Updated every Friday 12:00 PM
April 17 - April 23
Updated every Friday 12:00 PM
April 17 - April 23
And the award goes too...
...Awards come and go - a little less lately. The one to watch this year is Media Play News’ annual Home Media Awards honoring the best home video releases each year. They’ve been in business 10 years and their list is impressive. Not as glamorous as the Oscars maybe, but the right awards at the right time, it seems… ,
Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,
Jean Constant
| AMAZON PRIME VIDEO |
| April is Sci-fi month for Amazon. Tales from the Loop launched on April 3 . Arriving on April 17 is the sixth season of Bosch as well. For more earhty fares, here is Cinelines selection this week |
| CHAVELA Director: Catherine Gund Cast: Eugenia León, Jesusa Rodríguez, Tania Libertad ...evocative, thought-provoking journey through the iconoclastic life of game-changing artist Chavela Vargas. As Qbak wrote: It is a wonderful montage of interviews, images, songs and videos of an artist so human in her vulnerability and yet so celestial in the life that she lived ... Site reference |
| PASS OVER Director: Spike Lee, Danya Taymor Cast: Jon Michael Hill, Julian Parker, Ryan Hallahan ...A modern take on Waiting for Godot. Two homeless black men pass their time on a street corner in New York dreaming of a promised land... Site reference |
| THE KING OF COMEDY Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott ...Rupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself... Site reference A 1982 film still on Facebook? Telling... |
| DISNEY + |
| Walt Disney Studios is offering a flash sale for dozens of titles from its library, including all Star Wars movies, The Sound of Music and numerous 20th Century Fox films. For a limited time, consumers in the U.S. can buy select offerings digitally for $4.99 to $9.99. The studio is organizing the films into weekly, themed collections that will be available for a seven-day period. |
| AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Director: Frank Coraci Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent ...An adventurer, Passepartout, ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, on a daring mission to journey around the world... Site reference |
| FRANKENWEENIE Director: Tim Burton Cast: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short ...When young Victor's pet dog Sparky is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how... Site reference |
| THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN Director: Peter Hedges Cast: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams ...Cindy and Jim Green can't have children. They begin to dream about what their child would be like, they write down all they wished he would be, place it in a box and bury it in the backyard. One stormy night, young Timothy shows up on their doorstep and calls them mum and dad.... Site reference |
| HBO |
| GOOD BOYS Director: Gene Stupnitsky Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon ...Invited to his first kissing party, 12-year-old Max asks his best friends Lucas and Thor for some much-needed help on how to pucker up... Site reference. |
| THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN Director: Simon Curtis Cast: Kevin Costner, Milo Ventimiglia, Jackie Minns ...Wise old dog Enzo Swift shares thoughts about the life experiences which prepared him to protect his family in times of greatest need... Site reference |
| WE’RE HERE (Start April 23) Director: Peter LoGreco Cast: David Huggard, D.J. 'Shangela' Pierce, Caldwell Tidicue ...The six-part unscripted series follows small-town residents as they’re recruited and trained to participate in a one-night only drag performance... Site reference |
| HULU |
| Parasite broke streaming records on Hulu in its first week. It became the second most watched film ever on the service |
| BULWORTH Director: Warren Beatty Cast: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna Adams ...Senator Jay Bulworth is facing financial ruin, so he puts out a contract on his own life in order to collect a large, new insurance policy for his family... Site reference...Interesting footnote when you know the film was released in 2009 |
| MRS. AMERICA Director: Dahvi Waller Cast: Uzo Aduba, Elizabeth Banks, Cate Blanchett ...Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.... Site reference |
| PARASITE Director: Bong Joon Ho Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo ...Ultraviolet finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans... Site reference |
| NETFLIX |
| Many Netflix regions are set to see numerous Studio Ghibli movies in April including Pom Poko, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea and The Wind Rises... |
| DESPICABLE ME Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand ...Surrounded by a small army of minions, Gru is planning the biggest heist in the history of the world... Site reference |
| MONEY HEIST Director: Álex Pina Cast: Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte, Itziar Ituño ... An unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain... Site reference |
| THE EDDY Director: Houda Benyamina, Damien Chazelle, Laïla Marrakchi, Alan Poul Cast: Leïla Bekhti, Yannick Bouanga, Vincent Heneine, André Holland, ....Story of the owner of a struggling club in Paris, France, its house band and the dangers they face from the chaotic city that surrounds them.Six-time Grammy Award winner Glen Ballard, wrote the songs and established The Eddy’s band which is composed of real-life musicians Randy Kerber, Ludovic Louis, Lada Obradovic, Jowee Omicil and Damian Nueva Cortes. ... Site reference |
| ALTERNATIVE STREAMS |
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| KEEPING THE CASTLE Director: Peter Murphy Cast: John Crichton, Henry Crichton ...Living in a castle seems like a fairytale come true, but for these Irish aristocrats, keeping the family home up to scratch can often feel more like a nightmare... (BBC docuseries) Site reference |
| ART OF THE HEIST Director: - Cast: Dion Graham, Robert K. Wittman ...This documentary series give a crook's-eye view of history's most notorious art thefts: the Mona Lisa, the Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and many others.Some of the colorful characters suspected in the thefts include mobster Whitey Bulger, Nazi Hermann Göring, and even painter Pablo P...... Site reference |
| CRUNCHYROLL |
| Crunchyroll is an anime streaming services. with over 1,200 titles in its library, Crunchyroll supports HD streams for both free and paid accounts. Crunchyroll's content supports subtitles, but not dubs. |
| RE:ZERO -STARTING LIFE IN ANOTHER WORLD Animation Production Studio: Re:Zero Partners ...Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world... Site reference |
| ONE PIECE Creator: Eichiro Oda ...The original Manga is the highest selling manga in the world by well over 100 million copies and its still going strong as ever. One Piece is filled with epic fight scenes, imaginative characters, wild landscapes, and unforgettable music... Site referenceThank you again, Wikipedia. Best anime encyclopedia on record! |
| MORE ALTERNATIVE STREAMS |
| New this week |
| STREAMING MUSICALS Premieres are free. 160,000 viewers from 14 different countries tuned in to watch Pride and Prejudice performance, including those in the United States, Italy, Singapore, Australia, Germany and England. After that, you’ll have to rent or buy... |
| BROADWAY HD
Competing for the same market, with an impressive list of Broadway classics, musicals and theater performances, this platform offers a trial period and a monthly subscription |
| LUCE - CINECITTA
77, 270 Films available for free. The catch? No subtitle. The famous Roman film studio Cinecitta library is now available online. Great silent movies collection, and for the more adventurous, Italians actors are so expressive it’s not too hard to follow. Better still, it’ll cheer you up & melt your heart... |
| Still around |
| HENRI |
| French Cinematheque unique & rare classic collection at dinner time. |
| HOOPLA |
| The new line of Archie Comics 80th Anniversary Presents will feature classic material intended for an all-ages audience, available on multiple digital platforms including ComiXology, the official Archie app, and library service Hoopla. |
| LOCAL THEATERS |
| This week in the news |
Theater news. Apparently fourteen theaters in the United States remain open, 13 of them are drive-ins.Those locations standing tall in the COVID-19 climate included the Van Buren Drive-in in Riverside, CA; the Mission Tiki in Monclair, CA; the Galaxy Drive-in in Ennis, TX; the Glendale 9 in Glendale, AZ; the Sacramento 6 Drive-In; the Starlite Drive-in in Cadet, MO; the South Bay Drive-In San Diego; the Auto Drive-in the Greenville, NC area; Hi-Way 21 in Beaufort, SC; the Jesup in Georgia; the Ocala in Florida; King Drive in Huntsville, AL; the Lake Worth in Palm Springs, FL and the Epic Theaters of West Volusia, Florida. (List courtesy Deadline.com) Filming news. Low-budget filmmaking legend Roger Corman has found a way to keep burgeoning directors busy during self-isolation. The director took to Instagram to announce the first “and hopefully last” Corman Quarantine Film Festival, and he’s asking for submissions from anyone with a smartphone and spare time (which is pretty much all of us).Instagram, #CormanChallenge WORD OF THE WEEK (for theater goers only) |
