If you’re a fan of action movies, this is your weekend! This week’s new releases feature quite a number of action movies, premiering both in theaters and on streaming. There is a fourth entry in the John Wick saga, a Vietnamese film about a trio of women who decide to take on a gang that abuses women, a drama about a woman whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident, and much more!
Drain Away: Is Pure Longing a Sin?
A young woman Kaname is possessed by a ghost of a Japanese samurai Saki whose goal is to make history repeat itself in the death of those she loves.
Starring: Reila Aphrodite, Galen Howard, Tim Neff, Russell Geoffrey Banks
Release date: March 24
Furies
A mysterious woman trains a trio of girls to take revenge on a criminal gang that abuses females. The three lady warriors risk everything to challenge this corrupt empire.
Directed by Veronica Ngo
Starring: Veronica Ngo, Song Luan, Thuan Nguyen, Dong Anh Quynh, Toc Tien
Release date: March 23 (Netflix)
A Good Person (R)
Follows Allison, whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident.
Directed by Zach Braff
Starring: Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Celeste O’Connor, Molly Shannon, Zoe Lister-Jones
Release date: March 24
Johnny
Love for the world and other people and about the fact that everyone deserves a second chance. When Patryk receives it from a priest Jan Kaczkowski does not even suspect how it will change his life.
Directed by Daniel Jaroszek
Starring: Dawid Ogrodnik, Piotr Trojan, Beata Zygarlicka, Grazyna Bulka, Maria Pakulnis
Release date: March 23
John Wick: Chapter 4 (R)
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Directed by Chad Stahelski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Laurence Fishbourne, Bill Skarsgård, Lance Reddick
Release date: March 24
Myanmar Diaries
How does it feel to be forgotten by the world? After the military coup in 2021, these film diaries of young opposition activists in Myanmar use the cinema screen to communicate with the world in a different way than allowed TV news.
Release date: March 24
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
The life and times of Nam June Paik, the father of video art, who coined the phrase “Electronic Superhighway.”
Directed by Amanda Kim
Starring: Vaibhav Gohil, Nam June Paik
Release date: March 24
The Portable Door
Paul Carpenter is an intern at a mysterious London firm with unconventional employers, including a CEO who wants to disrupt the ancient magical world with modern corporate practices.
Directed by Jeffrey Walker
Starring: Patrick Gibson, Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, Jessica De Gouw
Release date: March 23
School of Magical Animals (PG)
Ida must transfer to a new school, where she soon realizes the students are unkind to each other. However, that all changes when a new teacher, Miss Cornfield, begins to educate them on the value of friendship and magic.
Directed by Gregor Schnitzler
Starring: Emilia Maier, Leonard Conrads, Loris Sichrovsky, Madja Uhl, Milan Peschel
Release date: March 24
Tehranto
In Toronto, lively music, intricate textiles and vibrant colours paint an unlikely story of love and family when, Badi and Sharon, two young students with very different upbringings from a divided Persian community, accidentally fall in love.
Directed by Faran Moradi
Starring: Sammy Azero, Mo Zeighami, Navid Negahban, Mahsa Ghorbankarimi, Ali Badshah
Release date: March 24
The Worst Ones
A group of teenagers from the same neighborhood are selected to act in a feature film during the summer.
Directed by Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Starring: Mallory Wanecque, Johan Heldenbergh, Esther Archambault, Timéo Mahaut, Loïc Pech
Release date: March 24
