On DVD/BD you can pick up the incredibly intense Detroit – the story of one night during the Detroit riots when a group of black musicians come up against some seriously over-zealous police officers. If you missed it in cinemas then you should definitely check it out but be warned – it’s not an easy watch. Elsewhere there’s Good Time starring Robert Pattinson – a film I wanted to see but that barely seemed to get a release before disappearing. Before you rush off to buy it, though, check out the rest of the article! And finally on disc this week we have Una in which Rooney Mara stars opposite Ben Mendelsohn as an abuse victim and abuser respectively.
If you’re looking for good stuff to stream this week, because you’ve already managed to cram in all 10 seasons of Friends, then check out The BFG which is on Netflix from today. From Wednesday you can also watch Good Time with Robert Pattinson as a bank robber trying to free his mentally ill brother from prison after a bank heist goes awry. And finally for this week, you can catch The Polka King with Jack Black. At a level 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, critics and audiences seem to agree that this is a slightly better than average film. High praise indeed!
Coming to Amazon Prime, we have the excellent Miss Sloane starring Jessica Chastain as the titular lobbyist who takes on the US gun lobby. It’s available to stream right now and if you like political drama then you should definitely check this one out. This week we have a big treat for Matt Damon fans as not one but two of his back catalogue are made available. Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood and Invictus, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, are available from Wednesday. Also streaming from Wednesday are Spike Jonze’s under-appreciated Where The Wild Things Are, Ewan McGregor and Scarlet Johansson taking on the dystopian future in The Island and, last but by no means least, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood which deserves to be seen by a much wider audience.
On the big screen this week, three treats – well…two treats and a tired prequel anyway. The one you simply MUST check out is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I’ll have my review up later this week but the tl;dr is that it’s almost perfect. Secondly, Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. I never got to see Brian Cox’s Churchill in Churchill last year – my local Cineworld decided not to screen it after having shown me the trailer about 50 times – but this certainly looks like a better film. Last, and by every means least, we have Insidious: The Last Key – a barrel-scraping second prequel in the once-interesting Insidious franchise. With a little bit of luck, no one will watch it and that’ll be the end of this series!
That should keep you entertained for the week. Laterz!
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