Film: Spring Arts Preview 2025
metroweekly.comSinners and The Wedding Banquet to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, plus whatever’s made it to your favorite streaming service by then.The Woman in the Yard — Fresh off the streaming success of Netflix thriller Carry-On, director Jaume Collet-Serra re-ups the dynamite Danielle Deadwyler to star in this horror as a mom whose family is unsettled, to say the least, by a mysterious black-veiled stranger who shows up in a chair on their front lawn.
Once the woman starts making ominous pronouncements like, “Today’s the day,” it’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose in the household, maybe in a literal sense.
Deadwyler never misses, so save us a seat in the yard. (Now playing)A Working Man — Jason Statham goes full Charles Bronson as a quiet construction worker who jumps in with his black-ops military training to rescue boss Michael Peña’s daughter from human traffickers.
Based on Chuck Dixon’s book Levon’s Trade, and directed by Beekeeper‘s David Ayer, who co-wrote the adaptation with Sylvester Stallone, the film gives off ’80s macho action-movie vibes which might offer some minuscule variation in the usual knuckle-cracking Statham formula. (Now playing)Death of a Unicorn — Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega appear well-matched as a father and daughter who accidentally run over a unicorn while driving through a very unusual nature reserve in this wild horror satire.
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