What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 14-16
Including reviews of The Underground Railroad, The Killing Of Two Lovers, In The Earth and more By Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
May 14, 2021
OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of May 14. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
The Killing Of Two Lovers
(Robert Machoian)
Machoian’s solo debut as a writer/director after more than a decade of collaborations and documentaries is a spare, aching and almost unbearably sad drama about thirtysomething David (Clayne Crawford), a husband and father in rural Utah mired in a domestic crisis. He’s separated from his wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) and their children. Nikki appears to be moving on. David has a gun. He badly wants to use it. But The Killing Of Two Lovers isn’t that simple. Machoian immediately complicates his story by showing us who David is when he’s not blinded by rage, and then complicates things fur
Benny Loves You Review: Killer-Toy Horror Comedy Feels Like a Knockoff
Unlike the toy of its title, the film never quite comes to life.
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Director: Karl Holt
With: Karl Holt, Jennifer Healy, Bella Munday, George Collie, James Parsons, Lydia Hourihan, Greg Page, Catriona Mcdonald, Greg Barnett, David Wayman, Anthony Styles, Darren Benedict, Claire Cartwright, Logan Murray.
Courtesy of Dread
Whether it be actual toys or movies about them coming to life and killing people, they don’t make ’em like they used to. While the “Child’s Play” and “Puppet Master” franchises aren’t exactly rife with masterpieces, their pleasures are less guilty than those afforded by the genre’s latest installment: “Benny Loves You,” an English horror comedy liable to make audiences laugh far more than it scares them. Mostly, though, it just borders on boring. Aside from the murderous Benny himself, the film doesn’t add much to its
“Benny Loves You” – Just not you [MOVIE REVIEW]
SHARE Karl Holt as Jack and George Collie as Richard in Benny Loves You. Photo courtesy of Epic Pictures.
Karl Holt as Jack and George Collie as Richard in “Benny Loves You.” Photo courtesy of Epic Pictures.
“Benny Loves You” is from the massively disturbed brain of Karl Holt, who wrote, directed, edited, and acted as co-cinematographer on this incredibly inventive, horribly gory, and massively funny take on slasher films.
Opening on a spoiled little girl who rejects her teddy bear for her bright new shiny Barbie-type doll, she is in for a big shock when her teddy takes active offense and begins to terrorize her. Teddy is unforgiving and his actions let us know right up front what we’re in store for. His revenge is jaw-droppingly graphic, offset by the hilarious unreality of how he wields it. Cut to…