October keeps rolling along with another week now in the books. You’ve made it all the way to Friday, and now it’s time to catch up on what’s really important: new movies. With so many new movies to choose from, you have a packed 48 hours of cinematic delights waiting for you! Whether you use Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu or your cable’s on demand service, there are a lot of new releases out there waiting for you to discover.
If you missed out on Spider-Man: Homecoming, one of the few genuine successes of the summer movie season, then you’re in luck: it is now available to rent! Tom Holland stars as the web-slinger this time around, and he actually looks like a high schooler for the first time in Marvel movie history. With fantastic supporting work from Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Michael Keaton as the fantastically villainous Vulture, this is a must-see movie. Also on the superhero front, the new animated Batman movie Batman vs. Two-Face is now available to rent. Done in the style of the ’60s Batman series, the film features the voice talents of the late Adam West as well as the living legend William Shatner.
What else can you buy or rent this week? Find out by taking a look at the collection of quiet dramas, rowdy comedies, and insightful documentaries now available for you to enjoy from the comfort of your very own home!
Kidnap
You can practically hear that old school trailer style voiceover: “She thought it was safe to go to the park…” Halle Berry stars as a single mom that just wanted to take her kid to the park, and instead ends up on a nonstop nightmare chase to rescue her son from a group of kidnappers. The film runs a lean 82 minutes and marks Berry’s second entry in the no-frills thriller genre (remember 2013’s The Call?). This time around, though, Berry’s character is without a phone and outside help, leaving her alone in the hunt for her kid.
[Where to stream Kidnap]
The Dark Tower
Stephen King has had a massive year, with the success of the big screen adaptation of It. But that wasn’t the only major motion picture based on one of King’s works, as the highly-anticipated adaptation of The Dark Tower hit theaters just a few weeks before It dominated. Despite starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and being based on a book with a devoted following, The Dark Tower didn’t win over critics. If you’ve been curious about this one (and how they condensed all that source material into a 95 minute film), you can now check it out digitally. If you want to rent it, though, you gotta wait a few weeks.
[Where to stream The Dark Tower]
To Buy:
Annabelle: Creation
Bad Day for the Cut
The Dark Tower
Jungle
Kidnap
The Only Living Boy in New York
Shot Caller
Step
To Rent:
B&B
Batman vs. Two-Face
Girls Trip
God of War
Haze
Inside You
Lady Macbeth
Menashe
The Midwife
Red Christmas
The Skyjacker’s Tale
Spider-Man: Homecoming
The Untamed
A Very Sordid Wedding
Whose Streets?
The Wilde Wedding
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Event Horizon
If you love Alien but wish you could swap out the xenomorph with, uh, a hellish sense of all-encompassing and at times corporeal dread, you will be super into Event Horizon. This box office bomb earned a cult reputation once it hit VHS for being way scarier and disturbing than the trailers let on, but it also veers into incomprehensible territory thanks to oh so many production woes (seriously, supplement your rental with reading the film’s Wikipedia page). Still, this is a haunted house movie in space starring a murderers’ row of sci-fi stars like Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Sean Pertwee (Gotham), Jason Isaacs (Star Trek: Discovery), and Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13). It’s horror movie season, and this one’s fascinating (in both a good and bad way).