Geekery: What to Watch at Home this Week – June 11, 2020
New originals and some suggestions for other movies to watch, from action to horror to drama. Take a look at what to watch on your couch.
New Streaming Shows/Movies Dropping This Week
A bunch of titles were added on the first of the month – you can find a list here.
Disney+: Artemis Fowl, The Story of the Animated Drawing
HBOMax: The Good Liar, First Man, Looney Tunes (Season 1), King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis
Hulu: Crossing Swords (Premiere), Into the Dark: Good Boy, Clemency, Child’s Play (2019), Eye in the Skye, Dustwalker, The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Brockmire (Season 4), Love, Victor (Premiere)
Netflix: More than a Moment Collection, Pose (Season 2), Da 5 Bloods, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Season 2), Okko’s Inn, One Piece (Seasons 1-3), Pokemon: Journeys, The Woods (Season 1), Marcella (Season 3), Borgen (Seasons 1-3), Baby Mama, Frost/Nixon, The Darkness, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
New on VoD This Week
King of Staten Island – Available June 12th
Starring Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, and Steve Buscemi
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys–Oscar, Igor and Richie–and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror – Available Now Free on Shudder
Directed by Xavier Burgin
Based on the acclaimed book of the same name by Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, HORROR NOIRE takes a critical look at a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and embraced both black filmmakers and black audiences. Featuring interviews with Ernest Dickerson (Bones), Rusty Cundieff (Tales from the Hood), Jordan Peele (Us), Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned), Tony Todd (Candyman), Paula Jai Parker (Tales from the Hood), Tananarive Due (My Soul to Keep), and Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman.
Becky – Available Now
Starring Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, and Joel McHale
Spunky and rebellious, Becky is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the lake house.
The Booksellers – Available Now
Directed by D.W. Young
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.
Just Mercy – Available Now Free on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Youtube
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson
A powerful and thought-provoking true story, “Just Mercy” follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. In the years that follow, Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds—and the system—stacked against them.
~ What are you going to watch and binge?
