‘Le Trou’ – plotting a prison break on Criterion Channel
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Jacques Becker directs this meticulous 1960 thiller of an elaborate attempt to escape from a Parisian prison.
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‘Focus’ – Will Smith and Margot Robbie are on the con on Netflix
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The creators of ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.’ write and direct this romantic thriller of con artists who break up and become adversaries on a new target.
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‘This World, Then the Fireworks’ – Billy Zane does Jim Thompson on Prime Video and free on Hoopla
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Gina Gershon and Sheryl Lee costar in this Southern Gothic crime thriller based on the pulp novel by cult author Jim Thompson
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on Sep 5
‘Changing Lanes’ – Ben Affleck vs Samuel Jackson on Paramount+
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Roger Michell, best known for his British period pieces and romantic dramas, directed this overlooked film that delves into anger management, revenge, and culpability.
on Sep 5
‘Bones’ – 12 years of solving crimes on Hulu and Peacock
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This playful procedural has fun with the gross-out special effects but at heart is an ensemble piece with great character chemistry built around what becomes the greatest love story on television.
on Sep 5
Jeff Bridges has a ‘Crazy Heart’ on Hulu
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Bridges won an Oscar playing a country music figure on the downhill slide of a career in the drama from filmmaker Scott Cooper.
on Thu, 5PM
‘Peter Gunn’ – Blake Edwards’s suave small screen detective on Prime Video
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Craig Stevens stars as TV’s most debonair private-eye in this half-hour take on the classic film noir and private eye genre.
on Thu, 5PM
‘Symphony for a Massacre’ – mercenary French Noir on Cohen Media Channel
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Jacques Deray direct this devious 1963 tale of greed and betrayal in a small-time Paris gang, starring Jean Rochefort and Claude Dauphin.
on Thu, 4PM
‘The Burglar’ – Dan Duryea sweats it out on Prime Video
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Jayne Mansfield costars in this wonderfully seedy 1957 film noir, adapted from the David Goodis novel, set in the lower depths of low-rent crooks and raw passions.
on Tue, 8PM
Edward G. Robinson is ‘The Sea Wolf’ on Criterion Channel
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Michael Curtiz turns Jack London’s novel into a nautical noir thriller in this 1941 classic, costarring Ida Lupino, John Garfield, and Alexander Knox.
on Mon, 7PM
‘The Big Clock’ – the web closes in on Criterion Channel
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Ray Milland stars as a crime reporter searching for a killer before a murder is pinned on him in this 1948 film noir costarring Charles Laughton.
on Mon, 5AM
Burt Lancaster applies ‘Brute Force’ on Max and Criterion Channel
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Jules Dassin’s brooding, brutal drama is a classic film noir as well as one of the greatest prison films ever made.
on Sat, 10PM
Fritz Lang’s ‘The Big Heat’ – searing film noir on Criterion Channel
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Glenn Ford stars as good cop driven to vengeance in this 1953 film noir masterpiece costarring Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin.
on Nov 8
‘The Scorpion King’ – The Rock rocks the desert on Netflix
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This prequel to ‘The Mummy Returns’ gives the former WWE star his first big screen lead and he throws himself into the part with gusto.
on Nov 8
Reese Witherspoon goes ‘Wild’ on Hulu
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The story of one woman’s journey along the 1,700 mile Pacific Crest Trail, adapted from the Cheryl Strayed memoir, is an odyssey on a human scale.
on Nov 8
Robert Ryan is ‘On Dangerous Ground’ on Criterion Channel
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Ida Lupino costars in this unusual film noir about an angry urban cop tracking a killer in snowy mountain country and confronting his own righteous rage along the journey.
on Nov 7
The original ‘Nightmare Alley’ – Carny Noir free on Hoopla
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Matinee idol Tyrone Power gets down and dirty as an opportunistic carny turned nightclub sensation in this pulpy 1947 film noir classic.
on Nov 6
‘The Naked City’ on Max and Criterion Channel
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Jules Dassin takes his cameras into the streets of New York City in this realist film noir and pioneering police procedural.
on Nov 5
‘Double Indemnity’ – Barbara Stanwyck, femme fatale on Criterion Channel
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Billy Wilder’s 1944 film of James M. Cain’s pulp crime thriller is a masterpiece of film noir double dealing.
on Nov 3
‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ – a labyrinth of stories on MUBI
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The final production from Raul Ruiz is an exquisite, elegant,drama weaves characters and their stories into a magnifent epic that spans countries and time itself.
on Oct 30
The slasher horror gets ‘Freaky’ on Peacock
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Vince Vaughn is terrific in this colorful and creative body-swapping twist of the slasher movie. Just call it “Freaky Friday the 13th.”
on Oct 30
‘Scary Movie 3’ goofs on horror on Paramount+
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The horror movie spoof series gets a rejuvinating makeover by director David Zucker, the cocreator of ‘Airplane!,’ and star Charlie Sheen.
on Oct 30
‘The Witch’ – Puritan horrors on Prime Video and free on Kanopy
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The debut feature by Robert Eggers is a primal horror film rooted in the fear and superstition of early 17th century New England and introduced Anya Taylor-Joy.
on Oct 29
‘Haxan’ – Witchcraft through the ages on Max and Criterion Channel
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Swedish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen mixes documentary, horror, and fantasy in the visually inventive and thoughtful first-person study produced in the 1920s.
on Oct 29
David Cronenberg’s ‘The Brood’ on Max and Criterion Channel
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David Cronenberg presents a different kind of psychological horror in this creepy family drama with a twist of horror.
on Oct 29
‘Goodnight Mommy’ – German horror on Prime Video and MUBI
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Filmmakers Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz create an unsettling horror film built on scars (physical and psychological) that upset the connection between a mother and her young twin sons.
on Oct 29
‘Trouble Every Day’ – Claire Denis’s take on bloodlust on Criterion Channel and Shudder
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Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo star in Claire Denis’ wigged-out take on the vampire film, one of the strangest variations yet made within the genre.
on Oct 27
‘The Lure’ – Little Mermaids with teeth on Max and Criterion Channel
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The strangest take on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale is a musical-horror-fantasy-romantic tragedy from Poland about mermaid sisters with a taste for human flesh.
on Oct 27
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This Australian horror fantasy is one of the best and most original horror films in years, raising goosebumps with old-fashioned scares, relatable characters, and a provocative psychological founda…
on Oct 25
‘Spider’ – Ralph Fiennes in David Cronenberg’s web on Prime Video
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Ralph Fiennes plays a schizophrenic man lost in the murky netherworlds between perception and reality in this 2002 drama costarring Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne.
on Oct 25
‘The Story of G.I. Joe’ – a platoon story on Prime Video and free on Hoopla
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Robert Mitchum earned an Oscar nomination in this classic World War II drama inspired by the dispatches and books by famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
on Oct 25
Universal Horrors: the birth of American horror cinema and the original cinematic shared universe
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Decades before the Marvel Comics movie universe was born, Frankenstein and Dracula and the Wolf Man crossed paths, teamed up, and battled one another.
on Oct 24
‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ – a vampire in Iran on Kino Film Collection and free on Kanopy
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Ana Lily Amirpour’s striking indie horror is a vampire movie that stirs American movie references into a stylized Iranian street drama.
on Oct 24
‘Ordet’ – Carl Dreyer searches for grace on Criterion Channel
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This Danish ‘Romeo and Juliet’ story transforms into one of the most powerful and profound films about faith ever made.
on Oct 24
Tim Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’ – It’s alive on Disney+
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This sweet, adolescent twist on the classic ‘Frankenstein’ story captures a childhood fascination with monster movies and the macabre with creative designs and delightful stop motion an…
on Oct 23
Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ on Disney+
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The playfully macabre humor of Tim Burton is deftly brought to life through the old-school magic of stop-motion animation by director Henry Selick in this offbeat Christmas musical.
on Oct 22
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ on Paramount+
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Martin Scorsese pays tribute to film history and the magic of cinema in this family adventure set in 1920s Paris.
on Oct 22
‘Edward Scissorhands’ – Tim Burton’s suburban fairy tale on Disney+ and Hulu
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Johnny Depp is sweetly haunting as the innocent outcast in Burton’s magical and melancholy fairy tale for the modern world.
on Oct 21
‘Mermaids’ – Cher and Winona Ryder form an eccentric family on Criterion Channel and MGM+
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Bob Hoskins costars in this nostalgic comic drama of an unconventional family in 1960s New England and Christina Ricci makes her screen debut as Ryder’s swimming-obsessed younger sister.
on Oct 20
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s haunting horror film ‘Pulse’ on Max, Criterion Channel and AMC+
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The meditative and metaphysical horror cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa made him one of the masters of modern Japanese horror. This haunting tale is one of his greatest works, perhaps his best.
on Oct 20
‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ – George Lazenby is 007 on Prime Video
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The one and only James Bond film starring George Lazenby is perhaps the most underrated and easily one of the best. Diana Rigg costars.
on Oct 20
‘Nocturama’ – A different kind of terrorism on MUBI and free on Kanopy
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A caper by a group of French millennials protesting global capitalism becomes a searing portrait of anger and resistance in a consumer culture that punished rebellion.
on Oct 20
‘Uzumaki’ – Spiraling into madness on Prime Video
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A town is gripped by an obsession with spirals, which manifests in physical transfigurations and bodily disfigurement, in this gonzo horror from Japan.
on Oct 20
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Roger Livesay stars as the career British soldier and Deborah Kerr costars in the beloved classic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
on Oct 18
‘Ju-On: The Grudge’ – a ghost driven by rage on Criterion Channel
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Takashi Shuimizu’s eerie, unsettling 2002 horror was a hit in Japane and spawned sequels and an American remake, none of them as effective as this one.
on Oct 18
‘Cure’ – a psychotic break on Criterion Channel
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa broke thorugh to become Japan’s master of moody menace and unfathomable mystery with this dreamy portrait of a society on verge of cracking.
on Oct 18
‘House’/’Hausu’ – Japanese madness on Max and Criterion Channel
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This unclassifiable Japanese haunted house/high school romp/demon killer/surreal fantasy film is like nothing you’ve seen before, a candy-colored style bomb of horror movie more jaw-droppingl…
on Oct 17
‘Ringu’ – the original ‘Ring’ on Criterion Channel, Shudder, and Arrow
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Hideo Nakata’s eerie 1998 thriller about a mysterious, unsettling videotape that kills everyone who watches it seven days later is an urban legend turned skin-crawling psycho-thriller.
on Oct 17
‘Hannibal’ – Mads Mikkelsen incarnates the genius serial killer for TV on Prime Video
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Mads Mikkelsen plays Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Bryan Fuller’s beautiful and gruesome reimagining of the universe created by author Thomas Harris.
on Oct 17
‘Fido’ – adopt a zombie on Paramount+
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Suburban America adjusts to the zombie wars by turning the undead into servants and pets in this comedy set in an alternate universe of 1950s America.
on Oct 17