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'28 Weeks Later' – how not to stop a contagion on Disney+ and Hulu
28 Weeks Later (2007), the first sequel to Danny Boyle‘s ferocious zombie thriller 28 Days Later, takes us back to London six weeks after the virus has decimated the British Isles and ostensibly burned itself out. The American military (led by Jeremy Renner) patrols a Green Zone in London’s East End. The plan is to slowly clean up and repopulate the city with those lucky few Brits who escaped…
#28 Weeks Later#Alex Garland#Blu-ray#Catherine McCormack#Danny Boyle#Disney+#DVD#Harold Perrineau#Hulu#Idris Elba#Imogen Poots#Jeremy Renner#Juan Carlos Fresnadillo#Mackintosh Muggleton#Robert Carlyle#Rose Byrne#VOD
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'Antz' – a neurotic bug's life on Netflix
After Pixar turned the shiny new realm of computer animation into next frontier of blockbuster movie storytelling with Toy Story, it seems that every studio rushed to get in on the animation gold rush. DreamWorks launched its animation division with Antz (1998), a PG-rated comedy that turns the animation playground into theme park full of in-jokes for the grown-ups in the audience. Case in…
#1998#Anne Bancroft#Antz#Blu-ray#Chris Weitz#Christopher Walken#Dan Aykroyd#Danny Glover#DVD#Eric Darnell#Gene Hackman#Jane Curtin#Jennifer Lopez#John Mahoney#Netflix#Paul Weitz#PG#Sharon Stone#Sylvester Stallone#Tim Johnson#VOD#Woody Allen
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'Summer Stock' – Judy Garland and Gene Kelly put on a show on HBO Max
Judy Garland teams with Gene Kelly for the third and last time in Summer Stock (1950), an original show-biz musical comedy about city performers on a rural farm. Jane (Judy Garland) is a young woman running the family farm basically alone since the death of her parents. Her sardonic housekeeper Esme (Marjorie Main) pitches in but, after three bad crops in a row and mounting debt, their long-time…
#1950#Blu-ray#Charles Walters#DVD#Eddie Bracken#Gene Kelly#Gloria DeHaven#Hans Conried#HBO Max#Judy Garland#Marjorie Main#Phil Silvers#Ray Collins#Summer Stock#VOD
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'The Navigator' – Buster Keaton at sea on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy
Buster Keaton revisits his familiar persona of a spoiled society dandy thrown into a surreal world in The Navigator (1924). Young millionaire Rollo Treadway (the sap in the family tree, according to a title card) embarks on a long voyage to nurse his broken heart when his lady love (Kathryn McGuire) turns down his proposal of marriage. Of course he winds up on the wrong dock and boards a…
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Denzel Washington inspires 'The Great Debaters' on Paramount+
In The Great Debaters (2007), Denzel Washington takes on the true story of the champion debate team of all-black Texas university Wiley College that, in 1935, became the first black team to compete against white colleges (or, in the words of the film, the first Negro team to debate Anglo-Saxons). It’s Washington’s second film as a director and he also stars as team coach Melvin B. Tolson with…
#2007#Blu-ray#Denzel Washington#Denzel Whitaker#DVD#Forest Whitaker#Gina Ravera#Jermaine Williams#John Heard#Jurnee Smollett#Kimberly Elise#Melvin B. Tolson#Nate Parker#Paramount+#The Great Debaters#VOD#Wiley College
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'A Perfect Getaway' – killers in paradise on Max
David Twohy‘s A Perfect Getaway (2009) is a deft, deliciously entertaining piece of genre filmmaking. And no, that’s not a backhanded compliment. In a film culture where B-movie plots are routinely executed with budgets in excess of $100 million in place of intelligence and thrown into thousands of theaters, the well-tuned genre piece is an increasingly rare breed. A Perfect Getaway is a type of…
#2009#A Perfect Getaway#Blu-ray#Chris Hemsworth#David Twohy#DVD#Hawaii#HBO Max#Kauai#Kiele Sanchez#Marley Shelton#Milla Jovovich#Steve Zahn#Timothy Olyphant#VOD
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Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Dreamers' – lost in Paris on Criterion Channel
The title of Bernardo Bertolucci‘s The Dreamers (2003) encompasses many things. There is the love of cinema (dreams projected on a screen and shared by an audience in the mutually agreed upon night of the darkened theater) and the charged political possibilities of the invigorating May 1968 protests in Paris. But it may best describe how an odd little trio of idealistic students is all talk and…
#2003#Anna Chancellor#Bernardo Bertolucci#Criterion Channel#DVD#Eva Green#Gilbert Adair#Jean-Pierre Kalfon#Jean-Pierre Leaud#Jean-Pierre Léaud#Louis Garrel#Michael Pitt#Robin Renucci#VOD
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'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' – backstabbing to the top with a song on Prime Video
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), the big screen version of the Broadway musical, is a satire of big business, corporate culture, and sexism in the workplace with a very sixties perspective. Robert Morse stars as J. Pierpont Finch, an ambitious window washer who follows the advice of the titular self-help book to rise through the ranks of the World Wide Wicket Company.…
#1967#Amazon Prime Video#David Swift#DVD#Frank Loesser#How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying#Michelle Lee#Robert Morse#Rudy Vallee#VOD
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Werner Herzog's 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' – madman in the jungle on Cohen Media Channel and Metrograph
German filmmaker Werner Herzog found an international audience with Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Germany, 1972), an astounding vision of imperialism run amuck in the primitive, savage Eden of 15th century Peru. Klaus Kinski stars as Don Lope de Aguirre, a mad Spanish conquistador searching for the mythical city of gold El Dorado. Herzog shot the film entirely on location deep in the jungles of…
#1972#Aguirre the Wrath of God#Blu-ray#Cohen Media Channel#Del Negro#DVD#Fandor#Germany#Helena Rojo#Kanopy#Klaus Kinski#Metrograph#Peter Berling#Popol Vuh#Ruy Guerra#Thomas Mauch#VOD#Werner Herzog
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'Chicago' – murder with a little razzle dazzle on Paramount+
Life may be a cabaret, but you really have to put on a show to get away with murder in Chicago (2002). Bob Fosse’s exuberantly cynical Broadway musical, based on a 1926 play inspired by the real life media circus that fed on a pair of indicted murderesses, is set in the tawdry twenties of sex and sin and bathtub gin. Fosse died before he could bring his stage production, which he created with…
#2002#Bill Condon#Blu-ray#Bob Fosse#Catherine Zeta-Jones#Chicago#Christine Baranski#Colm Feore#Dominic West#DVD#Fred Ebb#Hoopla#John C. Reilly#John Kander#Lucy Liu#Paramount+#Queen Latifah#Renee Zellweger#Richard Gere#Rob Marshall#Taye Diggs#VOD
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'Sinners' – Ryan Coogler's dance with the devils on Max
To call Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners (2025) a vampire film is like calling Barbie a comedy about a girl’s fashion doll. Not inaccurate yet woefully inadequate. Set in 1932 in a small town in the Mississippi Delta, where Jim Crow laws and systemic racism has created a culture only marginally freer for most black folk than under slavery, it follows brothers Elijah and Elias Moore, known to all as Smoke…
#2025#Blu-ray#Buddy Guy#David Maldonado#Delroy Lindo#DVD#Hailee Steinfeld#Helena Hu#Jack O&039;Connell#Jayme Lawson#Lola Kirke#Max#Michael B. Jordan#Miles Caton#Omar Benson Miller#Peter Dreimanis#Ryan Coogler#Sam Malone#Saul Williams#Sinners#VOD#Wunmi Mosaku#Yao
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'The Devil's Disciple' – Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the American Revolution on Prime Video
Friends and frequent costars Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas reunited for their collaboration in The Devil’s Disciple (1959). Set during the American Revolution and adapted from the play by George Bernard Shaw, it’s an odd kind of American-British co-production: produced by Lancaster’s production company, directed by British filmmaker Guy Hamilton (who replaced Alexander Mackendrick), set in…
#1959#Alexander Mackendrick#Amazon Prime Video#Basil Sydney#Blu-ray#Burt Lancaster#DVD#Eva Le Gallienne#Guy Hamilton#Harry Andrews#Janette Scott#Kirk Douglas#Laurence Olivier#Mervyn John#The Devil&039;s Disciple#VOD
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'Va Savoir' – love on the run on Criterion Channel
All the world’s a stage in the world of Jacques Rivette, and his players are forever slipping in and out of character. Like a musical comedy without the music, Rivette’s delightful Va Savoir (France, 2001), a story of lovers who change partners and dance, has the crazy intertwining threads of performance and real life, romance and fancy, and wacky farce, played with easy real-time pace and loving…
#2001#Bruno Todeschini#Claude Berri#Criterion Channel#DVD#France#Hélène de Fougerolles#Jacques Bonnaffé#Jacques Rivette#Jeanne Balibar#Marianne Basler#Sergio Castellitto#Va Savoir#VOD
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'Vampire Hunter D' – the landmark anime on Shudder and HIDIVE
In Vampire Hunter D (Japan, 1985), a haunted half human/half vampire warrior wanders the countryside of a feudalistic future hunting his own kind while battling his own evil nature. Like a rogue samurai, the silent, solitary hero wanders into a small hamlet terrorized by the all-powerful Count, a monstrous, powerful vampire lord, and his demonic minions from a castle that casts a long shadow…
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Sean Connery executes 'The Great Train Robbery' on Prime Video and MGM+
Think of The Great Train Robbery (1979) as a 19th century heist movie. Sean Connery plays the gentleman thief who masterminds the heist and Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down are his partners in crime, a safecracker and pickpocket and a con artist, respectively. The scheme calls for four keys to a safe transporting gold bullion to be lifted and copied, each key a set piece in its own right,…
#1979#Amazon Prime Video#Blu-ray#Donald Sutherland#DVD#Lesley-Anne Down#MGM+#Michael Crichton#Sean Connery#The Great Train Robbery#VOD
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Coming Attractions: Streaming in July 2025
Notable shows Maggie Q plays LAPD detective Renée Ballard in “Ballard” (Prime Video, 7/9), a spinoff of “Bosch” based on the bestselling novels of Michael Connelly. Expect Titus Welliver to make an appearance as the now-retired Harry Bosch. A frustrated American single (Megan Statler) relocates to London to reinvent her life as a British romcom in “Too Much” (Netflix, 7/10) from producer Lena…
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Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window' – James Stewart watches the neighbors on Netflix
There are few true innocents in Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers and the filmmaker perversely chose James Stewart—forever remembered as Capra’s idealistic everyman despite a rich and varied career—to play his most morally ambivalent heroes in such films as Rope and Vertigo. In Rear Window (1954), easily their most popular collaboration, Stewart is L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries, a superstar photographer whose…
#1954#Alfred Hitchcock#Blu-ray#Cornell Woolrich#DVD#Grace Kelly#James Stewart#John Michael Hayes#Netflix#Raymond Burr#Rear Window#Robert Burks#Thelma Ritter#VOD#Wendell Corey
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