15 best movies leaving Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max at the end of March 2022
It’s finally (almost) April! Can you believe it? The sun is shining, the weather is breaking, the buds are blossoming, and the streaming services are a flutter with a brand new batch of new releases primed and ready for your eyeballs. Before we spring forward into the new month, however, there are just as many wonderful outgoing releases leaving streaming that are just begging for your attention.
From Tony Scott’s Deja Vu and Charles Laughton’s classicThe Night of the Hunter to Punisher: War Zone and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, there’s something for everyone to watch this weekend, whether it’s Oscar-nominated dramas of ruthless oil barons, body-horror sci-fi, or modern fairy tales.
Here are the 15 best movies you need to watch before they leave streaming at the end of March.
Across the 8th Dimension is the latest cinematic adventure of Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, the famed physicist/neurosurgeon/test pilot/rock star who occasionally saves the world. Oh, you’re not familiar?
Peter Weller stars as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, who in this installment must save the Earth from the Red Lectroids, a group of inter-dimensional aliens led by an absolutely maniacal John Lithgow (delivering one of the most deliciously amped-up performances the 80s had to offer). Banzai is aided by his sidekicks, who are also his band mates, including Jeff Goldblum dressed up as a cowboy named “New Jersey.”
One of the great joys of Buckaroo Banzai is that, despite actually being a standalone film, it throws you into what feels like the middle of a long-running serial, to its great (and often bizarre) benefit.
One of two movies directed by W.D. Richter (writer of 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Big Trouble in Little China, and, improbably, Stealth),
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