What to stream: ‘The Assistant’ on Hulu, ‘Radioactive’ on Amazon, ‘Fear City’ and ‘Last Dance’ on Netflix

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services …   Julia Garner plays a personal assistant to a powerful executive (unnamed and largely unseen yet a provocative presence) in “The Assistant” (2019, R), a drama of power dynamics and abuse in a toxic […]

Jim Mickle directs We Are What We Are

‘We Are What We Are’ on Amazon Prime

We Are What We Are (2013), Jim Mickle’s remake of the Spanish film of the same name, is a horror film by definition—an isolated family in rural America cloisters its teenage daughters in a religion/ritual that reaches back to their starving forefathers who turned to cannibalism to survive a harsh frontier—but a family drama at […]