All the new movies and early theater releases you can watch at home right now
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2021/05/07
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Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you re staying at home to limit potential risks, or just saving a few bucks by watching from the couch, we ve organized a huge list with many of the newly added films and some upcoming titles.
May 7
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff
Synopsis: A young woman (Maya Hawke) thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger (Andrew Garfield) – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
A still from ‘Monster’
Based on the award-winning novel by Walter Dean Myers, the drama is a biting, if myopic, commentary on the flawed nature of the criminal justice system
More than three years since its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Anthony Mandler’s Monster is more relevant now than it ever was. For one, the story of a black teen caught on the wrong side of a racially unjust criminal justice system has become an on-screen staple; a case study in how art imitates life.
And yet, this latest Netflix release seems to be influenced more by some of its forgettable predecessors rather than focusing on the one’s which did impress. The film is essentially a courthouse drama, where scenes from the past and present are inter-cut at a dizzying pace, to shape a narrative that tries hard to engage its viewers.
This Book You Likely Read and Loved Growing Up is Now a Netflix Film
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When I was told that Netflix was releasing a movie Monster, about Steve, a young black man caught up in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong crowd, who ends up on trial for murder, I knew it sounded familiar. It turns out the film, from 2018 which is being released on Netflix, tonight, May 7, is based on the 1999 book by Walter Dean Myers.
The film stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Steve Harmon, and boasts a truly impressive cast overall. Jennifer Hudson and Jeffrey Wright play his parents, Mrs. and Mr. Harmon. Tim Blake Nelson plays Professor Sawicki; I m a fan of both the character and the actor. I m curious to see how Jennifer Ehle will do as Miss O Brien; I m sure readers had an opinion on her! John David Washington plays Bobo, one of the other accused, while famous rappers Nas and A$AP Rocky round out the cast.
Written by Scott Z. Burns and directed by Steven Soderbergh, 2011â²s âContagionâ hit No. 10 on the iTunes movie rental chart a year ago in January. In those early moths of the pandemic, audiences were suddenly seeking out a nearly decade-old thriller depicting a fictional pandemic bearing a resemblance the COVID-19 outbreak of the past year.
I actively avoided it. The fictional on-screen calamity mirrored our own unstable reality in ways that hit too close to all my anxiety receptors. A year-plus later with uncertain light at the end of the tunnel in the U.S., I found myself drawn to the movie in order to think through, with the benefit of some hindsight, what it anticipated as well as what it missed: