Tag: amazon
DOC NYC 2024 Review: UNION, A Film That Won't Be Streaming on Amazon
In a world of plutocracy, the working-class struggle is not a left or right issue.
Fantasia 2023 Review: HOME INVASION, On the Tyranny of Technology and Surveillance
Greame Arnfield really, really does not like the Ring. No, not the infamous J-Horror film (or its American remake) but rather the video doorbell company that turned the humble little button that goes ding-dong into the “smart doorbell,” a cloud connected...
Now Streaming: SEPTEMBER MORNINGS, Father Knows Best, Especially When She Is a Woman
Liniker stars in a series from Brazil, created by Josefina Trotta, soon to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
Review: GET DUKED!, Hilariously Horrific
The peaceful Scottish highlands hide a bloody secret in writer/director Ninian Doff's hilarious rural nightmare Get Duked! (originally titled Boyz in the Wood). A trio of teenage miscreants are given one last chance to turn their lives around by completing...
Friday One Sheet: In PAATAL LOK, The Media Is Just Another Weapon
In limited Prime series Paatal Lok, which combines intense crime drama with media muck-raking, the key art brings the weapons and the eyeballs. Design house, Rubarb, who frequently work with the streaming giants (e.g. Netflix's Narcos and Le Casa De Papel...
Now Streaming: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S THE PALE HORSE Rides, Contemplating Death
Rufus Sewell, Georgina Campbell, and Kaya Scodelario star in Sarah Phelps' bewitching adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, directed by Leonara Lonsdale.
Now Streaming: JACK RYAN S2 Serves Up More Action Meat and Political Potatoes
John Krasinski and Wendell Pierce star in an old-school series on Amazon Prime Video.
Now Streaming: GOLIATH S3 Finds Gold in a Dry Valley
Billy Bob Thornton returns as a dogged attorney who takes on Dennis Quaid and more menacing rich people.
Now Streaming: CARNIVAL ROW, Steampunk in Murderous Flight
Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne star in the Amazon Prime Video series.
DARK/WEB Series Goes to Amazon, Premieres July 19
Percolate your coffee beans and get ready for a long sleepless night, because Dark/Web, the 8-episode sci-fi/horror anthology series we've covered here before will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime as of July 19. The series debuted last February at Entertainment...
Notes on Streaming: GOOD OMENS Searches for Salvation
Michael Shannon and David Tennant star in Neil Gaiman's irreverent series.
DEAD DIRTY CON MEN Trailer: Crime Thriller Throwback Hits Digital
Marie-Grete Heinemann's fast-talking throwback to the crime films of Roderiguez and Tarantino, hell even early Scorsese, is finally getting a digital bow through Global Digital Releasing in partnership with Rock n' Tape Films. The crime story centers around a rogue...
TALES FROM THE LOOP: Amazon Orders Sci-Fi Series Based on Simon Stålenhag's Artwork
Yesterday Amazon announced that they will develop a sci-fi series based on the illustrated works of Simon Stålenhag and his 2015 book Tales From the Loop. Amazon with work with Fox 21 Television Studios and have hired Legion writer...
Notes on Streaming: A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL Simmers, G.L.O.W. Burns Bright
The most frequent complaint about Netflix is that their flood of new series all have too many episodes that are all too long. Here is my two-pronged solution: (1) try another streaming service; (2) watch shorter shows with fewer episodes....
Notes on Streaming: Amazon's ABSENTIA Frustrates, While BRITTANIA Sprawls
Health alert: before binge-watching Absentia, make sure to limber up your eyeballs, because they'll be rolling in their sockets a lot once the series gets rolling. In that respect, Absentia reminds me of the first season of the murder-mystery series...
Notes on Streaming: RUNAWAYS and THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL
Recently premiering on the Hulu streaming service and now debuting new episodes every Tuesday, Runaways offers a different spin on the Marvel universe. Rather than the darker, more violent take offered by the label's flurry of Netflix shows -- Daredevil,...
Trailer: Anacondas, Crocodiles, Sunken Ships Abound in Bengali Adventure Film AMAZON OBHIJAAN
While Indian cinema still remains toplined by Hindi cinema to overseas audiences, the fact is that India now lives in a post-Baahubali world, where regional cinemas are regularly churning out films that could give Hindi cinema a run for their...
Notes on Streaming: THE LAST TYCOON, Searching for Optimists in a Sea of Cynicism
Old Hollywood comes to life in The Last Tycoon, inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel, but surely influenced by the machinations of present-day Hollywood. Fitzgerald's novel, prepared by Edmund Wilson, was published posthumously in 1941, soon after the...
Interview: Listen to Music On Screen - Author Dennis McNally, Archivist David Lemieux, and Director Amir Bar-Lev on LONG STRANGE TRIP
Throughout this trilogy of podcast episodes, I’ve spoken about musical sources and the faraway fruits of their trajectories via music documentaries. In the first installment, Rumble spoke to the varying multi-cultural influences on roots music at the turn of the...
Streaming Reviews: I LOVE DICK, Season 1; MASTER OF NONE, Season 2
Over the weekend, two notable series made their full-season debuts on competing streaming services. Each confounds, to a degree, assumptions I'd made about the relative strengths (and weaknesses) of those services. Both are definitely worth sampling. A prickly, confrontational affair...
