All titles premiere on the first of the month, unless otherwise noted.
FILM
Top Pick
Cinema Paradiso – Paramount+
If you care about movies, love or history, this Italian Oscar-winner is an absolute must-see.
New Releases
Plan 75 – Criterion Channel
Society of the Snow – Netflix 1/4
Foe – Prime Video 1/5
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – Prime Video 1/5
Landscape with Invisible Hand – Prime Video 1/9
Role Play – Prime Video 1/12
Fast X – Prime Video 1/16
The Origin of Evil – AMC+ 1/19
Essential Viewing
21 Jump Street – Hulu
22 Jump Street – Hulu
Adventureland – Paramount+
The Adventures of Tintin – Paramount+
Airplane! – Prime Video
Almost Famous – Paramount+
Atlantic City – Paramount+
The Blair Witch Project – Criterion Channel
The Breakfast Club – Max
Bridesmaids – Prime Video
Blood Simple – Criterion Channel
Cat People (1942) – Criterion Channel
Chameleon Street – Criterion Channel
Days of Heaven – Paramount+
Do the Right Thing – Peacock
The Doom Generation – Criterion Channel
Dr. Strangelove – Max
The Elephant Man – Paramount+
Face/Off – Paramount+
Fast Times at Ridgemont High – Peacock
Fight Club – Peacock
Forrest Gump – Prime Video
The Godfather – Paramount+
The Godfather Part II – Paramount+
Gone Baby Gone – Paramount+
Good Will Hunting – Prime Video
Heat (1995) – Hulu
High Noon (1950) – Paramount+
Hoop Dreams – Criterion Channel
If Beale Street Could Talk – Prime Video
Inside Llewyn Davis – Criterion Channel
Inside Man – Peacock
John Wick 1-3 – Netflix
Jurassic Park – Netflix
The Killing – Prime Video
Killing Them Softly – Max
The King of Comedy – Hulu
The Last Black Man in San Francisco – Max
The Long Goodbye – Prime Video
Miller’s Crossing – Paramount+
Mission: Impossible 1-4 – Prime Video
The Mummy (1999) – Hulu
My Left Foot – Paramount+
The Nightmare Before Christmas – Hulu
No Country for Old Men – Prime Video
Notting Hill – Prime Video
Ocean’s Trilogy – Peacock
Paris Is Burning – Criterion Channel
The People vs. Larry Flynt – Paramount+
Pretty in Pink – Paramount+
Pulp Fiction – Prime Video
RoboCop (1987) – Max
Saving Private Ryan – Prime Video
Scream (1996) – Paramount+
Scream 2 – Paramount+
Searching for Bobby Fischer – Paramount+
Shoplifters – Hulu
Sideways – Peacock
Slacker – Criterion Channel
The Social Network – Starz
Something Wild (1986) – Prime Video
Step Brothers – Prime Video
Sweeney Todd – Paramount+
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) – Prime Video
Team America: World Police – Paramount+
Terms of Endearment – Paramount+
Tropic Thunder – Paramount+
True Grit (2010) – Peacock
True Lies – Peacock
When We Were Kings – Criterion Channel
The Wolf of Wall Street – Peacock
Snowden – Max 1/15
Burn After Reading – Prime Video 1/16
Train to Busan – Peacock 1/17
Nope – Peacock 1/18
Spotlight Collection
HandMade Films – Criterion Channel
Criterion highlights the many unique (and often hilarious) films financed by George Harrison’s HandMade films in the 1980s. Originally begun to provide last-minute funding to Monty Python to film Life of Brian, the independent studio released some of the most impressive films of the Thatcher era, including John Mackenzie’s The Long Good Friday, Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, Dick Clement’s satire Water, Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa and Bruce Robinson’s dark comedy classic Withnail and I. The collection also brings the 2019 documentary An Accidental Studio to its audience of cinephiles.
Hidden Gems
Changing Lanes – Paramount+
The Devils – Criterion Channel
Side Effects – Prime Video
Support the Girls – Paramount+
Compliance – Hulu and Peacock 1/2
Take This Waltz – Peacock 1/19
Nostalgia Pick
Beethoven – Netflix
TELEVISION
Top Picks
Monsieur Spade – AMC+ 1/14
True Detective: Night Country – Max 1/14
I haven’t seen these two mysteries yet, but I trust the pedigree of their showrunners. The former hails from the great Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit), and finds legendary detective Sam Spade called out of retirement in France to investigate a brutal sextuple homicide at a convent. The latter is the new, Nic Pizzolato-free version of HBO’s nearly decade-old crime show. Helmed by acclaimed filmmaker Issa Lopez and starring Oscar-winner Jodie Foster, this is easily my most anticipated show of the year so far.
New Releases
Criminal Record – AppleTV+ 1/10
Echo – Disney+ and Hulu 1/10
Ted – Peacock 1/11
Bluey (10 New Episodes) – Disney+ 1/12
Sort Of (Season 3) – Max 1/18
Rick & Morty (Season 7) – Max 1/22
Griselda – Netflix 1/25
Sexy Beast – Paramount+ 1/25
Expats – Prime Video 1/26
Hightown (Season 3) – Starz 1/26
Masters of the Air – AppleTV+ 1/26
Binge-Worthy Shows
This Is Us (Complete Series) – Netflix 1/8
Nostalgia Pick
Walker, Texas Ranger (Complete Series) – Hulu