Streaming Roulette: Monstrous Kaitlyn, Shifty William H, and Ubiquitous Sharon
Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 10:01AM
NATHANIEL R in Baz, Boyhood, Elisabeth Moss, Ethan Hawke, Fargo, Her, Horror, Kaitlyn Dever, Romeo & Juliet, William H Macy, streaming

After the jump you'll find a listing of everything that's new to streaming this month (October 2020). But first we pick two handfuls of titles and we just randomly freeze them with the scroll bar. Whatever comes up is what we share. Do these images make you want to see (or rewatch) the movie? 

[Church choir singing]

Dick Johnson is Dead (2020) on Netflix
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson dramatizes her father's death in multiple ways to help them both prepare for it. Glenn reviewed this buzzy new documentary for us in his weekly column.

Nononononononono. That's not how we're going to talk to one another. I will not be that guy. You cannot put me in that category: the biological father I spend every other week with and I make polite conversation while he drives me places and buys me shit."

Boyhood (2014) on Criterion Channel
Uff Ethan Hawke is so great in this movie, don't you think? What an interesting career he's had, all told. Much more interesting than it looked like it was going to be in the 90s.

...Mister Lundegaard?

Fargo (1996) on Netflix
William H Macy's best performance. A deserved Oscar nomination but, alas, in the wrong category. 

When I first auditioned I had a big monologue on being anorexic. And then I think once they decided to cast me, that is when they made race her issue. But for me I was like. 'I don't have an issue' I didn't think it was a big enough problem for her to have although in retrospect, I actually think it's fantastic they had it in. 

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019) on Prime
Documentary on black people in horror films. Glenn wrote about this film in Doc Corner earlier this year. 

[no dialogue]

Monsterland (2020) season 1 on Hulu
Kaitlyn Dever is in this? Sold. Don't need anything else to sample it. 1996 is proving to be a ridiculous vintage for actors. We already have Florence Pugh, Zendaya, and Dever staking legitimate claims on the "Most Talented Actor Born in 1996" crown. Plus Lucas Hedges, Tom Holland, Harris Dickinson, Anya-Taylor Joy, Hailee Steinfeld. Who knows who else might turn up since none of these people are even 25 years old yet and lots of great actors don't show themselves until their late 20s or early 30s...

Four shootings in five years. All accidents? 

Basic Instinct (1992) on Netflix
Do you ever get the feeling looking at streaming lists that the major services only have a rotation of like 200 movies from a a century plus of cinema, even though there are thousands upon thousands per decade available to them. Point being: this one is ALWAYS on somewhere. Sharon Stone did that.

But he that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail. 

Romeo + Juliet (1996) on Hulu
The Film Experience didn't exist in 1996 so y'all don't know how hopelessly obsessed I was with this movie at the time. o-b-s-e-s-s-e-d. In many ways, in retrospect, it's a blatantly obvious warm-up to Moulin Rouge! (2001) for director Baz Luhrmann. This drug to party to falling in instant love sequence in particular with its hyperactive cutting and medley of songs. 

James. Tell me you don't think I did this. Tell me you know that.

The Invisible Man (2020) on HBO Max
This was a fairly effective film, but I wish Twitter would cool it on the occassional 'Elisabeth Moss for Best Actress' stuff because we need Oscars to take horror seriously when people are 100% deserving like Toni Collette in Hereditary or Lupita Nyong'o in Us but if you overpraise every horror performance who will take the genius horror work seriously? Elisabeth Moss for Best Actress in Shirley... now that we can get behind. 

I like our photograph. I can see you in it.

Her (2013) on Netflix
I like this movie but am nowhere close to loving it which makes me feel so alone in the world. Perhaps I should give it another chance since it seems like everyone worships it.

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