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A few weeks ago, Roku announced a slew of new features and updates for its streaming players and Roku TV models. To us, the most enticing among them is the Roku Feed.
The Roku Feed is a way for Roku customers to “follow” movies that are in theaters right now using a “Movies Coming Soon” feature and be notified when they become available for streaming on the Roku platform, when a new service offers the movie for streaming, or when the price changes. It’s a set it and forget it solution for cinematic FOMO.
Want to build your Roku Feed so you start receiving relevant updates? Here are six movies to follow now and sit back and relax until the Roku Feed lets you know they’re available to stream from the comfort of home.
You know the story: Humans build robots. Humans give robots artificial intelligence. Robots turn on humans. But in this version, Ava, the robot in question, is less interested in ruling the world than avoiding the rubbish heap once version 2.0 comes around. To do that, she attempts to form an emotional connection with Caleb, her Turing Test auditor. A very emotional connection.
Maria (Juliette Binoche) achieved stardom 20 years ago by playing Sigrid, a young temptress who drives her older boss Helena to suicide. Now, Maria is being asked to star in a revival of the play – this time in the role of the older boss. Maria and her assistant (Kristen Stewart) go off to Sils Maria, a remote region of the Alps, to rehearse. But when Maria’s young, scandalous co-star (Chloë Grace Moretz) enters the picture, the tenuous situation quickly spirals out of control.
Though the franchise may one day run out of ways to title its movies, for now it’s firing on all cylinders. The latest installment made $1 billion faster than any movie in history. Perhaps even more impressively, Diesel and his crew of merry gearheads wooed the critics, too. (It doesn’t hurt to have Jason Statham playing a deranged special forces assassin bent on revenge, either.)
The latest comedy from writer/director Noah Boaumbach continues his streak of critical successes. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as Josh and Cornelia, a childless married couple who feel left out of the loop as their friends begin having children. Serendipitously, the 40-something couple meets a young hipster couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried), who share a passion for documentary film making. Of course, though, things don’t quite pan out like Josh and Cornelia had hoped.
A variation on the “found footage” genre, the chilling film takes place entirely on a computer screen, where a group of friends are terrorized by a hacker during a group video chat. The harassment escalates as the teenagers realize that the attacker is seeking revenge for a viral video that bullied one of their classmates into committing suicide exactly a year earlier.
Oh (Jim Parsons) is a loveable alien belonging to the Boov race, who have benevolently colonized Earth in an attempt to flee the evil Gorg race. After mistakenly sending the Boov’s coordinates to the Gorg overlords, Oh is on the run from his own people – plus the newly arrived Gorg army – with only 12-year-old Tip (Rhianna) to help him.
Ready to test it out? You can find the Roku Feed front-and-center on your Roku home screen under “My Feed.”
