American Ultra (2015) reworks The Bourne Identity as a slacker comedy with a killer punchline. Jesse Eisenberg is Mike Howell, a sweet, underachieving stoner prone to panic attacks. He gets by as convenience store clerk in a dead-end West Virginia town with a supportive girlfriend, Phoebe (Kristen Stewart), who is almost impossibly understanding when it […]
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 debuts its most expensive original feature yet: the cop thriller Bright (2017, not rated) set in an alternate universe Los Angeles. Will Smith is a cop who teams up with […]
Here’s a long-range teaser for Netflix. Bright isn’t coming out until December 2017 but Netflix is letting everyone know that it has won the bidding war. It is investing $90 million in the film starring Will Smith as a human cop in a world shared with orcs, elves and fairies, and other mythical creatures. The […]
