Streaming Roulette, May 2022

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*!

So when you stopped going to Church is that about the time you stopped seeing your family and your brothers?

Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) on Hulu
A very discomfiting watch just two episodes in, being an Ex-Mormon. Can't imagine how still practicing Mormons are feeling. Always happy to see Andrew Garfield and Gil Birmingham who are paired here as detectives on a double-homicide case that is rapidly growing in danger and disorienting implications...

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Support Original Filmmaking - See 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' on the Big Screen

by Eurocheese

If you haven’t already experienced the cinematic joy of seeing Everything Everywhere All at Once with an audience yet, you’re missing out. This creative powerhouse is adding back IMAX theaters this week and may become A24’s biggest box office hit to date. Anyone who believes Hollywood doesn’t bring original content to our screens anymore owes it to themselves to see this as soon as possible. Just in case you weren’t convinced by the critical raves and audience support, here are a few reasons this film needs to be seen on the big screen.

Daniels’ (writer/director duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) latest film is a visual feast, incredibly made for just $25 million and a tiny vfx team. As it pairs elements of action with comedy and family drama, the action sequences dazzle with varying tones, ranging from images you might see in a Scott Pilgrim vs. the World battle to scenes that the cast of Jackass would applaud...

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Doc Corner Catch-Up: White Hot, The Automat, and ¡Viva Maestro!

By Glenn Dunks

White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & FitchYou may have noticed that the Doc Corner column has been a bit quiet. I have been unfortunately quite slack with the reviews in the first four months of 2022. It is usually a quiet period at the beginning of the year in general, but fatigue (awards season + life) means I have unfortunately missed the chance to talk about some of the titles that have come along. And then added onto that, I had COVID and despite being in mandated isolation for the week, my brain was living strictly on a diet of Harrison Ford movies and television catch-up (Shining Vale, Abbott Elementary, Troppo among them).

But we are here on the first of May. And so before we get back into regular coverage of some pretty big titles (some of which will be angling for Oscar's attention), we’re going to play a little bit of catch-up today. We have war-torn Ukraine, the history of American dining and fashion institutions, and globe-trotting philosophers...

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April. It's a Wrap

You guys. It's the first monthly wrap of the film year (given that last year's awards season showed itself the door just one month ago). I'll be the first to admit that the site has been unusually quiet this month but it's the refractory period! We're (almost) ready to come roaring back. 

A Dozen April Highlights ICYMI
• April Foolish Oscar Predictions [ALL NEW CHARTS] -an annual too-early tradition
• Touring The First Lady Suites - A unique promo for the starry miniseries
• Wicked (2024/2025) in Two Parts - What a uniquely terrible idea!
• Almost There [S4] - Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy (2012)
• One for Them, One For Me [S2] - Natalie Portman's 2011
• Hit Me With Your Best Shot [S8]- The Godfather (1972)
• 50 Greatest RomComs - A list covering 1932-1989
• Heartstoppers Thought Experiment - What if Olivia Colman didn't exist?
• Crimes of the Future - Cronenberg's tease
• Barbie (2023) - first promo image
• And The Runner Up is - On the 1947 Best Actress Race
• Doris Day [MINISERIES] - a three part retrospective
• Hou Hsiao-hsien [MINISERIES] a four part retrospective
 

Coming in May
Coverage of the Cannes Film Festival, the Tony nominations, a look back at Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 and Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together for our "Best Shot" series, and the schedule for the new season of Supporting Actress Smackdown. We'll also cover a bevy of new films including Downton Abbey 2, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Men, Top Gun Maverick, and The Bob's Burgers Movie. At month's end we kick off 12 episode Judy Garland Centennial Miniseries!

Everything's Coming Up Tweetweek

curated for you so you don't have to be on Twitter.

There’s still plenty of time 💅 https://t.co/xdkimtGfgz

— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) April 28, 2022

a tweet that was probably inspired by this one...

the most important 30 seconds in cinematic history pic.twitter.com/QgRObqzO4W

— giffy (@giffyonline) April 25, 2022

One of the few undeniably fun things about Twitter is celebrities responding to tweets about themselves and watching people riff on other tweets. It's a joy if they have a sense of humor! More tweets after the jump including Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin comparing awards stashes, slut eras, limo singing, awesome duos, funny truths, and ending with an absolutely hilarious letter from "Barbra Streisand" riffing on Jon M Chu's letter about Wicked...

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