Netflix’s big crime drama starts streaming on October 27th, and while it’s a pretty uneven movie — check out my thoughts from TIFF last month — it does feature some strong performances from stars Emily Blunt and Chris Evans. You can get a brief taste of that in the new trailer below.
The busy month of October has begun.
On the streaming side, it’s a big week on Disney Plus, with the premiere of Loki season 2 and the finale of Ahsoka. Meanwhile, the slasher spoof Totally Killer is on Prime Video, Our Flag Means Death has a new season on Max, and the third season of Only Murders in the Building just wrapped up on Hulu.
As for games, Assassin’s Creed is back with Mirage, Detective Pikachu returns in... Detective Pikachu Returns, and if you bought the premium edition you now have early access to Forza Motorsport.
That’s Tom Hiddleston, speaking to The Verge just ahead of the premiere of the first season of Loki on Disney Plus in 2021. It’s an interesting conversation — touching on everything from Loki lectures to the existence of free will — and it’s especially fun to revisit it as the show’s second season starts streaming today.
There’s so much to play this month, and now you can add another interesting looking indie to the list: Saltsea Chronicles from Mutazione developer Die Gute Fabrik. It launches on October 12th on the PS5, Switch, and PC, which means you may be able to squeeze it in before Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
The latest collab between Nintendo and Lego will feature the cozy world of Animal Crossing — though right now, it’s unclear just what the sets will consist of. Based on the teaser, though, things are appropriately adorable, and Isabelle unsurprisingly makes for a very cute minifig.
Monster was one of my favorite movies from the Toronto film festival this year, and now you can get a glimpse of it. From prolific director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster is about school bullying, but it also slowly reveals itself to be something much more complicated, with a story told from multiple perspectives that’s something of a puzzle. The movie opens in New York on November 22nd and LA on December 1st, before “expanding to additional markets in December.”
OK, not really, but it is just as fun. John Wick seems to have inspired a new wave of revenge movies; just yesterday we got the trailer for a Christmas-themed thriller from John Woo, and now comes The Beekeeper, starring Jason Statham.
It’s about “one man’s brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers,” which sounds like an Ubisoft game that I need to play immediately. It’s in theaters on January 12th.
