Belle, RRR, Morbius, and more new movies you can watch at home this weekend
It’s Friday, and you know what means. The weekend’s around the corner, and we have a list filled with new movies available for you to watch at home, either for rental or on streaming services like Netflix.
This week, two of our best movies of the year so far make their VOD debut: Belle, the modern anime adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and the Indian historical action epic RRR. Also newly available digitally is the vampire Marvel movie Morbius, Paul Thomas Anderson’s most recent movie, Licorice Pizza, and the “startling” Finnish horror movie Hatching (yes, for real this time, after a false alarm earlier this month).
On the streaming side of things, there’s a new Chip ’n Dale movie on Disney Plus, a group of Netflix originals (including a new Jackass movie, kind of), a rom-com with Samara Weaving on Hulu, and much more.
Where to watch: Available to rent for $3.99 on Amazon, Google Play, Vudu; $4.99 on Apple
Mamoru Hosoda’s sci-fi fantasy anime Belle follows the story of Suzu, a reserved high school student living in a rural village. Mourning the loss of her mother, Suzu finds solace and validation by escaping into the massive online world of “U,” where her virtual alter-ego “Belle” is a globally recognized pop singer. After one of her concerts is interrupted by a mysterious figure known as the Dragon, Suzu sets out in search of them in hopes of better understanding the unspoken connection they share with one another.
Fromour review:
The kid-friendly moral of Beauty and the Beast (or at least the 1991 Disney version) is a simple one: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” With the ambitious, decisively uncynical new anime movie Belle, writer-director Mamoru Hosoda adds to a long list of adaptations by updating the story for
Read more on polygon.com
