Elvis, Netflix’s Day Shift and all other new movies to watch at home

This week’s new movies to watch at home are led by a big theatrical release finally coming to home video and an exciting Netflix film that’s a bit of a throwback.

First we need to talk about it elvis. Baz Luhrmann’s maximalist approach is a perfect vehicle for a tale of one of American pop culture’s most iconic figures, and it’s finally available to watch at home if, like me, you couldn’t go to the theaters.

The other highlight is that of Netflix day shift, a vampire-hunting action-comedy-horror hybrid from first-time director and legendary stunt performer JJ Perry, starring Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg. It’s a blast and a throwback to a bygone era of action filmmaking.

In addition to these two, there are two children’s films, a documentary about Princess Diana, David Cronenberg’s crimes of the future and Alex Garlands men at reduced rental prices and much more.

Let’s get into that!

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elvis

Where to see: Available to rent or buy for $19.99 from Amazon, Apple, Vudu

Image: Warner Bros.

Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll starring Austin Butler (Once upon a time in Hollywood) as the legendary musician and Tom Hanks as his patron, Colonel Tom Parker. From our review:

It turns out that the ultimate casting choice isn’t the actor, it’s the director. Baz Luhrmann is exactly what an Elvis biography needs: he knows no restraint, no shame and no self-confidence. He is the only filmmaker who has been able to address the legend of Elvis Presley with the simultaneously high-profile and emotional candor it deserves.

If you’re in the mood, check out our list of great biopics about musicians or the best movies from Elvis’ acting career.

day shift

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

This new action-horror comedy marks the directorial debut of veteran stunt performer and action coordinator JJ Perry. It’s in many ways a throwback to buddy comedy action films from 30 years ago, but with modernized choreography. Jamie Foxx plays a vampire hunter in dire need of cash and teams up with a representative of the Vampire Hunters’ Union (Dave Franco) and an old friend (Snoop Dogg) to get a big score.

From our review:

The refreshingly low stakes and the way the everyday and the supernatural blend effortlessly here are just two of the possibilities day shift will remind savvy viewers of the many video stores of the 80s and 90s to which the film is so clearly a declaration of love. The Lost Boys, Dead heatand Terrible night All get their own tributes, alongside other films. Some of these references are presented in a subtle way and are intended for only the most dedicated movie geeks. Others are roaring, loving calls.

Secret headquarters

Where to see: Available to stream on Paramount Plus

Photo Credit: Hopper Stone/Paramount Pictures

Owen Wilson is a hybrid of Iron Man and Green Lantern in this kid-centric superhero film catfish and nerve Directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost.

From our review:

When Secret headquarters Spoils children’s fun with super powerful gadgets, it shines. Narrowing the focus to the conflict between Charlie and his father and the toll that life as a masked vigilante takes on family life sets the film apart from other entries in the Kids Discover Superpowers and/or SuperGadgets subgenre. It could use a little less focus on the serious adult themes, but when Joost and Schulman narrow the plot down to smaller plots and sillier antics, Secret headquarters turns out to be a fun, heartwarming romp.

crimes of the future

Where to see: Available to rent for $5.99 from Apple, Amazon, Google

Image: NEON

Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart star in David Cronenberg’s latest body horror project. There’s no better time to revisit Cronenberg’s history with the genre he’s long championed.

From our review:

There are disturbing moments, terrifying moments, and even a few touches of grittiness in his relatively recent films Maps to the Stars and cosmopolis (both with Stewarts dusk co-star Robert Pattinson; Taylor Lautner has to do kick flips while waiting on the phone.) But crime is Cronenberg’s first full-fledged sci-fi/horror film since 1999’s playful gaming odyssey existence. His return to genre territory is both more extreme and less so. existence is a more user-friendly journey for the squeamish, but nonetheless crime‘ explicitly surgical moments, it’s a rather contemplative, sometimes recessive film. You could even describe it as a mood picture.

men

Where to see: Available to rent for $5.99 from Amazon, Apple, Vudu

Photo: Kevin Baker/A24

Alex Garland (Ex Machina, destruction) returns with this horror film about a young woman (Jessie Buckley) who flees to the country with her husband after a traumatic experience, only to encounter a very strange group of men (Rory Kinnear) who share the same face.

From our review:

meaning and purpose aside, men is a sensualist’s dream. Garland and cinematographer Rob Hardy (who also shot Ex Machina and destruction) give the film gaspingly intense visual sharpness, with vivid colors and endlessly stunning images. Simple shots of a moss-covered tree or raindrops rippling in a puddle are almost overwhelmingly beautiful. The music, by Portishead’s Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow – who also worked on Garland’s previous two films – blends ambient sounds and music with Buckley’s vocalizations, sometimes to a hauntingly beautiful effect, like exploring the echo of a tunnel by singing with her own voice harmonizes. Later, a scream of pent-up emotional pain slips so completely into the soundtrack that it might as well be something Harper thinks about more than something she actually does.

Happy Birthday

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

This surreal Telugu language crime comedy is set in a fictional country where a law is passed making gun ownership compulsory. The film follows a group of people in a fancy hotel where customers are required to have guns and a series of incidents that result.

Codename: Emperor

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

This action thriller from Europe follows a moral dilemma for a secret agent when he is asked to frame an innocent politician.

heart song

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

heart song is a musical romantic drama from Turkey that follows a nomadic folk musician of the people of the cathedral who falls in love with the bride of a wedding he was hired for. The film contains a lot of cathedral folk music.

Bank Robber: The Last Great Heist

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Argentina’s most famous bank robbery is explored in this true crime document, when five masked robbers took 23 people hostage and robbed a bank in broad daylight in 2006.

Pakka ad

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Another Telugu comedy coming to Netflix this week is a courtroom action comedy about a lawyer who takes on a controversial client. His relationship with the client brings him into conflict with his ex-judge father.

Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

This documentary tells the story of pioneering skateboarder Leo Baker, who won gold at the 2014 Summer X Games and is also one of the most prominent trans athletes.

13: The musical

Where to see: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Alan Markfield/Netflix

The film adaptation of the 2007 stage musical by Jason Robert Brown, Robert Horn and Dan Elish follows a boy who moves to Indiana from New York and wants a bar mitzvah to be remembered in his new surroundings.

The princess

Where to see: Available to stream on HBO Max

Image: HBO

Not to be confused with the recently released Hulu action film of the same name The princess is a documentary film about Princess Diana by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Ed Perkins (Black sheep).

i love my father

Where to see: Available to rent for $6.99 from Apple, Vudu

Image: Magnolia Pictures

A irreverent comedy based on a true story, Patton Oswalt stars as a father trying to connect with his estranged son by posing as a woman online. Yes, he’s trying to capture his own son (played by writer/director James Morosini, on whose real-life experience the story is based).

wifely

Where to see: Available for $5.99 on Apple, Amazon, Vudu

Image: Paramount Pictures

An R-rated sci-fi thriller, wifely follows a detective (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who recently lost his wife and has been assigned an AI companion (Elena Kampouris) to act like her. As a result, he comes into conflict with a resistance group trying to end this practice, while the AI ​​companion begins recalling memories that aren’t exactly hers.

From our review:

Instead of developing the uncomfortable, unbalanced relationship between these two specific characters, wifely unearths a barely concealed subtext and proudly lays it out as text: Men subdue women, and if their attempts to do so are thwarted, they will invent new women to subdue even more. There are moments when the film seems poised to provocatively reinterpret grief and loneliness as all-encompassing excuses for male misdeeds, but Bird backs away from that by not including main characters who actually grieve. It’s just another interesting idea that the film bobs up and down.