Waterloo Region Record

ON THE BIG SCREEN

- NightLife News Services

NEW RELEASES

Power Rangers: A group of high-school kids, who are infused with unique superpower­s, harness their abilities in order to save the world.

Life: An internatio­nal space crew discovers life on Mars.

CHiPs: A rookie officer is teamed with a hardened pro at the California Highway Patrol, though the newbie soon learns his partner is really an undercover Fed investigat­ing a heist that may involved some crooked cops.

Weirdos: Just after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentenni­al celebratio­ns of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada

ONGOING:

Beauty and the Beast: An adaptation of the Disney fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.

Goon: Last of the Enforcers: A hockey player plagued by injuries is confronted with the possibilit­y of retirement when a tough new player challenges his status as the league’s top enforcer.

Bitter Harvest: Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.

A United Kingdom: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an internatio­nal stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.

Kong: Skull Island: A team of explorers and soldiers travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific, unaware that they are crossing into the domain of monsters, including the mythic Kong.

Logan: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

Ballerina: Felicie has one dream, to become a ballerina at the world’s best ballet school. She also has one big problem; she’s stuck in an orphanage. Driven by her passion for dancing, Felicie goes to extraordin­ary lengths in order to audition for the role of a lifetime. Will she master the grace, skill and discipline it takes to become a profession­al dancer?

The Shack: A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called ‘The Shack.’

Get Out: A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s mysterious family estate. The Lego Batman Movie: Bruce Wayne must not only deal with the criminals of Gotham City, but also

the responsibi­lity of raising a boy he adopted.

John Wick: Chapter 2: After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.

Hidden Figures: Based on a true story, a team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematic­al data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions.

Lion: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

La La Land: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

 ?? ROADSIDE ATTRACTION­S, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ?? From left, Valeria Hodos and Samantha Barks in a scene from the film, Bitter Harvest.
ROADSIDE ATTRACTION­S, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS From left, Valeria Hodos and Samantha Barks in a scene from the film, Bitter Harvest.

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