What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of Judas And The Black Messiah, Cowboys, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things and Saint Maud By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 12. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Judas And The Black Messiah
(Shaka- King)
In less skilful hands, Judas And The Black Messiah could play like hollow Oscar bait, a tragedy of Black lives manipulated by cynical white authority in a less enlightened time. Instead, director/co-writer King’s powerhouse drama about the complicity of FBI informant William O’Neal in the 1969 murder of Black Panthers community organizer Fred Hampton keeps subtly drawing parallels to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement, showing us how little has changed in the ensuing half-century. The film has a nervous, contemporary feel, every scene carrying an immediacy that threatens to punch through the period setting. And t
At the Movies: Mickey Rourke, Lou Diamond Phillips star in ‘Adverse’
FAIRFIELD Mickey Rourke and Lou Diamond Phillips team up for one of the new movies hitting screens Friday.
“Adverse” is a thriller about one man’s quest for revenge. Struggling to make ends meet, a rideshare driver learns his sister is deep in debt to a sleazy drug dealer. When she goes missing, he takes a job for a crime boss he believes has his sister. It’s rated R.
“Assassin in Red” is adapted from the novel of the same name. The plot centers on the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane. Through a strange twist of fate, the fantasy world of the novel begins to alter life in the real world. It’s not rated.
‘I Blame Society’ and ‘Atlantis’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque John Benson, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio Known for award-winning film shorts, Gillian Wallace Horvat makes her feature debut with “I Blame Society.”
Cleveland Cinemas will be showing the unique comedy/horror movie online beginning Friday, Jan. 29. The film blurs the lines between art and real life after an ambitious filmmaker discovers she’s good at getting away with murder.
Also on Jan. 29, The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque begins screening “Atlantis,” which is Ukraine’s official submission for this year’s Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
The horror-satire hybrid presents an intriguing example of a filmmaker airing out her grievances in cinematic form.
Credit: Cranked Up Films Published: 11:45 AM CST January 7, 2021 Updated: 8:46 PM CST January 8, 2021
In the playfully rebellious new movie “I Blame Society,” the young filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat steps in front of her camera to give one of the most unpredictably self-aware performances since, well.whatever it is the last thing Nicolas Cage did. Whether that makes it a
great performance is a different question. But if one barometer of an actor’s effectiveness is how confidently they skate right up to the edge of incredulity without slipping over, then the answer is leaning towards the affirmative.