One month less, 11 more to go, but the end of January should not pass without some kind of celebration.
If you have one Hulu subscription, treat yourself to some of the best new movies on air.
Action movie fans are in for a wild ride, literally, when they watch Liam Neeson get the bad guys out of your car Retribution.
fans of Bridgerton or period romances will faint The invisible womanwhich is based on a true story about the famous English author Charles Dickens.
Finally, play one of the Coen brothersthe most underrated movies ever oh brother where are you
‘Retribution’ (2023)
Matt Turner (Liam Neeson) is a financier whose day begins quite normally by driving his two children to school. Things take a dramatic turn when Matt receives a call from an unknown person, who claims that each seat in his car is rigged with an explosive that will detonate if the occupant leaves. After witnessing another car explode as a result of the attack, Matt believes him and follows his orders to retrieve money from a safe deposit box at a nearby bank. But the attacker wants more than Matt’s money: he wants to tarnish his reputation so that the public believes he is a criminal.
What makes Retribution stand out from all of Liam Neeson’s other action pictures is its unique premise: for most of the film, the prey the actor is limited to a stylish four-door sedan. That means the intensity is dialed up to 100 as Neeson drives around Berlin doing the bidding of a man who can wipe out most of his family in an instant. Retribution it’s surprisingly suspenseful, with a final twist so obvious you’ll be slapping yourself for not picking it up sooner. (I know I did.) The movie is silly and illogical, but what else would you expect from a late-stage Neeson movie?
Retribution is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Invisible Woman’ (2013)
No, it’s not a sequel The invisible man — The invisible woman refers to Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), a real-life actress who lived in London during the 1850s. When she was 18, she met and began a lifelong relationship with Charles Dickens (conclave‘s Ralph Fiennes), who was already famous for his novels Oliver Twist i David Copperfield. Dickens is also married with children when the two first meet, resulting in an affair carefully hidden from public view. But how long can Nelly be Dickens’ “invisible woman” before her own reputation suffers permanent damage in an age that frowned on adultery?
The invisible woman it’s less a biopic of Dickens as a great author and more a snapshot of a specific time and place that prevented these two people from being together. Stuck in a dead marriage, Dickens wants to divorce his wife and marry Nelly, but the resulting scandal would harm Nelly and tarnish his reputation. Image was everything in the Victorian era, and the film faithfully captures the clandestine nature of Charles and Nelly’s forbidden love. The costume dramas run the risk of being dry and polite, but the passions run deep The invisible womanresulting in a surprisingly lively period piece with more parallels to our modern age than one might think.
The invisible woman is streaming on Hulu.
“O brother, where art thou?” (2000)
Later this year, Christopher Nolan will present his vision of Homer’s classic tale, The Odysseybut if you can’t wait until July 17th, try watching it oh brother where are you Directed by the Coen brothersthis version is set in Mississippi in the late 1930s and follows three escaped convicts: Ulysses (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) as they try to get home while avoiding the authorities. Along the way, they befriend a blues musician, record a hit song under the pseudonym “The Soggy Bottom Boys,” meet notorious gangster Babyface Nelson, and escape a deadly Klu Klux Klan rally. There’s also some sort of cyclops and three attractive women who act similarly The Odyssey’s deadly mermaids of the sea.
Winter is still at least two months away, but Hulu’s comedy movies have already had a spring cleaning. Most of Hulu’s best comedies went the way of Christmas movies on December 31st, and it may take some time to rebuild the library. Thank you! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters (…)
oh brother where are you is a very loose adaptation of The Odyssey which uses the best parts of Homer’s epic work to tell a fun, freewheeling story of three goofy Southern boys who just want to get home. Full of foot-tapping melodies T Bone Burnettwho won a Grammy for Best Album for his workand lush sepia-toned photography Roger Deakinsthe film evokes a lost era of American life and cinema. Only the Coen brothers could have conceived a musical comedy about racism that is highly entertaining without being offensive at all.