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What to Watch in Theaters and at Home This Weekend September 6-8, 2024

Sep 6, 2024

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Theaters)



Synopsis: Beetlejuice is back!  After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River.  Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened.  With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.


Slow Horses: Season Four (Apple TV+)



Synopsis: “Slow Horses” is the Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning and widely acclaimed espionage series starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman. The upcoming fourth season of the series is adapted from “Spook Street,” the fourth novel in the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron spy series “Slough House."


Big City Greens The Movie: Spacecation Sing Along



Synopsis: Thrill-seeker Cricket Green tricks his country family into taking a “road trip” in space, which ends up endangering all of Big City.

 

LEGO Pixar: Bricktoons (Disney+)



Synopsis: “LEGO Pixar: BrickToons” catches up with Marlin and Dory from “Finding Nemo,” Jack-Jack and his super siblings Dash and Violet from “The Incredibles,” Lightning McQueen and Mater from “Cars,” Merida and her rambunctious baby brothers from “Brave,” and Miguel and Hector from “Coco” in an all-new series of LEGO®-styled animated adventures for which no assembly is required.


Coming From America (Max)



Synopsis: Four African American families pack up all their belongings, risking everything to move to the new land of opportunity: Africa. Enticed by their ancestral roots, these families travel 5000 miles to find love, jobs, and a better life. First, they'll have to survive the inevitable culture shock – but if they can endure the first 60 days, their lives could be changed forever.


Continue (On Demand)



Synopsis: Writer-director-star Nadine Crocker’s tour-de-force of confessional filmmaking dissects mental health struggles with the raw authenticity of a true survivor. Convinced she’s fated to walk the same troubled path as her father, Dean (Crocker) suffers a major mental health episode and is committed to a rehabilitation facility. Once confined, Dean shudders through the agonies of recovery, and bravely comes out the other side armed with a defense against the darkness, summed up in one word: Continue.


The Deliverance (Netflix)



Synopsis: Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children. Inspired by a true story, THE DELIVERANCE is directed by Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels and stars Andra Day, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Mo’Nique in a genre-defying take on darkness, possession, and finding a higher power.


The Demon Disorder (Shudder)



Synopsis: The Demon Disorder tells the tale of Graham, Jake, and Phillip Reilly, whose lives are upended by a long-buried family secret. As their pasts collide, their late father's garage becomes the eerie epicenter of supernatural revenge


Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist (Peacock)



Synopsis: Schemers, dreamers, hustlers, and high rollers collide over a million-dollar heist on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta. This new Peacock Original limited series stars Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji P. Henson, Don Cheadle, and Terrence Howard.


His Three Daughters (Theaters)



Synopsis: From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter; free-spirited Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is a different kind of mom, separated from her offspring for the first time; and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) is a sports-betting stoner who has never left her father’s apartment — much to the chagrin of her half-sisters, who share a different mother and worldview. Continuing his astute exploration of family dynamics in close-knit spaces, Jacobs follows the siblings over the course of three volatile days, as death looms, grievances erupt, and love seeps through the cracks of a fractured home.


The Paragon (Theaters/On Demand)



Synopsis: Do you want to see the unseen? Dutch (Benedict Wall) may look like just another defeated and washed-up loser, but behind his pissed-off exterior lurks a hyperdimensional being of exceptional promise. His wife left him, his career as a tennis coach is floundering, and he would give anything to find the driver of the silver Toyota Corolla who hit him and drove off a year ago–the event that initiated Dutch’s downward spiral. Enter Lyra (Florence Noble), a witchy disciplinarian who offers to help Dutch unleash his latent psychic powers and break free from the illusion of linear time. After a crash course in telelocation and astral projection, the unlikely psionic prodigy is ready for his quest of cosmic revenge, but Lyra has other plans: she needs Dutch’s help to find a mysterious crystal known as the Paragon before it falls into the hands of her evil brother Haxan (Jonny Brugh) and his mind slaves. Everything converges towards the singularity in Michael Duignan’s feature debut, a hilarious rift in space-time.


The Perfect Couple (Netflix)



Synopsis: Amelia Sacks is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket. Her disapproving future mother-in-law, famous novelist Greer Garrison Winbury, has spared no expense in planning what promises to be the premiere wedding of the season — until a body turns up on the beach. As secrets come to light, the stage is set for a real-life investigation that feels plucked from the pages of one of Greer’s novels. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect. Starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning, and Meghann Fahy. Directed by Susanne Bier.


Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Hulu)



Synopsis: You may know them from TikTok as the originators of “#MomTok,” but you’ve never seen them like this. Secrets, lies, and scandal grow underneath the Instagram-perfect facade of these popular Mormon influencer families, and this new Hulu Original reality series is uncovering it all. 


The Wonderland Massacre (MGM+)



Synopsis: Led by crime writer Michael Connelly, this all-new docuseries takes us on a wild, snaking journey into the investigation of the massacre at Wonderland Avenue, revealing ties to a porn star, Hollywood elite, and the drug underworld in 1980’s Los Angeles.

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