The highly anticipated animated follow-up to the Academy Award-winning superhero adventure “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” hits theaters this weekend and features more Spider-people than a basketball league.
A new movie about LeBron James’ days as a high school sensation is currently streaming on Peacock if you enjoy basketball legends as much as comic book heroes. No forgetting, Stephen King and Mike Tyson.
Here’s a list of fresh films for every taste in cinema, along with several notable theatrical releases making their streaming and on-demand debuts:
The Boogeyman
Two sisters (“Yellowjackets” breakout stars Sophie Thatcher and Vivien Lyra Blair) are haunted by a terrifying shadow monster after their recently widowed therapist dad (Chris Messina) sees a disturbed new client (David Dastmalchian) in his home office.
The plot of the adaptation of a King short story from the 1970s centers on this family. Rob Savage’s mainstream sequel to his significantly better indie horror film (“Host,” “Dashcam”) is a mash-up of scary-movie cliches more absurd than truly unsettling, although being effective with its lighting and providing a few passable jump scares.
Shooting Stars: LeBron James original story.
James’ “This is your life” biopic is still a few years away because he’s still playing, but it definitely won’t be as strong and concentrated as this coming-of-age story, which shifts the focus from the basketball star to his close-knit group of boyhood buddies. In a sports movie that chronicles their journey to becoming the best team in the nation, LeBron (Mookie Cook) and his friends (Caleb McLaughlin, Avery S. Wills Jr., and Khalil Everage) forego attending their neighborhood high school in order to keep the “Fab Four” together at a private academy.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The sequel to “Into the Spider-Verse,” which debuted in 2018, is a magnificent work of visual narrative that spins a fresh spin on a well-known hero’s mythos. The Spider-people multiverse has already given Brooklyn teen Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) a taste, but now he gets the main course. He reunites with friend/crush Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), meets new characters like the futuristic Miguel O’Hara (Oscar Isaac), and embarks on a high-stakes inter-dimensional adventure that will test his maturity and resolve.
Medellín
Think of “The Hangover” with a lot more guns, like the Three Stooges in a “Fast and Furious” movie. A boxing trainer (Ramzy Bedia) and two of his friends (writer/director Franck Gastambide and Anouar Toubali) go on an insane rescue mission after their younger brother is taken prisoner by the Medelln drug cartel after dressing up as Pablo Escobar in a social media post. Tyson makes a brief appearance in the ridiculous French action comedy as a former special forces agent who arms the incompetent protagonists.
The above movies can be watched in theaters as well as movie streaming platforms.
