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Since all of 2019’s winter season is gonna be concentrated in one big ol’ arctic blast this weekend, it’s best if you stayed inside and totally vegged out in front of the TV. Sure, Sunday is all Super Bowl all day and night, but you still have plenty of time on Saturday to plow through some scripted entertainment! 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.
Want something for Saturday night that’s the exact opposite of the Super Bowl? You can now rent the highly divisive and disturbing update of the horror classic Suspiria! This psychological/supernatural horror film stars Dakota Johnson as an American dancer bewitched by a coven at a dance academy in 1977 Germany. Another totally different flick to stream during your Super Bowl pregame could be the Vincent Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate, starring Willem Dafoe. Or if you don’t want to pay full price for the Oscar-nominated movie, you can wait and rent it on February 12.
What else can you buy or rent this week? Find out by taking a look at the collection of family fantasies, period pieces, and animated action movies now available for you to enjoy from the comfort of your very own home!
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Disney took a big ol’ swing with this fantastical reimagining of The Nutcracker, turning it into a sweeping YA-style fairy tale. It didn’t exactly pay off; the film underwhelmed at the holiday box office despite being, you know, based on a Christmastime staple. But whatever–you can now rent The Nutcracker and the Four Realms for half the price of a movie ticket! If you missed it a few months ago (and odds are you did), maybe now’s the right time and the right price for it. The film stars Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, and more.
[Where to stream The Nutcracker and the Four Realms]
The Wife
Glenn Close scored a Golden Globe and another Oscar nomination for her role in The Wife as Joan Castleman, the partner of a Nobel prize-winning writer (played by Jonathan Pryce). But what the writer doesn’t know is that his wife has sacrificed a whole helluva lot in order for his career to thrive. What follows in the acclaimed film is a dissection of a marriage and what partners sacrifice, sometimes in silence, for the other one to succeed. The Wife is now available to rent.
[Where to stream The Wife]
To Buy:
At Eternity’s Gate
Blood Brother
Braid
A Breath Away
Nobody’s Fool
Piercing
Rock Steady Row
Rolling to You
Sharkwater Extinction
To Rent:
Antiquities
Beyond the Night
Boy Erased
Burning
Chef Flynn
The Guilty
Hot to Trot
Hunter Killer
Ice Dragon: Legend of the Blue Daisies
Indivisible
Mobile Homes
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Of Fathers and Sons
Postcards from London
Reign of the Supermen
Suspiria
The Wife
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RBG
If you’ve got a Hulu account, you can watch the Oscar-nominated documentary RBG right now. If not, you’re in luck! You can rent it for just under a buck on iTunes! Need convincing? Here’s what Decider’s Meghan O’Keefe had to say about it:
RBG might sound like a dour portrait of a serious legal mind, but it’s an uplifting film made with a light touch. The movie opens with quotes from various conservatives lambasting Ginsburg and then launches into a sassy rebuttal. We watch the elderly Ginsburg powering through her famous daily workouts (as featured on Colbert, of all places) while various admirers sing her praises. The film then lets Ginsburg tell her own story. She carefully takes us back to growing up in Brooklyn, where she was known as “Kicky.”
