Evil Dead Rise, Netflix’s Mother, Air, and every other new movie to watch at home this week

Another week, another batch of new movies to enjoy at home.

This week, a host of exciting new releases are finally available for digital rental or purchase, led by Evil Dead Rise. There is also Guy Ritchie’s Covenantthe Owen Wilson Bob Ross-esque PaintAnd The Wandering Earth 2the sequel to the Chinese mega blockbuster.

As far as streaming is concerned, Netflix has a new Jennifer Lopez action movie called The motherdebuts Disney Plus with the new sci-fi adventure Craterthe Nike movie Sky comes to Prime Video and critically acclaimed movies Saint Omer, The FablesAnd Huesera: The bone woman premiere on new streaming services.

Let’s get into it!

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New on Netflix

The mother

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Photo: Eric Milner/Netflix

Genre: Action drama
Duration: 1h 55m
Director: Niki Carol
Form: Jennifer Lopez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Paul Raci

In director Niki Caro’s (Mulan) latest Netflix action movie, Jennifer Lopez is mom. No not That kind of motheror That kind of mother, or That kind of mother. She is a well-trained assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter (Lucy Paez) she left years ago to hide from her powerful enemies. So like Beatrix Kiddo in it Kill Bill, but instead of “The Bride” she is a “The Mother” kind of mother. A mother like no other.

New to Disney Plus

Crater

Where to watch: Available to stream on Disneyplus

Image: Disney

Genre: Sci-fi adventure
Duration: 1h 45m
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Form: Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Mckenna Grace, Brady Noon

Disney’s new coming-of-age sci-fi adventure is about a boy and his group of four best friends who take a trip to a mysterious crater before they leave the moon.

New to Hulu

Saint Omer

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Srab Films

Genre: Legal drama
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes
Director: Alice Diop
Form: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville

This French legal drama revolves around Rama (Kayije Kagame), a French Senegalese novelist who travels to Saint-Omer, France, to observe the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), a mother accused of consenting voluntarily that her daughter was murdered. As she learns more about Coly’s life, Rama becomes increasingly confused by the parallels to her own life and the imminent birth of her own child. Saint Omer is directed by Alice Diop, an experienced documentary filmmaker who decided to make the film after attending a similar trial in real life.

New on Prime Video

Sky

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime video

Image: Amazon Studios

Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h 51m
Director: am Affleck
Form: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman

Part of a new wave of basketball movies, Sky tells the story of Nike’s collaboration with Michael Jordan… without the role of Michael Jordan (although Viola Davis plays his mother, Deloris). It also has a great antagonist, which always helps.

New on Showtime

The Fables

Where to watch: Available to stream on show time

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Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Duration: 2h 31m
Director: Stephen Spielberg
Form: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Gabriel LaBelle

Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical drama follows the story of Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), a young aspiring filmmaker who finds stability in the medium of film amid the dysfunction of his family life and childhood in post-war Arizona. If that description isn’t enough to entice you, how about a cameo appearance from Twin Peaks creator David Lynch as acclaimed Hollywood icon John Ford?

From our review:

At the heart of almost every Steven Spielberg movie is the ghost of a boy still saddened by his parents’ divorce, who puts his grief on paper in the huge sandbox of the movie theater. You can see that child’s pain spilling out unconsciously into the bickering mom and dad characters from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It stems from the family dynamic of ET: the otherworldly. And it evolves into Catch Me If You Can, as Frank Abagnale takes refuge in the home of his mother’s second family. But Spielberg has never approached his own childhood as directly as in his semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans, one of the best films of 2022 so far.

New on Apple TV Plus

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Where to watch: Available to stream on Apple TV Plus

Image: Apple TV Plus

Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Form: Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, Andrew Barber

This documentary tells the story of Michael J. Fox’s extraordinary life as a Hollywood megastar and his ongoing journey with Parkinson’s disease. Using archival footage, some scripted elements and some of the classic documentary formats, Still is one of the most anticipated documents of the year.

New on Shake

Huesera: The bone woman

Where to watch: Available to stream on shudder

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Genre: Horror
Duration: 1h 37m
Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Form: Natalia Solian, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla

This critically acclaimed horror film from Mexico follows a new mother who is haunted by alien forces.

From our review:

huesera speaks in a language of breaking and hardening, the way rigid structures break under pressure – the wood of sturdy furniture, the bones of an animal eaten for its flesh, the expectations of a mother-to-be. Powerful hands pry these things from their assigned purpose. In huesera, Valeria is both the hands of an artisan and their medium: screaming in pain as her bones are bent in a way they were not meant to be, but yearning for the control to twist her life into a shape shaped by her desires. Cervera has created a motherhood fable that responds to tradition by asking: Which tradition is the strongest and most empowering? Catholic rigidity embodied in a statue of the Virgin Mary? The witchcraft of women imprisoned by such ideals? The punks revolting? When someone whose life is in transition is pulled in so many directions, the body is transformed and the bones are reset.

New on VOD

Evil Dead Rise

Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: Supernatural horror
Duration: 1h 36m
Director: Le Cronin
Form: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies

The fifth installment in the venerable Evil Dead horror franchise stars Lily Sullivan (Mentally) as Beth, a guitar technician who decides to visit her estranged sister Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) and her children after discovering she is pregnant. When a massive earthquake shakes the foundations of Ellie’s apartment complex, an ancient evil is inadvertently unearthed – an evil that threatens to claim the lives of all the people trapped in the building.

From our review:

Evil Dead Rise is a film made by the sick for the sick. It’s a fantastic update to the iconic franchise, full of humor but with Álvarez’s penchant for the disgusting and disturbing. The refreshing change in setting and cast, plus Sutherland’s breakout feats, prove that this undead franchise still has a lot of life and strife in it.

At 97 lively minutes, it feels like it’s almost over as soon as it starts. It’s a perfect onboarding flick for newer audiences who’ve never seen an Evil Dead movie, but for longtime fans, it’s a breath of fresh air in a classic horror comedy franchise, mixing Raimi’s old school approach with the new school of horrific horror. It proves that there is still a lot to color in within the old deadlines.

Paint

Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Image: IFC Films

Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1h 36m
Director: Briton McAdams
Form: Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Ciara Renee

Owen Wilson stars in this dark comedy as Carl Nargle, a pipe-smoking afro-haired artist whose popular public TV show about painting is threatened by the arrival of a new artist (Michaela Watkins) who becomes the channel’s newest star. Distraught, Carl is forced to consider his life’s choices and his own thwarted artistic aspirations. It is actually Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundybut instead of focusing on a character modeled after real life presenter Mort Crimit’s Bob Ross.

Guy Ritchie’s Covenant

Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu

Photo: Christopher Raphael/MGM

Genre: Military action thriller
Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes
Director: Guy Ritchie
Form: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Sean Sagar

One of two films coming out this year about American soldiers fleeing Afghanistan with their interpreters (along with Ric Roman Waugh’s kandahar), The covenant sees Jake Gyllenhaal team up with Guy Ritchie for a war drama.

The Wandering Earth II

Where to watch: On rent for $4.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu

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Genre: Sci-fi action adventure
Duration: 2h 53m
Director: Fran Gwo
Form: Andy Lau, Wu Jing, Willis Chung

The 2019 Chinese sci-fi action-adventure movie prequel centers on a team of scientists tasked with building massive engines designed to safely propel Earth beyond the radius of the approaching solar flare, in search of a new solar system. Time is running out and the scientists must survive the elements and their own interpersonal conflicts in order to survive.