Dune, Old, Netflix’s Night Teeth, and 6 New Movies to Watch at Home Right Now

This weekend the eagerly anticipated premiere of Denis Villeneuves will take place dune and Wes Anderson’s comedy-drama anthology The French shipping, both star Timothée Chalamet of Call me by your name Fame. While the distant future science fiction epic is available for streaming on HBO Max This weekend, in addition to its first cinema premiere, Anderson’s latest version will only be shown in theaters for the time being.

If you are unable to hit the road this weekend or somehow not be tempted by the prospect of feuding aristocratic fiefdoms in space vying for a coveted resource with the power to bend time and perception There’s still a lot of great new releases to be seen from home this weekend. There’s Martin Campbell’s assassin action thriller The protected one with Maggie Q (Nikita) and Samuel L. Jackson, the fantastic family drama Bergman Island with Vicky Krieps (Old), the thrilling horror drama Beat, and much more.

So that you know what’s new and available, here are the movies to watch with one click this weekend.

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dune

Where to see: Available in theaters and to stream on HBO Max

Photo: Warner Bros.

Hired in 10.191, Blade Runner 2049 Director Denis Villenueves adaptation of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed science fiction epic plays Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, son and heir to the powerful Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), who is forced to leave his native planet to become the newly appointed steward from Arrakis, a desert planet with a coveted resource called melange. There’s sword fighting, politics, intrigue, betrayal, drama and oh – those colossal creatures called sandworms that burst out of the ground before they devour humans. In all honesty, there is way too much to explain dune than can fit into a single paragraph, which is why we’ve put together this handy dandy guide so lovingly to explain his vast and strange universe. But enough of all of that, let’s get down to the biggest question: should you take your time this weekend to see Villeneuve’s latest giant sci-fi extravaganza? From our review,

If you can get lost in the cocoon of production, costume and art design opulence and sink into the big event nook of it all – why do people go to the movies, right? – the film, styled as Dune: part one, can be overwhelming. The problem, however, is the film’s ubiquitous emotional emptiness. Villeneuve and his co-authors Jon Spaihts (of Passengers and Prometheus) and Eric Roth, race through character journeys and shorten the alleged hero Paul Atreides (wild-haired oat Timothée Chalamet). They skip explaining most of the world’s dense mythology, instead breaking down entire communities into thinly rendered versions of other recognizable pop culture characters. (The Fremen become more or less Tusken Raiders; the Bene Gesserit are Macbeth‘s Witches.) And the result of all this tightening is that the connecting thread that connects all these different elements into a coherent whole is nowhere to be found. The film is a gorgeous, threadbare tapestry that untangles itself as you watch it.

The protected one

Where to see: Can be rented for $ 5.99 Amazon Prime Video, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Lionsgate

If you’re craving some more assassin action that’s 2017 style thrilling Atomic blonde, 2019 Anna, or this year Kate, then The protected one should be in your alley. With Maggie Q (Nikita) the film revolves around the story of Anna, a young hit man who was adopted by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and raised to be his partner and apprentice. When Moody is brutally executed at the behest of the devious businessman Michael Rembrandt (Michael Keaton), Anna begins a revenge campaign to uncover the reason for Moody’s goal while she fends off Moody’s killer. While The protected one may sound almost identical to all of the previously mentioned assassins, what this film has in its favor is Martin Campbell, the 2006s director Casino royale at the helm. Campbell is an old hand at these type of action films, so it goes without saying that if anyone can draw something new and exciting from this premise, it will be them.

Night teeth

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Photo: Netflix

Adam Randall’s vampire horror thriller Night teeth follows Benny (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), a young college student who also works as a chauffeur, who realizes that his two young customers are really blood-sucking vampires. The film is quickly turned into collateral by Vampires vs. the Bronx, with Benny being forced to drive the two around while they devastate their unsuspecting victims. It’s certainly an odd and tempting premise, though quite obviously it owes it to a slew of vampire films that preceded it. From our review,

Sometimes high quality cinema is overrated. Sometimes a slightly trashy movie is good enough for a few hours of distraction, especially if it has its premise of. takes blade, Underworld, and numerous other blood-sucking B-films; his costumes from a burlesque revue by Francis Ford Coppolas Bram Stoker’s Dracula; and his (too short) Megan Fox performance by Jennifer’s body. Night teeth is not really original, content or scary. But as a remix of the lizard-brain-focused qualities of the vampire thriller, Netflix’s latest Halloween offering is valued for how little demands it places on its audience.

Bergman Island

Where to see: Available for $ 6.99 on Amazon Prime Video, Apple, and Vudu

Image: IFC Films

Mia Hansen-Løves Bergman IslandIt’s about Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), a married couple of American filmmakers, who are traveling to Fårö for the summer – the former home and inspiration for their creative idol Ignmar Bergman – to be inspired by them to let own of the legendary island. As their stay progresses, the couple embark on their own creative journeys as the lines between their writing and reality begin to blur into an introspective look at their origins as a couple and their respective futures. The trailer looks bizarre, optimistic and really fascinating, with Vicky Krieps and especially as a woman at the crossroads of her career as a filmmaker and her responsibility as a mother and spouse.

Beat

Where to see: Available for $ 4.99 on Amazon Prime Video, Apple; $ 3.99 on Vudu

Image: Yellow Veil Images

With a premise that bears more than a passing resemblance to Joe Wright’s The woman in the window meets Edgar Allen Poes The Raven, Frida Kempffs Beat follows Molly (Cecilia Milocco), a recent survivor of a traumatic incident, who begins to hear a strange, haunted knock, coupled with high-pitched screams, from the room above her new apartment. With little help from the authorities or her neighbors, Molly must uncover the source of these strange noises, if not to save anyone who tries to contact her, then to save her own sanity. The way the trailer looks Beat is a harrowing and paranoia-inducing thriller with grotesque graphics, annoying sound design and downright threatening performances. If you’re in the mood for something spooky this weekend, this is definitely the movie to watch.

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Where to see: Can be rented for $ 5.99 Amazon Prime Video, Apple, and Vudu

Pictured: Warner Bros. Pictures

Space Jam: A New Legacy LeBron James plays a fictional version of himself who is transported to the Warner Bros. Serververse and held captive by a nefarious artificial intelligence called Al-G-Rhythm (Don Cheadle) in a foiled attempt to get closer to his computer game-obsessed son Dom. To escape, LeBron must assemble the Looney Toons cast from the corners of several Warner Bros. franchises and take on the Rhythm’s Goon Squad in a basketball match featuring virtual basketball icons like Anthony Davis and Klay Thompson. From our review,

The first Space Jam arose from an attempt Sell ​​sneakers. In a dizzying display of corporate dominance, the new Space Jam tries to sell everything Warner Bros. ever made. Space Jam: A New Legacy isn’t a real movie – it’s a crash course in vertical integration and branding, a two-hour marketing slide show. Viewers are taken on a fast-paced tour of every Warner IP geared towards every demographic: Wonder Womans Themyscira for girls and women, The matrix for older men, Harry Potter for old adults under 40 who haven’t read the news much, and so on. That’s how Hollywood works now. This is the future of blockbuster films.

Old

Where to see: Can be rented for $ 5.99 Amazon Prime Video, Apple, and Vudu

Photo: Universal Pictures

The premise of Old, director M. Night Shyamalan’s latest horror thriller, is as terrifying and idiotic as one would expect from the title alone. After a family vacation at a tropical resort, the premise takes a dark turn when she and other resort guests are trapped on a mysterious beach with no escape route. Worse, their bodies are growing and spoiling at an alarming rate, forcing the group to look for a way to safety before their bodies crumble to dust. One of the people trapped on the beach, played by The subwayAaron Pierre, is a rapper named Mid-sized Sedan. For real. From our review,

Old marketed and constructed as a thriller – the opening act is steeped in horror and its horror comes from the psychological and deadly reduction of its small cast. But it’s also a surprisingly sentimental film. While the title and premise suggest a focus on an adult’s fear of old age and death, Shyamalan’s script and staging deal predominantly with children. The few scenes in front of the beach are almost entirely from her perspective, when Trent, precocious and smart, shakes facts and makes friends, and his older sister Maddox takes care of him. The nightmare of the beach is not what happens to adults, who should know better, but to children who are pushed into adulthood just a few meters away from their parents without any guidance and the regrets of a lifetime are compressed in a few moments.