Movies to watch this weekend

T-Mag Wednesday 18/January/2023 18:30 PM
By: Times News Service
Movies to watch this weekend

Babylon
Cast: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire, Diego Calva
Language: English

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.


Sattar
Cast: Ibrahim Alhajjaj, AbdulAziz Al Shehri, AbdulAziz Al Mubadala, Shahd AlQafary, Ibrahim Khairallah, Muath Al Marri
Language: Arabic

Saad, a young man who loves professional wrestling, gets excited when EEW, a professional wrestling promotion, announces that they're holding auditions in Riyadh. Saad goes to the audition hoping to become a Saudi wrestler and then start his global journey from Riyadh to success. He fails in the auditions conducted by EEW, but his luck has not completely run out as he meets Ali Hogan, an eccentric man who offers to be Saad's manager and promises to change his life. Sa'ad, with the help of Ali, joins smaller wrestling promotions in Riyadh, filled with different Saudi wrestlers, all with their own gimmick, in hopes of one day being good enough to join EEW and live out his dreams.

Independence: Detective Knight 3
Cast: Dina Meyer, Bruce Willis, Lochlyn Munro
Language: English

Bruce Willis stars as Detective James Knight in this final, tense chapter of the trilogy. Knight’s last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city’s festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show...one that will strike dangerously close to Knight’s home.

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam
Cast: Lijo Jose Pallissery, Mammootty ,, Ramya Pandian, Ashwanth Ashokkumar
Language: Malayalam

The film portraits the incidents in the life of Jameson during a trip. James stops the bus at a village in rural Tamil Nadu. After lunch, the tourists take a sluggish snooze in the village. Meanwhile, James starts acting like a traveller, who has lost his way. He begins to behave like a Tamilian and speak in Tamil, like Sundaram, a local of the area, perplexing everyone who travelled with him as well as the local people of the village. He is being followed as he moves through a world of illusion, fantasy, and trance.

The Offering
Cast: Paul Kaye, Nick Blood, Allan Corduner, Emily Wiseman
Language: English

A family struggling with loss finds themselves at the mercy of an ancient demon trying to destroy them from the inside.