MOVIES TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND
‘MEGAN’
A nine-year-old girl named Cady loses her parents in a car accident. She is sent to live with her aunt Gemma, a roboticist at the high-tech Seattle toy company Funki. Gemma is covertly using the company’s resources to develop M3GAN (Model 3 Generative Android), a childsized humanoid robot doll powered by artificial intelligence, designed to be the ultimate companion. After a faulty test occurs with M3GAN in their lab, Gemma’s boss David discovers the project and orders her to discontinue work on it. Gemma and Cady struggle to connect until Cady discovers Bruce, a motion capture robot that Gemma created. Watching Cady with Bruce, Gemma is motivated to complete the project.
‘THE OLD WAY’
In 1878 in the Montana Territory, gunfighter Colton Briggs is a member of an extrajudicial posse organised to arrest and hang the brother of Walter McAllister, a notorious bandit. Walter and his men try to foil the public execution, resulting in a shootout that leaves Colton and the younger McAllister as the only survivors. Colton assures Walter›s brother that he won›t kill him; his execution was merely a feint to force his brother out of hiding. Enraged, the younger McAllister tries to shoot Colton in the back. Without hesitation, Colton guns him down and calmly rides away as Walter’s young nephew James watches.Twenty years later, Colton is a changed man: Under the influence of his wife Ruth, he has become a respectable, clean-living merchant with a general store and a small farm, raising a 12-year-old daughter named Brooke.
Commercial pilot Brodie Torrance, a former RAF pilot from Scotland, flies Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 with 14 passengers and three cabin crew members from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo. Among the passengers is fugitive homicide suspect Louis Gaspare, who is accompanied by an RCMP officer en route to Canada. Taking advice from one of his superiors, Brodie takes a shortcut across the South China Sea, but the plane is heavily damaged by a storm and a flight attendant and the RCMP officer are killed during the turbulence. The plane makes an emergency landing on what turns out to be Jolo island in the Philippines. In New York City, the board of Trailblazer calls Scarsdale, their crisis manager. He dispatches a private military outfit to rescue the passengers, as the authorities are unwilling to send troops into the rebel-controlled island.
In April 2020, the college student Tyler Murphy is stalked by an anonymous figure while shopping at a grocery store. When Tyler gets home, the masked intruder ambushes and kills him. Parker Mason takes her best friend, Miri Woodlow, to her family’s lake house to quarantine. They arrive at the isolated lake house when Parker receives a cryptic text message. The girls head to a small dock to tan, and Parker receives another message, unsettling them both. Later that day, the two play a drinking game about Dr Anthony Fauci while watching the news.