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This image released by Lionsgate shows Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in a scene from “Michael.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Here are the major new movies releasing in theaters or on streaming this week.<\/p>\n
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APEX. Taron Egerton as Ben in APEX. Cr. Kane Skennar\/Netflix \u00a9 2026<\/p>\n
KANE SKENNAR\/NETFLIX \u00a9 2026<\/p>\n
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Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton star in this psychological thriller set in a wilderness. Filmed in Australia, it also stars locals Eric Bana and Aaron Pedersen and is directed by Iceland’s Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur (“2 Guns,” “Adrift,” “The Oath”).<\/p>\n
Rated R. Begins streaming Friday on Netflix.<\/p>\n
An adventure film set in 7th century Arabia in which a princess and her father flee the evil emperor and team with a bandit to bring him down. Ben Kingsley, Alysha Hart and Anthony Mackie star.<\/p>\n
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Rated R. Opens Friday throughout Houston.<\/p>\n
Roadside Attractions<\/p>\n
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Sam Worthington and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in this thriller in which the center of London has to be evacuated quickly after the discovery of an unexploded bomb from World War II.<\/p>\n
Rated R. Opens Friday throughout Houston.<\/p>\n
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Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama from India about a wrestler and a new girlfriend who changes his life.<\/p>\n
Unrated. Opens Friday at AMC Loews Fountains 18, Stafford.<\/p>\n
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John Davidson (Robert Aramayo), an activist raising awareness about Tourette syndrome, prepares to meet Queen Elizabeth II with the help of his guardian Dottie Achenbach in Kirk Jones’ film “I Swear.”<\/p>\n
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This drama, based on the life of Englishman John Davidson who is an activist for those with Tourette’s Syndrome, surprised everyone at this year’s BAFTA Awards when star Robert Aramayo took the win for best actor over Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Michael B. Jordan.<\/p>\n
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Rated R. Opens Friday throughout Houston.<\/p>\n
This mini-festival of contemporary films from across Latin America includes a screening of the Brazilian Oscar nominee “The Secret Agent.”<\/p>\n
Runs Friday-Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.<\/p>\n
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Indie comedy in which a Florida man stumbles across an injured mermaid and decides he must protect her. Johnny Pemberton, Robert Patrick, Avery Potemri and Kevin Nealon star.<\/p>\n
Unrated. Opens Friday at AMC Gulf Pointe 30, Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Jackson nephew Jaafar Jackson stars in this biopic as his superstar uncle. Colman Domingo, Nia Long and Larenz Tate co-star.<\/p>\n
Rated PG-13. Opens Friday throughout Houston.<\/p>\n
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This image released by A24 shows Anne Hathaway in a scene from “Mother Mary.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Anne Hathaway plays a stadium-filling superstar who, in the midst of an emotional breakdown, reconnects with her embittered costume designer, played by Michaela Coel. The music is provided by Charli xcx, Jack Antonoff and FKA Twigs.<\/p>\n
Rated R. Opens Friday throughout Houston.<\/p>\n
Jason Segel, Timothy Olyphant, and Samara Weaving are featured in this thriller in which a husband and wife go away on a secluded retreat, ostensibly to repair their troubled marriage, but each plans to kill the other.<\/p>\n
Rated R. Opens Friday throughout Houston.<\/p>\n
This film fest indie favorite chronicles the life of a recently released prisoner, locked up since his teens, as he tries to navigate a path back into society.<\/p>\n
Unrated. Opens Friday at AMC Gulf Pointe 30, AMC Willowbrook 24, Houston<\/p>\n
‘Saint Joseph, Guardian of the Family’<\/p>\n
Polish-language drama from Poland about a reporter who finds his life changed after he’s assigned to investigate the miracles attributed to St. Joseph.<\/p>\n
Unrated. Opens Friday at\u00a0Cinemark Tinseltown 290, Houston; Cinemark Tinseltown Jacinto City.<\/p>\n
‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror’<\/p>\n
Documentary about the cultural phenomenon that is “The Rocky Horror Show.”<\/p>\n
Unrated. Opens Friday at AMC Gulf Pointe 30, Houston; available on video-on-demand.<\/p>\n
Re-release of the 1995 Japanese anime.<\/p>\n
Rated G. Screening Friday only throughout Houston.<\/p>\n
The long-running Houston film festival kicks off Friday night with the Portuguese film “Star Sailors: Past the Horizon” (Al\u00e9m do Horizonte – A Travessia).<\/p>\n
Unrated. Runs Friday-May 3 at Cinemark Memorial City, Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This image released by Lionsgate shows Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in a scene from “Michael.”\u00a0 Courtesy of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-262675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}