Streaming Roulette, July 2022

We never know which films to cover since there are so many channels so please note that we welcome comments and requests for more in-depth coverage of new-to-streaming titles. 

Okay, time for this month's streaming roulette. You know the rules. We highlight new-to-streaming movies and an occasional TV series by freezing them on the scroll bar at entirely random places and just sharing what pops up. No cheating*!

Okay, we're going to have a nice CALM talk like we discussed, right?

LOVE, VICTOR (SEASON 3) on Hulu
Sad this show is ending but also relieved since so few high school shows wrap up at their natural ending point (senior year) before they've overstayed their welcome. Have you started watching the final season yet? Ana Ortiz (who is completely Emmy worthy for season 2) and James Martinez as Victor's parents are both so terrific and not at all the afterthoughts parents so often are in teen soaps...

You need to eat something. Eat it.

THE IMPOSSIBLE (2012) on HBOMax
Ahhh, remember how completely excellent baby Tom Holland was in The Impossible. Here he is bossing his mother (Naomi Watts) around in this tsunami drama/true story. For some reason when I think of this movie I always recall that Reese Witherspoon was obsessed and campaigning for the Watts's Best Actress nomination.

-Dr. Kibner will be here soon.
-Kibner Kibner Kibner Kibner. I'm going to lie down and think, honey. I'm just gonna think.

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) on Shudder
I've never seen this well received remake of the 50s classic, have you? And look it's young Jeff Goldblum and . the perpetually undervalued Veronica Cartwright (as great in genre films as many 'prestige' actors are in dramas) as husband and wife. They're talking about Leonard Nimoy's character in this scene. Something tells me Jeff Goldblum is not going to survive his little nap when he's feeling strange.

Olga: Why go through all this trouble? Be the weak little person you were meant to be.
Joey: Let's find out.

THE PRINCESS (2022) on Hulu
Cannot believe this is the image I landed on considering how I felt when I first heard about this project. The focus is about to shift to Joey King, the titular character, as she fights the villainess Olga Kurylenko, but there in the background is the charismatic action-ready Vietnamese star Veronica Ngo who could surely take  both Joey & Olga out in seconds and be ready for more opponents. We've sung her praises before here on the site from her movie star charisma in Vietnam's Oscar submission Furie to a Film Bitch Award medal for her work in Da 5 Bloods as Hanoi Hannah. Why isn't she the star of this fantasy? Argh. 

- Tina, I love you!
- No. No. It's over.

BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984) on Amazon Prime & Paramount Plus 
This was the first Woody Allen film I ever saw and afterwards I was completely smitten with Woody & Mia as a team (sigh). Mia Farrow is so hilarious in this movie and though her overall filmography doesn't immediately suggest a lot of range in terms of the type of characters she could play Broadway Danny Rose and, five years later, Alice (1990) prove otherwise! [Nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars, and Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical at the Golden Globes]

Mother, are you hiding something from me? 

LATE AUTUMN (1960) on Criterion Collection
Criterion has a Setsuko Hara program this month with 11 films including many of her cinephile-beloved Yasujiro Ozu classics. Tokyo Story (1953) might be the most famous but since Ozu was primarily working before the Oscars recognized foreign films, the only one of his films ever submitted to the Oscars was Late Autumn.

[Singing in Voiceover] I will always remember the chair, that window, the way the light streams in, the clothes I'm wearing, the words I'm hearing, the face i'm seeing, the feeling I'm feeling... ♫

YENTL (1983) on Amazon Prime
We just discussed this Barbra Streisand gem (the best of her very unprolific directorial career) on "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" when it was on Criterion Channel and now it's on Amazon Prime. If you haven't yet watched what are you waiting for? [Nominated for 5 Oscars, winning for Original Song Score, and nominated for 6 Golden Globes, winning Best Musical and Best Director]

I stumble naked through the ruins back towards blander less complicated confections, leaving in my wake a trail of rainbow carnage. 

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) on Criterion Channel
I had forgotten about the Gummy Bears! Perfection. This play/concert/soundtrack/movie is perfection. It's crayz how little John Cameron Mitchell is discussed since all of his movies are treats... though they're definitely not of the blander less complicated variety.


So what (else) is streaming in July? 

★ indicates movies or series of note though sometimes hidden gems have no buzz until you see them.
🔸 Indicates that the movie was Oscar-nominated in some category or another

also new on Netflix in July

• A Call to Spy
• Big Daddy
• 🔸 ★ Blue Jasmine
• 🔸 ★ Boogie Nights
• 🔸 ★ Catch Me If You Can
• The Dark Knight Rises
• 🔸 ★ Deliverance
• The Dirty Dozen
• Falls Around Her
• Final Score
• 🔸 ★ GoodFellas
• I Am Legend
• Insidious
• LOL
• ★ Mean Girls
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
• ★ Natural Born Killers
• Old School
• Police Academy
• 🔸 The Pursuit of Happyness
• Semi-Pro
• ★ Seven
• Snatch
• ★  Stranger Things  SEASON 4. VOL. 2
• 🔸 ★ The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The Terminal
• Vampires
• Wyatt Earp
• 🔸 ★ Zero Dark Thirty

Later this Month (a sampling)

• The Sea Beast (2022) - new animated adventure July 8th
• How to Change Your Mind (2022) - new Alex Gibney doc series on mind altering drugs July 12th
• Persuasion (2022) - new Austen adaptation starring Dakota Johnson July 15th
• Umma (2022) - Sandra Oh horror film July 16th
• The Gray Man (2022) - new action film July 27th

 

★🔸 COLLECTIONS now streaming on Criterion Channel

• BOXING ONSCREEN - 16 films including Raging Bull, Fat City, The Champ
• DIRECTED BY HENRY KING - 8 films including In Old Chicago, State Fair
• NOIR IN COLOR - 15 films including Leave Her to Heaven, Niagara, Rivers Edge
• STARRING SETSUKO HARA - 11 films including Late Spring, Tokyo Story
• DIRECTED BY BLAKE EDWARDS - 6 films including Victor/Victoria, That's Life!
• THE BEFORE TRILOGY - Richard Linklater's classic romantic dramas with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke

INDIVIDUAL FILMS

• Air Doll  (2009) Hirokazu Kore-eda film starring Doona Bae 
• ★ Destry Rides Again  (1939) Western with Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich
• ★ Hedwig and the Angry Inch  (2001) John Cameron Mitchell's musical classic
• ★ Pink Flamingos  (1972) John Waters classic -Retrospective Tribute
• 🔸Shaft  (1971) Gordon Parks hit with Oscar winning theme song
• Walker (1987) unconventional biopic about the President of Nicaragua

Later this Month - a Sampling

• Lemon  (2017) Janicza Bravo's debut before Zola - July 6th
• Ahed's Knee  (2021) from Nadav Lapid - July 14th
• Mississippi Masala  (1991) Mira Nair's romantic drama with Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury
• ★ Adoption (1975) Hungarian classic -July 27th

also streaming now

• 🔸 ★127 Hours (2010)
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• Because I Said So (2007)
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
• Billboard Dad (1999)
• Black Knight (2001)
• Bogus (1996)
• 🔸 Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
• Bride Wars (2009)
• Cadillac Records (2008)
• Closed Circuit (2013)
• Contraband (2012)
• Death Race (2008)
• 🔸 The Descendants (2011)
• The Expendables (2010-2014) first 3 movies
• First Knight (1995)
• Ghost Rider (2007)
• Godsend (2004)
• ★ Good Luck to You Leo Grande (2022) - REVIEW
• The Gospel According to André (2017)
• Heist (2001)
• Hysteria (2012)
• 🔸Independence Day (1996)
• Insidious (2011)
• John Dies at the End (2012)
• ★Joy Ride (2001)
• Jumanji (1995)
• Knock Knock (2015)
• ★Kung Fu Hustle (2005)
• The Last Circus (2010)
• The Last Days on Mars (2013)
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’hoole (2010)
• The Librarian... (2004-2008) three movies
• Little Richard (2000)
• Maid In Manhattan (2002)
• The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
• 🔸Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
• 🔸 ★ Milk (2008)
• Money Train (1995)
• Motherland Fort Salem SEASON 3
• Nim’s Island (2008)
• ★ Only Murders in the Building SEASON 2 - REVIEWED
• Passport to Paris (1999)
• Poseidon (2006)
• Post Grad (2009)
• Que Pena Tu Vida (2016)
• 🔸 ★ Rachel Getting Married (2008) - top ten of the Aughts
• Radio (2003)
• The Replacement Killers (1998)
• ★School Daze (1988) - Spike Lee musical!
• 🔸 ★Sexy Beast (1999)
• The Sitter (2010)
• ★Sorry to Bother You (2018)
• Step Up (2006-2010) - first three movies
• Switching Goals (1999)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
• Taxi (1998)
• Te Presento a Laura (2010)
• That’s My Boy (2012)
• The Tourist (2010)
• Urban Legend (1998-2005) three movies
• The Watch (2012)
• The Wave (2015)
• 🔸 ★What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)
• 🔸 ★Working Girl (1988) - hit me with your best shot
• 🔸 ★ Worst Person in the World (2021) - top ten list for 2021

later this month - a sampling

• Killing Eve SEASON 4 July 10th
• Bob's Burgers Movies (2022) - July 12th - REVIEW
• What We Do in the Shadows SEASON 4 premiere - July 13th
• ★Viva (2015) Oscar finalist in its year. Drama about a young would be drag queen - July 15th
• The Cursed (2022) - July 18th
• Not Okay (2022) - July 29th
• Hatching (2022) - July 29th REVIEW

Caution: Prime tends to be the least accurate service in terms of what internet listings report as available and what is actually available. So consider this "supposedly streaming on Prime" in our experience many of them will be rentals rather than Prime offerings or require an "add-on" to view but we haven't yet determined how to find an accurate listing...

• The Terminal List (2022)
• Very Cavallari (2018)
• 16-Love (2012)
• 1UP (2022)
• 52 Pick-Up (1986)
• A Feral World (2020)
• A Hologram for the King (2016)
• ★ A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
• Adventure Boyz (2020)
• Aeon Flux (2005)
• 🔸★ Ali (2001)
• All Roads to Pearla (2019)
• As Long as We Both Shall Live (2016)
• Attack of the Unknown (2020)
• Awaken The Shadowman (2017)
• Barry Munday (2010)
• Betrayed (1988)
• Blown Away (1994)
• Blue Jay (2016)
• ★ Body of Evidence (1993) bad movie we love
• 🔸★ Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
• Cadillac Man (1990)
• Call of the Wolf (2017)
• Cedar Rapids (2011)
• Changeland (2019)
• Chasing Molly (2019)
• ★ Clueless (1995)
• Coffy (1973) - Pam Grier!
• Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) - Directed by Ossie Davis
• Coyotaje (2019)
• Criminal Law (1988)
• Cruel Hearts (2020)
• Cruiser (2020)
• Dark Blue (2003)
• Dark Waters (2019)
• Dave Made A Maze (2017)
• DC Noir (2019)
• ★ Dead Ringers (1988)
• Drillbit Taylor (2008)
• Easy Does It (2020)
• Europa Report (2013)
• Eye Of The Needle (1981) Donald Sutherland
• Four Feathers (2002)
• Forev (2014)
• French Postcards (1979)
• Frisky (2015)
• Futureworld (1976)
• Gino’s Wife (2016)
• 🔸Gladiator (2000)
• Good Neighbors (2011)
• 🔸Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
• Here Comes the Devil (2012)
• ★ High-Rise (2016)
• Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
• Hot Dog…The Movie (1984)
• ★ Hot Fuzz (2007)
• In Action (2021)
• Infinitum: Subject Unknown (2021)
• ★Internal Affairs (1990)
• Into the Blue (2005)
• Iris Warriors (2022)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)
• Jennifer’s Body (2009)
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
• John Dies at the End (2012)
• Kiltro (2006)
• 🔸★ Lincoln (2012)
• Little Man Tate (1991)
• Loves Spell (2020)
• Lust For Love (2014)
• Mandela (1997)
• 🔸★ Midnight in Paris (2011)
• Moments in Spacetime (2001)
• No Way to Live (2017)
• Party With Me (2021)
• Patriot Games (1992)
• 🔸 Pieces of April (2003)
• Play the Game (2009)
• Pretty Ugly People (2008)
• Racing With The Moon (1984)
• 🔸★ Raging Bull (1980)
• 🔸 Revolutionary Road (2009)
• 🔸★ Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Runner (2018)
• Say Your Prayers (2021)
• Slash (2016)
• Son of God (2014)
• 🔸★ Speed (1994)
• Stay (2021)
• Stuff (2017)
• Sunset Song (2016)
• Swiped (2018)
• Switchback (1997)
• The Arbors (2020)
• 🔸★ The Fighter (2010)
• The Fighting Temptations (2003)
• The General’s Daughter (1999)
• The Gospel According to Andre (2018)
• The Honor Farm (2017)
• The Hunted (2003)
• The Italian Job (2003)
• The Mongolian Connection (2019)
• 🔸★ The Pirates! Band Of Misfits (2012)
• The Posthuman Project (2014)
• The Queen of Versailles (2012)
• The Republic of Two (2014)
• The Rest of Us (2020)
• The Sum of All Fears (2002)
• 🔸 ★The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• 🔸 The Time Machine (2002)
• Tucked (2018)
• Unicorn City (2012)
• Venus and Serena (2012)
• Virtuosity (1995)
• 🔸 ★WarGames (1983)
• We Love You, Sally Carmichael! (2017)
• We Take The Low Road (2020)
• When Icarus Fell (2018)
• 🔸 ★Yentl (1983)

later this month - a sampling 

• House of Gucci (2021) - July 2nd
• The Commuter (2022) - July 3rd
• 🔸Cinderella Man (2005) - July 15th
• Paper Girls SEASON 1 - July 29th 

• Trevor: The Musical (2022)

later this month - a sampling

• Ms Marvel (complete first season) - July 13th

streaming in July

• ★ Cha Cha Real Smooth
• For All Mankind - SEASON 3
• Loot - SEASON 1
• Physical - SEASON 2

later this month - a sampling

• Blackbird - prison memoir miniseries starring Taron Egerton - July 8th
• Surface - psychological thriller miniseries starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw - July 29th

 

• 1BR (2019)
• The Burning (1981) - horror film with some stars very  early in their careers like Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens
• Dark Angel (1990)
• God Told Me To (1976)
• Grizzly (1976) 
• Invaders from Mars (1986)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• The Long Night (2022)
• ★ Mad God (2021) Elisa's interview with Phil Tippet
• Planet of the Vampires (1965) Mario Bava
• Revealer (2022) 
• Return of the Living Dead (1985)
• They Live (1988) - John Carpenter
• ★ The Thing (1982) - John Carpenter
• Without Warning (1980)

later this month -a sampling 

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018) July 2nd
• The Long Walk (2019) award winning Laotian movie  - July 5th
• On the Third Day (2021) - July 7th
• The Convent (2000) - July 12th
• Good Madam (2021) South African horror film - July 14th
• The House on Sorority Row (1982) - July 12th
• Moloch (2022) Dutch horror film - July 21st 
• Santa Sangre (1989) from Alejandro Jodorowsky - July 18th
• This is Gwar (2021) -Shudder Original documentary about a heavy metal art-collective - July 21st

also streaming 

• A Kind of Murder, 2016
• Act of Valor, 2012
• Angels in the Outfield, 1951
• Arbitrage, 2012
• That Awkward Moment, 2014
• The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, 1947
• Backstabbing for Beginners, 2018
• Baggage Claim, 2013
• Blanes Esquina Muller (AKA Blanes St and Muller), 2020
• Bringing Out the Dead, 1999
• Catch a Fire, 2006
• Code of Silence, 1985
• The Con is On, 2018
• Confidence, 2003
• The Counselor, 2013
• 🔸David Copperfield, 1935
• Doctor Who: Eve of Daleks, Special
• Father of the Bride (2022) 
• Frank Miller's Sin City, 2005
• Godzilla, 1998
• 🔸Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 1969
• The Great American Pasttime, 1956
• ★The Heat, 2013
• Hollow Man, 2000
• How to Screw It All Up (AKA Cómo mandarlo todo a la mierda), Season 1 Premiere
• I Spy, 2002
• Indecent Proposal, 1993
• ★Julia, 2009
• A Kind of Murder, 2016
• La Ciudad De Las Fieras (AKA City of Wild Beasts), 2021
• Last Night in Soho, 2021
• The Legend of Zorro, 2005
• Lisztomania, 1975
• Lone Survivor, 2013
• Lord of War, 2005
• Losing Isaiah, 1995
• Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, 1968
• Mrs. Winterbourne, 1996
• One for the Money, 2012
• The Other Woman, 2014
• Overboard, 1987
• Pawn Sacrifice, 2014
• 🔸★Postcards From the Edge
• The Plot Thickens  SEASON 3
• The Raid 2, 2014
• Rio 2, 2014
• Running Scared, 1986
• Safe, 2012
• The Satanic Rites of Dracula, 1974
• She's Having a Baby., 1988
• 🔸A Simple Plan, 1998
• Sleepers, 1996
• ★Sleepless in Seattle, 1993
• Snow Day, 2000
• Spy Kids, 2001-2003  - first three movies
• Suite Francaise, 2014
• Westworld SEASON 4 
• The World's End, 2013 
• This is Elvis, 1981
• Thoroughbreds, 2017
• Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, 2012
• 🔸Warrior, 2011 
• 🔸★ What's Eating Gilbert Grape, 1993 - Retrospective Tribute

later this month - a sampling

• 🔸★ Before Midnight (2013) -July 2nd
• Miss S SEASON 1 -July 7th
• The Visitors SEASON 1 - July 7th
• 🔸★ Mad Max Fury Road - July 9th
• The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) - July 12th

also streaming in July

• 16-Love
• 52 Pick-Up
• Adventure Boyz
• Aeon Flux
• All Roads to Pearla
• Alpha and Omega  (7 movies)
• The Arbors
• As Long As We Both Shall Live
• Attack of the Unknown
• Awaken the Shadowman
• The Back-Up Plan
• Bebe’s Kids
• Betrayed
• Beverly Hills Cop (3 movies)
• Bluejay
• Body of Evidence
• The Boy in Striped Pajamas
• Cadillac Man
• Call of the Wolf
• 🔸★ Carrie
• Changeland
• Charlotte’s Web (2 movies)
• Chasing Molly
• ★ Clue
• ★ Clueless
• Coffy
• Come on In
• The Cookout
• Cotton Comes to Harlem
• Coyotaje
• Criminal Law
• Cruel Hearts
• Cruiser
• Dark Blue
• Dave Made a Maze
• DC Noir
• Dead Ringer
• Deep
• Drillbit Taylor
• 🔸The Duchess
• Easy Does It
• Eve’s Bayou
• Event Horizon
• Eye for An Eye
• Eye of the Needle
• ★ Flesh and Bone
• The Four Feathers
• A Feral World
• Forev
• French Postcards
• Frisky
• Futureworld
• 🔸★ Gandhi
• 🔸★ Ghost
• Gino’s Wife
• 🔸Gladiator
• The Honor Farm
• Hot Dog
• The Hunted
• In Action
• Infinitum: Subject Unknown
• ★ Internal Affairs
• Into the Wild
• Iris Warriors
• The Italian Job
• Jamie Marks is Dead
• Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
• King Kong (which version they don't say)
• Knight and Day
• 🔸The Last Samurai
• 🔸★ Leaving Las Vegas
• 🔸★ Lincoln
• Little Man Tate
• Loves Spell
• Lust for Love
• The Machinist
• Major League
• Mandela
• 🔸★ The Mask of Zorro
• 🔸★ Midnight In Paris
• 🔸Mississippi Burning
• Moments in Spacetime
• The Mongolian Connection
• ★ Mystic Pizza
• A Night at the Roxbury
• No Way to Live
• Orphan
• The Outsider
• Party With Me
• Pet Sematary
• 🔸★ The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• Play the Game
• The Posthuman Project
• Pretty Ugly People
• Racing with the Moon
• The Republic of Two
• The Rest of Us
• Runner
• Say Your Prayers
• 🔸Seabiscuit
• 🔸★ Serpico
• Shanghai Noon
• Shaolin Soccer
• Sherlock Gnomes
• Slash
• ★ So I Married An Axe Murderer
• ★ Soapdish
• Star Trek
• Stay
• Stuff
• Swiped
• 🔸★ The Talented Mr. Ripley
• 🔸Throw Momma From The Train
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• Tucked
• An Unfinished Life
• ★ A Very Brady Sequel
• We Love You Sally Carmichael
• We Take the Low Road
• When Icarus Fell

later this month

• The Only - PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL sports documentary - July 12th
• Freakish (season 1) - July 13th
• The Day The Music Died: American Pie - PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL documentary July 19th
• Never Seen Again (season 2) - July 26th
• My Dead Ed (season 1) - July 27th

FINAL NOTE You may notice that there are several films repeating across Hulu, Prime, and Paramount+. We're never sure exactly why this is except for that perhaps studios lazily bundle various movies from their catalogues for streaming rights and everyone buys the same bundles. Or perhaps it's due to so many streaming services being part of conglomerates. It's a pity there's not more variety and no curation outside of the Criterion Channel.

* People never believe this but it's (mostly) true. The only exceptions are when the image is too fast to look good in still frame (we usually use a gif in those cases) or if it's too transitional (dissolves, fadeouts, etcetera) or an establishing shot of a building or something... the other secret to why the images are often good is that we just dont use that particular film if we land on something that's too dull. 

Comments

[jules]

Setsuko Hara is one of the most charismatic screen presences of all time. I am glad to see Criterion spotlight her even if all of the titles were already on the Channel.

I'm excited to finally watch Mississippi Masala and Air Doll on the Criterion Channel - they've both been hard to find for years - plus I'm going to check out some of the features in Noir in Color. I highly recommend Leave Her to Heaven, it is one of my favorite films of that era. Gene Tierney's greatest, and the costumes and production design are to die for!

[Corey Eubanks]

Broadway Danny Rose is soooooo good, and it doesn't even have to be problematic if you just think of it (and Purple Rose, Hannah, Alice, etc) as simply great Mia Farrow movies.

She is so vastly underrated. Definitely deserving of a Governor's Award!

[Mike in Canada]

The '78 Body Snatchers is a perfect thing. In fact, lots of perfect things in this streaming roulette: Hedwig, Farrow in Broadway Danny, Mandy's perfect man in Yentl...

[Finbar McBride]

The Dirty Dozen under Netflix requires a yellow marker. The 1967 action war picture received an Oscar for sound effects as well as nominations for editing, sound, and supporting actor (John Cassavetes).

[thefilmjunkie]

The Love, Victor series finale felt a bit rushed/tidy for me, but they also gave it two less episodes than the other seasons so I guess they had to work with what they had. It was such a pleasant show - I'm gonna miss it!

I definitely recommend watching the 70's version of Body Snatchers. It's so good!

[NATHANIEL R]

Finbar -- i didn't know if it was the original or the remake since Netflix weirdly doesn't list years on their "coming to Netflix" publicity emails