Cocaine Bear, Netflix’s Pornhub Documentary and All New Streaming Movies

Oscar season may be over, but movie season never ends.

There are relatively few new releases to watch at home this week, but there are still plenty of ways to check out the various streaming services. There are three new Netflix releases – a documentary on Pornhub, a French revenge thriller and an animated adventure – an Oscar-nominated film making its way to Prime Video, an Oscar-winning film at a discounted rental price and much more.

The big highlight is probably cocaine bearthe meme movie making its VOD debut this week near the end of its theatrical run.

Let’s get to the options.

New to Netflix

In his shadow

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: crime drama
Duration: 1h29m
Director: Marc Fouchard
Pour: Kaaris, Alassane Diong, and Carl Malapa

This French drama bears a certain resemblance to Athenaone of the best movies of 2022 and Netflix’s best original release of the year. In his shadowHow Athena, sees brothers clash on opposite sides of a violent conflict. This time it happens after her father’s death. Will it be able to fit Athena‘s kinetic pace and explosive tension? You’ll have to check it out yourself to find out (but please take a look Athena)!

The Magician’s Elephant

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: fantasy adventure
Duration: 1h39m
Director: Wendy Rogers
Pour: Miranda Richardson, Brian Tyree Henry, Natasia Demetriou

Based on the 2009 novel by Kate DiCamillo, this animated adventure follows a young boy as he searches for his missing sister and the quests he must complete (and the elephant he must follow) to find her.

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

Where to see: Available for streaming Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: documentary
Duration: 1h 34m
Director: Suzanne Hillinger
Pour: Asa Akira, Siri Dahl, Cherie DeVille

Pornhub: you know what it is; I know what it is. Let’s not pretend we don’t – it is To the right there in the name — and choose to be adults rather than a bevy of reptilian-brained teenage shit posters who can’t even see someone they find attractive without morphing into that whistling cartoon wolf out of Little Red Riding Hoodshall we?

This documentary by filmmaker Suzanne Hillinger (Totally under control) chronicles the rise of the adult entertainment platform of the same name and the recent controversies and allegations of abuse that have dogged the site and its community.

From our review:

It’s essentially an exercise in getting the hot voices out and trying to convince the people who like porn to throw their political support behind the people making it. It’s tickle with a side of radicalization. And if teenagers whose parents have parental controls installed on their computers watch this documentary late at night with the volume turned down, they’ll learn more about workers confiscating the means of production than sex – which is far more dangerous to the powers that be who are when all bare breasts or asses.

New to Prime

Mrs. Harris goes to Paris

Where to see: Available to watch Prime

Photo: Liam Daniel/Ada Films

Genre: comedy
Duration: 1h 55m
Director: Antonius Fabian
Pour: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson

The Oscar-nominated (for best costume design) third adaptation of the 1958 novel stars Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert and Lambert Wilson. Manville is Mrs. Harris, a cleaner and widow who receives a long-delayed sum of money from her husband’s death in World War II. She decides to take it on an adventure to Paris, focusing in particular on Dior dresses, a fascination for her. After a few months on Peacock, the film has now moved to Prime Video.

New to Hulu

Boston strangler

Where to see: Available for streaming Hello

Image: Hulu

Genre: Historical Crime
Duration: 1h 52m
Director: Matt Ruskin
Pour: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper

Based on a true story Boston strangler follows two female reporters who connect dots about an ongoing serial killer case that others can’t understand while fighting misogyny both in American culture and in their workplace.

New to HBO Max

All the beauty and the bloodshed

Where to see: Available for streaming HBO Max

Image: Nan Goldin

Genre: documentary
Duration: 2h 2m
Director: Laura Poitras
Pour: Nan Goldin, Patrick Radden Keefe, and Megan Kapler

Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated documentary explores the life of Nan Goldin, an American photographer and activist who led a campaign against the Sackler family, a pharmaceutical dynasty widely credited as one of the main architects behind the opioid crisis.

New to Shudder

Leave

Where to see: Available to stream on Shudder

Image: AMC

Genre: horror
Duration: 1 hr 46 mins
Director: Alex Herron
Pour: Alicia von Rittberg, Herman Tømmeraas, Stig R. Amsterdam

This horror film from Norwegian music video director Alex Herron begins with a police officer who discovers an abandoned toddler in a cemetery, wrapped in a scarf decorated with pentagrams and with an inverted cross hanging from his neck. Twenty years later, the child – a young woman named Hunter (Alicia von Rittberg) – follows a trail to Norway in search of her biological parents. What she finds instead is a horror beyond anything she ever imagined.

New to VOD

cocaine bear

Where to see: Can be rented for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Image: Universal Pictures

Genre: comedy horror
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Pour: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr.

The whole internet loves cocaine bear, or “Cokey,” the handsome bear who ate 70 pounds of cocaine that fell from a plane in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. … We regret to inform you that the bear has started killing and eating people.

The whale

Where to see: Can be rented for $5.99 Amazon, Apple; $4.99 on Vudu

Photo: Niko Tavernise/A24

Genre: theatre
Duration: 1h 57m
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Pour: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins

Freshly minted as an Oscar winner (Brendan Fraser for Best Actor; Best Make-up and Hairstyling), The whale is now available at a reduced rental price.

From our review:

In The whale, Aronofsky posits his sadism as an intellectual experiment, challenging viewers to find the humanity buried beneath Charlie’s thick layers of fat. That’s not as benevolent a premise as he seems to think. It works on the premise that a 600-pound man is inherently unlovable. It’s like walking up to a stranger on the street and saying, “You’re an abomination, but I love you anyway,” in keeping with the strong tension of complacent Christianity the film purports to criticize. Viewers can be proud of themselves for shedding a few tears for this disgusting whale while not gaining new insights into what it’s actually like to be that whale. That’s not empathy. That’s too bad, buried under a thick, suffocating layer of contempt.

A man named Otto

Where to see: Can be rented for $5.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Credit: Niko Tavernise/Columbia Pictures

Genre: dramedy
Duration: 2h 6m
Director: Marc Foerster
Pour: Tom Hanks, Mariana Trevino, and Rachel Keller

Tom Hanks plays against the type in this comedy-drama adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s 2012 Swedish novel A man named Ove as a grumpy, lonely widower who – contrary to his own antisocial nature – accidentally forms a friendship with his new neighbor and their child. Fair warning: This comedy is full of gags about attempted suicide.

Unwelcome

Where to see: Can be rented for $6.99 Amazon, Appleand vudu

Image: Well Go USA Entertainment

Genre: folk horror
Duration: 1h 44m
Director: Jon Wright
Pour: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney

A home invasion film inspired by Grimm fairy tales, Unwelcome follows a married couple who move from London to rural Ireland, only to find themselves terrorized by murderous redcaps – goblins of British folklore.