(L-R) Bassist Flea, singer and songwriter Anthony Kiedis, guitarist Hillel Slovak (1962-1988) and drummer Cliff Martinez, of the American rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers, pose for a group portrait on January 4, 1984 at The Stone in San Francisco, California.
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Here are the major films opening in theaters or on streaming this week.
Body swap comedy from 2004 starring Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo and Judy Greer. A 13-year-old gets her wish and wakes up as a 30-year-old woman.
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Rated PG-13. Screens 7 p.m. Friday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Richard Lester’s classic 1964 film starring The Beatles.
Rated G. Screens 7 p.m. Saturday at the Diana Garden Tent at Bayou Bend; see mfah.org/events/filmsfor more information.
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Malayalam-language action-comedy from India set in two parallel timelines.
Unrated. Opens Friday at AMC Gulf Pointe 30, Houston; AMC Loews Fountains 18, Stafford; Cinemark Missouri City; AMC First Colony 24, Sugar Land; AMC Katy Mills 20, Katy.
Urdu-language comedy from Pakistan about a working-class husband and wife who turn to petty crime to make ends meet.
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Unrated. Opens Friday at Regal Greenway Grand Palace 24, AMC Katy Mills 20, Katy; AMC First Colony 24, Sugar Land; AMC Gulf Pointe, 30, Houston
Arabic-language comedy from Egypt.
Unrated. Opens Friday at Regal Greenway Grand Palace 24, Houston; AMC Gulf Pointe 30, Houston.
‘Come Closer’ (Karov El’ai)
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Israel’s 2025 Oscar entry is a teen drama about a girl who discovers her late brother’s secret girlfriend and strikes up a relationship.
Unrated. Screens 7 p.m. March 26 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Horror film in which a group of explorers enter an abandoned hotel and discover a supernatural being.
Rated R. Opens Friday at America Cinemas, Houston.
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‘Food Truck: Stolen Love…and Moo Deng’
Thai and English-language romantic comedy from Thailand.
Unrated. Opens Friday at AMC Loews Fountains 18, Stafford; AMC Willowbrook 24, Houston.
“The Napa Boys,” a gross-out Wine Country comedy that made festival audiences walk out, has landed U.S. distribution with Magnolia Pictures.
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A raunchy, indie comedy set in California’s Wine Country.
Unrated. Opens Friday at the River Oaks Theatre, Houston.
This French-language drama from France, about an early-1960s mom raising a son with a physical disability, was nominated for two Cesar Awards (France’s Academy Awards) this year.
Unrated. Screens at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Nick Offerman and Amy Sedaris are among the voice cast in this animated children’s film about two aquatic misfits. Based on the hit children’s book by Deborah Diessen.
Horror-thriller in which several ballerinas find themselves dancing with danger after their bus breaks down on the road and they seek refuge in a strange hotel.
Rated R. Begins streaming March 25 on Prime.
Ryan Gosling in ‘Project Hail Mary’
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This heavily anticipated science-fiction/thriller from directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (“The Lego Movie,” “22 Jump Street”) stars Ryan Gosling as a science teacher who finds himself on a space mission.
Rated PG-13. Opens Friday throughout Houston.
Classic 1929 silent film starring Gloria Swanson and co-directed by Erich von Stroheim.
Unrated. Screens 7 p.m. Saturday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Samara Weaving in a scene from “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.” (Pief Weyman/Searchlight Pictures via AP)
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‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’
The sequel to the 2019 thriller now finds our sister heroines on the run from four families who want to kill them for sport. Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Elijah Wood and Sarah Michelle Gellar star.
Rated R. Opens Friday throughout Houston.
‘The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel’
Documentary charts the early days of the RHCP in Los Angeles when the late Hillel Slovak was the guitarist.
Rated R. Begins streaming Friday on Netflix.
Rose Byrne, fresh off her Oscar nomination, stars in this docu-drama about a homeless woman who fought a tow company after receiving a bill for more than $20,000.
Rated R. Opens Friday at Regal Greenway Grand Palace 24, Houston; AMC Gulf Pointe 30, Houston; AMC Willowbrook 24, Houston; AMC First Colony 24, Sugar Land.
Telegu-language action-comedy from India about a tribal boy who grows into a man who tackles injustice.
Unrated. Opens Friday throughout Houston.
‘Vampires of the Velvet Lounge’
Imagine a world where a dating app exists for vampires and vampire hunters. That’s the world of this horror-comedy starring Mena Suvari and Dichen Lachman.
Rated R. Opens Friday at AMC Gulf Pointe 30, Houston; AMC Willowbrook 24, Houston; AMC Deerbrook, Humble; AMC First Colony 24, Sugar Land; AMC Katy Mills 20, Katy
