on 16-09-2020 12:04
Hey guys,
it is with great honour and respect that I am taking over the monthly movies thread from the expert Martin. I am trying to do my very best since I am trusted with this task to fill these great shoes of our movie guru.
As lockdown measures are being tightened again I thought I would focus on what you can watch at home this month on Disney+, Netflix and Prime. And boy oh boy there are some absolute gems on those.
Disney+
Starting with the most magical of them all - Disney+. As there are tons of all the Disney classics it is more than hard to pick as they are all perfect (not a discussion). But for this month it is the big blockbuster we have all been waiting for but unfortunately with Covid won’t be able to see in cinemas. Mulan is out - and you can watch it here.
But there is more: Spies in Disguise is another highlight for this month. Don’t miss when super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and Scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) team up to save the world and Lance is inadvertently transformed into a brave, fierce, majestic …. PIGEON.
Netflix
And another Tom Holland movie is just out today (this boy does not seem to sleep). You can now stream The Devil all the Time on Netflix. This does not seem for the light hearted - PG18. Some sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting his family and loved ones in a post-war town teeming with corruption, in the form of an unholy preacher played by Robert Pattinson.
As this months movie thread is done by me there was no way leaving this out. All Jurassic Park films are available on Netflix but my absolute favourite will always be Jurassic Park 3. A bit darker, a bit rougher and most importantly - not set a dino theme park but an abandoned island (that used to be a theme park but hey).
Amazon Prime
Given My Big Fat Greek Wedding is 20 years old but it is a classic. Probably one of the funniest and kindest movies of all time and something you can watch over and over again - and if you have a family like mine it is basically a home movie. Toula is an unmarried thirty-year-old who works in her father's Greek restaurant. She meets and falls for high school teacher Ian Miller but Toula's parents, Gus and Maria, are shocked to discover that Ian isn't Greek and begin putting obstacles in the couple's path.
2020 cannot surprise us anymore - even if they would find aliens on a different planet as they do in this movie. Life is an intense sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life-form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.
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What are your movie highlights this month? Let me know below - need to know what I cannot miss.
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on 16-09-2020 14:04
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on 16-09-2020 14:32
on 16-09-2020 14:32
@gmarkj I see a real expert. I heard about the boys before and that people love it. I will give it a go now. I saw the mandalorian trailer too and I marked it on my list for next month. It drives me mad when I have to wait haha. What do you think of Spies in Disguise so far?
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on 16-09-2020 14:54
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on 16-09-2020 15:22
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Please do @gmarkj I want to hear what you think
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on 16-09-2020 21:39
on 16-09-2020 21:39
Life is pretty good for sci-fi horror movies, definitely one of my favourites now in that genre. I've taken to watching B-movie sci-fi on Amazon Prime. Its so much fun to discover some really bad ones and some good ones! Loving the "because you watched" feature as it brings up even more b-movies, I can't quite understand why Giant Killer Ants, Arachina and Ice Spiders came up but hey, I've not seen those before
Better point out the Disney+ is charging £19.99 for Premier Access for Mulan. Which by cinema standards is quite extortionate. I must be one of the few who wasn't impressed by the storyline in Boba Fett takes Yoda out in a baby stroller though it did get better in the last 3 episodes.
Interesting fact about My Big Fat Greek Wedding - it was filmed quite near where my relatives used to live in Toronto so quite amusing watching it and thinking "why's that familiar?". It becomes a bit of a game where a bit of Toronto pops up in a show supposedly set in a US city and you guess where it really is!