Walter Hill’s savage survival drama stars Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe as national guardsmen trying to stay alive when a weekend training mission in the bayou becomes a guerilla war.
Tag: Kanopy
What to stream: ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ and ‘1983’ on Netflix and Kanopy has the great American indies
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Alice Rohrwacher won the screenwriting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Happy as Lazzaro (Italy, 2018, PG-13, with subtitles), a modern parable of a holy innocent (first-time actor Adriano Tardiolo) that […]
What to stream: ‘Ant-Man’ is back on VOD, more ‘Daredevil’ on Netflix and ‘Lore’ on Amazon Prime, ‘Some Like it Hot’ 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 … Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018, PG-13) lightens the apocalyptic tone of Marvel’s big screen comic book universe with a smaller comic adventure that puts Evangeline Lilly in the shrinking suit to […]
Brie Larson in ‘Room’ on Netflix and free on Kanopy and Hoopla
It’s called Room (2015). Not The Room, simply Room, as if there were no others. And for Jack (Jacob Tremblay), the five-year-old son of a young mother (Brie Larson), there aren’t. It’s his entire world, his universe, and as far as he knows nothing exists outside the walls. His mother, known only as Ma in the film, […]
What to stream: ‘Lucky’ on Hulu, ’45 Years’ on Netflix, ’50/50′ on Amazon, and free streams through Kanopy and Hoopla
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 … Free streams: If you have a library card, you may be able to stream free movies, documentaries, and other programs through Kanopy and Hoopla. Most major library systems in the country […]
‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’ and ‘Life of Riley’ on Kanopy
Alain Resnais was the most narratively experimental and ambitious of directors at the birth of the nouvelle vague, startling audiences with the short documentary Night and Fog (about the Nazi death camps) and the features Hiroshima Mon Amour (ruminating on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and Last Year at Marienbad (which you could say […]
Nina Hoss is ‘Barbara’ on Fandor and Kanopy
Barbara (2012), directed by Christian Petzold, stars Nina Hoss as a doctor from East Berlin who has been banished to a nowhere village in rural East Germany for carrying on an affair with a man from West Germany. You have to piece together the time and place from the details (this is before The Wall […]