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The best movies of 2. Every summer, The A. V. Club offers an unranked list of the best movies to be released theatrically (and, going forward, on major streaming platforms) during the first half of the year. It’s meant to be a kind of catch- up guide, a way for readers to keep pace with the year in film and start checking off significant titles before the mad rush of awards season.

Still, even getting through this inventory of 2. That’s why we’ve gone ahead and narrowed it down further this year by prefacing each movie with a reason to watch, in the hopes that this may help the cinema- starved make a more educated selection. We’ve also, to the best of our abilities, identified how and where you can see each of the films. Watch it if. But the writer- director’s work has always been worth more than the sum of its punchlines, and with the blissfully cool Baby Driver, he pushes his gift for delirious genre mashup out of a strictly comedic framework, where it can really fly. Wright casts YA poster boy Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver who floods his constantly ringing ears with a nearly unbroken stream of music—a choice that allows Wright to stage every feverish rush- hour escape or chaotic gunfight as a synchronized pop- radio extravaganza. It’s a gearhead crime caper with a jukebox musical under its hood, and Wright’s refusal to settle on any one section of the veritable video store allows him to swipe pleasures from a bunch of them—including, yes, comedy.

It’s the brainchild of comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, who worked elements of their real- life romance into the screenplay and then handed it off to Wet Hot American Summer’s Michael Showalter. All the same, Apatow’s influence—as hands- on producer of the film and as one of the remaining big voices of American comedy—is all over this appealing cross- cultural love story. It’s there in the focus on the backstage personalities of the stand- up scene, in the volume of funny supporting players crowded around the edges of the plot, and also, admittedly, in the film’s extended runtime. But it’s been years since anyone, Apatow included, captured the precise, magic mixture of hilarity and humane character study that defines his best work; much more so than Trainwreck, The Big Sick demonstrates that sticking a distinct comic voice at the center of these conventions can still be a recipe for crowd- pleasing success. All the same, it’s diabolically fun to pretend that The Blackcoat’s Daughter is actually a genre- jumping spinoff of one of the most acclaimed TV shows of the decade.

Remember how Sally Draper spent the last couple seasons of Mad Men away at boarding school? Well, Blackcoat drops Kiernan Shipka, the young actress who played Sally, into a nearly identical academic setting. When no one comes to pick her up for holiday break (classic Don move), Shipka’s character falls under the influence of an unholy force. Or does she? It wouldn’t take too big of a mental leap to deduce that poor Sally, after years of repressed traumatic events (catching her father cheating, confronting a burglar), just totally snapped. Thor 3 (2017) Ipod Movie here. Of course, one might hope for a brighter future for the eldest Draper kid than the strangely, powerfully sad denouement Perkins cooked for his terrific inaugural creepshow.

Giant- monster action aside, the film works on multiple allegorical levels: There’s an obvious metaphor about the destructive nature of addiction, and a less obvious one about toxic masculinity. That all sounds awfully heavy, but Vigalondo blends pathos and humor with characteristic idiosyncrasy, and his empathetic experiment is buoyed by Hathaway and co- star Jason Sudeikis’ barroom banter. The sharp, empathetic indie drama From Nowhere—cannily released in February, at the height of outrage regarding Trump’s travel ban—tells the story of three high school students who are in the U.

S. The film doesn’t pretend there are easy answers to this complex issue, and isn’t remotely interested in scoring points via exaggerated virtue or malevolence. Rather, it offers a realistic, only slightly cynical portrait of a system that rescues some people and fails others, observing that no case file can convey life’s sheer messiness. In detailing the creeping and increasingly justified paranoia that a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) feels when visiting the family of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams), Peele works in a different key than his past comedy sketches with Keegan- Michael Key, but his sensibility remains. The movie’s laughs never feel out of place, because Peele recognizes that comedy and horror have common ground in the catharsis they can provide. The laughs supply their own jolts of uncomfortable recognition before and after the horror confirms the movie’s worst fears. Roberto Dur. Chuck Wepner.

Is there a famous or even semi- famous prizefighter who hasn’t seen his highs and lows thrown up on the big screen over the past few years? The problem with these fact- based sports dramas is that they tend to make real life look as contrived as a Rocky sequel. But The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli M. It’s a charming character study, one as hilariously disinterested in glory as the sweet lug at its center. And for those who have gone multiple rounds with the tired “inspirational” clich.

An ex- convict (Ichi The Killer’s Tadanobu Asano) shows up on the doorstep—or technically, at the garage entrance—of an old friend, Toshio (Kanji Furutachi), who welcomes the down- on- his- luck man to work in his workshop and sleep in the home he shares with his wife (Mariko Tsutsui) and young daughter (Momone Shinokawa). As the whole family warms to this quiet face from the past, words like “low- key” and “humane” and even “lovely” may seem apropos. That is the not the movie we’re watching, though—and even those who recognize a certain genre scenario when they see one may be shocked by where Fukada takes his story. Rather than tug at heartstrings, Harmonium goes for the gut punch. To say much more would spoil the thrilling unpredictability.

With Martin Scorsese as executive producer, Amir Bar-Lev’s marathon rockumentary 'Long Strange Trip' examines the legacy of psychedelic rockers The Grateful Dead. July 2017 was a slow month for horror movies in terms of Theatrical Releases, but things are picking up in August. The Dark Tower, Annabelle: Creation, and Polaroid. On Flenix you can watch latest movies online in HD 1080p quality for free and without registration. Well, this is a weird turn. We had heard a couple months back that Lena Dunham would have a role in the upcoming clowns-and-Trump smorgasbord of American Horror Story. Reviews horror, European, cult, and midnight movies on DVD.

Australian director Ben Young’s pseudo- true- crime character piece dramatizes the cycles that enable domestic abuse by taking them to their extremes, examining why someone would participate in the most heinous of crimes in an attempt to please their partner. Stephen Curry and Emma Booth star as John and Evelyn White, a working- class couple whose relationship revolves around the kidnapping, torture, and murder of young women; the majority of the film focuses on one of those women, headstrong teenager Vicki Mahoney (Ashleigh Cummings), and how her captivity disrupts the Whites’ sick domestic routine. Booth gives a standout performance as Evelyn, whose shattered psyche forms the broken heart of the film, and for a first- time director, Young shows remarkable control, giving Hounds Of Love moments of visual beauty to offset all of its emotional ugliness. After kicking things off with the finest automotive set piece of the year (sorry, Baby Driver), director Chad Stahelski concocts a first act that’s almost perversely free of violence; even more so than the original, this is a movie of strange and absurdist interludes, and it asks the audience to check their sense of realism at the door and accept its setting as a Plutonic, neon- lit alternate dimension where the honor- among- thieves clich.

But when it comes time for our invincible man in black to kick ass, Stahelski doesn’t hold back on kineticism or imagination. The most memorable sequences—including a shoot- out in a crowd of oblivious commuters and a dazzling finale set in a mirrored art installation—are modern classics of action- movie surrealism.

Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now: Scary Movies to Watch. Editor's Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back to see what other blood- chilling movies get added to Netflix. Updated for September 2.

Don't fear the reaper. Fear us, Netflix and our combined desires to terrify you. Contrary to popular opinon, there are very few things in life more valuable than being terrified. Nothing will get your imagination churning and your adrenaline pumping better than a horror movie. So here we've compiled the best horror movies on Netflix so you can tap into your inner child and look inside your closet every night before you get in bed. Surely there is nothing in that clos.. BOOOO! Did we get you?

Probably not, you'll have to watch these movies then. An American Werewolf in London. Quite possibly the definitive werewolf movie, John Landis' 1. Peppered with loving references to the werewolf movies that came before it and a few legitimate laughs to go along with the scares, An American Werewolf in London is remarkably knowing and self- aware, but never, ever flirts with parody. Not enough can be said about Rick Baker's practical effects, which extend beyond the aforementioned on- screen transformation and into one of the most gruesome depictions of a werewolf attack aftermath you're ever likely to see. A classic of the era. The Awakening. For anyone who thinks paranormal phenomena only exist in movies, The Awakeningcould turn even the most skeptical “there are no such things as ghosts” cynics into hardcore believers.

They will be after seeing an investigator hired to debunk a haunting in the post- World War II era ends up more terrified than anyone who swore they could see shimmering visions of the dead. Watching Catherine’s psyche (and painfully curled 4. Irony aside, Catherine’s harrowing experience investigating the spirit she so desperately doesn’t want to believe in mutates with the monsters that haunt the back of her mind. If you’re a fan of The Others, leave the lights on for this one.

The Babadook. When Stephen King once discussed his inspiration for writing The Shining, he recalled the time he discovered his young son had destroyed story notes in his office. Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook likewise finds the darker side of parenting with the scariest film of 2. A horror movie that is ostensibly about what happens when a single, low- income mother discovers that her child’s nightmare boogeyman is real, there is genuinely realterror here that comes beating from the darker side of her “Babadook” heart. While a loving son, there is no denying that the film’s young Samuel is a “problem child,” and through supernatural possession his mama has found a grim solution of sorts. When William Friedkin calls it the most terrifying horror movie he’s seen, you’re doing something right. Beyond the Gates.

Board games can be creepy. VHS tapes can be creepy. Combine the creepiest versions of both and you've got yourself a really creepy movie. Beyond the Gates debuted just last year at the L.

A. Film Festival and has ridden its way to Netflix on tremendous word of mouth. The indie horror movie involves two brothers who got to their father's estate to settle his affairs after his death. While at his house, they discover a mysterious VHS board game that eventually leads them to clues regarding their father's death..

Children of the Corn. Stephen King would have probably never guessed that what started as a short story about a teenage death cult’s horrific sacrifices to a shadowy figure (referred to only as He Who Walks Behind the Rows) would harvest its own cult of horror fans. When an unsuspecting couple driving through town is sidetracked by by something gruesome on the edge of a cornfield, they get entangled with a group of brainwashed adolescents whose temple for all things unholy is the local church. There is blood, and corn leaves, and more blood. Then someone gets crucified.

Children of the Corn has that element of primal fear—like your heart beating so loud you can hear the blood roaring in your ears among the ominous rustle of the corn stalks as you run frantically through the never- ending fields. Whoever’s foreboding voice called it “an adult nightmare” in the original 1. The Crow. While we wouldn't call this one a horror film per se, The Crow is definitely a twisted revenge tale with some very dark moments.

Based on a celebrated comic book, the movie's premise is a bit out there: a dead musician named Eric Draven is brought back from the dead by a supernatural crow so that he can avenge the rape and murder of his fiance. Draven sinks deeper into the seedy underworld of Detroit on Devil's Night, taking out the thugs that ended his life in gruesome ways. It is a real artistic gem, too, full of gothic spirit and an awesome soundtrack to boot. Brandon Lee, who tragically died in an accident during filming, gives an inspired performance as Draven. Extraordinary Tales. Some of Edgar Allan Poe’s most terror- inducing tales creep and crawl off the page in this animated horrorshow that isn’t just for kids. The aesthetic of each tale illustrates its particular terror.

His Victorian nightmares materialize onscreen in different forms of animation ranging from eerie silhouettes to comic- book graphics to a 3- D effect that makes phantoms pop like digital origami. Point Break (2015) Movie Online. Poe himself (as—what else—a raven) converses with Death between tales, giving you enough time to catch your breath and calm the beating of your hideous heart before the next freakout.

The Tell- Tale Heart pounds beneath the floorboards in a series of black and white silhouettes, a stark visual of innocence and murder, set to a vintage narration by Bela Lugosi. The torture chamber in the Pit and the Pendulum is so lifelike you think you’re the one about to be razored open. Poe must be grinning from beyond the grave. The Fury. Brian De Palma is the filmmaker responsible for possibly the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel (Carrie), but he followed that up with this equally perverse, but sadly less remembered, cult classic. The Fury is essentially a grim, nihilist's version of what would happen if Charles Xavier and Jean Grey were not so nice.

In this horror film, twin siblings have the ability to enter anyone's mind- -and kill them in the most De Palma way possible. This is used to negative effect by the U. S. It also includes Carrie's Amy Irving. Haunter. Be careful when you wish for something to wake up your numb suburban existence. Disembodied spirits will start whispering about murders behind the walls of your stereotypical house on video.

You’ll soon find yourself in a basement dungeon hiding much more sinister things than just cobwebs and ancient furniture. Your fingers will push back the curtains between past and future, dead and not- yet- living. You will unleash a bloodless specter with homicidal tendencies. Somewhere in the middle of all this you’ll also realize something else about yourself.. What’s especially terrifying about Haunteris how normal everything seems. It unravels like a 9.

Hellraiser. Of the first of three theatrical films that Clive Barker would direct himself, Hellraiser would go on to warrant eight sequels and create one of the most notorious horror franchises of all time. That said, this isn't about the sequels. Part of the beauty of Hellraiser is how little we actually know about what is going on. While later tales would explain the origins of Pinhead and his Cenobites, the first film leaves this up to interpretation. Hellraiser focuses on the relationship between Julia and Frank, not on the Cenobites' interference (well, not until the end anyway). The first film is not the broad battle against evil the later installments would be, but an incredibly unique haunted house story. A corrupt romance growing ever more so.

Sex and violence mixed with blood and guts. With a budget of roughly $1 million, Barker is able to craft a tale far more interesting and disturbing than better funded projects, the sequels included.