John Mulderig

On the run from a brutal loan shark, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), a hapless misfit, finds an opportunity to escape his pursuer by joining the crew of a space mission to a distant planet.

Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

Theology blends with politics, family tensions and derring-do in the generally well-crafted biblical drama “House of David.” Three hour-long episodes of the eight-part series, created by Jon Erwin, are currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

In 2012, Scottish professional diver Chris Lemons was temporarily stranded at the bottom of the North Sea with a rapidly dwindling supply of oxygen. Both before and after Lemons lost consciousness, two of his colleagues raced to save his life.

“The Monkey” (Neon), writer-director Osgood Perkins’ serio-comic adaptation of a 1980 short story by horror maven Stephen King, begins with the graphic disemboweling of a minor character and climaxes with the equally explicit decapitation of a major one by a flying bowling ball. ‘Nuff said?

Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

Capsule reviews of the 10 films contending for Best Picture. The Oscars ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2.