Comment on New films opening this week

Dwayne Johnson has recently completed his voice recording for Moana 2. The actor will be reprising his role as the charismatic and powerful demigod Maui.

It could be argued that Jennifer Lopez is not having a good week with the constant media speculation that her marriage with actor Ben Affleck is on the rocks. In the midst of this, the actress has been out promoting the sci-fi Netflix action film Atlas, which is a bit of a departure for the rom-com queen.

The now canceled 10th and final film from Quentin Tarantino, The Movie Critic, has been described as one of the greatest movies never made by Sony Pictures chairman, Tom Rothman. The now-defunct project was announced in 2022 with plot details being, teased, rumored, and released steadily over the last two years.

Released in 2018, A Simple Favor was a critical and financial success, but the film has seemed to find a new life this week after hitting Netflix. The film quickly ascended to the top of Netflix's Top Ten, at first just behind the buzzy Ashley Madison docuseries and now it's sitting pretty at number one.

After over a decade of playing Thor in the MCU, Chris Hemsworth said he felt a "perverse" sense of joy shifting from a mighty hero to a heinous villain in George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The long awaited prequel to Miller's Oscar-winning return to the franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, sees Hemsworth portray the film's arch-villain, the cruel and violent warlord known as Dementus.

The new action-comedy starring Glen Powell, Hit Man, has beaten the Rotten Tomatoes score for Top Gun: Maverick, making it the actor's best reviewed movie to date. The film (which releases in select theaters today before dropping on Netflix in June), follows fake hit man, Gary Johnson (Powell), who's faux career becomes embroiled in real life danger when he's hired by a woman to assassinate her abusive husband.