What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including Tom Hanks in News Of The World, Regina King s One Night In Miami and buzzy Sundance hit Promising Young Woman By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie
Jan 15, 2021
NOW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of January 15. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
News Of The World
(Paul Greengrass)
Set five years after the Civil War, Greengrass’s prestige-minded Western stars Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kidd, a former Confederate officer who wanders America as a sort of travelling town crier, performing theatrical readings of newspaper stories. Things grow more complicated when Kidd decides to return preteen Johanna (Helena Zengel), a German immigrant raised among the Kiowa people since infancy, to the family she’s never known. Stately in its pacing, and just cynical enough about America to pass for contemporary commentary, News Of The World plays just fine when it zooms in o
Badachro Distillery - The Spirit of Adventure By Contributor Published: 08:30, 11 December 2020
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Written by Gordon Quinn, managing director of Badachro Distillery
The adventure that started with a jokey comment over drinks whilst on holiday in the sun in 2016, has led this couple on a rollercoaster of a journey, far beyond anything they had vaguely expected.
They had been enjoying a well-earned break after a busy summer season running their bed and breakfast business at Aird Hill in Badachro, Wester Ross.
Previously, in 2007, they had escaped from the rat race and expat life, and settled in Badachro, with the intention of enjoying a slower pace of life. Oh, really?!
While 2020 has been rife with crappiness, Chicago-based Kartemquin Films is having a bit of a year (co-founder Gordon Quinn’s battle with COVID-19 early in the pandemic notwithstanding). In October, the documentary powerhouse released one of the best limited series of the year in
City So Real, a project by Steve James (
Hoop Dreams) that criss-crosses the city and its diverse citizenry in the year leading up to the 2019 mayoral election. It’s a compelling watch for Chicagoans, to be sure, and the nation as a whole (and is now streaming in its entirety on Hulu). Now, in partnership with MTV Documentaries, the studio releases