Marquee Pullman Debuts Marvel's Martial Arts Fairy Tale

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 - 00:02 by Tony Rutherford , HNN Entertainment Editor

Marquee Pullman Debuts Marvel's Martial Arts Fairy Tale

Here comes Marvel's newest would be tent pole adventure, Shangi Chi. It's the only new flick this week, except for Flashback Cinema which on Sunday begins the Lord of the Rings saga with Fellowship of the Ring at 2 and 5.

Superhero films don’t normally begin with a love story, let alone a lush, fairy-tale-like dive into its antagonist’s life. But Shang-Chi is no ordinary superhero film. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12), Marvel Studios’ latest—and first, after 24 movies, to feature a predominantly Asian cast—is not so much an origin story as it is a mythological saga of a family torn apart by immense power and loss. The film follows Wenwu and Jiang Li’s son, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), who runs away as a teenager after his mother’s death. He’s trying to live a normal life in San Francisco, working as a valet by day and singing karaoke by night, when his father catches up to him with a plan to bring him home.

Reviews have been favorable

Sometimes Shang-Chi is a straightforward martial-arts drama, all fistfights and meticulous choreography. Other times it’s a high-fantasy epic, full of stunning scenery and complex lore - The Atlantic

They'd be crazy not to give Meng'er Zhang, as Shang-Chi's ferociously watchable sister Xialing, her own spin-off, and Awkwafina, who spends at least a third of the movie in a fanny pack and lime-green parachute pants, polishes her sardonic slacker M.O. to a high one-liner shine. Entertainment Weekly

"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" conjures a slick addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one that owes less to the comics than most of its predecessors. The movie not only strikes a welcome blow for inclusion with its predominantly Asian cast, but deftly juggles epic world building with lighter comedy in a way that should appeal to audiences, depending on how many can be lured back to theaters at this moment. CNN

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Action/Adventure/SciFi/Fantasy
2 hr. 12 min.

CAST
Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Michelle Yeoh, Tim Roth, Dallas Liu, Benedict Wong, Florian Munteanu

DIRECTOR
Destin Daniel Cretton

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Horror
1 hr. 31 min.

CAST
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo

DIRECTOR
Nia DaCosta

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Horror/Suspense/Thriller
1 hr. 48 min.

CAST
Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit

DIRECTOR
David Bruckner

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PAW PATROL: THE MOVIEG

Animation
1 hr. 26 min.

CAST
Iain Armitage, Marsai Martin, Ron Pardo, Yara Shahidi, Kim Kardashian West, Randall Park, Dax Shepard

DIRECTOR
Cal Brunker

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Action/Adventure/Suspense/Thriller
1 hr. 49 min.

CAST
Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Patrick

DIRECTOR
Martin Campbell

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Action/Adventure/Suspense/Thriller/SciFi/Fantasy
1 hr. 56 min.

CAST
Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandie Newton, Cliff Curtis, Marina de Tavira, Daniel Wu, Mojean Aria, Brett Cullen, Natalie Martinez, Angela Sarafyan

DIRECTOR
Lisa Joy

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Horror/Suspense/Thriller
1 hr. 38 min.

CAST
Stephen Lang, Brendan Sexton III, Madelyn Grace

DIRECTOR
Rodo Sayagues

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FREE GUYPG-13

Action/Adventure, Comedy
1 hr. 55 min.

CAST
Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, Taika Waititi

DIRECTOR
Shawn Levy

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Drama/Musical
2 hr. 25 min.

CAST
Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Mary J. Blige, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgor, Tate Donovan

DIRECTOR
Liesl Tommy

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THE SUICIDE SQUADR

Action/Adventure/Comedy
2 hr. 12 min.

CAST
Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Jai Courtney, Viola Davis, Taika Waititi, Peter Capaldi, Storm Reid, Pete Davidson, David Dastmalchian

DIRECTOR
James Gunn

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Action/Adventure
2 hr. 22 min.

CAST
Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti, Veronica Falcón, Andy Nyman, Raphael Alejandro

DIRECTOR
Jaume Collet-Serra

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Tournament of Champions

ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONSPG-13

Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1 hr. 28 min.

CAST
Logan Miller, Isabelle Fuhrman, Thomas Cocquerel, Holland Roden, Carlito Olivero

DIRECTOR
Adam Robitel

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BLACK WIDOWPG-13

Action/Adventure, SciFi/Fantasy
2 hr. 14 min.

CAST
Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, William Hurt, O-T Fagbenle

DIRECTOR
Cate Shortland

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Action/Adventure
2 hr. 15 min.

CAST
Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren

DIRECTOR
Justin Lin

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGPG-13

Drama/Action/Adventure
2 hr. 58 min.

CAST
Elijah Wood, Liv Tyler, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin

DIRECTOR
Peter Jackson

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