas, Eleanor Tomlinson, Celia Imrie
This animated children’s comedy that Warner Bros. quietly hit theaters this spring, follows a trio of mummies who live in a secret underground city and embark on a journey to the surface world of modern London to retrieve a priceless Egyptian heirloom from a nefarious archaeologist. There’s also a baby crocodile sidekick if you’re into that.
New on Max
Shazam: Anger of the Gods
Where to watch: Available to stream on max
Genre: Superhero action
Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
Director: David F. Sandberg
Form: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Grace Caroline Currey
Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and his foster siblings return in the sequel to David F. Sandberg’s 2019 superhero film Shazam! as the eponymous superpowered demigod (Zachary Levi) and his “Shazamily” of mythically powerful superheroes. When Hespera (Helen Mirren) and Kalypso (Lucy Liu), the progeny of the mighty Titan Atlas, steal a powerful magical item as part of their plan to conquer humanity, Shazam and his siblings will face challenges and revelations. those bonds of family and force them to face the question of what it means to be a hero.
being Mary Tyler Moore
Where to watch: Available to stream on max
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h 59m
Director: James Adolf
Form: Mary Tyler Moore, James L. Brooks, Rob Reiner
This documentary follows the extraordinary life and career of Mary Tyler Moore, from her breakthrough as homemaker Laura Petrie The Dick Van Dyke Show to her on- and off-screen metamorphosis in the wake of starring in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
New to MGM Plus
Women talk
Where to watch: Available to stream on MGM Plus
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: Sarah Polly
Form: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley
Inspired by real life events, this drama follows a group of women and girls in an isolated unnamed Mennonite colony who discover that certain men in the colony have been using sedatives on cows for years to subdue and rape them. As evidenced by the trial in a nearby town, the women are faced with the individual and collective question of how to move on, whether to move on, and what kind of future they want to build for themselves and their loved ones.
New on Criterion Channel
The innocent
Where to watch: Available to stream on Criterion Channel
Genre: Crime comedy
Duration: 1h 38m
Director: Louis Garrel
Form: Louis Garrel, Roschdy Zem, Noémie Merlant
This French crime comedy follows a museum curator and widower (Louis Garrel) who is forced to help his ex-con stepfather (Roschdy Zem) in his illegal criminal schemes.
New on Shake
Influencer
Where to watch: Available to stream on shudder
Genre: Horror
Duration: 1h 32m
Director: Kurtis David Harder
Form: Sara Canning, Emily Tennant, Cassandra Naud
While embarking on a solo backpacking trip across Thailand after being abandoned by her boyfriend, a social media influencer (Sara Cunning) befriends an enigmatic traveler who shows her the wilder side of life. However, things take a sinister turn as the relationship between the two soon turns into a deadly maelstrom of obsession teetering on violence.
New on VOD
John Wick: Chapter 4
Where to watch: Available to purchase for $19.99 on Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Genre: Action thriller
Duration: 2h 49m
Director: Chad Stahelski
Form: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgard
Keanu Reeves returns in the fourth installment of the John Wick series as the legendary monosyllabic talking assassin with a penchant for improvisational carnage. Hunted by the ruthless Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård), John is forced to fight alongside and against old friends and former foes to once again earn his freedom from the criminal underworld he has fought so desperately to escape.
In love again
Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Genre: Romantic comedy-drama
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: James C. Strouse
Form: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan, Celine Dion
Struggling with the death of her fiancé, a young woman (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) sends romantic messages to his old mobile number mourning what she has lost, only for them to be sent to a charming young journalist (Sam Heughan). The journalist and woman were supposed to write a story about her, but they unintentionally clicked as they navigated the challenges of love in the wake of grief.