While this week’s new movies on VOD are all worth a watch, the headline here is that the year’s biggest film, Barbie, is now available to stream. Another gem worth checking out is the alien dramedy Jules, which stars Ben Kingsley as an older man whose mental faculties are questioned when he discovers and alien living in his backyard.
And if pure action is your thing, look no further than Liam Neeson’s latest, Retribution. Neeson’s career now hinges on him being able to get himself and his family out of dangerous pickles with his particular sets of skills, and in Retrubution, he plays a man whose car has been booby trapped with bombs, and he and his family will only make it out alive if he follows the commands of a mysterious voice on the phone. If Speed, Hot Seat, and Collateral had a baby, they’d be the proud parents of lil’ baby Retribution.
These are just a few of the titles that are available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, YouTube, and through your cable service this week. Check out what movies are available to buy or rent on demand now.
If you have not yet seen the greatest film of all time, Barbie, now is your chance to catch it on demand. Greta Gerwig’s film, which is the highest-grossing film of 2023 – about a woman who just wants to sing along with the Indigo Girls, wear Birkenstocks, and enjoy life in a non-patriarchal society, is that too much to ask? – stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, and half the cast of Sex Education.
Much like E.T., Jules is a film about an alien stranded on Earth and the small group of people who discover it, befriend it, and ultimately need to return it to its home planet before the government steps in and messes around too much. Unlike E.T., the friends that the titular alien, Jules, makes aren’t kids, they’re a group of older people, played by Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin, and Harriet Sanson Harris, who are ignored and derided as senile when they try to get help for Jules. While the three neighbors band together to help their alien buddy, they also forge a friendship among themselves that’s at the heart of the film.
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What you see above is just a portion of the new movies and shows you can watch this month if you’ve got more than one streaming service subscription. We update our guides to the new releases on the most popular streaming platforms every month, so you can stay on top of the freshest titles to watch. Here are full lists, schedules, and reviews for everything streaming:
Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show Chain Reaction.