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Flavorwire’s Guide to Movies You Need to Stream This Week

By Jason Bailey on

Welcome to Flavorwire’s streaming movie guide, in which we help you sift through the scores of movies streaming on Netflix, Hulu, and other services to find the best of the recently available, freshly relevant, or soon to expire. This week, we’ve got new films starring Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Wilde, Adam Scott, Richard Pryor, Megan Fox, Eric Bana, Harvey Keitel, Charlie Hunnam, Kate Mara, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, Keanu Reeves, and Nick Nolte, plus a pair of our favorite recent documentaries. Check them all out after the jump, and follow the title links to watch them right now. … Read More

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Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Flicks to See in December

By Jason Bailey on

Indie releases tend to thrive during the months when the multiplexes get dumber — in other words, every month until October, when big studios start putting their muscle behind intelligent Oscar contenders and act like that’s the kind of stuff they’re turning out all year. Point is, our indie preview is a little thinner than usual this month, since quieter movies are basically gunning for the same audiences as your Zero Dark Thirtys and Life of Pis and so on, but there are a few small releases worth tracking down. We’ll run them down for you after the jump. … Read More

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This Week in Trailers: Arnie, Sly, “Red Dawn,” and Things Unrelated to the ’80s

By Jason Bailey on

Every Friday here at Flavorwire, we like to gather up the week’s new movie trailers, give them a look-see, and rank them from worst to best — while taking a guess or two about what they might tell us (or hide from us) about the movies they’re promoting. We’ve got eight new trailers for you this week, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Channing Tatum, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Rosario Dawson, Eric Bana, Justin Long, Paul Dano, and more; check ‘em all out after the jump, and share your thoughts in the comments. … Read More

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Rate-a-Trailer: Hanna

By Caroline Stanley on

If you wished that last spring’s Kick-Ass had more scenes with Hit-Girl — along with a pretty European wilderness backdrop and a score by the Chemical Brothers — then you’ll probably dig the trailer for Joe Wright’s Hanna. The film follows a young girl assassin (played by Saoirse Ronan, who worked with Wright on Atonement) who has been trained by ex-CIA agent father (Eric Bana) to kill one of his former coworkers (Cate Blanchett, channeling an evil version of Clarice Starling). While it’s kind of odd to see a director known more for his period pieces tackling what looks like an action flick, thanks to the stunning cinematography and Ronan’s previous work, we’re willing to bet that this one feels more arthouse in the end. Click through to check it out. … Read More

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August Turns Crucial for Hollywood Blockbusters

By Alexandra Wexler on

According to an article in the New York Times, film studios usually reserve August for difficult movies that might not do so well if they were released, say, a week after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince or Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. However, because box office sales are down, some of these tricky August releases are shouldering more weight than anyone- the studios, producers, or directors- expected or hoped. Below, we preview five of August’s biggest releases and rank them according to buzz and box-office potential. There may still be some surprises, a la The Hangover, in store for us this… Read More