Cocaine Bear, Netflix’s Pornhub doc, and every movie new to streaming

Oscar season might be finished, but movie season doesn’t end.

Although there isn’t much new content available this week, you can still find plenty to stream on the different streaming platforms. There are three new Netflix releases — a documentary about Pornhub, a French revenge thriller, and an animated adventure — an Oscar-nominated movie making its way to Prime Video, an Oscar-winning movie at a discounted rental price, and plenty more.

This is the main highlight. Cocaine BearThe meme movie that could is titled “The Meme Movie That Could”, and it will be making its VOD debut at the end of the theatrical run.

Let’s get into the options.

Netflix: New

His Shadow

You should be watching: Netflix is available to stream

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Genre: Crime drama
Run time: 1h 29m
Director: Marc Fouchard
Cast: Kaaris, Alassane Diong, Carl Malapa

The French drama bears some similarity to Athena, one of the best movies of 2022 and Netflix’s best original release of the year. His ShadowPlease like AthenaBrothers clash in a conflict that leads to death. It takes place after their father’s death. It will be possible to match Athena’s kinetic pacing and explosive tension? You’ll have to check it out yourself to find out (but please, watch Athena)!

The Magician’s Elephant

You should be watching: Netflix is available to stream

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Genre: Fantasy adventures
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Wendy Rogers
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Brian Tyree Henry, Natasia Demetriou

Based on Kate DiCamillo’s 2009 novel, this animated adventure follows a young boy searching for his missing sister, and the tasks he must complete (and the elephant he must follow) to find her.

Money shot: The Pornhub Story

You should be watching: Netflix is available to stream

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Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 34m
Director: Suzanne Hillinger
Cast: Asa Akira, Siri Dahl, Cherie DeVille

Pornhub: It’s obvious that you already know it; it’s clear to me. Let’s not pretend that we don’t — it’s Right there in the name — and choose to be adults about it instead of a gaggle of reptilian-brained adolescent shitposters who can’t so much as catch sight of someone they find attractive without devolving into the catcalling cartoon wolf from Red Hot Riding HoodLet’s get started!

Suzanne Hillinger’s documentary “The Last Days of the Living” (Total ControlThe following chart charts the history of the online adult entertainment site and the abuse and controversy that has plagued it.

Our review:

It’s essentially a get-out-the-horny-vote exercise, trying to persuade the people who enjoy porn to throw their political support behind the people who make it. It’s titillation with a side of radicalization. And if any teenagers whose folks have installed parental controls on their computers do watch this documentary late at night with the volume turned down, they’ll learn more about workers seizing the means of production than they learn about sex — which is far more dangerous to the powers that be than any bare breasts or asses.

Premiere: New

Mrs. Harris visits Paris

You should be watching: Prime Video is now available

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Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Anthony Fabian
Cast: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson

Lambert Wilson and Isabelle Huppert were nominated for the Oscar (for Best Costume Design), in this third adaptation. Manville is Mrs. Harris, a cleaning lady and a widow who receives a long-delayed sum of money from her husband’s death in World War II. The money is given to her to travel to Paris. She chooses Dior clothes as it has always been a favorite of hers. The movie moved from Peacock to Prime Video after a while.

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Boston Strangler

You should be watching: Hulu is available to stream

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Genre: Drama about historical crime
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Matt Ruskin
Cast:Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon. Chris Cooper

This story is based on an actual event. Boston Strangler follows two female reporters who connect dots others can’t about an ongoing serial killer case, all while fighting against misogyny both in American culture and in their workplace.

HBO Max: New!

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

You should be watching: You can stream HBO Max on your computer.

Nan Goldin

Genre:Documentary
Run time: 2h 2m
Director: Laura Poitras
Cast: Nan Goldin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Megan Kapler

Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated documentary explores the life of Nan Goldin, an American photographer and activist who led a campaign against the Sackler family, a pharmaceutical dynasty that is widely cited as one of the main architects behind the opioid crisis.

Neue to Shudder

Please Leave

You should be watching: Shudder streaming available

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Genre:Horror
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Alex Herron
Cast: Alicia von Rittberg, Herman Tømmeraas, Stig R. Amdam

The horror film by Alex Herron, a Norwegian music video director, opens with a cop discovering an infant abandoned in a cemetery. It is covered in a shawl with pentagrams that has an upside-down cross around it’s neck. Twenty years later, the child — a young woman named Hunter (Alicia von Rittberg) follows a lead to Norway in search of her birth parents. Instead, she discovers a horror unlike anything she could have imagined.

VOD Now Available

Cocaine Bear

You should be watching: Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $19.99

Universal Pictures

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

Internet is a love affair 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 tell you that this bear started eating and killing people.

The Whale

You should be watching: Rentable for as low as $5.99 at Amazon and Apple, or $4.99 on Vudu

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Genre: Drama
Run time: 1h 57m
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins

Recently minted Oscar Winner (Brendan Fraser, Best Actor; Hairstyling and Makeup) The Whale Now available at a lower rental cost

Our review:

The Whale, Aronofsky posits his sadism as an intellectual experiment, challenging viewers to find the humanity buried under Charlie’s thick layers of fat. That’s not as benevolent of a premise as he seems to think it is. This film assumes that a 600-pound man cannot be loved. It’s like walking up to a stranger on the street and saying, “You’re an abomination, but I love you anyway,” in keeping with the strong strain of self-satisfied Christianity that the film purports to critique. Audience members get to walk away proud of themselves that they shed a few tears for this disgusting whale, while gaining no new insight into what it’s actually like to be that whale. That’s not empathy. That’s pity, buried under a thick, smothering layer of contempt.

Otto, the Man Who Called Himself a Man

You should be watching: Rentable for as low $5.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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Genre: Dramedy
Run time: 2h 6m
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller

Tom Hanks plays against type in this comedy-drama adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s 2012 Swedish novel Ove, the Man Who Calls Himself Ove as a grumpy, lonely widower who — against his own antisocial nature — inadvertently sparks a friendship with his new next-door neighbor and their child. Warning: There are plenty of jokes about suicide attempts in this comedy.

It’s not a good idea

You should be watching: Rentable for as low as $6.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

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Genre: Folk terror
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Jon Wright
Cast: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney

Home invasion movies inspired by Grimm fairytales. It’s not a good idea follows a married couple that moves from London to rural Ireland, only to be terrorized by murderous redcaps — goblins of British folklore.