Where to watch: Available to stream on HBO Max Image: HBO Max Spanning three different stories involving a love triangle, a plot by a college student to ensnare his professor, and a serendipitous meeting and confession, Hamaguchi’s film explores the complexities, frustrations, and catharsis of human relationships in loving attentive detail. While directing his Oscar-nominated 2021 drama Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi also directed another slightly lesser acknowledged, but no less affecting masterpiece: the romantic drama anthology Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. Where to watch: Available to stream on Criterion Channel Image: Criterion Channel
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At the Q&A following the film’s SXSW premiere, Ti West spoke about the similarities between horror and porn in the 1970s - specifically, the desire to break free from studio systems and make a name for yourself, with nothing in hand but a good idea. The first half of the film is a love letter to independent filmmaking, to the satisfactions of grabbing a group of like-minded friends and a camera, and heading to a remote location to make movies. The adult-film angle serves two purposes - it puts a meta spin on the practically mandatory nudity and adult content of R-rated slasher films, and it uses the adult industry to speak about indie filmmaking at large. Though the premise of a porn shoot turning into a horror show could easily result in a schlocky parody, Ti West has more in mind. When the crew unexpectedly find themselves stalked and terrorized by their reclusive hosts, the survivors must mount a desperate bid to escape with their lives. Ti West’s 2022 horror film stars Mia Goth ( Suspiria) as Maxine Minx, an aspiring actress who drives out to an isolated farmhouse in rural Texas with her producer boyfriend Wayne (Martin Henderson) and his amateur film crew to film an adult movie. Where to watch: Available to rent for $19.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu Photo: Christopher Moss/A24
In that regard, one of the film’s biggest offenders is the wishy-washy character Lance (Ryan Gage), who might work in the building, might be in a sexual relationship with Kayla’s mother, and is definitely her dealer, but languishes as a cartoonish trash predator who’s barely feigning believability. Her performance begs for other components around her to feel similarly elevated, a request the film can’t complete because of its frustrating simplicity. She’s a bundle of stress and exhaustion, all fleshed out over her hardened face. Evans, a surprising newcomer, imbues Kayla with a rich inner life. As Jon Foster once said in the 2006 film Stay Alive, “If you die in the game, you die for real.” Also, Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) shows up as a fictionalized version of himself - neat! From our review,Īt 84 minutes, Choose or Die is a whip-bang film that rests on brisk, sturdy storytelling. Aided by her friend Isaac (Asa Butterfield), Kayla quickly discovers that the game, named “CURS>R,” is (unsurprisingly) cursed as the choices made in the game begin to bleed over into reality in increasingly more terrifying ways. However, this is no Ready Player One think Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
The 2022 horror film Choose or Die stars Iola Evans as Kayla, a broke college student and coder who stumbles upon an obscure ’80s text-based survival game supposedly tied to a still-unclaimed $100,000 prize. Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix Image: Netflix/CURSR Films To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch on streaming and VOD this weekend. Oh, and did I mention that another critically acclaimed 2021 movie from the director of Drive My Car comes to Criterion Channel this weekend? Like I said, there’s a lot of great movies to choose from! The Philippine-Japanese sports biopic Gensan Punch comes to HBO Max, while the haunted house thriller The Cellar on Shudder. The latest horror film from The House of the Devil director Ti West starring Mia Goth finally comes to VOD, as well as the Australian action-horror film Wyrmwood: Apocalypse and the cerebral sci-fi thriller Chariot starring John Malkovich. In addition to Choose or Die, the Spanish comedy drama Today We Fix The World, the Polish romantic comedy The Taming of The Shrewd, and the Nigerian drama The Man of God all come to Netflix this weekend. If you’re not looking for 1980s-themed throwback horror and haunted technology à la 2004’s Stay Alive, not to worry - there’s plenty of great new releases on streaming and VOD this week to choose from. This weekend Choose or Die, the 2022 video-game horror film starring Iola Evans ( Carnival Row) and Asa Butterfield ( Sex Education), premieres on Netflix.
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