We are getting closer and closer to the summer movie season. There’s a ton of exciting movies coming out throughout the rest of 2023, but first: there’s a lot of new releases coming home this week.
The big ticket items are Shazam! Anger of the Gods, the superhero sequel making its VOD debut before finally heading to HBO Max; the science fiction movie Adam Driver 65, also coming to VOD; And 80 for Brady, now on Paramount Plus. But that is not everything! The highest budget Czech movie of all time is coming to Hulu (and it’s pretty good), the splatterfest terrier 2 is coming to Prime Video, and there are plenty of other options for you to watch this weekend.
Here are all the new movies available to watch at home.
New on Netflix
Chupa
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Netflix
Genre: Fantasy adventure
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: Jonas Cuaron
Form: Demian Bichir, Christian Slater, Evan Whitten
Director Jonás Cuarón co-wrote Gravity with his father Alonso, and made his feature film debut in 2015 with the cross-border thriller deserto. He returns with Chupaa movie about a young boy who finds a chupacabra in his grandfather’s house and befriends the creature.
Holy spider
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
Image: Utopia
Genre: Crime thriller
Duration: 1h 58m
Director: Ali Abbasi
Form: Mehdi Bajestani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
Inspired by the true story of Iranian serial killer Saeed Hanaei, this crime thriller follows Arezoo Rahimi (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi), a journalist who descends into the underworld of Mashhad in search of a serial killer targeting sex workers across the city. Holy spider explores topics such as sexual violence, cultural misogyny and institutional incompetence.
New to Hulu
Medieval
Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu
Image: Paramount Home Entertainment
Genre: Historical drama
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes
Director: Peter Jakl
Form: Ben Foster, Michael Caine, Til Schweiger
The biggest budget film in the history of Czech cinema, Medieval tells the story of the legendary military figure Jan Žižka (Ben Foster). A gritty and violent medieval military drama, this one is filled with court intrigue, military strategy and gruesome combat.
New on Prime Video
terrier 2
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime video
Image: Damn disgusting
Genre: Horror
Duration: 2h 18m
Director: Damien Leone
Form: Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt
The 2016 splatter-slasher movie sequel from Damien Leone features the return of Art the Killer Clown. After being resurrected by an unknown, sinister entity after the carnage in the previous film, Art once again goes on a rampage to terrorize the hapless residents of Miles County on Halloween night, this time targeting a teenage girl and her younger brother.
From our review:
Acting like an entertainer, Art the Clown embraces the artifice of a genre built on constantly improving itself through elaborate death scenes and detailed effects. Terrier doesn’t have the “you’re there” immediacy of a found-footage movie designed to approximate a snuff movie. Instead, it creates distance from the audience by positioning the violence as performative. It makes all that brutality more palatable than it otherwise would have been. In their handcrafted effects and their evocation of iconic slashers, the Terriifier movies allow horror fans to enjoy the warm comfort of nostalgia while still playing on our latent longing for the thrill of a movie that can pull the blood-soaked carpet out from under us.
On a wing and a prayer
Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime video
Image: MGM
Genre: Survival drama
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Sean McNamara
Form: Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Jesse Metcalfe
Dennis Quaid (The day after tomorrow) and Heather Graham (Boogie nights) star in this survival drama Doug White, a 56-year-old pharmacist, and his wife Terri. Doug and his family charter a private jet to fly them back to Louisiana to attend his brother’s funeral on Easter Sunday, but when their pilot suffers a heart attack mid-flight, Doug and Terri will have to take the controls and come up with a plan to land safely.
New to Paramount Plus
80 for Brady
Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount plus
Photo: Scott Garfield/Paramount Pictures
Genre: Sports comedy
Duration: 1h 38m
Director: Kyle Marvin
Form: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno
Based on a true story, this movie stars four lifelong friends who win a trip to personally attend the 2017 Super Bowl and meet their hero: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Brady himself is an executive producer and plays the lead role 80 for Bradynext to Lily Tomlin (9 to 5), Jane Fonda (klute), Rita Moreno (West Side Story) and Sally Field (Forest Gump).
New on Peacock
Praise this
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
Image: Universal Pictures
Genre: Musical comedy
Duration: 1h 37m
Director: Tina Gordon
Form: Chloe Bailey, Anjelika Washington, Tristan Mack Wilds
This youth choir comedy from Drum line And What men want Screenwriter Tina Gordon follows a music competition between choirs. Swarm star and singer Chloe Bailey stars, along with Anjelika Washington (Star girl) and Quavo from Migos.
Of an age
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
Photo: Thuy Vy/Focus Features
Genre: Romantic drama
Duration: 1h 40m
Director: Goran Stolevsky
Form: Thom Green, Elias Anton, Hattie Hook
This romantic drama follows Nikola “Kol” Denic (Elias Anton), a Serbian immigrant to Australia and aspiring ballroom dancer who begins an abrupt yet intense love affair with Adam (Thom Green), the brother of Kol’s ballroom dancing partner, Ebony (Hattie). Hook). Reunited several years later, the two explore their feelings as they try to understand the time they spent apart and what exactly they mean to each other.
New to Fandor
Country gold
Where to watch: Available to stream on fandor
Image: Cinedigm Entertainment Group
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1h 24m
Director: Mickey Rece
Form: Mickey Reece, Ben Hall
This black and white comedy comes from indie filmmaker Mickey Reece, who stars as a budding country music star in 1994’s Nashville. There he meets a country legend (Ben Hall), who plans to be cryogenically frozen the next day. From there it gets surreal. After a tour of the festival circuit, he can finally be seen at home.
New on VOD
Shazam! Anger of the Gods
Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Warner Bros.
Genre: Superhero action
Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
Director: David F. Sandberg
Form: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Grace Caroline Currey
Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and his foster siblings return in the sequel to David F. Sandberg’s 2019 superhero film Shazam! as the eponymous superpowered demigod (Zachary Levi) and his “Shazamily” of mythically powerful superheroes. When Hespera (Helen Mirren) and Kalypso (Lucy Liu), the progeny of the mighty Titan Atlas, steal a powerful magical item as part of their plan to conquer humanity, Shazam and his siblings will face challenges and revelations. those bonds of family and force them to face the question of what it means to be a hero.
65
Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Sony Pictures release
Genre: Sci-Fi thriller
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Form: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman
Adam driver (Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi) stars in this original sci-fi action thriller as Mills, a space pilot whose ship crash-lands on an alien planet while transporting a group of passengers who are in a cryogenic sleep. There are several twists in this film, the most relevant of which is this: the planet is none other than Earth – 65 million years in the past. To survive, Mills must travel through this prehistoric world with the only surviving passenger (Ariana Greenblatt) to find the ship’s only remaining escape pod, all while fighting off the planet’s terrifying apex predators.
Inside
Where to watch: On rent for $19.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Focus functions
Genre: Psychological thriller
Duration: 1h 45m
Director: Vasilis Katsoupis
Form: Willem Dafoe, Gene Bervoets, Eliza Stuyck
Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, The lighthouse) stars in this psychological thriller as a high-end art thief who gets trapped in a New York penthouse during a robbery. With no contact with the outside world and running low on food, he’ll have to figure out a way to safety or risk being undone by his own madness.
The great Maurice
Where to watch: On rent for $4.99 Amazon, Appleand Vudu
Image: Viva Images
Genre: Fantasy comedy
Duration: 1h 33m
Director: Toby Genekel
Form: Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis
An animated adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s children’s novel, The great Maurice stars Hugh Laurie as a talking cat who scams (with the cooperation of a group of rats) in nearby towns. Emilia Clarke is Malicia, the mayor’s daughter, who joins Maurice and his gang. The extensive voice cast also includes Himesh Patel, David Tennant and Gemma Arterton.