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Clockwise from top: Wuthering Heights; Dark Winds; Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die; and Love Is Blind.
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This is a Valentine’s Day weekend for the freaks: From the normcore freaks (Love Is Blind Ohio), to the oddball freaks (Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie), to the horny freaks (Wuthering Heights, all adaptations), there’s something for everyone. So get to it. Here, everything playing this weekend.
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Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s beloved novel has been driving people mad since the project was first announced. Now, you can see it for yourself. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, two young adults (their ages are questionable here) with a deeply destructive obsession with each other that only spirals further when the Lintons (Shazad Latif and a scene-stealing Alison Oliver) move in at Thrushcross Grange across from the Earnshaws at Wuthering Heights.
A webseries, a television show, and, now, a movie, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is a mockumentary from Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol. The duo play a fictionalized version of themselves as musicians looking to play a gig at the Rivoli.
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Nearly ten years after A Cure for Wellness, filmmaker Gore Verbinski returns with this dark sci-fi comedy. Sam Rockwell is a man on a mission as he travels from the future to recruit a crop of diner patrons (Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña, and Juno Temple) to fight a world-ending artificial intelligence.
The Avengers team up for a dad movie this Valentine’s Day weekend. How kind. In Crime 101, Chris Hemsworth as Mike Davis leads his largest heist yet, while Mark Ruffalo’s Detective Lou Lubesnick is hot on his trail. Other Marvel players in this cast include Halle Berry and Barry Keoghan.
If you were one of the wise TV viewers who clutched the coming-of-age comedy Derry Girls close to your heart, its creator, Lisa McGee, has a new Netflix series. Three lifelong friends reunite to investigate their fourth friend’s death, and, yes, breakout Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson makes an appearance. —Kathryn VanArendonk
This show continues eviscerating every aspect of white and Christian culture that hurt Native Americans with a season focused on a boarding school with a secret. When a teen girl runs away, Navajo Nation tribal police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and his team work to protect her from a hired assassin. —Roxana Hadadi
Let’s see what entertainment the singles in Ohio can bring us. The season is already a bit interesting because they’ve mainly cast 30-year-olds looking for love instead of opting for the drama of 20-somethings. If they can get at least one couple married here, that’s already better than Denver last season.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s a movie to have you ponder who you’d spend eternity with. For Elizabeth Olsen’s character, Joan, she has two men to choose from: her husband of 60-plus years, Larry (Miles Teller), or her ex-husband, Luke (Callum Turner), who died when they were very young.
Biopics about lauded musicians are tired. Next are biopics about cover-band artists. In Song Sung Blue, Hugh Jackman and the Oscar-nominated Kate Hudson play a couple in a Neil Diamond cover band who experience some real melodrama.
➽ If you dreamed big for VOD, Marty Supreme is now ready to stream, while Predator: Badlands is on Hulu and the Keanu Reeves comedy Good Fortune is on Starz.
Brontë’s 1847 novel has been ripe material for plenty of adaptations aside from Fennell’s feverish take. There’s Roman Holiday director William Wyler’s grand, old-school Hollywood version with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier as Cathy and Heathcliff. And Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film casts Kaya Scodelario and James Howson as the two tortured lovers. Both of those are on the Criterion Channel and are also up for free on Plex with ads. On the TV front, Kanopy has the PBS-series version, starring Tom Hardy as a brooding Heathcliff.
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