Movies Opening In Theaters This Week, 03/01/2023

This week there are 15 films opening in theaters, a lot more compared to the usual. Below is a list of each film along with additional details for each one.

  • Title: Primary Position
  • Category: Action, Drama, War
  • Summary: Two teens, Darnell Jackson & Tracy Lavelle lived a turbulent life in the trying urban streets of Chicago Illinois. Everything changed when Darnell convinces Tracy to skip college and join the military. While trying to do the right thing with helping Ukraine against the Russians, Things don’t go as planned! Darnell goes back to Chicago where he must face new enemies, A corrupt mayor & a city full of hate. What will Darnell do?
  • Director: Robert Amparan
  • Writers: Robert Amparan, Khalid Abdulqaadir (contributing writer)
  • Stars: Robert Amparan, Omar Gooding, Kris D. Lofton
  • Title: Spoonful of Sugar
  • Category: Horror
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 34 Minutes
  • Summary: Millicent is taking a semester off from her studies to concentrate on her thesis about children with severe allergies, which makes her the perfect person to take care of little Johnny, a sickly, mute child who suffers from every allergy under the sun, from nickel to artificial fabric. His overbearing mother, Rebecca, is an accomplished author who is focused on her latest book release, while his dissatisfied father, Jacob, spends sweaty, shirtless days toiling away on a carpentry project in the backyard.
  • Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
  • Writer: Leah Saint Marie
  • Stars: Morgan Saylor, Kat Foster, Myko Olivier
  • Title: Creed III
  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 56 Minutes
  • Category: Drama, Sport
  • Summary: Adonis has been thriving in both his career and family life, but when a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy resurfaces, the face-off is more than just a fight.
  • Director: Michael B. Jordan
  • Writers: Keenan Coogler (screenplay by), Zach Baylin (screenplay by), Ryan Coogler (story by)
  • Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors
  • Title: Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 54 Minutes
  • Category: Action, Comedy, Thriller
  • Summary: Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
  • Director: Guy Ritchie
  • Writers: Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies, Guy Ritchie
  • Stars: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes
  • Title: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 50 Minutes
  • Category: Animation, Action, Adventure
  • Summary: All the Upper Rank Demons assemble at the Infinity Castle after Upper Six Demons’ defeat.
  • Director: Haruo Sotozaki
  • Writer: Koyoharu Gotouge
  • Stars: Zach Aguilar (English version),Kira Buckland (English version), Griffin Burns (English version)
  • Title: Sound of Silence
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes
  • Category: Horror
  • Directors: Alessandro Antonaci, Daniel Lascar, Stefano Mandalà
  • Writers: Alessandro Antonaci, Daniel Lascar, Stefano Mandalà
  • Stars: Lucia Caporaso, Chiara Casolari, Daniele De Martino
  • Title: Blueback
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 42 Minutes
  • Rated: PG
  • Category: Drama, Family
  • Summary: Follows Abby, a child who befriends a magnificent wild blue grouper while diving. When Abby realizes that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her activist Mum, Dora, and takes on poachers to save her friend.
  • Director: Robert Connolly
  • Writers: Robert Connolly (screenplay by), Tim Winton (based on the book ‘Blueback’ by)
  • Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Albert Mwangi, Ariel Donoghue
  • Title: Hunt Her, Kill Her
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 29 Minutes
  • Summary: On an otherwise peaceful evening during her first night on the job, a lone night shift janitor finds herself in an unexpected fight for survival when she becomes the target of sinister masked intruders. As their disturbing motives become clearer, she must use her crafty instincts and barbaric violence to make it through the night alive.
  • Director: Greg Swinson, Ryan Thiessen
  • Writer: Greg Swinson
  • Stars: Natalie Terrazzino, JC Oakley III, Larry Bunton
  • Title: Palm Trees and Power Lines
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 50 Minutes
  • Category: Drama
  • Summary: A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
  • Director: Jamie Dack
  • Writers: Jamie Dack (story), Audrey Findlay
  • Stars: Lily McInerny, Gretchen Mol, Emily Jackson
  • Title: God Bless you Al Pacino
  • Category: Comedy
  • Director: Despina Mirou (Writer Director)
  • Writer: Despina Mirou
  • Stars: Roberto Benigni, Renée Taylor, Despina Mirou
  • Title: 80 Proof
  • Category: Crime
  • Summary: A father and son bond over a stick up robbery
  • Director: John Stanton
  • Writer: John Stanton
  • Title: No Family Without Blood
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
  • Categories: Action, Thriller, Mystery
  • Summary: A high-ranking executive at a family-owned business attempts a hostile takeover and persuades a third of the managerial staff to travel to the corporation’s newest regional territory to start a start-up rival company. Employees in the new territory are now in danger of losing their positions, homes, stability, and quality of life. In an emergency C-suite meeting, a chief executive presents a plan to embark upon the dangerous mission of going undercover to save the family’s company and recover the loss. Based on actual events.
  • Writer: Karmyn Jones
  • Stars: Philip Michael Thomas, Chance the Rapper, Aaron D. Spears
  • Title: The Year Between
  • Category: Drama
  • Summary: Clemence Miller is coming home to live in her family’s basement after dropping out of college with a newly diagnosed mental illness. Having to face her battered relationships and responsibilities of adulthood, she is driving everyone around her… crazy.
  • Director: Alex Heller
  • Writer: Alex Heller
  • Stars: Steve Buscemi, J. Smith-Cameron, Wyatt Oleff
  • Title: Please Baby Please
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
  • Categories: Drama, Musical
  • Summary: Newlyweds Suse and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple’s sexual identity.
  • Director: Amanda Kramer
  • Writers: Amanda Kramer, Noel David Taylor
  • Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling, Demi Moore
  • Title: Todd Tarantula
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 23 Minutes
  • Categories: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
  • Summary: A psychedelic journey across Los Angeles to find his stolen motorbike leads antihero Todd Tarantula through a time-bending experience where he must uncover the secrets of his past.
  • Director: Ansel Faraj
  • Writer: Ansel Faraj
  • Stars: David Selby, Nathan Wilson, Kelly Erin Decker

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