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You can’t halt the passage of time—and you can’t halt the release of new movies for rent or purchase! Another Friday has arrived, bringing with it a slew of new films. Whether you use Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu or your cable’s on demand service, there are a lot of new releases out there ready to be seen by your eyeballs.
Octavia Spencer takes a turn of the spiritual in The Shack while Ice Cube and Charlie Day prepare to throw down in the comedy Fist Fight, both of which you can now rent. If you’re looking for something a bit creepier, you can rent the Finnish horror film Lake Bodom, which was inspired by a string of real murders near the real Lake Bodom.
What else can you buy or rent this week? Find out by taking a look at this engaging mix of insightful documentaries, thrilling science fiction, and chilling horror now available for you to enjoy from the comfort of your very own home!
Life
Boasting an all-star cast (Jake Gyllenhaal! Rebecca Ferguson! Ryan Reynolds!), Life unfolds like a modern-day Alien. Well, that is if you replace all the space truckers with the crew of the very real International Space Station and the creepy Xenomorph egg with a soil sample from Mars. Still, an extraterrestrial creature gets lose in a confined space and wreaks all sorts of horrific havoc on the unlucky humans trapped inside.
A Cure for Wellness
The Ring director Gore Verbinski jumped back into the horror game with this 2016 psychological thriller starring Dane DeHaan. If trips to medical facilities make you uncomfortable, then this film—which largely unfolds in a nefarious rehabilitation center in the Swiss Alps—is definitely not for you. True to its unsettling predecessors, A Cure for Wellness contains all sorts of emotionally disturbing imagery—like jars full of human teeth!
[Where to stream A Cure for Wellness]
To Buy:
All About the Money
Be Afraid
A Cure for Wellness
The Drowning
Elián
Life
Vincent N Roxxy
To Rent:
Before I Fall
Collide
Devil’s Domain
Drone
Fist Fight
Golden Years
Lake Bodom
Seoul Station
The Shack
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If you were in college in 2004, then Garden State was most likely a part of that experience. Scrubs star Zach Braff directed a visually rich comedy/drama about a young man returning to his hometown for his mother’s funeral. The film gave Natalie Portman a character to disappear into, right while she was in the middle of making the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and it also catapulted indie rock darlings the Shins into the mainstream.
