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THUNDER FORCE

Release date: April 9 Rotten Tomatoes score: 22%

Melissa McCarthy is an effortlessly hilarious comedian and an Oscar-nominated actress, and yet the comedies she makes with her husband, Ben Falcone, tend to be unbelievably terrible. Remember Tammy? Or Life of the Party? Or Superintelligence? No? Anyway, their latest, Thunder Force, continues the trend, a curiously flat superhero farce that’s about as funny as a Thanos snap. It’s set in an alternate universe wherein genetically altered supervillains known as Miscreants are wreaking havoc in all the world’s cities, and McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are childhood friends who are injected with super-serum and become a crimefighting duo. The movie has some surreal touches (like Jason Bateman as a mutant with crab arms) that suggest a weirder, more esoteric movie, but it mostly consists of McCarthy desperately mugging and Spencer looking lost and confused.

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A college-aged musician on a semester abroad in Ireland has a meet-cute with a fresh-faced movie star, and an unlikely romance blossoms. (NW) Rated PG SPIRAL

The new chapter in the Saw franchise stars Chris Rock as a cop investigating a series of murders that follow the same M.O. as the crafty serial killer Jigsaw. (NW) Rated R

PROFILE

Shot entirely on computer screens, this film follows an investigative journalist who creates a fake social media persona to ensnare some ISIS recruiters. (NW) Rated R THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD

From director Taylor Sheridan, a ticking-clock thriller about a teenage murder witness running from men who want him dead, if a raging forest fire doesn’t get them all first. (NW) Rated R TOP GUN

Wanna head back to the danger zone? 1986’s highest grossing film zooms back onto Dolby screens in anticipation of November’s long-awaited sequel. (NW) Rated PG

US KIDS

A documentary that examines how students became activists in the aftermath of the 2018 shooting at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated

CHAOS WALKING

Based on a series of YA sci-fi novels, two teenage misfits (Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley) find each other on a telepathic, mostly male planet on the brink of civil war. (NW) Rated PG-13

DEMON SLAYER THE MOVIE: MUGEN TRAIN

A feature-length follow-up to the popular anime series, which has already broken box-office records in its native Japan. (NW) Rated R

FATIMA

In 1917 Portugal, children who reported having visions of the Virgin Mary inspire furor and fervency in their small shepherding village. (NW) Rated PG-13

GODZILLA VS. KONG

Like Batman and Superman before them, cinema’s most famous giant ape and radioactive lizard duke it out while the world watches. Also streaming on HBO Max. (NW) Rated PG-13

HERE TODAY

Billy Crystal directs himself as a comedy veteran who strikes up an unorthodox friendship with an aspiring singer played by Tiffany Haddish. (NW) Rated PG-13 story of Korean immigrants who settle onto a rural Arkansas farm in the early ’80s. (NW) Rated PG-13

MORTAL KOMBAT

The popular video game returns to the big screen, in properly gory fashion this time, with all your favorite characters delivering one fatality after another. Also streaming on HBO Max. (NW) Rated R

NOBODY

A new riff on the Death Wish formula, starring Bob Odenkirk as a meek suburban father who goes into full-on revenge mode after his family is attacked. (NW) Rated R

THE PAPER TIGERS

Comic kung-fu action abounds in this tale of three aging fighters who put aside their personal lives to avenge the murder of their former master. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

RAYA & THE LAST DRAGON

The latest Disney animated feature, a multicultural fable that follows a teenage warrior’s hunt for the titular creature. Also streaming on Disney+. (NW) Rated PG

SEPARATION

can see. (NW) Rated R

STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET

A charming documentary about the creation of the groundbreaking children’s TV series. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG

TOGETHER TOGETHER

A single man with baby fever develops an unusual friendship with the young woman who agrees to be his surrogate mother. Ed Helms and Patti Harrison star. (NW) Rated R

THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS

This eccentric documentary follows a group of Italian octogenarians (and their dogs) who spend their days searching for an elusive white truffle. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13

WOLFWALKERS

This Oscar-nominated animated feature is a family-friendly Irish folktale about two girls — one a hunter, the other a lycanthropic forest dweller. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG

WRATH OF MAN

The latest thriller from Guy Ritchie stars Jason Statham as a shadowy figure who becomes the guard of an armored truck. Expect explosive action and plenty of F-bombs. (NW) Rated R n

NEW RELEASE Still in Stride

Myles Kennedy’s time in lockdown inspired a new album, The Ides of March, with an expansive view of humanity

It takes all of about five seconds of listening to the first track on Myles Kennedy’s new album to recognize it’s going to be a significantly different listen than his 2018 solo debut, The Year of the Tiger.

While that album was a largely acoustic affair — albeit an often rocking acoustic affair — “Get Along” opens Kennedy’s new release The Ides of March with a scorching burst of lead guitar from the Spokane native probably best known for his vocal skills fronting both Alter Bridge and Slash and the Conspirators. And those fiery guitar parts rarely let up over the course of the album’s 11 songs, even as Kennedy’s writing delves into an array of genres, touching on gutbucket blues, ear candy pop-rock, even something approaching progrock in the sprawling, nearly eight-minute title track.

Making a serious guitar album was definitely on Kennedy’s mind even before he went to work on The Ides of March.

“It kind of started about three or four years ago. I rekindled my love affair with playing lead guitar,” Kennedy tells the Inlander. “I started as more of a lead player when I was younger, that was my focus. I never intended to be a singer. It’s so strange how it all played out.

“The challenge with this record is to kind of have a bit of a balance. I didn’t want this record to be a full-on riff-rock record the entire thing. I wanted there to be some sonic hallmarks from the first solo record, and find a way to integrate that into album No. 2 and allow me the opportunity to play more lead guitar.”

The Ides of March, hitting stores Friday, might not even exist if it weren’t for the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kennedy was in the midst of touring for Alter Bridge’s most recent album, Walk the Sky, when the pandemic hit, forcing the band to cancel tours of Asia and South America and sending Kennedy packing for home in Spokane. ...continued on next page

BY DAN NAILEN

Myles Kennedy spent some serious quality time in Spokane during the

pandemic. CHUCK BRUECKMANN PHOTO