New Movies This Weekend: August 1-3
Photos from Paramount Pictures/Universal Pictures
From Jeff Nelson
Things are about to get a little funny at the box office. The Liam Neeson-starring The Naked Gun and the animated sequel The Bad Guys 2 are the two mainstream studio releases of the weekend (August 1-3). That isn’t to say that there won’t be indie offerings, as well.
‘The Naked Gun’ (Action/Comedy, 85 minutes, PG-13)
“Only one man has the particular set of skills - to lead Police Squad and save the world.”
Read Jeremy’s review here.
‘The Bad Guys 2’ (Animated/Action, 104 minutes, PG)
“The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do "one last job" by an all-female squad of criminals.”
‘She Rides Shotgun’ (Drama/Thriller, 120 minutes, R)
“A girl marked for death, must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows-her father. An adaptation of Jordan Harper's award winning novel.”
‘Architecton’ (Documentary, 98 minutes, G) – Limited
“An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone.”
‘Harvest’ (Drama/History, 78 minutes, NR) – Limited
“Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.”
‘Souleymane's Story’ (Drama, 93 minutes, NR) – Limited
“A Paris food delivery cyclist and asylum seeker named Souleymane has two days to prepare his story for a make-or-break interview to secure legal residency.”
‘The Sparrow in the Chimney’ (Drama, 119 minutes, NR) – Limited
“Based on Niall Williams' best-selling novel. Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other, but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.”
‘Trouble Man’ (Action/Comedy, 93 minutes, NR) – Limited
“Jaxen, a former cop turned Atlanta PI, is hired to find missing R&B star Jahari. His investigation uncovers her disappearance is connected to a larger conspiracy, forcing him to question those around him and his own past.”
‘TURA!’ (Documentary, 105 minutes, NR) – Limited
“Documentary on the life of ‘Faster, Pussycat. Kill. Kill!’ star / Asian American actress Tura Satana. A wild ride chronicling Tura's brutal childhood, burlesque career, cult movie stardom, and impact as a female icon and cinema pioneer.”
‘My Oxford Year’ (Romance, 111 minutes, PG-13) – Netflix
“When Anna, an ambitious young American woman, sets out for Oxford University to fulfill a childhood dream, she has her life completely on track until she meets a charming and clever local who profoundly alters both of their lives.”
