Oscar season may be over, but movie season never ends.
This week is relatively thin on new releases available to watch at home, but there are still plenty of options to watch on the various streaming services. There are three new Netflix releases: a documentary about Pornhub, a French revenge thriller, and an animated adventure: an Oscar-nominated film coming to Prime Video, an Oscar-winning film at a discounted rental price, and much more.
Probably the big highlight cocaine bearthe meme that could, which makes its VOD debut this week at the end of its theatrical run.
Let’s get into the options.
New on Netflix
in his shadow
Where to look: Available to stream on netflix
Image: Netflix
Gender: crime drama
execution time: 1h 29m
Director: marc fouchard
Cast: Kaaris, Alassane Diong, Carl Malapa
This French drama has a certain resemblance to Athensone of the best movies of 2022 and the best Netflix original release of the year. in his shadowlike Athens, sees brothers face off on opposite sides of a violent conflict. This time, it happens after the death of his father. Will he be able to match AthensThe kinetic rhythm and explosive tension? You’ll have to check it out for yourself to find out (but please see Athens)!
The Wizard’s Elephant
Where to look: Available to stream on netflix
Image: Netflix
Gender: fantasy adventure
execution time: 1h 39m
Director: Wendy Rogers
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Brian Tyree Henry, Natasia Demetriou
Based on the 2009 novel by Kate DiCamillo, this animated adventure follows a boy searching for his missing sister and the tasks he must complete (and the elephant he must follow) to find her.
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Where to look: Available to stream on netflix
Image: Netflix
Gender: Documentary film
execution time: 1h 34m
Director: Susan Hillinger
Cast: Asa Akira, Siri Dahl, Cherie DeVille
Pornhub: You know what it is; I know what it is. Let’s not pretend we don’t good right there in the name, and choosing to be adults about it instead of a bunch of reptilian-brained teenagers who can’t even look at someone they find attractive without turning into the hissing cartoon wolf of Hot Red HoodMust?
This documentary by filmmaker Suzanne Hillinger (fully under control) traces the rise of the eponymous adult entertainment platform and the recent controversy and allegations of abuse that have dogged the site and its community.
From our review:
It’s basically an exercise in getting the hot vote out, trying to persuade people who enjoy pornography to give their political support to people who do. There is excitement with a side of radicalization. And if any teenagers whose parents have installed parental controls on their computers watch this documentary late at night with the volume turned down, they will learn more about workers taking over the means of production than about sex, which is far more dangerous to them. the powers that be than any bare chest or ass.
New to Prime
Mrs. Harris is going to Paris
Where to look: Available to view on Main
Photo: Liam Daniel/Ada Films
Gender: Comedy
execution time: 1h 55m
Director: Antonio Fabiano
Cast: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson
The third Oscar-nominated (Best Costume Design) adaptation of the 1958 novel stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert and Lambert Wilson. Manville is Mrs. Harris, a cleaner and widow who receives a long-overdue payment for her husband’s death in World War II. She decides to use it to adventure in Paris, paying special attention to Dior dresses, one of her fascinations. After a few months on Peacock, the film has now been moved to Prime Video.
New on Hulu
Boston strangler
Where to look: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Hulu
Gender: historical police drama
execution time: 1 hour 52 minutes
Director: Matt Ruskin
Cast: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper
Based on a true story, Boston strangler follows two female reporters who connect the dots others can’t about an ongoing serial killer case, all while battling misogyny in both American culture and in their workplace.
New on HBO Max
All the beauty and the bloodshed
Where to look: Available to stream on HBO Max
Image: Nan Goldin
Gender: Documentary film
execution time: 2h 2m
Director: Laura Poitras
Cast: Nan Goldin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Megan Kapler
Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated documentary explores the life of Nan Goldin, an American photographer and activist who led a campaign against the Sackler family, a pharmaceutical dynasty widely cited as one of the main architects behind the opioid crisis.
New to Shudder
go away
Where to look: Available to stream on Shudder
Image: AMC
Gender: Terror
execution time: 1 hour 46 minutes
Director: Alex Herron
Cast: Alicia von Rittberg, Herman Tømmeraas, Stig R. Amdam
This horror film by Norwegian music film director Alex Herron opens with a police officer discovering a baby abandoned in a cemetery, wrapped in a shawl decorated with five-pointed stars and an upside-down cross hanging from its neck. Twenty years later, the girl, a young woman named Hunter (Alicia von Rittberg), follows a lead to Norway in search of her birth parents. What he finds instead is horror beyond anything he had ever imagined.
New on VOD
cocaine bear
Where to look: Available to rent for $19.99 on Amazon, Manzanay voodoo
Image: Universal Pictures
Gender: horror comedy
execution time: 1h 35m
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr.
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the whale
Where to look: Available to rent for $5.99 at Amazon, Apple; $4.99 at Voodoo
Photo: Niko Tavernise/A24
Gender: Drama
execution time: 1 hour 57 minutes
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins
Recently minted as an Oscar winner (Brendan Fraser for Best Actor; Best Makeup and Hairstyling), the whale now available for a reduced rental price.
From our review:
In the whale, Aronofsky frames his sadism as a thought experiment, challenging viewers to find the humanity buried beneath Charlie’s thick layers of fat. That’s not as benign a premise as he seems to think. It stems from the assumption that a 600-pound man is inherently unpleasant. It’s like walking up to a stranger on the street and saying, “You’re an abomination, but I love you anyway,” in keeping with the strong strain of complacent Christianity the film aims to criticize. Audiences walk away proud of themselves for shedding a few tears over this hideous whale, without gaining a new understanding of what it’s really like to be that whale. That is not empathy. That’s a pity, buried under a thick, suffocating layer of contempt.
A man named Otto
Where to look: Available to rent for $5.99 on Amazon, Manzanay voodoo
Image: Niko Tavernise/Columbia Pictures
Gender: dramaturgy
execution time: 2h 6m
Director: marc forster
Cast: Tom Hanks, Mariana Trevino, Rachel Keller
Tom Hanks plays against type in this comedy-drama adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s 2012 Swedish novel. A man named Ove as a grumpy and lonely widower who, against his own reclusive nature, inadvertently strikes up a friendship with his new next-door neighbor and his son. Fair warning: this sitcom features a lot of jokes about suicide attempts.
Annoying
Where to look: Available to rent for $6.99 on Amazon, Manzanay voodoo
Image: Well Go USA Entertainment
Gender: popular terror
execution time: 1h 44m
Director: Jon Wright
Cast: Hannah John-KamenDouglas Booth Colm Meaney
A home invasion film inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Annoying follows a married couple who move from London to rural Ireland, only to be terrorized by murderous redcaps, goblins of British folklore.