Unsettling Horror, Stylish Horror and Absurdist Humor, Now Available to Stream This weekâs recommended streaming titles include
Dementer, Tweet
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Weâre now more than a year into the pandemic, and the stress is really starting to show. Art is certainly having to work harder to retain attention. Edges which have been fraying for quite some time now are cracking and bleeding. Thereâs a feeling like somehow the gravity got turned up a notch, and itâs such a pain to try and just be a normal person. The vaccines are helping, but thereâs so much entropic unease in the air that just enjoying things takes a heroic amount of effort. So this weekâs offerings are very eager to sweep you away in some kind of experience that, for a little while, takes you out of feeling adrift and abandoned. As always, look back at past issues of the
Releases include Coming 2 America, My Salinger Year, Raya And The Last Dragon, and The Mauritanian 1 of 8 2 of 8
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
Mar 5, 2021
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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.