HBO Max is hovering to new heights this weekend. Why? Effectively, it’s streaming films that — typically — happen within the sky.
2025’s Superman film that includes David Corenswet did nicely on the field workplace, however the Watch With Us crew is followers of the underrated DC Comics film, Superman Returns.
Miss the Bruce Willis motion traditional, Die Laborious? Then watch Daisy Ridley kick some terrorist butt in a tall London skyscraper in Cleaner.
The quiet drama No one Walks is extra earthbound, nevertheless it’s nonetheless price a look ahead to anybody craving a juicy movie a couple of sophisticated love triangle that goes terribly unsuitable.
‘Cleaner’ (2025)
We’ll by no means get an awesome motion film set in a constructing like Die Laborious ever once more, however we’ll proceed to get copycats, and Cleaner is likely one of the higher ones. Daisy Ridley stars as Joey Locke, a former soldier-turned-window-cleaner (simply go together with it) who’s caught in the course of a hostage state of affairs involving a terrorist environmental activist group led by Marcus Blake (Clive Owen). With the police helpless, it’s up to Joey to cease Blake and his goons from killing harmless hostages.
Cleaner isn’t all that unique, nevertheless it makes up for it by staging one well-executed motion sequence after one other. Thank director Martin Campbell for that — he helmed two of one of the best James Bond films ever made, Goldeneye and On line casino Royale, and he exhibits an analogous aptitude right here for ridiculous motion that defies the legal guidelines of physics. Cleaner is commonly foolish, nevertheless it’s all in good enjoyable, and it’s good to see Ridley flex her motion chops after her crowd-pleasing work as Rey within the Star Wars sequels.
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‘Superman Returns’ (2006)
This summer time, the enduring DC Comics character Superman has been within the information for every kind of causes. Dean Cain, who starred because the Man of Metal on TV within the ‘90s, grew to become a real-life Lex Luthor, whereas one other reboot, aptly titled Superman, conquered the field workplace in July. A earlier redo, Superman Returns, has been all however forgotten about, and whereas it’s flawed, it’s an journey film that has its coronary heart in the precise place.
After leaving Earth 5 years in the past, Superman (Brandon Routh) returns to see what his Day by day Planet pals and one-time lover, Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth), are up to. To his shock, they’ve all moved on with out him, with Lois romantically connected to Richard (James Marsden) and mother to a five-year-old son, Jason (Tristan Lake Leabu). Much more worryingly, his previous nemesis, Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey), is up to no good, having stolen some Kryptonian crystals to develop land in the course of the ocean. However does the world want Superman to save them? Or, like Lois, are they seemingly higher off with out the enduring superhero?
Whereas Superman Returns is somewhat too lengthy at 154 minutes, it’s largely an entertaining comedian e book spectacle full of eye-popping set items, like Superman saving an area shuttle from crashing right into a baseball discipline. Routh is underrated as Clark Kent and Superman— he’s convincing as an ungainly reporter and a strong hero now not certain of his place in his adopted world. The film is a non secular sequel to Richard Donner’s earlier Superman films, and it largely earns its place alongside these classics by the point the ultimate credit roll.
Superman Returns is streaming on Max.
‘No one Walks’ (2012)
Martine (Olivia Thirlby) is a current school graduate drifting by means of life. Searching for a spot to full her artwork movie, she finally ends up staying at a wealthy household’s pool home in Silver Lake. However issues get sophisticated when Martine turns into shut to the daddy, Peter (John Krasinski), who’s drawn to her eccentricity. Will Martine’s presence break aside a household that, on the skin, has the whole lot? Or will she convey out the reality that Peter and his spouse, Julie (Rosemarie DeWitt), have lengthy denied to one another — and themselves?
No one Walks is a playful dramedy that treats intercourse and infidelity considerably critically. Martine is sufficiently old to wield her sexuality as a weapon, however nonetheless too younger to actually know the way it impacts her and people round her. Krasinski’s Peter ought to actually know higher, however nonetheless can’t assist himself be drawn to what Martine represents — a recent begin and a dream that may by no means come true. No one Walks isn’t excellent, nevertheless it’s an attention-grabbing examination of the ability of risk and the implications of giving in too simply to temptation.
