In a Lonely Place (1950) hasn’t much to do with the Dorothy B. Hughes novel on which it was ostensibly based, beyond the title (one of the most evocative in noir history), the Los Angeles setting, and the murder of a young woman that puts our ostensible hero, volatile, hard-drinking Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey […]
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What to stream: Netflix is ‘Lost in Space’ and gets religion in ‘Come Sunday,’ ‘Bosch’ is back on Amazon Prime Video
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Netflix remakes the campy 1960s space fantasy in more serious vein in Lost in Space, a science fiction adventure about a family of space colonists whose ship goes off course en […]
What to stream: ‘The Florida Project’ on Amazon Prime Video, ‘Troy’ falls on Netflix, and a new month of releases for all
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Willem Dafoe earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as the manager of a low-rent hotel in The Florida Project (2017, R), a powerful and moving look at the life of […]
What to stream: ‘The Last Jedi’ on VOD and more ‘Unfortunate Events’ on Netflix
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The interstellar saga continues in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, PG-13) as Rey (Daisy Ridley) goes in search of guidance from Jedi master Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) while the Resistance […]
‘Pépé le Moko’ – The romance of French noir on FilmStruck
Jean Gabin was a brooding, rough working class anti-hero in France when his role as cool master criminal Pépé le Moko (France, 1937) made him an international star. Set in the Casbah of French Morroco, a labyrinth of alleys and termite-hole dwellings in an underworld slum that creates its own bustling, self-contained society within Algiers, […]
What to stream: Agatha Christie’s ‘Crooked House’ on Amazon, ‘Roxanne Roxanne’ on Netflix, more ‘Santa Clarita’
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The handsome British mystery Crooked House (2017, PG-13), based on the Agatha Christie novel, features Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, and Christina Hendricks as prime suspects in the murder of a business […]
What to stream: ‘Jessica Jones’ is back on Netflix with BBC’s ‘Collateral,’ ‘Thor: Ragnarkok’ on VOD
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Krysten Ritter as back as Marvel’s most dysfunctional superhero-turned-private investigator in the second season of the Netflix original series Jessica Jones and this time she’s taking on her own case: who […]
Mastroianni and Moreau in ‘La notte’ on FilmStruck
La notte (Italy, 1961), the second film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “trilogy of alienation” (it’s bracketed by L’avventura, 1961, and L’eclisse, 1962), stars Marcello Mastroianni as a celebrated novelist in Milan who has nothing left to say and Jeanne Moreau as his quietly unsettled wife who can’t seem to express all the disappointment building up behind […]
What to stream: TCM joins FilmStruck, Oscar nominees on VOD, ‘Valerian’ on Amazon Prime, and more
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … FilmStruck is expanding its library to feature iconic Hollywood classics from the TCM library, including Casablanca (1942) with Bogie and Bergman, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) with James Dean, A Night […]
What to stream: ‘Mute’ and ‘Seven Seconds’ on Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Detroit’ on Hulu, ‘Breathe’ on Amazon Prime
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Director Duncan Jones (of Moon and Warcraft) describes Mute (2018, not rated), which stars Alexander Skarsgård as a mute bartender searching for a missing woman in the underworld of a Blade […]