The Weekend Binge: 'Dark Matter', Brooke Shields in 'Mother of the Bride', Hathaway in 'Eileen', New Season of Anne Rice's 'Vampire', Beatles' 'Let It Be', A Crisp + Cool Rosé For A Classic 🍷
It's the weekend, let's binge!
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day…..of streaming!
The weekend is finally here and there are a few interesting streams you’re going to want to check out. Disney+ is re-releasing Let It Be, the original 1970 film about the Beatles — available for the first-time ever in over fifty years. On Apple TV+, Blake Crouch’s international bestseller “Dark Matter” has been adapted into a new sci-fi series. And if you’re streaming Anne Rice’s universe of film and TV over at AMC+, a new season of Interview with the Vampire has just dropped.
What I’m Currently Streaming: Manhunt
On Apple TV+, the true story of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt to find his assassin, John Wilkes Booth. While I love the subject matter and crafting of the story, the casting is so incredibly off. I can’t get past some of these traditionally-casted comics in serious roles. Also, some of the writing is irritating - so much exposition, so much ‘telling’ the audience excessive amounts of info instead of just showing and weaving it into the storyline.
Retro Movie of the Week: Adventures in Babysitting
While I was scrolling on Disney+, I noticed one of my fave childhood movies on the carousel — Adventures in Babysitting. This 1987 film starring Elisabeth Shue is about a “a seemingly quiet night that turns into a wild adventure for a teen babysitter.” Fun Fact: The West Wing’s Bradley Whitford (also in The Handmaid’s Tale) played Mike, the douchey boyfriend and he drove his own Camaro in the film that actually had the license plate “SO COOL” already on it.
Here’s Everything Streaming New This Weekend…
Bodkin
Will Forte stars in this dark comedy about a group of podcasters set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three strangers in an idyllic Irish town. As they start to uncover more of the mystery, they realize they have a much bigger story on their hands. Streaming Time: 7 episodes. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Netflix: Super Rich in Korea, The Final: Attack on Wembley, The Guardian of the Monarchs, Mother of the Bride, Thank You Next, Cooking Up Murder: Uncovering The Murder of César Roman, Living With Leopards, Pokémon Horizons: The Series Part Two, The Ultimatum: South Africa, Mark Twain Prize: Kevin Hart
Netflix’s Top 5 Weekend Streams (TV | Movies) :
The Roast of Tom Brady | Mother of the Bride
Katt Williams: Woke Foke | Shrek
Baby Reindeer | Unfrosted
A Man in Full | The Judge
Bodkin | Shrek Forever After
Eileen
Anne Hathaway stars in this 2023 film new to streaming about a woman’s friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility that turns sinister. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 37 minutes. Forecast: 🌥️
Also New On Hulu: Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, Black Twitter: A Complete History, Wanted Man, Inside the Met Gala, Biosphere, Past Lies
Hulu’s Top 5 Weekend Streams:
Under the Bridge
The Rookie
Abbott Elementary
Will Trent
War For The Planet of the Apes
Maxton Hall: The World Between Us - Season 1
This German series (don’t worry, there are subtitles!) is about a quick-witted scholarship student who unwittingly uncovers a secret at Maxton Hall. When an egotistical millionaire heir decides to silence her, the classic enemies to lovers trope begins to activate. Streaming Time: 6 episodes. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Prime Video: Oh My Ghost - Season 1, The GOAT: Season 1
Kiss The Future
In this 2023 documentary now available for streaming, the band U2 shows support in a post-war unification concert for the besieged Sarajevans who are finding hope in underground art and music. Interviews with journalist Christine Amanpour and former President Bill Clinton. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 43 minutes. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Paramount+: Teen Mom: The Next Chapter - Season 1, The Chi: Season 6
Vanderpump: Season 11 - The Finale (Unedited/Extended)
Oh you know, just another dramatic season of Vanderpump Rules has come to an end. “Scandoval” is still milking its final drop in this season with Ariana coming into her own as a television dancing queen and now Broadway showstopper. Streaming Time: 15 episodes. 3-Part Reunion airing May 14, 21, 28. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Peacock: Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Love Undercover: Season 1, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The American Society of Magical Negroes
Pretty Little Liars: Summer School
In this new season of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, the girls are facing a worse fate than death — summer school. There’s a new horror villain in town that’s killing the buzz (and what else?) at Millwood High. Streaming Time: 2 episodes, new episodes every Thursday. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Max: Mini Beat Power Rockers - Season 4, Next Baking Master: Paris - Season 1 (Food Network), Yellowstone Wardens: Season 4 (Animal Planet), Mecum Full Throttle: Houston TX 2024 (Motor Trend), Outdaughtered: Season 10 (TLC), In Pursuit with John Walsh: Season 5 (ID), Stupid Pet Tricks: Season 1 (TBS), Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die
Max’s Top 5 Weekend Streams (TV | Movies) :
Hacks | War of the Planet of the Apes
Last Week Tonight with John Olivier | Inception
The Jinx: Part Two | Turtles All The Way Down
The Sympathizer | Justice League Crisis of Infinite Earth
Pretty Little Liars: Summer School | Crank
Dark Matter
Joel Edgerton (Rocket Man) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Life) star in this sci-fi thriller about a man who is abducted into an alternate version of his life (think a darker Sliding Doors) and is now on a journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most horrible villain — himself. Streaming Time: 2 episodes, new episodes every Wednesday. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Apple TV+: Hollywood Con Queen
Anne Rice’s Interview with The Vampire: Season 2
A new season of this supernatural fantasy period drama set in New Orleans about a vampire who tells the perils of his immortality to a journalist and how he met and had a relationship with vampire Lestat du Lioncourt. Streaming Time: 8 episodes. New episodes every Sunday. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On AMC+: Herd (Shudder), Gorgo (Shudder), Midsomer Murders: Season 23 (AcornTV), The Giant Gila Monster (Shudder), The Stone Tape (Shudder), The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs: Season 6, The Taste of Things (Shudder), Mother, May I? (Shudder), Scrublands: Season 1
Mandrome
This 2023 film new to streaming stars The Social Network’s Jesse Eisenberg and The Pianists’ Adrien Brody about a man conflicted about his girlfriend’s pregnancy starts to spiral out of control when he meets a mysterious family of men. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes. Forecast: 🌧️
The Other Mrs. Jordan: Season 1
A documentary about the shocking true story of how one man manipulated an intelligent, independent woman, conning her out of over $200,000 and leaving her to bring up the children he claimed he was incapable of fathering. Streaming Time: 3 episodes. Forecast: ⛅️
Also New On BritBox: Lovejoy - Season 3
Let It Be
A musical documentary from 1970 about the Fab Four. A filmed account of The Beatles’ attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, but that instead drove them further apart. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 21 minutes. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Disney+: Doctor Who - Premiere
Kid Streams:
Me and Winnie the Pooh
Playdate with Winnie the Pooh
Sip & Stream: Pride & Prejudice (BBC series) + Olema Rosé Cotes De Provence Reserve, 2021
Unpopular Opinion: I hated the Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice film adaptation so much so that I walked out of the theater about 30 minutes in. Of course, that was awhile ago and I admit that I hadn’t read one, not one, classic book of literature. About a year ago, I finally picked up “Little Women” and loved it. So I decided to read more classics and after “Wuthering Heights” and “A Tale of Two Cities”, I am now reading “Pride and Prejudice”. Unfortunately the Keira Knightley 2005 film is not available to stream, but I did find the 1995 BBC miniseries starring a very young Colin Firth. I’m in the middle of both the book and the series and am loving each of them.
Fun Facts
Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle (who plays Elizabeth Bennett) had a romantic relationship while filming the series.
The scene where Firth shows up in a wet shirt was recognized by TV fans as one of the most unforgettable moments in British TV history.
It’s in the Top 50 all-time highest rate television series on IMDB.
Olema Rosé Cotes De Provence Reserve, 2021
When it comes to drinking rosé, I’m kind of like Goldilocks. It can’t be too sweet, too tart or even too dry, it needs to be just right. This rosé has lush notes of strawberries and peaches and light rose petals. You’ll taste ripe grapefruit, lemon and melon notes which makes for a refreshing wine for the upcoming summer months. The pale copper-salmon color looks beautiful in the glass that in it holds intense and vibrant fruit flavors giving a long, crisp finish.
Happy Streaming! 📺 🍷