Netflix’s Dune, Old, Night Teeth and 6 New Movies to Watch Now at Home

This weekend sees the long-awaited premiere of Denis Villeneuve Dune and Wes Anderson’s comedy-drama anthology The French office, both starring Timothée Chalamet from Call me by your name fame. While the far future sci-fi epic is available to stream on HBO Max This weekend along with its initial theatrical release, Anderson’s latest is firmly scheduled to hit theaters for the time being only.

If you’re unwilling to venture this weekend, or are somehow not drawn to the prospect of aristocratic fiefdoms in space vying for a coveted resource with the power to bend time and expand perception, there are still plenty of new ones. cool releases. to watch from home this weekend. There’s Martin Campbell’s killer action thriller The protégé starring Maggie Q (Nikita) and Samuel L. Jackson, the fantastic family drama Bergman Island starring Vicky Krieps (Old), the suspense horror drama Hits, and much more.

To help you get acquainted with what’s new and what’s new, these are the movies you can watch at the click of a button this weekend.

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Dune

Where to look: In theaters and available to stream on HBO Max

Photo: Warner Bros.

Set in the year 10,191, Blade Runner 2049 Director Denis Villenueve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s celebrated sci-fi epic, starring Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, son and heir of the powerful Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), who is forced to leave the planet of his birth to become the new designated administrator. from Arrakis, a desert planet that is home to a coveted resource known as melange. There are sword fights, politics, intrigue, betrayal, drama, and oh, these colossal creatures called sandworms that sprout from the ground before devouring people. Honestly, there’s a lot to explain Dune that can fit in a single paragraph, which is why we so lovingly put together this elegant and practical guide to explaining your vast and strange universe. But enough of all that, let’s focus on the bigger question: Should you set aside time this weekend to see Villeneuve’s latest ghoulish sci-fi extravaganza? From our review,

If you can lose yourself in the cocoon of opulence of production, costume, and art design, and immerse yourself in the Grand Event angle, that’s why people go to the movies, isn’t it? – the film, designed as Dune: Part OneIt can be overwhelmingly evocative. The problem, however, is the film’s pervasive emotional void. Villeneuve and his co-authors, Jon Spaihts (from Passengers and Prometheus) and Eric Roth, they rush through the journeys of the characters and ostensible hero Paul Atreides (the madman Timothée Chalamet). They skip explaining most of this world’s dense mythology and instead collapse entire communities into underrepresented versions of other recognizable pop culture figures. (Fremen more or less turn into Tusken Raiders; Bene Gesserit are Macbethwitches.) And the result of all that rationalization is that the connecting thread that ties all these disparate elements together into a cohesive whole is nowhere to be found. The film is a splendid, threadbare tapestry that falls apart as you watch.

The protégé

Where to look: Available to rent for $ 5.99 at Amazon Prime Video, Appleand voodoo

Image: Lionsgate

If you are itching for another exciting killer action in the vein of 2017 Atomic blonde, From 2019 Anna or this year Kate, later The protégé It should be in your alley Starring Maggie Q (Nikita), the film focuses on the story of Anna, a young hit man adopted by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and raised to be his partner and apprentice. When Moody is brutally executed at the behest of cunning businessman Michael Rembrandt (Michael Keaton), Anna embarks on a campaign of revenge to discover why Moody was the target, all while defending herself from Moody’s killer. Weather The protégé It may sound almost identical to all those aforementioned killer dramas, what this movie has going for it is Martin Campbell, the 2006 director. Royal Casino at the helm. Campbell is a veteran of these types of action movies, so it goes without saying that if anyone can get something new and exciting out of this premise, it is him.

Night teeth

Where to look: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Netflix

Adam Randall’s vampire horror thriller Night teeth follows Benny (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), a young college student who works as a chauffeur, and realizes that his two young clients are actually blood-sucking vampires. The movie quickly transforms into Collateral through Vampires vs. the Bronx, and Benny is forced to lead the pair as they wreak havoc on their unsuspecting victims. It’s a strange and seductive premise, to be sure, although it is obviously indebted to a host of vampire movies that have preceded it. From our review,

Challenging cinema is sometimes overrated. Sometimes a slightly trashy movie is good enough for a couple of hours of distraction, especially if it’s based on the premise of Sword, Underworldand many other bloodsucking B movies; his costumes from a Francis Ford Coppola burlesque magazine Bram Stoker’s Dracula; and her (too short) Megan Fox performance of Jennifer’s body. Night teeth it’s not genuinely original, substantive, or scary. But as a mix of the more lizard-brain-focused qualities of the vampire thriller, Netflix’s latest Halloween offering is appreciated for the few demands it places on its audience.

Bergman Island

Where to look: Available to rent for $ 6.99 at Amazon Prime Video, Appleand voodoo

Image: IFC Films

By Mia Hansen-Løve Bergman Islandfocuses on Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), a married couple of American filmmakers who travel to the island of Fårö, the former home and inspiration of their creative idol Ignmar Bergman, for the summer to draw inspiration from their own de the legendary island. As their stay progresses, the couple find themselves navigating their own creative journeys as the lines between their writing and reality begin to blend and blur in an introspective look at their origins as a couple and their respective futures. The trailer seems whimsical, upbeat, and genuinely fascinating, with Vicky Krieps standing out particularly as a woman at the crossroads of her filmmaking career and responsibilities as a mother and wife.

Hits

Where to look: Available to buy for $ 4.99 at Amazon Prime Video, Apple; $ 3.99 at Vudu

Image: Yellow Veil Pictures

With a premise that bears more than a passing resemblance to Joe Wright’s The woman in the window meet Edgar Allen Poe The Raven, Frida Kempff’s Hits follows Molly (Cecilia Milocco), a recent survivor of a traumatic incident who begins to hear a strange sound of insistent banging, along with high-pitched screams, emanating from the room above her new apartment. With little help from the authorities or her neighbors, Molly must discover the source behind these strange noises, if not to save whoever is trying to contact her, then to preserve her own sanity. From the look of the trailer, Hits is a jarring, paranoia-inducing thriller with grotesque visuals, baffling sound design, and downright threatening performances. If you’re in the mood for something spooky this weekend, this is definitely the movie to watch.

Space Jam: a new legacy

Where to look: Available to rent for $ 5.99 at Amazon Prime Video, Appleand voodoo

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

Space Jam: a new legacy stars LeBron James as a fictional version of himself who, in a frustrated attempt to get closer to his computer game-obsessed son Dom, is transported to the Warner Bros. Serververse and held captive by a nefarious artificial intelligence known as Al- G-Rhythm (Don Cheadle). To escape, LeBron must rally the cast of Looney Toons from the corners of various Warner Bros. franchises and compete in a winner-take-all basketball game against Rhythm’s Goon Squad of virtual basketball icons like Anthony. Davis and Klay Thompson. From our review,

First Space jam was born of an attempt sell sneakers. In a dizzying display of entrepreneurial mastery, the new Space jam he’s trying to sell everything Warner Bros. has made. Space Jam: a new legacy It’s not really a movie, it’s a crash course in vertical integration and branding, a marketing slideshow with a two-hour runtime. Your viewers are taken on a whirlwind tour through each Warner IP targeting each demographic: Wonder Woman’s Themyscira for girls and women, Matrix for older men, Harry Potter for older adults under 40 who haven’t read the news much, etc. This is how Hollywood works now. This is the future of blockbuster movies.

Old

Where to look: Available to rent for $ 5.99 at Amazon Prime Video, Appleand voodoo

Photo: Universal Pictures

The premise of Old, the latest horror thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan, is as scary and wacky as you would expect from the title alone. After a family vacation at a tropical resort, the premise takes a dark turn when they and other resort guests find themselves trapped on a mysterious beach with no way to escape. Worse still, their bodies grow rapidly and deteriorate at an alarming rate, forcing the group to find a way to safety before their bodies turn to dust. One of the people trapped on the beach, played by The underground railwayAaron Pierre, is a rapper named Mid-Size Sedan. Actually. From our review,

Old It has been marketed and constructed as a thriller: the opening act is steeped in dread and its horror comes from the downsizing of its small cast, both psychologically and fatally. But it is also a surprisingly sentimental movie. While its title and premise presume a focus on an adult’s fear of aging and death, Shyamalan’s script and staging are overwhelmingly concerned with children. The few scenes before the beach are almost entirely from his perspective, as Trent, precocious and intelligent, recites facts and makes friends, and his older sister Maddox watches over him. The nightmare of the beach is not what happens to adults, who should know better, but to children, who, a few meters from their parents, are pushed into adulthood without any guidance, compressing the regret of a lifetime. in a few moments.