Watch at Home: Eighth Grade, Bad Times at the El Royale
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 9:17AM What's newly available for home viewing? Herewith a very quick survey of new releases and/or great deals. Links go to reviews.
DVD/Blu-Ray
• Bad Reputation a doc for Joan Jett fans
• Bad Times at the El Royale seven strangers, each with "a secret to bury" meet at a hotel. So like Clue + 1 only noirish?
Also new: AXL, Love Gilda, Night School, and White Boy Rick
iTunes 99¢ Deals of Note This Week
• Eighth Grade -Bo Burnham's inspired you-are-there comedy about everyone's favourite existential horror: middle school
• 12 Angry Men - the legendary courtroom drama was nominated for 3 Oscars including Best Picture of 1957 (pssst. it's also available right now on Prime)
• The Apartment -1960's big Oscar winner starring Jack Lemmon & Shirley Maclaine and an over-extended bachelor pad.
• Fargo -This freezing cold comic noir is still the best Coen brothers movie, right? Best Actress winner 1996 Frances McDormand.
• Platoon - Oliver Stone's bracing 1986 Vietnam war drama and Best Picture winner
Streaming
ICYMI What's new on Netflix & Amazon Prime
Reader Comments (5)
This freezing cold comic noir is still the best Coen brothers movie, right?
not even in the top three - raising arizona, inside llewyn davis, blood simple
Bad Times at the El Royale was one of my absolute favorite movies of 2018, and the one movie that I was clearly in the minority for with critics (there's one every year). I thought it was super fun, some really great scenes (that one where Erivo is singing with Dakota Johnson watching), and while it isn't perfect, it was such an enjoyable ride I didn't really care.
Am I the only one who thought Fargo was extremely overrated? I thought Siskel & Ebert were playing a prank on audiences by praising such a bad movie as much as they did.
What READY said. Probably wouldn't make my top 5.
Damn right it is.
1. Fargo
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Llewyn Davis
4. No Country
5. my soft spot for Blood Simple