Judas and the Black Messiah, All the Boys 3 and 9 new movies to watch at home

The absence of new films in theaters does not prevent Hollywood’s weekly rock. This week, the animation world was shocked by the announcement on Tuesday that Disney would close Blue Sky Studios, the $ 5.9 billion ex-animation studio of 20th Century Fox, known for previous successes as the popular Ice Age series and River that the company acquired in 2019. Then there was the high-level expulsion of Gina Carano from Disney Plus’ The Mandalorian following incendiary and offensive comments made on social networks, or the announcement by Pedro Pascal and War of Thrones‘Bella Ramsey is climbing to the HBO stars The last of us Series.

As the industry finds out, audiences still have new movies to watch at home, from Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah on HBO Max for the big release streaming debut of Birds of prey director Cathy Yan’s debut in 2018 Dead pigs. In addition, Nicolas Cage killing animatronic squirrels. To help you step through all the options, here are the new movies you can watch on VOD this weekend.

Judas and the Black Messiah

Where to watch: Broadcast on HBO Max

Photo: Warner Bros.

Inspired by real events, Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah stars Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton, the late Black Panther president and civil rights activist, and LaKeith Stanfield as his bodyguard (and FBI informant) William O’Neil. The film portrays the last months, days and moments of Hampton’s life, his tragic death and the essential role that O’Neil played in the plot to destroy him. With supporting performances by Dominique Fishback, Jesse Plemons, Ashton Sanders and Martin Sheen, King’s biopic is sure to be one of the most talked about films of 2021. From our analysis,

It is impossible to tell the whole story of a revolutionary movement in two hours, and Judas of Shaka King and the Black Messiah tries and fails. He discusses the efforts of the Black Panther Party to unite destitute people and demand an overthrow of American capitalism and imperialism only in the broadest terms, while the unlikely alliances of the BPP, including with the Youth Patriots Organization with the flag of Confederates, are described only briefly. King is less interested in the rise of BPP than in white America’s obsessive need to destroy it, making a film that often seems to be spending unnecessary time with the same white oppressors BPP President Fred Hampton (Get out(Daniel Kaluuya) is trying to separate.

For all boys: always and forever

Where to watch: Stream on Netflix

Photo: Katie Yu / Netflix

The long-awaited final installment of the popular teen romantic comedy movie series is new to Netflix this week. For all boys: always and forever sees the return of Lana Condor as Lara Jean Covey and Noah Centineo as her boyfriend Peter Kavinsky as the two prepare for the final year of high school and the uncertain and imminent future of adult life. From our analysis:

In the end, the best thing you can say about Forever is that it is a beautiful collection of snapshots. The well-lit environments, such as Lara Jean’s room, her family’s home and the cafeteria that she and Peter frequent, create an atmospheric evolution of everyday life, showing how even the most mundane environments can seem cozy and beautiful to romantic eyes by Lara Jean. The moments she has not only with Peter, but with her family and friends, are equally tender. In that sense, these individual scenes almost come together in a reflection on the change at the end of the last year.

Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar

Where to watch: Stream on Netflix

Photos: Cate Cameron / Lionsgate

Bridesmaids Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig get together for what is about to be another sassy and lush cult comedy by Josh Greenbaum Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar. Wiig and Mumolo star as proprietor Star and Barb, two longtime friends who leave their hometown in the Midwest to spend their holidays at the luxurious Vista Del Mar resort in Florida, indulge in all kinds of trick and treating. From our analysis:

What Wiig and Mumolo offer for 90 minutes can only be described as comedy off-road. Whether improvisation or the result of years inside each other’s heads, the material radiates from the canvas. The two actors chatter about everything from raccoon sleeping patterns to lip piercings and the great art of ballroom singer Richard Cheese. And yet, everything is also necessary; Does Mumolo know exactly how to pronounce “Don Chee-adle?” and Wiig has the perfect look to respond accordingly. When they hit the dance floor to enjoy a remix of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”, these strange sensibilities flood the screen. They created their own film, and everything from the pastel production design to the punctuated camera work is in its eccentric wavelength.

Willy’s Wonderland

Where to watch: Stream on Amazon, Apple, Voodoo, Vimeo

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If you are looking forward to more antics led by Nicolas Cage in the vein of the psychedelic action and terror attack of 2018 Mandy or 2019 Color Out of Space, Kevin Lewis’ horror and action comedy Willy’s Wonderland it may just be your kind of madness. Cage stars as a mysterious bum turned caretaker at a family entertainment center, waged in a battle for survival against a group of homicidal animatronic dolls.

The Wanting Mare

Where to watch: Stream on Amazon, Apple, Voodoo, Vimeo

Photo: Anmaere Pictures

Premiere of writer and director Nicholas Ashe Bateman The Wanting Mare it is a visually engaging story that spans an era, set in an alternative universe world similar to ours. Set in the city of Whitren, a coastal city on the mysterious planet of Anmaere, where wild horses are captured annually to be sent to the winter city of Levithen, the film follows a line of women who inherit and are pursued by the dream of a long forgotten – and presumably better – past, as each tries to escape the fatalistic gravity of his hometown in the hope of seeking a better life. From our review,

During much of the 80 minutes and changes in the film, he resembles Terrence Malick of the later period. The characters’ conversations are cut into spare and unfinished fragments. Simple image progressions are generally not entirely linear. At one point, about halfway, the story advances several decades without much warning. This is a film about a large horse export company that never shows more than one horse at a time. It is not surprising that the film was, at one point, produced by Shane Carruth, the filmmaker behind the similarly abstract Upstream Color. (Although Carruth was promoting the move about a year ago, his name appears to have been removed from the credits, probably in response to allegations of abuse that emerged in 2020.)

Dead Pigs

Where to watch: Cast on Mubi

Photo: Federico Cesca

Birds of prey director Cathy Yan made history last year as the first woman of Asian descent to direct a major title in the Hollywood superhero franchise or, as we call it in our review, “a fun, leg-breaking, moving and inspiring”. Despite his highlighted rise, however, Yan’s debut film in 2018, Dead pigs, it has only now become accessible to the western public via Mubi. A dramatic examination of intergenerational conflicts within an intensely status-driven society, Yan’s film follows a collection of eccentric characters, including a slaughtered pig farmer, a waiter’s assistant, a tired and wealthy girl and an expatriate architect while his lives intertwine and clash like a torrent of pig carcasses that flows down the Yangtze River and gets closer and closer to Shanghai.

Sator

Where to watch: Stream on Amazon, Apple, Voodoo, Vimeo

Photo: Mistik Jade Films

Jordan Graham’s second horror film Sator is a horror thriller linked to nature in the vein of The Blair Witch Project or 2017 Come at night. Isolated in a desolate forest, a troubled family is attacked by an entity resembling an evil god known only as “Sator”, whose machinations are discernible only through the writings and speeches of Nani, the sick matriarch of the family played by the end of June Peterson. If you are a moving horror fan with a skillful visual narrative, Sator is the primary choice.

Behind the Marvel mask

Where to watch: Stream on Disney Plus

Credit: Disney

In addition to being the primary means by which Disney is publicizing the company’s high-profile programs, such as WandaVision and The Mandolorian in the flow of popular culture, Disney Plus is growing rapidly on a platform built with the intention of deepening understanding and appreciation of the story behind the company’s stories. Case in point, Behind the Marvel mask, a new documentary featuring the artists and writers behind some of the most iconic characters born from Marvel’s 80-year legacy, including Black Panther, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel, Luke Cage, the X-Men, Captain Marvel and more .

Le Samouraï (1967) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Where to watch: Stream on Channel Criteria

Photo: Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique

In addition to the latest offers of the week, if you’re looking for something more on the canonical side, take the time to sit back and watch the respective gender mash-ups by Jean-Pierre Melville and Jim Jarmusch, featuring stoic killers in samurai code and mythology contemporary. Le Samourai, from Melville, established the model for subsequent existential anti-hero films such as Luc Besson Léon: the professional, John Woo’s The killerand Sam Mendes’ Road to perditionand Jarmusch himself Ghost dog proves a worthy successor to the Melville film by the strength of Forest Whitaker’s iconic performance and the courtesy of the soundtrack of the one and only RZA.

Saint Maud

Where to watch: Cast on Epix

Photo: A24

The debut of writer and director Rose Glass, Saint Maud, is a frightening religious horror film and a chilling character study. Morfydd Clark stars as titular Maud, a devoted spiritual hospice nurse who slowly but surely becomes obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient Amanda (Jennifer Ehle) – whether she wants to be saved or not. From our analysis:

By the most reasonable standards, Saint Maud is a good horror film. Has a strong sense of character and humor. It is performed convincingly, both by Morfydd Clark and Maud, a private nurse getting lost in religious fanaticism, and Jennifer Ehle, like Maud’s patient Amanda, an atheist struggling with her diagnosis of terminal cancer. Your score blurred with tension, so you fall back into silence when needed. Despite all these strengths, it is sometimes frighteningly, inevitably familiar.