MUST-WATCH: Bob Odenkirk and Nic Cage entering the Top 10!
by James Mackin
Last Updated Apr 19, 2021 at 12:27 am EDT
Nic Cage takes on the deadliest animatronics out there in Willy s Wonderland. Courtesy of Screen Media FIlms
Nic Cage, Bob Odenkirk, and the son of Andy Serkis each have a new film entering the 680 NEWS MUST-WATCH Top 10 this week! But will any of them top the list, or will a new dark comedy from Amazon Prime Video clinch that spot? Keep reading to find out!
Nobody
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GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics name ‘Nomadland’ Best Film, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Best LGBTQ Film
Share Article Nomadland, the spare and fact-based drama of a group of struggling Americans living off the grid; the vivid blueswoman biopic Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ; the family-happy fish-out-of-water fable Minari ; writer-director-actress Radha Blank and her biting showbiz satire The Forty-Year-Old Version, the death-to-misogyny revenge thriller Promising Young Woman ; and the urgent human-rights documentaries Disclosure and Welcome to Chechnya all scored more than one Dorian Award from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics tonight via a televised special.
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Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of April 9, and list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Willy’s Wonderland
(Kevin Lewis)
Willy’s Wonderland is the movie that pits Nicolas Cage against a horde of malevolent animatronic animals, sort of like if
Evil Dead was set in a Chuck E. Cheese instead of a cabin in the woods. It doesn’t work as horror, which isn’t entirely surprising, but it doesn’t work as comedy, either. And that’s shocking. Stuck in a town in the middle of nowhere after a blowout, Cage’s nameless, silent character is offered a chance to earn the cash that’ll get his car fixed if he spends the night cleaning up the eponymous theme restaurant. But it’s a setup: every night, Willy the Weasel and his musical pals come to life, thirsting
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of April 9. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Willy’s Wonderland
(Kevin Lewis)
Willy’s Wonderland is the movie that pits Nicolas Cage against a horde of malevolent animatronic animals, sort of like if Evil Dead was set in a Chuck E. Cheese instead of a cabin in the woods. It doesn’t work as horror, which isn’t entirely surprising, but it doesn’t work as comedy, either. And that’s shocking. Stuck in a town in the middle of nowhere after a blowout, Cage’s nameless, silent character is offered a chance to earn the cash that’ll get his car fixed if he spends the night cleaning up the eponymous theme restaurant. But it’s a setup: every night, Willy the Weasel and his musical pals come to life, thirsting for blood. (Also, some local kids are trying to burn the place down.) With its episodic structure that pits Cage against one monster at a time between bouts of cleaning and the oc
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