FILM
Top Picks
Stop Making Sense – Max 5/3
Let It Be – Disney+ 5/8
The former remains the gold standard for concert docs, and the 4K restoration done by A24 finally makes its streaming debut. But the latter is pretty much the holy grail for lost media. The Oscar-winning documentary about the Beatles’ end was famously unavailable for years on DVD or streaming. Disney+ long ago promised it would see the light of day, but it’s been years since Peter Jackson’s Get Back series premiered. So this is one of the rarest things in the age of streaming: appointment viewing.
New Releases
The Breaking Ice – Criterion
*The Idea of You – Prime Video 5/2
3 Days in Malay – Hulu 5/3
The American Society of Magical Negroes – Peacock 5/3
The Flood – Hulu 5/3
Skeletons in the Closet – AMC+ 5/3
*Unfrosted – Netflix 5/3
Manodrome – Starz 5/8
Biosphere – Hulu 5/10
Eileen – Hulu 5/10
The Iron Claw – Max 5/10
Wanted Man – Hulu 5/10
American Fiction – Prime Video 5/14
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – Starz 5/14
Birth/Rebirth – Hulu 5/17
He Went That Way – Hulu 5/17
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever – AMC+ 5/17
The Sweet East – Hulu 5/17
*The Blue Angels – Prime Video 5/23
The Seeding – Hulu 5/23
*Atlas – Netflix 5/24
Ferrari – Hulu 5/24
*My Oni Girl – Netflix 5/24
Sentinel – Hulu 5/24
The Boys in the Boat – Prime Video 5/28
*Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottom Country – Hulu 5/29
*MoviePass, MovieCrash – Max 5/29
Silent Night (2023) – Starz 5/29
The Promised Land – Hulu 5/30
A Part of You – Netflix 5/31
Stopmotion – AMC+ 5/31
Sympathy for the Devil – Hulu 5/31
T.I.M. – Hulu 5/31
*original title
Essential Viewing
10 Things I Hate About You – Paramount+
12 Angry Men (1957) – Prime Video
Adaptation – Criterion
A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Prime Video
Airplane! – Prime Video
All About My Mother – Max
Amélie – Criterion
The Apartment – Criterion
Being There – Criterion
Bernie – Criterion
Big – Hulu
Big Night – Paramount+
The Birdcage – Prime Video
Blindspotting – Starz
The Blues Brothers – Prime Video
Boogie Nights – Paramount+
The Bridge on the River Kwai – Criterion
The Cabin in the Woods – Peacock
Call Me by Your Name – Prime Video
Cast Away – Hulu
Days of Heaven – Paramount+
The Deer Hunter – Prime Video
Don’t Look Now – Criterion
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Disney+ and Hulu
Fatal Attraction – Prime Video
The Florida Project – Max
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Prime Video
Frida – Paramount+ with Showtime
Gattaca – Prime Video
Get Out – Peacock
Gilda – Prime Video
Glory – Prime Video
The Hurt Locker – Peacock
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) – Prime Video
Jaws – Starz
Jurassic Park – Peacock
King Kong (2005) – Peacock
Koyaanisqatsi – Prime Video
The Last Detail – Prime Video
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Hulu
The Lighthouse – Max
Malcolm X – Prime Video
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – Criterion
The Mummy (1999) – Peacock
The Night of the Hunter – Prime Video
On the Waterfront – Criterion and Prime Video
Once – Hulu
Point Break (1991) – Paramount+
Psycho (1960) – Max
Rear Window (1954) – Max
Revolutionary Road – Paramount+ with Showtime
The Royal Tenenbaums – Hulu
Run Lola Run – Prime Video
Rushmore – Hulu
Schindler’s List – Prime Video
Shampoo – Prime Video
Sideways – Hulu
Silver Linings Playbook – Max
Some Like It Hot – Prime Video
Stand by Me – Paramount+ with Showtime
Step Brothers – Peacock
Terms of Endearment – Criterion and Paramount+
That Thing You Do! – Hulu
True Grit (2010) – Paramount+
Uncle Buck – Peacock
Vertigo – Prime Video
Whiplash – Prime Video
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Criterion
Wonder Woman – Peacock
Die Hard – Hulu 5/3
Die Hard with a Vengeance – Hulu 5/3
I Am Not Your Negro – Hulu 5/15
Spotlight Collection
1999 – Criterion
Arguably the finest year for film of all time, Criterion offers up some of the best movies from 25 years ago. This includes some long-time Criterion titles like The Virgin Suicides, Beau Travail and Ghost Dog, as well as some hidden gems from legendary directors like The Straight Story, Following and Bringing Out the Dead.
Hidden Gems
Annihilation – Paramount+
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – Paramount+
The Big Heat – Prime Video
Breach – Prime Video
CB4 – Starz
Dark Waters – Netflix
The Dead Don’t Die – Max
Everybody Wants Some – Paramount+ and Prime Video
Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Max
In the Cut – Paramount+
The Matrix Resurrections – Netflix
Money Monster – Hulu
Postcards from the Edge – Criterion
The Swimmer – Prime Video
White House Down – Hulu
Knock at the Cabin – Peacock 5/24
Nostalgia Picks
Drew Peterson: Untouchable – Prime Video
I Know What You Did Last Summer – Paramount+ with Showtime
Major Payne – Starz
Not Another Teen Movie – Prime Video
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion – Paramount+
TELEVISION
Top Picks
Hacks (Season 3) – Max 5/2
Evil (Season 4) – Paramount+ 5/23
Two of my favorite shows of the decade, both of which march to the beat of their own drums, and have made us wait for a long time to return.
New Releases
Acapulco (Season 3) – AppleTV+
A Man in Full – Netflix
Monsters at Work (Season 2) – Disney+
Six Is Not a Crowd – Max
Turtles All the Way Down – Max
The Tattoist of Auschwitz – Peacock 5/2
Midsomer Murders (Season 23) – AMC+ 5/6
Kiss the Future – Paramount+ 5/7
Dark Matter – AppleTV+ 5/8
In Limbo – Hulu 5/8
Maxton Hall: The World Between Us – Prime Video 5/8
Black Twitter: A People’s History – Hulu 5/9
Pretty Little Liars: Summer School – Max 5/9
The Chi (Season 6, Part 2) – Paramount+ 5/10
Doctor Who (Season 14) – Disney+ 5/10
Past Lies – Hulu 5/10
Nikki Glazer: Someday You’ll Die – Max 5/11
Interview with the Vampire (Season 2) – AMC+ 5/12
Harry Wild (Season 3) – AMC+ 5/13
Smiling Friends (Season 2) – Max 5/13
The Killing Kind – Hulu 5/14
Pillowcase Murders – Paramount+ 5/14
Uncle Samsik – Hulu 5/15
Bridgerton (Season 3, Volume 1) – Netflix 5/16
Outer Range (Season 2) – Prime Video 5/16
99 – Prime Video 5/17
Mourning in Lod – Paramount+ 5/14
LOLLA: The Story of Lollapalooza – Paramount+ 5/21
Chief Detective 1958 – Hulu 5/22
Trying (Season 4) – AppleTV+ 5/22
Insomnia – Paramount+ 5/23
DOM (Season 3) – Prime Video 5/24
Off the Script with the Hollywood Reporter – AMC+ 5/24
The Truth – AMC+ 5/27
Camden – Hulu 5/29
Eric – Netflix 5/30
We Are Lady Parts (Season 2) – Peacock 5/30
The Outlaws (Season 3) – Prime Video 5/31
Raising Voices – Netflix 5/31
Scrublands – AMC+ TBD
Binge-Worthy Shows
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Complete Series) – Paramount+ 5/3
Archer (Complete Series) – Netflix 5/13
Other Recommendations
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. – Netflix 5/3
Katt Williams: New Comedy Special LIVE – Netflix 5/4
Nostalgia Pick
Reba (Complete Series) – Netflix 5/6