Check out ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League,’ ‘Slaxx’
New streaming movies are coming to entertain you and your family during socially distanced times.
This weekend, director Zack Snyder‘s fabled director’s cut of “Justice League” finally hits HBO Max, the recent college admissions scandal is the subject of a new Netflix docudrama, a pair of maneating jeans goes on a fashionable rampage in a Shudder horror comedy.
If you’re feeling the itch to get back to the movies in person, and it’s safe to return to your local theater, “The Courier” is a true-life spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a British businessman who works with a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan) to provide intelligence and stave off a nuclear conflict during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Here’s a rundown of new movies hitting streaming and on-demand platforms this weekend, for every cinematic taste:
‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
Snyder finally got to finish his vision for his superhero extravaganza and it is a better, if exhaustively long (four hours) version of the 2017 film. And while there are cool new and repaired aspects, it is essentially the same flick. Extended scenes flesh out the plot where Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) team up with some rookies to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill) and save the world from an angry alien villain.
Where to watch: HBO Max
‘Operation Varsity Blues’
Only watch this docudrama if the thought of Matthew Modine talking on a phone for the better part of two hours sounds like a good time. The movie tackles the headline-grabbing 2019 college admission scandal by re-creating it in the most unexciting way, with Modine in a bowl cut starring as Rick Singer, who bribed college officials and testtakers to get the kids of wealthy celebrities and CEOs into prestigious universities. You’re better off watching the Lifetime movie version – at least that’ll keep you awake.
Where to watch: Netflix
Oscar viewing: ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’
Based on real events, writer/director Jasmila Žbanić’s excellent and harrowing drama about the Bosnian war is also a newly minted nominee for best international film. Set in 1995, the movie stars Jasna Duricic as Aida, a translator working at a U.N. base near her small Bosnian town of Srebrenica. The Serbian army rolls in and forces thousands to flee to the base, which can only hold a small number of people and Aida fights to keep her family safe while dealing with inept Dutch officials and ruthless Serbs rounding up Muslims.
Where to watch: Apple TV, Vudu, Fandango Now
Killer denim: ‘Slaxx’
For real, get ready to side-eye your pants for a while after watching this clever horror comedy. Romane Denis stars as a young woman hired to work for an annoyingly hip, Gap-style clothes store ramping up the grand reveal of high-end unisex jeans that conform to every body type. Problem is, they’re also possessed and murderous – though not in a mindless fashion. There’s enough of a whiff of satire aimed at the use of overseas sweatshops to be effective but it doesn’t get in the way of gory fun.
Where to watch: Shudder