Streamers’ delight Studios move first-run films to your home theater
As cinemas close, studios and distributors are rushing theatrical releases to streamers and on-demand video services weeks and months ahead of schedule. Art house and blockbuster films alike are now available for home viewing. Get your own licorice and popcorn.
▼ aka Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey An antihero with flair, Harley Quinn originated in 1990s Batman cartoons and spun off into comics and the messy Suicide Squad film. Now, she, and an all-female team of butt-kickers, get their own shoot-’em-up romp. Margot Robbie stars. Warner Bros. released the film early for VOD purchase. Superhero action, rated R, 109 minutes. $19.99. ▼ If anyone needed more evidence that Vin Diesel is indestructible, enter this comic book adaptation in which the Fast & Furious actor is blown to pieces and reassembles himself in a big blob of blood after coming back from the dead. Drama-fantasy, rated PG-13, 109 minutes, $19.99. ▼ Violent offender Daniel discovers religion in a Warsaw prison, but it’s not enough to erase his past. Fate, though, delivers Daniel a chance to preach when townsfolk in new his new home mistake him for their new pastor. Polish. Drama, 2019,116 minutes. Available via Violet Crown virtual cinema. $12.99 for three-day rental. ▼ In this re-envisioning of the Jane Austen novel of the same name, Anya Taylor-Joy plays the title character. Young Emma has an eye for matchmaking and a talent for interrupting the lives of others. Period drama, rated PG, 124 minutes, $19.99. ▼ A dozen people wake up one day to discover that they have become part of a violent game. Wealthy ‘elites’ are hunting these average people for sport. One of the targets, though, takes matters into her own hands as the hunters become the hunted. Horror-satire, rated R, 115 minutes, $19.99. ▼ Universal Studios and Blumhouse Productions reimagine the classic horror film as a modern-day thriller. Elisabeth Moss stars as a woman whose ex-husband
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