The French Connection is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Together with his partner Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider), Popeye must dismantle Alain’s smuggling operation and bring him to justice … by any means necessary. Gene Hackman stars in a career-defining role as “Popeye” Doyle, a mean short-tempered bigot of a “hero” with an alcohol problem whose vices are matched only by those of his nemesis, the charismatic drug dealer Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). William Friedkin’s 1973 film The French Connection is a milestone for crime thrillers, a film whose gritty “bad cop” protagonist and elaborate car chases have become a blueprint for its successors. As she wrestles with her past a free woman and her present as a trained murderer, Nie must choose for herself what her future holds. Following a conspicuous failure, Nie is sent on a mission to assassinate a political leader who turns out to be the man to whom she was once betrothed. Millennium Mambo director Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s 2015 Wuxia drama The Assassin stars Qi Shu (Journey to the West) as Nie Yinniang, a female assassin tasked with killing corrupt local governors. Toussaint EganĪlmost Famous is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Crowe’s film is a funny and achingly poignant coming of age story as William is given a crash course in matters of love, life, and breaking through to the big time. William’s first big task is to write a story on Stillwater, an up-and-coming band led by charismatic guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and lead singer Jeff “Bebe” William (Jason Lee), as they tour across the country. Almost Famous Photo: Paramount Home EntertainmentĬameron Crowe’s 2000 semi-autobiographical comedy-drama Almost Famous stars Patrick Fugit as William Miller, a 15-year-old rock fan-turned-music journalist for Rolling Stones. Joshua RiveraĪliens is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. What’s more, Aliens still has the best setup/title one-two punch in cinema: Remember how the first movie was named after one scary creature? Well, what if there were more? And while Cameron’s film trades the horror of the first film for white knuckle action, the movie stays squarely focused on hero Ellen Ripley, who, by the time the finale comes around, will once again face off against a single Xenomorph. But looks aren’t everything, and Aliens is such a top-to-bottom rock solid film, the definitive sequel that takes the first movie and runs in an entirely different direction without disrespecting what came before. Better, even, than a lot of modern sci-fi cinema. That way, you can marvel all over again at how James Cameron’s blockbuster sequel still looks so good, nearly 30 years later. When you decide to stream Aliens - and you should, this evening, even if you’ve seen it multiple times - do it on the biggest screen available to you. Petrana Radulovicĥ00 Days of Summer is streaming on Hulu. Like the narrator promises, it’s not a love story, but a story about love. The film explores the 500 days Tom knows Summer, jumping back and forth between various points of time, as his feelings for her change from complete adoration to contempt to finally accepting that she isn’t his dream girl but that doesn’t mean she isn’t a person of her own. Directed by Marc Webb ( The Amazing Spider-Man) and written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber ( The Spectacular Now), the film completely dismantles the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, repeatedly reminding Tom, the male lead (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), that just because a pretty girl likes the same stuff he does and does some quirky things doesn’t mean that she’s his soulmate. Zooey Deschanel has a reputation for playing Manic Pixie Dream Girls, and while (500) Days of Summer seems to paint her as a quirky, love interest there to fill the main character’s heart with love, it actually does the opposite. There’s something for everyone.ĥ00 Days of Summer Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Read on for 13 of the best movies new to streaming services in May. This month sees the long-awaited premiere of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action thriller Tenet on HBO Max, a streaming platform for which Nolan himself has voiced particularly strong opinions of in the past, along with bona fide classics like James Cameron’s Aliens and The French Connection on Amazon Prime Video, the South Korean horror thriller The Wailing and the Chinese Wuxia epic The Assassin on Hulu, and the 1973 British folk horror musical The Wicker Man on Shudder. We’re somehow nearly halfway through the year, if that’s not too hard to imagine and there’s a plentiful bounty of exciting new releases and additions to streaming to tide you over until summer.
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