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Hooray! The Hollywood strikes were settled, so movies are coming back to theaters and streamers. From Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story to sequels to Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, Gladiator, Bad Boys and Joker, there’s plenty to put on your must-watch calendar. Check AARP’s Entertainment page for updates, and mark your calendars with this must-watch guide.
Coming in March
One Life, NR (March 15, in theaters)
Anthony Hopkins, 86, plays Nicholas Winton, the “British Schindler” who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia.
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Road House, R (March 21, in theaters)
The 1989 Patrick Swayze action film gets a 21st-century update, with Jake Gyllenhaal playing a world-weary former UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys dive bar that seems to attract a very aggro clientele. Brace yourself for bare-knuckles brawling.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, NR (March 22, in theaters)
In this sequel, new ectoplasm battlers (Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Paul Rudd, 54) return to the New York firehouse HQ of the 1984 movie, consult the original ghostbusters (Annie Potts, 71, Bill Murray, 73, Ernie Hudson, 78, and Dan Aykroyd, 71) and fight the fearsome Death Chill.
Shirley, PG-13 (March 22, on Netflix)
Oscar winner Regina King, 53, has generated plenty of advance buzz for her role as Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress. John Ridley’s biopic, which also stars Lance Reddick, Terrence Howard, 55, and Lucas Hedges, focuses on her historic long-shot bid for the presidency in 1972.
Coming in April
The First Omen (April 5, in theaters)
The sequels to the 1976 horror classic The Omen were hell to sit through, but hopes are high as heaven for this prequel about the world’s scariest child, since its stars include Bill Nighy, 74 (Love Actually), and Sonia Braga, 73 (Kiss of the Spider Woman), who appear to be a pair of religious figures — but does that mean they’re wholly holy?
Civil War (April 12, in theaters)
Alex Garland, 53, author of the generational touchstone novel The Beach, became a renowned highbrow sci-fi director (Ex Machina). In this intellectual action film, the U.S. president (Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman, 53) faces the secession of 19 states, while a photographer (Kirsten Dunst) gets caught in urban war zones.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (April 19, in theaters)
Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes) and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun: Maverick) bring you what could be the year’s liveliest action comedy inspired by real-life heroes. Winston Churchill really did call England’s secret team of maverick saboteurs his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and he sent them behind Nazi lines to battle Hitler. Henry Cavill (Mission: Impossible — Fallout) stars.
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