Cocaine Bear, Netflix’s Last Kingdom movie, and every new movie to watch

It’s been a busy month at the box office, with John Wick: chapter 4, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesThen, Super Mario Bros. Movie making waves back-to-back-to-back. How about back home? It’s Cocaine Bear The comedy thriller is now on Peacock.

This week’s other new offerings include Netflix’s Last Kingdom Movie Seven Kings Must DieThe smash hit series continues. There’s also the cult-hit horror movie Flux Gourmet On Hulu you can watch the Ryan Kwanten actioner (and for a brief time Scott Adkins). Section 8On Hulu you can watch the Julia Roberts George Clooney romantic comedy The Ticket To Paradise on Prime, Zach Braff’s new feel-good movie on VOD, and plenty more.

Let’s dig into it.

Netflix has a New Release

Seven Kings Must Die – The Last Kingdom

You can watch the following:Netflix offers a wide range of streaming content

Image: Netflix

Genre:Historic Drama
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Cast:Mark Rowley, Harry Gilby and Alexander Dreymon

Five seasons of Last Kingdom, adapted from Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories novels, the saga concludes with this movie, Seven Kings Must Die. Alexander Dreymon, who plays Uhtred Bebbanburg in the sixth season of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Thrones, returns to the role of Uhtred. He hopes that he can unite England following the events of Season 5.

Hulu – New Releases

Flux Gourmet

You can watch the following:Hulu offers streaming on demand

IFC Midnight

Genre:Black Comedy
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Peter Strickland
Cast: Asa Butterfield Gwendoline Christopher Ariane labed

Peter Strickland is a well-known director (Duke of Burgundy, You can buy fabric( returns with this captivating drama, set in a culinary school. The trailer promises “sensory overload,” Strickland’s typical impeccable costuming and attention to detail, and the unsettling air you often find in his movies.

Section 8

You can watch the following:Hulu offers streaming on demand

AMC Plus

Genre:A thriller of action
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Christian Sesma
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney

True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten leads this action movie featuring an ensemble cast that includes the likes of Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney, Mickey Rourke, and Scott Adkins. Kwanten portrays Jake, who is a former Special Forces soldier in a bind. He is hired by a secret group after his son and wife are murdered. A deep conspiracy begins to unfold as he becomes a part of this secret organisation. Adkins puts on a great fight in this movie by Christian Sesma.

Prime Video – New Releases

The Ticket To Paradise

You can watch the following:Prime Video offers a wide range of streaming content

Universal Pictures

Genre:Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director:Ol Parker
Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever

George Clooney and Julia Roberts star in this romantic comedy as a divorced couple who put aside their differences to work together with one goal in mind: stopping their lovestruck daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) from getting married and making the same “mistake” they did.

Peacock – New and Improved

Cocaine Bear

You can watch the following:Peacock offers streaming of the film.

Universal Pictures

Genre: Comedy horror
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr.

The whole internet loves Cocaine Bear, or “Cokey,” the lovely bear who ate 70 pounds of cocaine that fell out of a plane into the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest… We regret to inform you that the bear has started killing and eating people.

Mubi – New and Improved

Dogville 4K Restoration and Manderlay

You can watch the following:Streaming available on Mubi

Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Genre:The Drama of the Day
Run time: 2h 58m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany

While on its surface a crime/mob drama, Lars von Trier’s Dogville The story is told on stage using a minimalist experimental style. It was a polarizing movie on release and now gets a 4K restoration (along with von Trier’s follow-up ManderlayMubi.

Shudder has a New Look

Aliens vs. Kids

You can watch the following:Shudder now streaming

Image: RLJE Films/Shudder

Genre: Sci-fi/horror
Run time: 1h 15m
Director: Jason Eisener
Cast: Dominic Mariche, Phoebe Rex, Calem MacDonald

Looking for some more ’80s throwback sci-fi horror with a requisite synthwave score à la Stranger Things? Take a look at the latest movie by Hobo With a ShotgunThe film is directed by Jason Eisener and tells of a raucous sleepover party that turns into something more when bloodthirsty invaders infiltrate their small suburb with a plan to conquer Earth.

VOD – New and Improved

A Fine Morning

You can watch the following:You can rent it at $5.99 from Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Image: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Genre: Romantic Drama
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud

Léa Seydoux (Crimes of the Future, Death StrandingThis new romantic drama stars ). Bergman Island director Mia Hansen-Løve as Sandra, a young widowed mother struggling to secure a decent nursing home for her ailing father (Pascal Greggory) while raising her 8-year-old daughter. Upon reconnecting with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), an old friend from her past, the two find themselves unmistakably drawn to one another — in spite of Clément’s marriage to another woman.

Emily

You can watch the following:You can rent it on Amazon, Apple and Vudu for just $5.99

Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre:Filmography
Run time: 2h 10m
Director: Frances O’Connor
Cast: Emma Mackey Fionn whitehead Oliver Jackson-Cohen

What inspired Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey) to write Wuthering HeightsIs it widely regarded as one of the best novels written in English ever? Frances O’Connor’s 2022 drama imagines an answer to that question, following a depiction of the iconic fiction writer as she struggles to cope with the loss of her mother and the gendered limitations of an era that constrict her freedom to write and create.

You Are A Good Person

You can watch the following:Rent it for just $19.99 at Apple, Amazon and Vudu

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Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Zach Braff
Cast: Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Celeste O’Connor

Actor-director Zach Braff (Scrubs, Garden State) reunites with Morgan Freeman for his first feature-length directorial effort since 2017’s In Style. You Are A Good PersonFollows Allison (Florence Pugh), who is a young, thriving woman with a bright future. However, her happy outlook on life changes after a car accident. As her life and the lives of those she loves begin to unravel in the wake of this tragedy, Allison finds an unlikely friend in Daniel (Morgan Freeman) — her would-be father-in-law. Will these two be able to overcome tragedy by learning to forgive themselves and each other?