The list of new subscription movies and on digital rental platforms includes action, classic rock, drama, romance and award-winning productions. Check out the 10 most attention-grabbing releases of the week’s previews below.
| LOU | NETFLIX
The old-fashioned action thriller is reminiscent of productions starring the famous generation of strongmen of the 1980s. Only in 2022 the veteran hero, fearless and tough is a woman: Allison Janney (Oscar winner for “I, Tonya”). The result is the same, fun as before.
Directed by Anna Foerster (“Underworld: Blood Wars”), the film also features Jurnee Smollett (“Lovecraft Country”) as a desperate mother who seeks help from her lonely and mysterious neighbor (Janney) after her daughter is kidnapped. in an isolated place. where they live.
The two embark on a dangerous and violent rescue journey as they try to keep their secrets, including the neighbor’s impressive ability to complete the mission and the real reason for the kidnapping.
| THE TAILOR | VOD *
Oscar winner for “Bridge of Spies” (2015), Mark Rylance plays the title English tailor, who worked creating unique suits in London’s famous Savile Row, until a personal tragedy takes him to Chicago, managing a small tailor shop in the worst part of town. There he makes fashionable clothes for the only people in the area who can afford them: the gangsters. Criticized by his daughter for not caring about who his clients are, he has a rough awakening when his tailor shop is overrun by dangerous criminals, one of them shoots and looks for someone to “sew” him in the midst of a bloody fight to the power.
The first feature film directed by Graham Moore, Oscar-winning screenwriter for “The Imitation Game”, the thriller also stars Zoey Deutch (“Influencer of Lies”), Johnny Flynn (“Stardust”) and Dylan O’Brien (“Love and Monsters “”). Has an approval rating of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
| THE CHEF | VOD *
Highly praised and electrifying, the British production stars Stephen Graham (“Venom: Time for Carnage”) as a chef struggling with pressure from critics and employees, a lack of ingredients and unexpected visitors on a chaotic night, looking for to keep control of his restaurant. . All shot in sequence by director Philip Barantini (“Villain”), in the style of the war film “1917”, the work was nominated for four BAFTAs (the British Oscar) and garnered an impressive 99% critical approval. on Rotten Tomatoes.
| ATHENA | NETFLIX
Awarded at the Venice Film Festival, the ultraviolent film features a pitched battle between the inhabitants of a French suburb, called Athena, and police storm troops, after the accidental death of a child sparked a popular uprising.
Visually impressive, the film is an extension of the clips from director Roman Gavras, who had already dealt with suburban tension in the electronic duo Justice’s “Stress” clip, and showed off his strong aesthetic refinement in Jamie’s “Gosh”. XX. For his feature film, the son of famous political director Costa-Gavras (“Z”, “State of Siege”, “The Disappeared”) collaborated with Malian Ladj Ly, author of the screenplay for “Athena”, which won a shelf of awards for his first feature film, “Les Miserables” (2019) – also on the conflict between police and suburban children. Crappy option.
| THE JAZZ MAN | NETFLIX
The vintage melodrama written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry (“A Family Funeral”) tells the forbidden love story of Bayou and Leanne (played by newcomers Joshua Boone and Solea Pfeiffer), two young lovers separated from each other. mother in the name of an arranged marriage with a rich white man. But he will never forget her, and the storyline spans 40 years of secrets and lies, massive family drama and the incredible blues of the Southeastern United States.
The film is a period telenovela, featuring music arranged and produced by Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated Terence Blanchard (“BlacKkKlansman”) and choreography by legendary Debbie Allen (“Fame”).
| TO OUR CHILDREN | VOD *
The film directed by the Portuguese Maria Medeiros (actress of “Pulp Fiction”) adapts the show by Laura Castro about a former political prisoner (Marieta Severo) who decides to divorce (from José de Abreu) and does not accept her wish. lesbian daughter (the same Laura Castro) to have a child with his wife. The news of the pregnancy generates an intense confrontation, in which mother and daughter completely disagree in their views on the family. At the same time, there is a counterpoint with sick children awaiting adoption. The screenplay was awarded at the LGBTQIA + Film Festival in Milan.
| UNCLE CANNIBAL | VOD *
Bloody horror rock trash follows a punk band about to embark on their first tour. Since they don’t have a car, they accept the offer of a rocker and good-natured redneck, who not only offers his van for the ride, but ends up joining them as a roadie. The only problem is that the good old man is also a cannibal. If he doesn’t take the medicine before midnight, he becomes a walking nightmare. The indie terrir is written and directed by Matthew John Lawrence – who won multiple awards for his horror shorts on the fantastic film festival circuit – and wowed critics who specialize in the genre – got 100% approval on Rotten Tomatoes, but only with horror blog reviews.
| FLAG DAY | VOD *
The new film directed by and starring Sean Penn (“The Genius and the Mad”) is a family production, in which he directs and stars with his grown children, Dylan and Hopper Penn, the fruit of his marriage to Robin Wright (from “House of Cards “). At 28, Dylan (who was an extra on “Elvis & Nixon”) has the biggest highlight of his career as the protagonist of the plot, a daughter struggling to overcome the loving but dark legacy of her father, a wanted con man. by the police – and played by Sean Penn himself.
The cast also included Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame’s Thanos) and Katheryn Winnick (Lagertha of Vikings), among others. But the drama didn’t exalt it, only getting a 40% critical approval score. It’s still an advance from Penn’s previous behind-the-scenes work, “The Last Frontier” (2016), which rated a measly 8%.
| SIDNEY | APPLE TV +
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The documentary extols the legacy and story of the first black actor to win an Oscar, who has always avoided Hollywood’s racist clichés and never played a submissive character. Produced by host Oprah Winfrey, the film intersperses historical images with testimonies of several black stars, such as Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Spike Lee and Morgan Freeman, excited when it comes to the idol, as well as Poitier himself, in a conversation recorded at short before his death, in January of this year.
With a career full of outstanding roles, the trajectory of the poor Bahamian immigrant-turned-Hollywood star is intertwined with the civil rights struggle in the United States. The racial struggle is present in his filmography since his first role, in “Odio é Cego” (1950), as a black doctor who needs to treat two racist brothers. And his most remembered films give lessons on the subject, all released in 1967: “Guess who’s coming to dinner”, in which lived the boyfriend of the supposedly liberal white daughter, “Ao Mestre, com Carinho”, in the role of a teacher who earns the respect of rebellious white teens in London; and “In the Heat of the Night,” in which he plays police detective Virgil Tibbs, who investigates a murder in a racist region of the southern United States. This film went down in history for showing him slapping a racist. It was the first time that a black man slapped a racist white in the cinema.
Moreover, at the peak of his popularity, he even decided to become a director, directing eight films between 1972 and 1990. One of the most symbolic, “Burning December” (1973), was motivated by the simple desire to live a love story with a black woman on the screens, which she had never done in her long and prestigious career, because, until then, Hollywood was not interested in showing love stories between black couples.
| TRAVELIN ‘BAND: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL | NETFLIX
The legendary 1970 performance of the Creedence Clearwater Revival at London’s Royal Albert Hall materializes for the first time in an exquisite documentary, showing the band led by John Fogerty at the height of their careers. Directed by Bob Smeaton (from the miniseries “The Beatles Anthology”), the film combines live performances of classics like “Fortunate Son”, “Proud Mary” and “Bad Moon Rising” with behind-the-scenes interviews and a brief history of the band. , with a wide variety of unpublished images.
The streaming release marks the only footage from CCR’s original lineup to be made available in full to fans. The shows in England took place on April 14 and 15, 1970 – just days after the announcement of the breakup of the Beatles – and were part of the quartet’s first European tour, which included stops in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Denmark. The group was simply in their prime, hailing from Woodstock and having five US Top 10 singles the year before.
But the most significant detail is that the Albert Hall show has become known to fans of the band for having given rise to one of the greatest misunderstandings in rock history.
In 1980, the CCR record company released a live album called “The Royal Albert Hall Concert”, which became a worldwide sales phenomenon. Only, in fact, its content was a show recorded in Oakland, California. Years after the embarrassment, the album was re-released with a new title: “The Concert”. And the current Royal Albert Hall show, which had actually been recorded in high fidelity, remained unreleased on record for more than five decades. Now, together with the documentary, the English concert will finally become a record, with restored and remastered audio, in double vinyl edition, accompanied by the Blu-ray of the film, hit CDs and other miscellaneous material for collectors.
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