Category: HBO Now

Kerry Bishe in the series from Matthew Weiner

What to stream: ‘The Romanoffs’ and ‘Red River’ on Amazon, ’22 July’ and ‘Hill House’ on Netflix, Shudder for Halloween

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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 Romanoffs, the first new series from creator Matthew Weiner since Mad Men, takes an anthology approach to stories of descendants of the Russian royal family in the present day in […]

What to stream: ‘Private Life’ and Monty Python on Netflix, ‘Into the Dark’ and ‘RBG’ on Hulu, ‘Leave No Trace’ on VOD

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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 … Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn star as a married couple struggling to have kids late in life in Private Life (2018, not rated), a spiky drama with comic edges from director […]

Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in the film by Steven Spielberg

Coming and Going on HBO Now in October 2018

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Steven Speilberg’s Oscar-nominated The Post with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks and the comedy thriller Game Night with Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams come to HBO cable and streaming services in October. The month also see the arrival of the Aardman animated comedy Early Man and a handful of horror films for Halloween including the […]

Anthony Hopkins in the new version of the Shakespeare classic co-starring Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Florence Pugh, and Jim Broadbent

What to stream: Anthony Hopkins is ‘King Lear’ on Amazon, ‘Hold the Dark’ on Netflix, ‘Solo’ on VOD

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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 … Anthony Hopkins plays King Lear in the Amazon Prime Original miniseries, which relocates the setting to a military dictatorship in contemporary England, and Emily Watson, Emma Thompson, and Florence Pugh plays […]

Sean Penn stars in the Hulu series created by Beau Willimon

What to stream: Hulu claims ‘The First,’ Amazon Prime is ‘Forever,’ Netflix offers ‘The Land of Steady Habits’

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Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Sean Penn stars in the new Hulu Original drama The First as a grounded astronaut battling family crisis while guiding the first manned mission to Mars through the politics and funding and technological […]

Chadwick Boseman is the African superhero in the Marvel Comics hit movie

What to stream: ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Next Gen’ on Netflix, ‘Beirut’ on Amazon Prime Video, ‘Hereditary’ and Mister Rogers on VOD

!Featured, Amazon Prime, BritBox, Criterion Channel, FilmStruck, HBO Now, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 09/07/2018 Sean Axmaker

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 … Chadwick Boseman as Prince T’Challa, aka Black Panther (2018, PG-13), in the first Marvel superhero movie built around black hero. Director Ryan Coogler adds his own sensibility with his creation of a […]

Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese's gangster classic.

Martin Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ on HBO Now

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“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” GoodFellas (1990), Martin Scorsese’s violent, dynamic, exhilarating adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction book Wiseguy, about real-life wiseguy-turned-witness against the mob Henry Hill, exploded across screens in 1990 and was embraced as the first great American gangster movie since Coppola’s The Godfather […]

John Krasinski

What to stream: ‘Jack Ryan’ and ‘Disobedience’ on Amazon Prime, more ‘Ozark’ on Netflix, Cary Grant on FilmStruck

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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 … John Krasinski is the fifth actor to play Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, the CIA analyst turned reluctant field agent, and Wendell Pierce his new boss in the debut season of the Prime […]

Shauna Macdonald stars in the subterranean horror from Neil Marshall

‘The Descent’ – subterranean horror on HBO Now

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British genre maven Neil Marshall howled his arrival with his werewolf combat thriller Dog Soldiers, a sly and inspired UK hit that made cult ripples stateside. With The Descent (2005), a nerve wracking, claustrophobic survival thriller about six spelunking women hunted by the creepiest cave dwellers to skitter across a screen, Marshall honed his skills […]