What to watch this weekend: ‘Mother of the Bride’, ‘The Iron Claw’

Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White starring in the family wrestling dynasty in The Iron Claw and Brooke Shields playing the unwitting title role in the romantic comedy Mother of the Bride on Netflix are some of the new television, movies, music and games is now on a device near you. Here are some movies to consider watching this weekend.

1. The Iron Claw

Whether or not you know anything about the tragedies that befell the Von Erich family wrestling dynasty, The Iron Claw is well worth a watch. Zac Efron stars as one of the brothers, Kevin, in an ensemble cast that includes Harris Dickinson and Jeremy Allen White as his brothers, Lily James as his wife, and Holt McCallany and Maura Tierney as his parents. In her AP review, Jocelyn Noveck wrote that “Efron, with his rock-hard physique and ‘70s mullet, turns in some of the most affecting work of his career. White, too, is excellent if more inscrutable as Kerry, initially the golden boy until his own brush with disaster sends him into a downward spiral.”

2. Mother of the Bride

Brooke Shields is the titular mother of the bride in a new romantic comedy recently released on Netflix. The conceit here is that her daughter (Miranda Cosgrove) is getting married and she doesn’t find out until she arrives at the island resort where it’s happening that the groom is the son of the guy who broke her heart in college, played by Benjamin Bratt. Mother of the Bride was directed by Mark Waters (“ Mean Girls and Just Like Heaven).

3. Eileen

The Idea of You is good fun and Anne Hathaway looks incredible in it, but it’s on the lighter side. If you want to continue a Hatha-thon with something dark and moody, look no further than William Oldroyd’s Eileen, now on Hulu. Hathaway is otherworldly as the glamourous, martini-swilling Rebecca Saint John, an endlessly quotable Hitchcock blonde with a doctorate from Harvard, in this stylish adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel. She becomes an object of fascination for Thomasin McKenzie’s mousy Eileen when she glides into the dreary juvenile detention centre where they both work one winter, in Massachusetts 1964. The deranged, noir cousin to The Idea of You, there is also some flirting and dancing and drinking in Eileen, but with a shocking twist looming.

AP