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Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of March 5, and list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Coming 2 America
Coming To America was the
Black Panther of its time. The blockbuster starring Eddie Murphy as an African prince hiding in Queens fell just behind
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in the competition for 1988’s box office crown. That was unheard for a movie with almost no white people. Murphy and his costar Arsenio Hall recently revealed that the only white person (Louise Anderson) in the otherwise all-Black cast was imposed upon them by Paramount Studios.
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including Coming 2 America, My Salinger Year, Raya And The Last Dragon and The Mauritanian By Kevin Ritchie, Glenn Sumi, Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of March 5. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Coming 2 America
(Craig Brewer)
Coming To America was the Black Panther of its time. The blockbuster starring Eddie Murphy as an African prince hiding in Queens fell just behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? in the competition for 1988’s box office crown. That was unheard for a movie with almost no white people. Murphy and his co-star Arsenio Hall recently revealed that the only white person (Louise Anderson) in the otherwise all-Black cast was imposed upon them by Paramount Studios.
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The Stylist is streaming on Arrow Player from 1 March
As a professional hairdresser herself, director Jill Gevargizian knows the sometimes instantaneous intimacy that can exist between the person under the cape and the other one hovering behind them with a sharp object in hand.
In the opening scene of The Stylist there’s a sly acknowledgment of that connection, as the ill-fated client confesses to an extramarital affair before remarking how odd it is to be able to divulge her secret to a stranger. Unfortunately, the woman in the chair has wrongly assumed this temporary intimacy is a benign one. Instead, the cut she receives after confiding in the protagonist of The Stylist is not the kind she requested.