The Black Phone, Orphan: First Kill, and every other new movie you can stream from home this weekend
This week is relatively light on the new movie slate.
Sure, Netflix has its usual slate of seven new movies, but beyond that, it’s the dry season of August in the yearly movie calendar. Even still, there are some intriguing new releases to check out at home, and a light week still means 15 new movies for you to choose from.
Leading the way are new horror movies: the Orphan prequel First Kill on Paramount Plus sees Isabelle Fuhrman return to the franchise more than a decade later, and Scott Derrickson’s new horror movie The Black Phone with Ethan Hawke quietly dropped on Peacock.
One of the year’s best action thrillers also makes its streaming debut: Vikram, the highest-grossing Tamil-language movie of 2022. It’s the follow-up to the 2019 thriller Kaithi, and I for one can not wait to watch it this weekend.
There’s also Jurassic World Dominion, an animated adaptation of Blazing Saddles, and B.J. Novak’s podcast mystery thriller Vengeance available for digital rental or purchase, and among the many new Netflix releases, there’s a coming-of-age movie with Riverdale star Lili Reinhart, and an intriguing Malaysian action movie from the director of Wira.
Let’s get into it!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus
Isabelle Fuhrman returns to the role of Esther in a prequel to Orphan. When your lead character is a woman posing as a child, you can do unusual things like make a prequel with the same actor 13 years later!
Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock
Scott Derrickson’s first movie since Doctor Strange sees him return to his horror roots, teaming up with Ethan Hawke for this adaptation of Joe Hill’s short story. In it, Hawke plays a masked man who abducts and murders children. The latest abduction
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