With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Annihilation (Alex Garland)
More terrifying than any creature Hollywood could dream up is the unraveling of one’s mind—the steady loss of a consciousness as defined by the memories, motivations, and knowledge built up from decades of experience and reflection. With Annihilation, Alex Garland’s beautiful, frightening follow-up to Ex Machina, he portrays this paralyzing sensation with a sense of vivid imagination, and also delivers a cadre of horrifying creatures to boot.
Annihilation (Alex Garland)
More terrifying than any creature Hollywood could dream up is the unraveling of one’s mind—the steady loss of a consciousness as defined by the memories, motivations, and knowledge built up from decades of experience and reflection. With Annihilation, Alex Garland’s beautiful, frightening follow-up to Ex Machina, he portrays this paralyzing sensation with a sense of vivid imagination, and also delivers a cadre of horrifying creatures to boot.
- 5/25/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
It starts with bubbles. So many bubbles rising slowly in liquid as the opening credits in script font flash onscreen. And when the camera finally pans out to see what it’s been that’s mesmerized us so? A glass of water with an Alkaseltzer dropped in, of course. This is the humor director Bavo Defurne and his co-writers Jacques Boon and Yves Verbraeken infuse throughout their outside-the-box romance Souvenir. As it is the woman about to drink this concoction is hardly special: she lives alone, watches trivia game shows, and works at a pâté factory garnishing one pan after the next in blissful monotony and anonymity. Today is the day that all stops.
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) has a secret no one has yet caught onto until a twenty-two year old boxer begins working at her job. Jean (Kévin Azaïs) recognizes her from somewhere, but it takes a couple days...
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) has a secret no one has yet caught onto until a twenty-two year old boxer begins working at her job. Jean (Kévin Azaïs) recognizes her from somewhere, but it takes a couple days...
- 9/9/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Souvenir
Director: Bavo Defurne
Writers: Bavo Defurne, Jacques Boon, Yves Verbraeken
Belgian director Bavo Defurne moves from coming out narrative with his 2011 debut North Sea Texas to comeback story with sophomore effort, Souvenir (a title Joanna Hogg is currently using for her next project, expected in 2017). Liliane, a faded Eurovision singer now works in a pate factory, but a much younger man who happens to be an aspiring boxer, fancies her. Together, they stage a grand come back for the forgotten chanteuse. While this sounds offbeat and cute, Defurne scores Isabelle Huppert as his faded pop star and Kevin Azais, a recent Cesar winner for Love at First Fight (2014) as the younger man. This sounds like a far cry from Defurne’s first film, a solid Belgian drama about gay youth, which was distributed by Strand Releasing stateside in 2012. We look forward to seeing Huppert in a much lighter, significant...
Director: Bavo Defurne
Writers: Bavo Defurne, Jacques Boon, Yves Verbraeken
Belgian director Bavo Defurne moves from coming out narrative with his 2011 debut North Sea Texas to comeback story with sophomore effort, Souvenir (a title Joanna Hogg is currently using for her next project, expected in 2017). Liliane, a faded Eurovision singer now works in a pate factory, but a much younger man who happens to be an aspiring boxer, fancies her. Together, they stage a grand come back for the forgotten chanteuse. While this sounds offbeat and cute, Defurne scores Isabelle Huppert as his faded pop star and Kevin Azais, a recent Cesar winner for Love at First Fight (2014) as the younger man. This sounds like a far cry from Defurne’s first film, a solid Belgian drama about gay youth, which was distributed by Strand Releasing stateside in 2012. We look forward to seeing Huppert in a much lighter, significant...
- 1/11/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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