One of the best forms of enjoyment is watching Films. For fans of movies! Once again, WhatsOn editors are here to make your weekend worthwhile with Film Friday, bringing you an interesting collection of the most recent movies. Enjoy the movies we’ve chosen for you as you make some popcorn. Tama Sarker writes
1. Lightyear
The film is produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios in 2022, and the enjoyable computer-animated science fiction action-adventure movie Lightyear is released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The movie, which is the fifth overall in the franchise, is a spin-off of the Toy Story movie series. A threat to the security of the universe is encountered as Lightyear, who is playing the role of a space ranger, searches for a way back home while battling it after becoming marooned on a hostile planet with his commander and crew. It revolves around the character Buzz Lightyear, however, the movie promotes itself as a subseries of the Toy Story movies in which Lightyear is a character, as opposed to following the main franchise’s roster of toy characters.
2. Bodies Bodies Bodies
Halina Reijn is the director of the 2022 American black comedy slasher film Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson are among the actors who appear in the movie. In this new and humorous look at backstabbing, fake pals, and one party that went horribly wrong, a bunch of wealthy 20-somethings prepare a hurricane party at a distant family house. However, a party game turns fatal. It had its international premiere on March 14 at South by Southwest, and A24 released it on August 5 of that same year.
3. Thirteen Lives
American biographical survival film Thirteen Lives, based on the Tham Luang cave rescue, was produced and directed by Ron Howard in 2022 from a screenplay by William Nicholson. Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Bateman all appear in the movie. The movie plot starts In Thailand, a rescue effort is organized for a group of young boys and their soccer coach who are stranded in a network of flooding underground tunnels. United Artists Releasing’s Thirteen Lives premiered in a few cinemas on July 29, 2022, and on August 5 it became available for streaming on Prime Video. Critics gave it largely favorable reviews.
4. Darlings
From a screenplay by Parveez Sheikh, Darlings is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language black comedy-drama film that Jasmeet K. Reen co-wrote and directed in her directorial debut. It was also produced by Gauri Khan, Alia Bhatt (in her debut production), and Gaurav Verma under the banners of Red Chillies Entertainment and Eternal Sunshine Productions. It chronicles the lives of two ladies as they discover bravery and love in the face of extreme odds. The movie had the most non-English original Indian viewing hours ever in its first weekend with over 10 million. On August 5th, 2022, Netflix made it available.
5. Wedding Season
Tom Dey’s Indian-American romantic comedy, the film Wedding Season, is based on Shiwani Srivastava’s screenplay. Suraj Sharma, Pallavi Sharda, Rizwan Manji, Veena Sood, Ari Afsar, Sean Kleier, and Manoj Sood are all featured in the movie. Two Indian-Americans who are under pressure from their immigrant parents to find husbands pretend to date in order to get through a summer full of weddings, but as they battle to strike a balance between who they are and who their parents want them to be, they find themselves falling in love. The release date of the film Wedding Season is August 4, 2022.