This weekend will feature a variety of new and old VIDEOS and TV shows, from Netflix’s new Fantasy Cursed to the more than 5,000 hours of entertainment now offered through Peacock. To make sense of all this, Observer Entertainment has hired the consultant to help you determine what to look at this weekend in your off-peak hours. Major streaming facilities are shown below, from Netflix to Hulu via Amazon, and we’ve presented recommendations for everyone, adding new versions and hidden gems that can be buried between cracks.
The list below is not exhaustive, but organized. Here are some of the most productive offers to stream online or watch TV right now.
Netflix’s new fantasy edition is Cursed, which tells the story of Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, before King Arthur reaches his mythical monarchy. The first few episodes of Cursed are messy but fun. It is an adaptation of a novel illustrated by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler and its first episodes are directed through Zetna Fuentes, who has strived to add a touch of Lord of the Rings to the series, adding a long and epic take on its first episode. Watch Cursed on Netflix.
The grandeur of SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica series of bush-era is hard to sum up. It was a political drama, a sci-fi war epic, a captivating account of the lives of refugees after the genocide, and an aggressively metaphysical observation about humanity’s position in the universe. It is up to Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation (two other screens author Ronald D. Moore has worked on) as one of the most important sci-fi stories of recent decades. And you can see it loose (with commercials) in Peacock. Watch Battlestar Galactica in Peacock.
Created through Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy (both BoJack Horseman alumni), Undone is perhaps the most visually avant-garde exhibition of 2019. It stars Rosa Salazar as a young woman living with intellectual fitness disorders and hearing loss who discovers that she can manipulate time after experiencing a traumatic experience. Watch Undone on Amazon Prime Video.
Directed through Jon Favreau, The Jungle Book (2016) is one of Disney’s remakes that gives the impression of having something new to say. It tells Rudyard Kipling’s stories about Mowgli and Shere Khan, but has used his avant-garde animation in a more sublime and artistic way than, say, The Lion King did several years later, which was largely equivalent to a copy of the original. Both are at Disney, however, my selection would be the jungle eBook every day. Check out the jungle eBook at Disney.
The grandfather of the hospital drama has been in Hulu intermittently for a long, long time, and I urge everyone to see him. St.Elsewhere he threw a number of talents from a career assassin: William Daniels (The Graduate, Mr.Feeny in Boy Meets World), Ed Begley Jr., Howie Mandel, David Morse, Denzel Washington, Alfre Woodard and many other amazing actors. played or played roles in the series. It’s a classic. See St. Elsewhere in Hulu.
Twenty years ago this week, this movie replaced Hollywood forever. X-Men is one of the wonderful box office hits of fashion superheroes: an ancestor of the modern Marvel cinematic universe and a vital pioneer of all Hollywood intellectual asset poles that followed. “No one had made those movies before, in fact, not at the time we were doing,” actress Famke Janssen told Observer this week in an in-depth discussion with the film’s artistic team. Watch X-Men on HBO Max.
Loren Bouchard has introduced us to Bob’s Burgers and Home Movies and is now back with Central Park, with Kristen Bell, Tituss Burgess, Daveed Diggs, Josh Gad, Leslie Odom Jr. and more. The exhibition is an animated comedy about the circle of Tillerman-Hunter relatives living in New York’s most prominent green area as they paint toward the park from the clutches of an avid landowner. It’s still early in running the series, but like Bob’s Burgers, Central Park wins with its quirky comedy and quirky characters. (Note that Kristen Bell recently left the series due to considerations of betting on a mixed-breed character.) Watch Central Park on Apple TV.
More than 20 years after its release, Galaxy Quest remains the most productive parody edition of the Star Trek franchise, seamlessly eclipsing minor efforts like The Orville or Black Mirror ‘USS Callister’, and is something to consider in Tubi. . A cast of stars led by the legendary Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver (making a nod to his alien roles) and Tim Allen (perfectly played as an insufferable idiot): Galaxy Quest is a meta-roast of everything Trekkie is as the cast of a long-standing sci-fi television series facing real alien invaders. Whether you like the screen or like to make fun of its fandom, enjoy this movie. Watch Galaxy Quest in Tubi.
Our critic today, Oliver Jones, titled The Painted Bird, a new film by Czech director V. Marhoul, one of the “most unforgiving depictions of evil ever seen” and we helped him. As Jones describes it, a burnt animal is perhaps “the worst thing that happens” to the protagonist of the film. However, he believes, and I agree, that the film deserves to be seen and that artistic representations of the atrocities deserve to be evaluated. If we need to live in a more compassionate and human world, we cannot look away from horrors. Watch The Painted Bird films through IFC.
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