Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

Two more early-quarantine, pulled-from-theaters titles get their proper disc and VOD releases, and both are worth a watch from those who were saving their pennies for a more reasonable price point.

Continue reading The 5 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Emma,’ ‘The Way Back’ & More at The Playlist.

Amazon just announced that they have ordered a four-episode historical miniseries following the life of Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes. Even though that sounds like an interesting development all on its own, the real cause for excitement is that actor Javier Bardem is signed on to play Cortes and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television is signed on to produce.

Written by Steven Zallian, best known for writing the Spielberg epic “Schindler’s List,” this Cortes project got its start over 50 years ago when writer Dalton Trumbo had originally scripted a feature film, titled “Montezuma,” about the famous explorer.

Continue reading Javier Bardem Teams With Steven Spielberg And ‘Schindler’s List’ Writer For Historic Epic Series On Amazon at The Playlist.