Last week, You Can See Everything premiered, and it had one of the best box office debuts for a documentary ever. Street Fighter is also out, performing well at the box office but not so well when it comes to critics. This weekend brings a new batch of movies, from the DCU’s first horror movie Clayface, to Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun.
If that’s not enough to get you into theaters, that’s okay. There’s plenty of stuff to watch from home, from streaming to VOD, with the live-action version of Moana finally available to stream on Disney Plus. Olivia Wilde’s The Invite is also out, delivering one of the best dramas of the year and an acting showcase from its talented cast.
Other noteworthy inclusions are the British romcom Finding Emily, the stop-motion children’s horror Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (which delightfully drew inspiration from classical horror movies like Frankenstein and Wolf Man), and much more. The live-action version of Moana is out on streaming. It's the latest in Disney's string of live-action remakes, which faithfully retell some of the company's most beloved animated stories with real actors and photorealistic effects.
Like many before it, Moana received poor reviews and prompted a familiar question: Why does Disney keep making these? Virtually every line, beat, and song in the new movie is identical to the 2016 version, apart from a few minor punch-ups or extra comedy tags here and there. At this point, there’s no question why Disney keeps green-lighting these live-action remakes: nearly all of them make huge piles of money.
But there’s no artistic or aesthetic reason for the live-action Moana to exist. The best of Disney’s live-action rewrites add some sort of new spin or distinctive conceptual voice into the mix. The 2026 Moana is just a glossy digital clone of the original.
Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Olivia Wilde) live in San Francisco, and their marriage has grown so distant that the only thing they have in common is their kid, whom they love very much. In a spur-of-the-moment decision, Angela invites their sexy upstairs neighbors (Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton) for a double date night that rapidly devolves into a relationship-breaking point. If you’re into British romcoms, Finding Emily was made for you.
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