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Mar 5, 2021 / 04:33 PM EST In the mood for some entertainment? Ready to head to the movies? This weekend is the perfect time to do just that. The Film Yap’s Christopher Lloyd has a look at what’s playing: New in Theaters: Raya and the Last Dragon — The latest Disney animation tentpole has a young warrior trying to reunite the magic gem that holds the key to peace throughout the land with the help of a goofy dragon. Read more My Salinger Year — Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver shine in this true literary tale about an aspiring writer who gets a job working for J.D. Salinger’s a...

Opening in theaters this Friday is Disney's new animated movie Raya and the Last Dragon and more, including My Salinger

Find a flick with our guide to new and classic movies playing outdoors at L.A.-area drive-ins, pop-ups and rooftops.

Pandemic : 2½ COMING 2 AMERICA: There’s an unusually restrained Eddie Murphy in this one. You can watch this film with the family. The language and the jokes are tame. The moral is politically correct. Not what you’d expect from him, especially since he’s working again with Craig Brewer, who directed him in Dolemite Is My Name. That one was raunchy and funnier than this. The main draw here is hope that it might be as cheeky and entertaining as the original, which came out 33 years ago. It almost is, in a much milder way, and relies on a lot of references back to it. And several actors...

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON: 3 ½ STARS If you look on IMDb, there are dozens of titles containing the phrase “dragon slayer.” Movie dragons, by and large have been of the Smaug variety, a beast “The Hobbit” author J.R.R. Tolkien described as “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm.” There are exceptions of course, like the “How to Train Your Dragon” creatures and the wyvern in “The Reluctant Dragon” who would rather recite poetry than cause havoc. “You’ve got to be mad to breathe fire,” he says, “but I’m not mad at anybody.” This week we can add Sisu...