Cocaine Bear, Netflix’s Last Kingdom movie, and every new movie to watch

It’s been a busy month on the field workplace, with John Wick: Chapter 4, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie making waves back-to-back-to-back. But what about at house? It’s Cocaine Bear season, in fact, because the comedy thriller arrives on Peacock.

This week’s different new choices embrace Netflix’s Last Kingdom movie Seven Kings Must Die, following up on the smash-hit sequence. There’s additionally the cult-hit horror movie Flux Gourmet on Hulu, the Ryan Kwanten (and briefly Scott Adkins) actioner Section 8 on Hulu, the Julia Roberts-George Clooney rom-com Ticket to Paradise on Prime, Zach Braff’s new feel-good movie on VOD, and a lot extra.

Let’s dig into it.

New on Netflix

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Image: Netflix

Genre: Historical drama
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Cast: Alexander Dreymon, Harry Gilby, Mark Rowley

After 5 seasons of The Last Kingdom, tailored from Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories novels, the saga concludes with this movie, Seven Kings Must Die. Alexander Dreymon returns as Uhtred of Bebbanburg, hoping to unite England after the occasions of the fifth season.

New on Hulu

Flux Gourmet

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: IFC Midnight

Genre: Black comedy
Run time: 1h 51m
Director: Peter Strickland
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie, Ariane Labed

Acclaimed director Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy, In Fabric) returns with this fascinating drama set at a culinary institute. The trailer guarantees “sensory overload,” Strickland’s typical impeccable costuming and consideration to element, and the unsettling air you usually discover in his films.

Section 8

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: AMC Plus

Genre: Action thriller
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Christian Sesma
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney

True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten leads this motion movie that includes an ensemble forged that features the likes of Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney, Mickey Rourke, and Scott Adkins. Kwanten is Jake, a struggling former particular forces soldier who’s recruited by a secret group after the tragic murders of his spouse and son. As he will get entrenched on this secret group, a deep conspiracy begins to unravel. The movie comes from prolific motion director Christian Sesma, and options an unbelievable battle from Adkins.

New on Prime Video

Ticket to Paradise

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Image: Universal Pictures

Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 44m
Director: Ol Parker
Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever

George Clooney and Julia Roberts star on this romantic comedy as a divorced couple who put apart their variations to work along with one objective in thoughts: stopping their lovestruck daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) from getting married and making the identical “mistake” they did.

New on Peacock

Cocaine Bear

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

Image: Universal Pictures

Genre: Comedy horror
Run time: 1h 35m
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr.

The entire web loves Cocaine Bear, or “Cokey,” the stunning bear who ate 70 kilos of cocaine that fell out of a airplane into the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest… We remorse to inform you that the bear has began killing and consuming individuals.

New on Mubi

Dogville 4K restoration and Manderlay

Where to watch: Available to stream on Mubi

Image: Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 58m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany

While on its floor against the law/mob drama, Lars von Trier’s Dogville makes use of a minimalist, experimental method on a stage to inform this story of a lady on the run (Nicole Kidman). It was a polarizing movie on launch and now will get a 4K restoration (together with von Trier’s follow-up Manderlay) on Mubi.

New on Shudder

Kids vs. Aliens

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

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Genre: Sci-fi/horror
Run time: 1h 15m
Director: Jason Eisener
Cast: Dominic Mariche, Phoebe Rex, Calem MacDonald

Looking for some extra ’80s throwback sci-fi horror with a requisite synthwave rating à la Stranger Things? Well, take a gander on the new movie from Hobo With a Shotgun director Jason Eisener a couple of group of children whose raucous slumber occasion takes a flip for the more severe when bloodthirsty aliens descend on their quiet little suburb in a plot to take over Earth.

New on VOD

One Fine Morning

Where to watch: Available to lease for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Genre: Romantic drama
Run time: 1h 52m
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud

Léa Seydoux (Crimes of the Future, Death Stranding) stars on this new romantic drama from Bergman Island director Mia Hansen-Løve as Sandra, a younger widowed mom struggling to safe an honest nursing house for her ailing father (Pascal Greggory) whereas elevating her 8-year-old daughter. Upon reconnecting with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), an outdated good friend from her previous, the 2 discover themselves unmistakably drawn to each other — regardless of Clément’s marriage to one other lady.

Emily

Where to watch: Available to lease for $5.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: Biographical drama
Run time: 2h 10m
Director: Frances O’Connor
Cast: Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen

What impressed Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey) to write Wuthering Heights, extensively thought-about one of many best novels ever written in English? Frances O’Connor’s 2022 drama imagines a solution to that query, following an outline of the long-lasting fiction author as she struggles to deal with the lack of her mom and the gendered limitations of an period that constrict her freedom to write and create.

A Good Person

Where to watch: Available to lease for $19.99 on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu

Genre: Drama
Run time: 2h 8m
Director: Zach Braff
Cast: Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Celeste O’Connor

Actor-director Zach Braff (Scrubs, Garden State) reunites with Morgan Freeman for his first feature-length directorial effort since 2017’s Going in Style. A Good Person follows Allison (Florence Pugh), a thriving younger lady whose vivid future turns into grief and sorrow within the wake of a tragic automobile accident. As her life and the lives of these she loves start to unravel within the wake of this tragedy, Allison finds an unlikely good friend in Daniel (Morgan Freeman) — her would-be father-in-law. Can these two be taught to forgive each other, and themselves, so as to forge forward to a future on the opposite aspect of tragedy?