Judas and the Black Messiah, All the Boys 3 and 9 new movies to watch at home

The absence of new movies in theaters does not exclude the weekly rock of Hollywood. This week, the animation world was shocked by the announcement on Tuesday that Disney Blue Sky Studios, the $ 5.9 billion global proceeds of the former 20th Century Fox animation studio, will be known for such successes as the popular Ice Age series and Rio which the company acquired in 2019. Then there was Gina Carano’s pronounced expulsion from Disney Plus’ The Mandalorian in the wake of offensive and offensive comments on social media, or the announcement of Pedro Pascal and Game of Thrones‘Bella Ramsey’s cast as HBO stars The last of us series.

As the industry finds out, the public still has new movies to watch from Shaka King’s home Judas and the Black Messiah on HBO Max after the wide release of the premiere of Birds of prey director Cathy Yan’s debut in 2018 Dead pigs. Also Nicolas Cage who kills animatronic gophers. To help you go through all the options, here are the new movies you can watch on VOD this weekend.

Judas and The Black Messiah

Where to look: Stream on HBO Max

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Inspired by real events, Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah Daniel Kaluuya plays the role of Fred Hampton, the late chairman of the Black Panther and civil rights activist, and LaKeith Stanfield as his bodyguard (and FBI informant) William O’Neil. The film depicts the last months, days and moments of Hampton’s life, his tragic death and the important role O’Neil played in the plot to destroy him. With supporting performances by Dominique Fishback, Jesse Plemons, Ashton Sanders and Martin Sheen, King’s biography is surely one of the most discussed films of 2021. From our review,

It is impossible to tell the whole story of a revolutionary movement within two hours, and Judas and the Black Messiah of Shaka King try and fail. It discusses the Black Panther Party’s efforts to unite expropriated people and unite a overthrow of American capitalism and imperialism only in the broadest terms, while the BPP’s unlikely alliances, including with the Confederate flag-flying Young Patriots Organization, are only briefly portrayed word. King is less interested in the rise of the BPP than in the obsessive need of white America to destroy it, and makes a film that too often seems to spend unnecessary time with the same white oppressive BPP chairman Fred Hampton (Go out‘s Daniel Kaluuya) trying to divorce.

To all the boys: always and forever

Where to look: Stream on Netflix

Photo: Katie Yu / Netflix

The long-awaited final installment in the popular teen-rom-com movie series is new on Netflix this week. To all the boys: always and forever see the return of Lana Condor as Lara Jean Covey and Noah Centineo as her boyfriend Peter Kavinsky as two as they prepare for their final year of high school and the impending and uncertain future of adulthood. From our review:

Finally, the best thing that can be said about Forever and ever is that it is a beautiful collection of screenshots. The bright interior sets, such as Lara Jean’s room, her family home and the dining room she and Peter regularly visit, create an atmospheric evolution of the mundane, showing how even the everyday environments can look warm and beautiful in Lara Jean’s romantic eyes. The moments she has not only with Peter but also with her family and friends are equally tender. In this vein, these individual scenes almost come together to reflect on change at the end of the senior year.

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Where to look: Stream on Netflix

Photos: Cate Cameron / Lionsgate

Bridesmaids Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig reunite for the first time that it’s another crappy and even cult comedy in Josh Greenbaum Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar. Wiig and Mumolo star as the title Star and Barb, two lifelong friends who leave their Midwest hometown to vacation in the luxurious Vista Del Mar resort in Florida. From our review:

What Wiig and Mumolo deliver in 90 minutes can only be described as comic off-road driving. Whether it’s improvisation or the result of years in each other’s heads, the material radiates from the screen. The two actors chat in character about everything from raccoon sleep patterns to labia piercings and the high art of lounge singer Richard Cheese. And yet it is also all exactly; Mumolo knows exactly the right way to ‘Don Chee-adle?’ Mispronounce. and Wiig has the perfect wide-eyed look to fire back in line. When they hit the dance floor to watch a club remix of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”, the strange feelings flowed across the screen. They have created a film that is completely them, and everything from the design of the pastel production to the provocative camera work is on their strange wavelength.

Willy’s Wonderland

Where to look: Stream on Amazon, Apple, Vudu, Vimeo

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If you fancy more Nicolas Cage-led antics in the wake of the outbreak of psychedelic action-horror onslaught in 2018 Mandy of 2019’s Color outside space, Kevin Lewis’s action-horror comedy Willy’s Wonderland can just be your kind of crazy. Cage plays a mysterious caretaker at a family entertainment center who is locked up in a fight for survival against a group of murderous animal animatronic dolls.

The Wanting Mare

Where to look: Stream on Amazon, Apple, Vudu, Vimeo

Photo: Anmaere Pictures

Writer-director Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s debut The Wanting Mare is a visually captivating story set in an alternate world, similar to our own. The film takes place in the town of Whitren, a coastal town on the mysterious planet Anmaere where wild horses are captured annually to be sent to the winter town of Levithen, and follows a series of women who inherit and haunt through the dream of a long forgotten – and presumably better – past, though every attempt to escape the fatalistic seriousness of their hometown in the hope of pursuing a better life. From our review,

For much of the film’s 80 minutes and change, it looks like Terrence Malick from the later period. Characters’ conversations are cut into sparse, unfinished fragments. Simple progressions of images are often not completely linear. At one point, about halfway through, the story leaps a few decades forward without much warning. This is a movie about a massive horse export business that never shows more than one horse on screen. It is not surprising that the film was at one point produced by Shane Carruth, the filmmaker behind the similarly abstract Upstream Color. (Although Carruth promoted the move about a year ago, his name appears to have been removed from the credits, presumably in response to allegations of misuse that appeared in 2020.)

Dead pigs

Where to look: Stream on Mubi

Photo: Federico Cesca

Birds of prey director Cathy Yan made history last year as the first woman of Asian descent to win a major Hollywood superhero franchise title, or as we mentioned in our review, a messy, bone-breaking, heart-warming, inspiring good time . ‘Despite her rise in fame, Yan’s debut feature in 2018, Dead pigs, has only just been made accessible to Western audiences via Mubi. A dramatic exploration of conflict between generations in an intense status-driven society, and Yan’s film follows a collection of unparalleled characters, including a pig farmer, a busboy, a rich man, a girl and an architect, while their lives collapses and collides. as a stream of pig carcasses drift down the Yangtze River and get ever closer to Shanghai.

Sator

Where to look: Stream on Amazon, Apple, Vudu, Vimeo

Photo: Mystic Jade Films

Jordan Graham’s second horror feature Sator is a nature-bound horror thriller in the style of The Blair Witch Project of 2017’s It comes at night. Secluded in a deserted forest, a troubled family is preyed upon by a malicious god-like entity known only as ‘Sator’, whose trials are only perceptible by the writings and rumors of Nani, the sickly matriarch of the family played by the late June Peterson. If you’ve a heartbreaking horror with deft visual storytelling, Sator is an excellent choice.

Marvel’s Behind the Mask

Where to look: Stream on Disney Plus

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Aside from the fact that this is the most important way Disney distributes the company’s high profile, it likes WandaVision and The Mandolorian in the stream of popular culture, Disney Plus is rapidly growing into a platform built with the goal of deepening an understanding and appreciation for the history behind the stories of the company. As an example, Marvel’s Behind the Mask, a new documentary featuring the artists and writers behind some of the most iconic characters born out of Marvel’s 80s legacy, including Black Panther, Miles Morales, Mrs. Marvel, Luke Cage, the X-Men, Captain Marvel, and more.

Le Samourai (1967) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Where to look: Stream on Criterion Channel

Photo: Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique

Apart from the latest offerings of the week, take the time to sit back and watch Jean-Pierre Melville and Jim Jarmusch’s respective genre mash-ups, featuring stoic code-bound assassins and contemporary samurai mythology, apart from this week’s latest presentations. . Melville’s Le Samourai set the example for subsequent existential anti-hero films such as Luc Besson Léon: The professional person, John Woo’s The killer, and Sam Mendes’s Road to Perdition, and Jarmusch’s own Ghost Dog proves to be a worthy sequel to Melville’s film based on Forest Whitaker’s iconic performance and poor score thanks to the only RZA.

Saint maud

Where to look: Stream on Epix

Photo: A24

Writer-director Rose Glass’ debut Saint Maud is a creepy religious horror film and icy character study. Morfydd Clark plays the title Maud, a mental hospice nurse, who slowly but surely becomes obsessed with the soul of her dying patient Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), whether she wants to be saved or not. From our review:

By the most reasonable standards, Saint Maud is a good horror movie. It has a strong sense of character and mood. It is acted convincingly, both by Morfydd Clark as Maud, a private nurse who loses her to religious fanaticism, and Jennifer Ehle, as the patient Amanda van Maud, an atheist struggling with her terminal cancer diagnosis. His party swells with tension, and then drops silent again when necessary. Despite these strengths, however, it is sometimes frightening, inevitably known.