SoCal new movies, Feb. 7-14: ‘How to Have Sex,’ ‘Disco Boy,’ ‘Perfect Days’ and more
Major new releases, indie flicks, foreign films and art-house fare
Welcome to the latest edition of TV or Not TV’s curated guide to new and current releases screening in LA and OC this week. I’m Matt Cooper, former listings coordinator for the Los Angeles Times’ Calendar.
Lights, camera and … action!
Opening
• Starts Thursday, Feb. 8
‘You Can’t Stay Here’ A voyeur with a video camera witnesses the murder of two gay men in Central Park in Todd Verow’s 2023 thriller set in 1990s NYC. With Guillermo Diaz. 104 mins. Not rated. laemmle.com
• Starts Friday, Feb. 9
‘Cobweb’ A 1970s filmmaker encounters resistance when he tries to re-shoot the ending of his otherwise completed movie in Jee-woon Kim’s 2023 dark comedy. In Korean with English subtitles. 135 mins. Not rated. laemmle.com
‘Disco Boy’ A newly enlisted member of the French Foreign Legion comes into conflict with a young freedom fighter in Niger in this 2023 drama directed by Giacomo Abbruzzese. In French, Igbo, Polish and English. 92 mins. Not Rated. laemmle.com
‘Double Blind’ Test subjects take part in an experimental trial on a new drug with potentially lethal side effects in this 2023 horror thriller directed by Ian Hunt-Duffy. With Millie Brady, Akshay Kumar. 90 mins. Not Rated. laemmle.com
‘Float’ A young woman falls for the small-town lifeguard who came to her rescue in Sherren Lee’s 2023 romantic drama based on the novel by Kate Marchant. With Andrea Bang, Robbie Amell. 100 mins. Rated PG-13. Various theaters
‘How to Have Sex’ Three teenage girls from Britain cut loose while vacationing on Crete in writer-director Molly Manning Walker’s award-winning 2023 coming-of-age tale that made a splash at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. With Anna Antoniades, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake. 91 mins. Not rated. drafthouse.com, laemmle.com
‘Last Party’ Four recent high school grads may not have much of a future ahead of them after all in this 2024 mystery drama directed by Nicolas Dozol. 70 mins. Not rated. laemmle.com
‘Lisa Frankenstein’ A quirky teen falls for the re-animated corpse of a long-deceased hunk in his 2024 horror comedy written by Diablo Cody and directed by Zelda Williams. With Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Carla Gugino. 101 mins. Rated PG-13. Various theaters
‘Lola’ A teen growing up in an unstable household seeks a way out for herself and her kid brother in writer-director-star Nicola Peltz Beckham’s 2024 indie drama. 84 mins. Not rated. laemmle.com
‘Love... Reconsidered’ A 30-something New York gal (Sophie von Haselberg) finds herself in the Hamptons in this 2024 rom-com. Carol Ray Hartsell directs. 87 mins. Not rated. laemmle.com
‘Molli and Max in the Future’ Zosia Mamet and Aristotle Athari star in writer-director Michael Lukk Litwak’s 2023 sci-fi rom-com. 93mins. Not rated. laemmle.com
‘Out of Darkness’ A mysterious entity menaces a band of prehistoric humans trekking across a forbidding landscape in this 2022 horror thriller directed by Andrew Cumming. With Chuku Modu. 87 mins. Rated R. Various theaters
‘Perfect Days’ A humble janitor living the simple life in Japan has a series of illuminating encounters in this 2023 fable directed by Wim Wenders. In Japanese and English with English subtitles. 123 mins. Rated PG. Various theaters
‘Popular Theory’ Two nerdy teens devise a way to shake up the high school social order in this 2023 comedy directed by Ali Scher. With Sophia Reid-Gantzert, Lincoln Lambert, Cheryl Hines. 88 mins. Rated PG. Various theaters
‘Sex-Positive’ An adventurous young woman investigates the ins and out of human sexuality while spending time with a group of polyamorists in Peter Woodward’s raunchy 2023 comedy. With Katherine Ellis. 85 mins. Not rated. lumierecinemala.com
‘Skin Deep’ A young couple swap bodies with another couple at a relationship retreat on a remote island in this writer-director Alex Schaad’s 2022 fantasy drama. With Mala Emde. In German with English subtitles. 103 mins. Not Rated. laemmle.com
‘Willie and Me’ An unhappy hausfrau (writer-director-star Eva Haßmann) chases her dream of seeing country music’s Willie Nelson in concert in this 2023 comedy. With Willie Nelson and the late Peter Bogdanovich. 87 mins. Not Rated. lumierecinemala.com
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