Triangle of Sadness, A Man Called Otto, and every new movie you can watch at home this weekend
It’s awards season and you know what that means: more and more award contenders are making their way onto streaming services.
Nominated this week for Best Picture Triangle of sadness lands on Hulu, animated nominee Marcel the shell with shoes on shuffles its way onto Showtime and multiple nominees To liveadapted from an all time great movie, comes on VOD.
That’s not all – there’s a new rom-com on Netflix, the House party remake on HBO Max, Tom Hanks’ A man named Ottoand many more to choose from this week when you decide what to watch at home.
Let’s get into it.
New on Netflix
Love at the first kiss
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Genre: Romantic comedy
Duration: 1h 36m
Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azua
Form: Alvaro Cervantes, Silvia Alonso, Gorka Otxoa
This romantic comedy from Spain follows a young man who discovers as a teenager that he can see his entire future playing with someone from their first kiss. Now an adult managing a struggling book publisher, he continues his search for his soul mate.
New to Hulu
Triangle of sadness
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Genre: Drama
Duration: 2h 27m
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Form: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon
One of many satires of the rich and powerful to come out in 2022, Triangle of sadness is Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s second Palme d’Or winner at Cannes (The squarethough I prefer it Force majeur). This one follows a group of wealthy people on a luxury cruise, and what happens when things go horribly wrong.
New on HBO Max
House party
Where to watch: Available to stream on HBO max
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1h 41m
Director: Calmatic
Form: Tosin Cole, Jacob Latimore, Karen Obilom
This remake of the 1990 Kid ‘n Play classic is the feature film debut of music video director Calmatic (best known for the music video “Old Town Road”), and stars Tosin Cole and Jacob Latimore as two young friends hired to clean up LeBron . James’ mansion. If they throw a party instead, things get wild. The litany of famous cameos includes Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg, LeBron James and teammate Anthony Davis, and of course Kid ‘n Play.
New on Showtime
Marcel the shell with shoes on
Where to watch: Available to stream on show time
Genre: Comedy drama
Duration: 1h 30m
Director: Dean Fleischer Camp
Form: Jenny Slate, Rosa Salazar, Thomas Mann
This is a feature film adaptation of the beloved YouTube series that follows a little shell wearing shoes (voiced by Jenny Slate) getting philosophical from a small worldview.
From our review:
Casually saying profound things in a charmingly direct way is kind of Marcel’s thing. Marcel the shell with shoes on gets a remarkable mileage out of Neville making simple, odd observations about the people and things around him. Considering that the original Marcel videos were less than 12 minutes in total, it’s a testament to the script’s strengths that the feature film version of his schtick never gets old. (The film is also relatively thin, at 89 minutes in length, but still.) The dramatic arc of this magic-realistic comedy is gentle: Dean’s YouTube videos about Neville bring them viral fame, which excites and terrifies them both. The jokes are also soft and lovable.
New on Shake
Spoonful of Sugar
Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder and AMCPlus
Genre: Horror
Duration: 1h 34m
Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
Form: Morgan Saylor, Kat Foster, Myko Olivier
Millicent (Morgan Saylor), a suspiciously young-looking woman, is hired to babysit Johnny (Danilo Crovetti), a young mute boy suffering from a medley of ailments and life-threatening allergies. When Millicent learns more about the child’s family’s dark secrets and develops an unhealthy attraction to the boy’s father (Myko Olivier), she begins to take matters into her own hands to make sure she’s never separated again. of the family. – ever. Given the appearance of the trailer, Spoonful of Sugar seems like the kind of horror movie that ends up somewhere in between Orphan, Saint Maud, And A remedy for well-being.
New on VOD
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Genre: Comedy drama
Duration: 1h 52m
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Form: Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek, Ayub Khan Din
One of the sexiest movie franchises comes to an end with this final installment of the Magic Mike trilogy. Steven Soderbergh returns to the director’s chair for this one, in which Channing Tatum’s Mike becomes a “kept man” for a very wealthy Salma Hayek.
From our review:
Altogether, Magic Mike’s Last Dance has the feel of a stage musical, complete with great emotions expressed through songs – or a half-naked interpretive dance in the fake rain, as the case may be. It’s a lustful, ambitious fairytale, with lofty screenplays, lavish wardrobe choices and a London where working-class Adonis organizes impromptu flash mobs in double-decker buses. (This scene momentarily turns the film into a jazzy antics a la the italian job, (but intent on seducing an uptight bureaucrat, rather than stealing $4 million in gold.) But when both love and money complicate the primal pleasure of watching twirling muscular men in sweatpants, it dilutes the movie’s once-simple pleasures . Maybe you can not have it all.
A man named Otto
Where to watch: Available to purchase for $14.99 on Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Genre: Comedy drama
Duration: 2h 6m
Director: Mark Foster
Form: Tom Hanks, Mariana Trevino, Rachel Keller
Tom Hanks plays against type in this comedy-drama adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s 2012 novel A man named Ove as a grumpy, lonely widower who – against his own antisocial nature – accidentally befriends his new neighbor and their child.
To live
Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Form: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood and Alex Sharp
Nominated for two Oscars (Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor), To live is an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece drama Ikiru. Nighy plays an office worker who receives a harsh medical diagnosis and is out to make the most of his time.