Getting ready for the weekend? Looking forward to some quality streaming? Tired of rhetorical questions? I know it’s a yes to all three. Here for you today are the titles Netflix have added to their roster ahead of this weekend (July 11-12). I’ve already got my eye on one or two.
Cherry, an upcoming crime drama starring Spider-Man’s own Tom Holland, will represent a stark change of tone from the actor’s Marvel output. The film follows a PTSD-afflicted army medic who turns to robbing banks so that he can fund his opioid addiction. Like I said, stark. That same line highlighting the difference between this and the Marvel movies is also applicable to directors Anthony and Joe Russo. According to Joe, Holland’s performance in the new film is a knock-out, going as far as to say it could be “Oscar worthy”. Here’s what he told ET about it:
Last January, BBC crime drama Luther returned for what appears to have been its final season. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of its eponymous detective. Leading man Idris Elba remains passionate about getting a Luther movie off the ground and at a press junket for the new season of his Sky comedy In the Long Run, Elba teased that he's “this close” to bringing the character to the big screen.
It’s another film industry casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. Halloween Kills, the upcoming twelfth instalment in the Halloween franchise, has been delayed by one year, and star Jamie Lee Curtis is as disappointed as anyone. The actor gave her own response to the decision on Twitter, promising that the film “will be worth the wait”:
Rambo: Last Blood appeared to be a definitive film for its titular character, its title deliberately harked back to the original, while playing into an extensive marketing campaign that this would be the last ever Rambo. That would preclude the chance of a Rambo 6 ever getting made. But going by Sylvester Stallone’s latest comments, that may not be the case after all. The actor has teased Rambo “could be back” with these comments posted on Instagram:
Greyhound is one of the biggest movies set to go straight to streaming as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, eschewing any kind of theatrical run. That’s a fact leading man Tom Hanks describes as “an absolute heartbreak.”
Where once we’d watch a new movie with a bag of monstrously overpriced popcorn in one hand and a cinema ticket in the other, coronavirus has made things rather different. Studios have learnt that the most viable way to get non-blockbusters out is to release them online for our curated home viewing, and that’s exactly what WarnerMedia have chosen to do with Seth Rogen’s newest effort An American Pickle. The comedy, which was originally at Sony and supposed to head to theaters, will see Rogen play two different roles at the same time (hooray) and will be available to stream exclusively on HBO Max from August 6th.
In the month of September, a host of new original Netflix content will be debuting on the service. We’re going to give you the rundown on all of it and given that the list comprises action movies, detective movies and crime shows, there's much to get excited about.
