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. 

After last week’s backbreaker, we’ve got a lighter load of must-buys and must-streams – unless you count every title in this week’s big box set as an individual recommendation, in which case, well, we’re back up to ten or so.

Continue reading The 6 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Marriage Story,’ ‘The Assistant’ & More at The Playlist.

They’ve released a trailer that has gone over very well in the blogosphere, a poster which looks equally enticing and now Apple‘s released three minutes of the film online.

The film doesn’t come out until June, but some have already seen it and given it the thumbs up.

Continue reading First Three Minutes Of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Tetro’ Comes Online at The Playlist.

What might be the biggest secret, or at least surprise, of the film itself is how unlikely the picture’s tone is.

Given Coppola’s last film, the metaphysical quandry “Youth Without Youth” (don’t believe the hype, it’s not a terrible film, that is unless you’re popcorn muncher who needs everything fed to them), and the moody and sullen B&W images of Vincent Gallo we’ve seen so far, we were expecting a pretty heavy drama.

Continue reading Beautiful ‘Tetro’ Poster Points To The Unexpected Mood Of The Film at The Playlist.