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\n Clockwise from top: Marty, Life Is Short; Rivals; Obsession; and Is God Is.
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Lady Gaga, crushes, Tom Cruise, and movie theaters \u2014 the through-line for this week is obsession. Some instances of the passionate emotion veer into more bloody endeavors with thrillers like Obsession and Lurker. Meanwhile, I\u2019m just healthily obsessed with Lady Gaga\u2019s new rendition of \u201cDie With a Smile<\/a>\u201d in Mayhem Requiem. Pick your new preoccupation this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Director Lawrence Kasdan and comedian Martin Short reunite to track back through the latter\u2019s life and career. The documentary features home-video footage and interviews from his frequent collaborators like Eugene Levy, Steven Spielberg, and the late Catherine O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n

This is an incredible show to watch as preparation for the moments your friends come to you to talk about their on-and-off situationships. Dr. Orna Guralnik shows in a matter of minutes why these real-life couples choose to come onto the show and flesh out their problems to the widest audience possible. In its fifth season, Couples Therapy still manages to be utterly fascinating, even through some of its sadder crops of couples.<\/p>\n

The directorial debut of Aleshea Harris, Is God Is is an odyssey between two sisters (Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) looking for revenge on their father (Sterling K. Brown) on behalf of their mother\/God (Vivica A. Fox). Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Mykelti Williamson, and Erika Alexander co-star.<\/p>\n

Finally, a horror movie about having a crush. Obsession follows a young guy, Bear (Michael Johnston), who, instead of just telling his crush Nikki (Inde Navarrette) he likes her, uses a \u201cOne Wish Willow\u201d toy to wish for her love. The initial euphoria quickly devolves into Nikki becoming increasingly violent and erratic.<\/p>\n

This show, based on the 1988 novel by Jilly Cooper, focuses on the drama at a TV station in England\u2019s Cotswolds region. David Tennant\u2019s Lord Baddingham and Alex Hassell\u2019s Rupert Campbell-Black hate each other, and Aidan Turner\u2019s journalist Declan O\u2019Hara ends up in the middle. The trio\u2019s scrap is set in a milieu of big \u201980s hair, relentless infidelity, dramatic horse races, and anything else you could want from a British melodrama. \u2014Roxana Hadadi\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem era<\/a> is coming to an end, and what a way to go out. Available on demand to Apple Music subscribers, Lady Gaga\u2019s intimate performance at the Wiltern in Los Angeles features a performance of her entire last album complete with rearrangements and interludes.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-five years ago, DreamWorks Animation launched its debut animated feature, Shrek, which went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The fantasy comedy twisted the types of fairy tales that Disney was known for with cruder and sillier humor and centered a grumpy ogre journeying to save a princess. DreamWorks is set to release its fourth sequel, starring Zendaya, sometime next year. While you wait, the OG is back on the big screen.<\/p>\n

\u27bd Plus, there\u2019s double the Tom Cruise this weekend, as both Top Gun films<\/a> fly back into theaters.<\/p>\n

Jon Bernthal is back as a veteran turned vigilante haunted by those he\u2019s lost and killed. This special again explores the trauma Frank Castle carries from his Marines stint and again includes lots of manly screaming. Will the people who misinterpret this character finally realize he was originally supposed to be an indictment of copaganda? \u2014R.H.<\/p>\n

If, in the far future, you could fight back against a tyrannical regime using a giant robot, wouldn\u2019t you do it? The latest film in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise is part spy thriller, part mecha-action smorgasbord. It totally rips, but make sure you\u2019ve seen the first film, Hathaway (it\u2019s on Netflix)<\/a> before you dive into Nymph Circe. \u2014Eric Vilas-Boas<\/p>\n

A thriller about the thin line between admiration and obsession, Th\u00e9odore Pellerin stars as a retail worker named Matthew who crosses paths with a young artist, Oliver (Archie Madekwe). The two bond, and Matthew gets increasingly attached to Oliver\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

\u27bd On VOD this week: the \u201cRyan Gosling and a sentient rock\u201d space drama Project Hail Mary<\/strong><\/a> and Steven Soderbergh\u2019s The Christophers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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