Each week on Atom Insider, we’re giving you the heads up on the biggest and most talked about films arriving in theaters. This week finds a trilogy twenty years in the making coming to an end, and a few intriguing indie films hitting screens. 

The Unbreakable Sequel

In 2016, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s Split shocked audiences with the director’s trademark uncanny twist. The psychological serial killer thriller starring James McAvoy turned out to be a secret follow-up to Unbreakable, setting up a true sequel in the form of Glass, which unites McAvoy’s “Beast” with characters from the original 2000 “superhero realism” film, played by Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson (Glass himself).

Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlayne Woodard, Spencer Treat Clark, Luke Kirby, and Rob Yang round out the rest of the cast in what is proving to be a true test for Shyamalan at this point in his career. The “Eastrail 177 trilogy” will conclude as the only major release this weekend.

Jamie Lee Curtis And Tika Sumpter Unravel A Conspiracy

IFC Films’s An Acceptable Loss opens in select theaters and VOD on Friday. This new political thriller premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival in October from a script originally titled The Pages and stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Tika Sumpter as government insiders trying to expose a massive coverup. The indie film was written and directed by Joe Chappelle, who is better known for directing TV series like The Wire and Fringe.

It’s About Time

Screen Media Films will finally give Adult Life Skills a U.S. release this weekend. It originally premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, and despite great reviews and awards consideration, it’s just now hitting select theaters outside the UK, as well as VOD. This is the feature film debut of Rachel Tunnard, who also wrote the screenplay based on the short film Emotional Fusebox.

Adult Life Skills stars Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) as a near-30 woman who makes quirky videos in the isolation of her mother’s backyard shed, only to get forced out into the real world for the first time in years. The cast also includes Ozzy Myers, Edward Hogg, Brett Goldstein, Lorraine Ashbourne, Eileen Davies, and Alice Lowe.

Stay tuned next week for our box office recap of how these movies fared at the box office. To get tickets to these movies and more, head to the Atom Tickets homepage.

 

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