Fall, Netflix’s Your Place or Mine, and every new movie you watch at home

It’s the first full week of February, and there are a ton of intriguing movies out on streaming this week.

Tamil heist thriller Thunivu is at the top of our list, and it’s one of three new Netflix releases this week (including a rom-com with Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon). Two Oscar-nominated films are now available on HBO Max. There are two interesting new Shudder releases, as well as two Oscar-nominated movies. Also, VOD debuts for two highly acclaimed movies from 2022 and more.

Let’s get into it!

Netflix is now streaming new content

Place, Mine

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

Image courtesy of Netflix

Genre: Rom-com
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Aline Brosh McKenna
Cast:Reese Witherspoon Ashton Kutcher Steve Zahn

It’s a rom-com about two close friends with very different lives who swap homes and live for a week. The film is director David H. Smith’s directorial debut. Prada is the Devil’s Clothes Aline Brosh-McKenna, screenwriter for The Road to Nowhere was also co-creator and showrunner. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (With Rachel Bloom, who also stars in the film). Place, Mine.)

Thunivu

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

Photo by Zee Studios

Genre:Crime thriller
Run time: 2h 26m
Director: H. Vinoth
Cast: Ajith Kumar, Manju Warrier, Samuthirakani

If you’re wondering, “What will the person writing this [ed. note: Pete] be watching this weekend?” you have found your answer. I have heard good things about this Tamil-language heist movie about a mastermind criminal and his Robin Hood style of thieves who take from the rich, and I am extremely excited to finally watch it now that it’s on Netflix.

10 Days with a Good Man

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

Genre:Crime thriller
Run time: 2h 4m
Director: Uluç Bayraktar
Cast: Nejat Isler, Ilayda Alisan, Ilayda Akdogan

The first film of a Turkish trilogy features a former attorney who takes on the case of a missing person in his new role as private investigator.

Hulu: New!

Piggy

What to Watch:Hulu is available to stream

Image: Magnet Releasing

Genre: Horror/thriller
Run time: 1h 30m
Director: Carlota Peereda
Cast: Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi

Sara (Laura Galán), an overweight teen who works behind the counter of a butcher shop, is bullied by a clique of local girls. She is forced to become an apprentice and accomplice to the serial killer when a man appears and kills her torturers.

HBO Max: New!

All that Breathes

What to Watch:You can stream HBO Max on your computer.

Image from HBO Documentary Films

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Shaunak Sen
Cast: Salik Rehman, Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad

HBO Max’s 2022 documentary, one of which was Oscar nominated All that Breathes The story follows two brothers who, amongst other things, run a bird rescue center and save thousands of black kites injured by New Delhi air pollution.

Aqua Teen Forever – Plantasm

What to Watch:You can stream HBO Max on your computer.

Warner Bros.

Genre:Black comedy with a surreal twist
Run time: 1h 19m
Directors: Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis
Cast:Dana Snyder and Carey Means. Dave Willis

In this sequel, the Aqua Teen gang returns Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film in Theaters. The movie shows the gang uniting to fight Amazin (a giant company run by Neil Serafinowicz).

Empire of Light

What to Watch:You can stream HBO Max on your computer.

Image: Searchlight Pictures

Genre:Romantic drama
Run time: 1h 55m
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth

Sam Mendes’ (1917, Skyfall) latest was nominated for an Oscar for Roger Deakins’ cinematography, and it’s a “love letter to cinema” type starring Olivia Colman as a manager of a movie theater.

Prime Video – New

A person I once knew

What to Watch:Prime Video is available to stream

Image: Scott Patrick Green/Prime Video

Genre:Romantic drama
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Dave Franco
Cast: Jay Ellis and Alison Brie.

Dave Franco’s second directorial effort after the 2020 horror movie The RentalThis romantic comedy is about a TV producer named Alison Brie who comes home from work and reconnects to an old love.

Shudder – New

Huesera, The Bone Woman

What to Watch:Shudder streaming available

Image: Disruptiva Films

Genre: Horror drama
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Cast: Alfonso Dosal Mayra Battalla Samantha Castillo

Director Michelle Garza Cervera’s feature debut is a horror movie about a woman who has dreamed of being a mother, only to suspect something is off once she is finally pregnant. Garza Cervera was a big name on the 2022 festival circuit and won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Best Narrative Director Award. Huesera The Audience Award won at the Morelia International Film Festival.

Attachment

What to Watch:Shudder streaming available

Photo: Soeren Kirkegaard/AMC Networks

Genre:Horror
Run time: 1h 45m
Director: Gabriel Bier Gislason
Cast: Josephine Park, Ellie Kendrick, Sofie Gråbøl

The modern story of the Dybuk is a Jewish folklore-possessed spirit that lives in modern times. Attachment The intriguing genre mixup gets a touch of rom-com.

New on Starz

Herbst

What to Watch:Starz has it all

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Genre:It’s a thrill
Run time: 1h 47m
Director: Scott Mann
Cast: Virginia Gardner, Grace Fulton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The story follows two friends, who are thrill-seekers and climb up to a radio tower at 2,000 feet. They get trapped!

VOD: New!

Corsage

What to Watch:Rentable for as low as $6.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Image: Film AG Produktion

Genre:Historiographical drama
Run time: 1h 54m
Director: Marie Kreutzer
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Florian Teichtmeister

Vicky Krieps (Phantom ThreadThis alternate history story has received rave reviews and stars a (starring as Empress Elisabeth) of Austria. Krieps won Cannes in the Un Certain Regard category – Best Performance. Marie Kreutzer, director at Cannes was also nominated. Corsage The London Film Festival also awarded Best Film to the film, as well as a host of other awards and nominations.

Saint Omer

What to Watch:Rentable for as low $5.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Image by Srab Films

Genre:Drama legal
Run time: 2h 2m
Director: Alice Diop
Cast: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville

A lesser-known 2022 film that is highly acclaimed, but still a big hit. Saint Omer was a mainstay near the top of many of my favorite critics’ year-end lists. A celebrated documentarian, this is Diop’s first narrative feature, following a writer who attends the trial of a woman accused of murdering her child. Part of the movie was inspired by a true court case that Diop witnessed and found fascinating.

Skinamarink

What to Watch:Rentable for as low as $3.99 at Amazon, Apple and Vudu. Also available through Shudder or AMC+

Image: Shudder

Genre:Experimental horror
Run time: 1h 40m
Director: Kyle Edward Ball
Cast: Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault, Ross Paul

Director Kyle Edward Ball’s debut experimental horror feature (which is also streaming on Shudder) follows two young siblings who wake up in the middle of the night to find their parents missing and all the windows and doors to their house having disappeared. That’s not all, though: Something And Other is inside the house… and it wants them to come upstairs.

According to our review:

The ambiguity of the film’s terror, which depends much more on sensation than explicitly scary figures or monsters, grabbed some viewers by the throats. Fans say it’s innovative in the way Ball creates a sense of dread from minimalist elements. Non-fans say it’s slow, trudging, and lacking in scares. This brings us back Blair Witch Project, which was similarly criticized as “boring” and “not scary” by viewers who bought into the advance hype around the film, then found it wasn’t what they expected from a horror movie.

Whitney Houston: Whitney, I Want to Dance With Somebody

What to Watch:Amazon, Apple and Vudu are available for purchase at $19.99

Sony Pictures Releasing

Genre:Drama musical
Run time: 2h 24m
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast:Naomi Ackie. Stanley Tucci. Ashton Sanders

This musical biopic follows the story of Whitney Houston’s rise to fame in the 1980s as one of her generation’s most talented singers. It focuses on Clive Davis’s discovery of her by Bobby Brown (Ashton Sanders), along with her subsequent rise to fame before her death.