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What a week. We went from thinking a new season of The Bachelorette was set to air on Sunday to seeing it unceremoniously yanked from the schedule. Clearly, that’s not something you can watch this weekend, or any, for now. There is a healthy number of movies in theaters, though, whether you want to see Ryan Gosling hang with a sentient rock in space or the sequel to the Radio Silence crew’s bloody fun game of hide-and-seek. And there’s The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow and the comeback of BTS to follow this week. See! Plenty to do.
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller took a break from their Spider-Verse to come back to live-action in this adaptation of Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel. Ryan Gosling stars as neurotic and brilliant schoolteacher Ryland Grace, who is recruited by Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) to help solve why the sun is dimming. The film heartbreakingly cuts from past to present as Ryland wakes up in outer space with no memory of how he got there.
➽ As Ryland pondered his place in the universe, we pondered the movie’s spot in the Ryan Gosling canon.
If you think you’re having a shit day, I’d recommend watching the Ready or Not films to see what their protagonist goes through on her wedding day. Picking up right after the events of the original 2019 horror-comedy, Samara Weaving’s Grace is free from her fucked-up in-laws only to be thrown back into the bloody game she fought so hard to survive — this time with her sister (Kathryn Newton) by her side. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Elijah Wood, and David Cronenberg also star.
The first season was one of the more interesting recent TV experiments: a documentary in which everything was fake except for one guy who believed he was really at jury duty. This time, the one real guy thinks he’s a new hire at a family-owned hot-sauce company. —Kathryn VanArendonk
Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, and Kate Mara are the three imperfect women, a trio of friends who are torn apart when a shocking death reveals that they don’t know each other as well as they think. Classic schmaltzy drama trying to be prestigious to get you sucked in over the weekend.
Cillian Murphy is back in that damn hat. A couple years after its finale, Peaky Blinders returns with a feature film as Murphy’s Tommy Shelby returns to Birmingham to face his estranged son (Barry Keoghan), the new leader of the Peaky Blinders gang.
Alexandre Dumas’s novel of identity and revenge gets a big-budget remake with Sam Claflin starring as Edmond Dantès, a sailor wrongly imprisoned in an island fortress who, after his escape and subsequent treasure finding, plots his vengeance. Claflin’s got the right kind of handsome face for it, all angles and sneers. —Roxana Hadadi
John Galsworthy’s family drama is TV royalty — the adaptations in 1967 and 2002 were both major events, and the story of a new generation chafing against the traditions of their parents is especially well suited to the miniseries format. This version stars Jack Davenport, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Stephen Moyer. —K.V.A.
“To all the fans who have been waiting to see BTS reunite onstage as a full group for the first time since their ‘Yet to Come’ concert in October 2022 … the time has finally come. Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook will perform together on March 21, a day after releasing their fifth studio album, Arirang.” —Jennifer Zhan’s guide to BTS’s live comeback concert is here. She’ll also be reporting from Seoul.
Every family with little ones knows Bluey — whether he appears in 2-D-animated shorts or a 50-minute live performance that tours and delights preschoolers across the country. The stage show is streamable as of this week, alongside a collection of Bluey Minisodes hitting Disney+ for the first time. —Eric Vilas-Boas
In retrospect, it’s not so surprising that a contemplative adaptation of a Denis Johnson novel about (among other things) man’s relationship to nature got totally blanked at the Oscars last weekend. Whatever. We’ll say it again: “Train Dreams is a staggering work of art.” Its treescapes and melancholy and Will Patton voice-over and a delightful supporting turn by William H. Macy will stick with you, if you let them. —E.V.B.
Wicked: For Good may not have been as highly regarded as its predecessor, but the musical fans knew the second act has never been the best anyways. But For Good still has its moments, like its namesake musical number.
Want more? Read our recommendations from the weekend of March 13.
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