Let’s get started with this weekend’s most popular releases. Sweet Girl, a Netflix original film, is set to take us on a journey fueled by deep-seated vengeance. After you’ve seen Jason Momoa seek justice for his late wife’s death at the hands of a greedy pharmaceutical company, Amazon Prime Video has Annette, a jukebox musical film starring Adam Driver, to put a little song in your heart.
Finally, HBO Max is airing Reminiscence, a sci-fi epic starring Hugh Jackman that follows him through other people’s memories as he searches for a lady he has only met but immediately loves. Here are the movies you should watch this weekend.
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A list of what to watch this weekend
Netflix
Sweet Girl
Sweet Girl is an elevated action thriller about a man’s quest to bring the American healthcare system to heel. Cooper is played by Jason Momoa (Aquaman), a loving father and husband who loses his wife due to the pharmaceutical industry’s selfishness. He sets out for vengeance against her killers — and the entire messed-up system — while also attempting to protect the only family he has left: his daughter (Isabela Merced).
The Chair
The Chair follows Dr Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh) as she navigates her new role as the Chair of the English department at prestigious Pembroke University. Ji-Yoon is faced with a unique set of challenges as the first woman to chair the department, and as one of the few staff members of colour at the university. Starring Sandra Oh, Jay Duplass, Holland Taylor, Bob Balaban, Nana Mensah, David Morse, and Everly Carganilla.
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Amazon Prime
Annette
Annette is a musical film in which Adam Driver sings! Leos Carax (Holy Motors) directs this film about two performers who fall in love and take the spotlight as the world’s “It” couple. But when they have a child — a mysterious little girl with “unique gifts” and an exceptional destiny — their worlds are irrevocably turned upside down. Also starring Marion Cotillard and Simon Helberg, Annette is the jukebox musical film of the summer.
More on Amazon Prime Video
Killer Among Us (2021)
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HBO Max
Reminiscence
Hugh Jackman stars in Reminiscence, a new Warner Bros. film premiering this weekend on HBO Max. Jackman stars as a scientist who discovers a means to relive people’s pasts and uses it to track for his long-lost love, Mae, in this science fiction thriller (Rebecca Ferguson). When the woman who moved from being a client to his personal fixation suddenly vanishes, this “private detective of the mind” would stop at nothing to discover her. Will Nick Bannister be able to discover her by navigating multiple people’s memories? In Reminiscence, you’ll find out.
More to watch on HBO Max
- Half Brothers, 2020 (HBO)
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San Andreas, 2015
Starz
Heels – Episode 102
Showtime
- Pixie (Premiere)
- Climax
Dark Skies
BritBox
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