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 biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

Two potentially major productions caught in the wheels of the lockdown hit disc and (reasonable) VOD this week, alongside a Sundance doc on Apple TV+,  a lovely new musical bio-doc, and the usual bushel of marvelous catalog titles from Criterion, Warner Archive, and Kino-Lorber.

Continue reading The 13 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘The King of Staten Island,’ ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ & More at The Playlist.

Accomplished novelist Ian McEwan is having quite the year, already. The writer recently had his novel “On Chesil Beach” adapted for the screen, starring Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan. Now, McEwan serves as the screenwriter for his next book-to-film adaptation, “The Children Act.”

News on “The Children Act” has been fairly quiet since it’s run along the festival circuit. As seen in the trailer, the film tells the story of a judge (Emma Thompson) who is given the case of a young boy that is refusing a blood transfusion due to religious beliefs.

Continue reading ‘The Children Act’ Trailer: Emma Thompson Stars In Courtroom Drama From Author Of ‘Atonement’ at The Playlist.