What is Playing on... Hulu
Three films I recommend that are streaming on Hulu right now
***For this bi-weekly series I am going to share three films that are currently showing on a specific application during the coming week***
What is Playing On… Hulu
Week: 11/24-11/30
Application: HULU
The digital marketplace of streaming is vast, overwhelming, and expensive. I currently pay for four services, totaling around sixty dollars a month, but at times it has been as high as a hundred. I like having options, it does not have to be expensive to have options, but nevertheless we inch closer to playing cable prices for something short of cable’s reliability (unless you have spectrum, which somehow manages to be a worse product than every single company it absorbed) and connectivity.
What is playing on Hulu this week? Of course you have the near simul-casting of FX originals, ABC big box reality tv, Hulu exclusives, and anime but what else is licensed out through november? Here are a few of my suggestions for viewing this week:
Canada’s most valuable export James Cameron has spent the better part of the past forty years playing in the water. Most famously with Titanic (1997), most recently with the Avatar series. Some jump in, some dip their toes, others create a movie about the navy deploying a team of boots, engineers, and scientists to recover a nuclear submarine that has sunk into an extremely deep and highly pressurized trench in the middle of the ocean. The 4k enhanced scan of this film makes some parts of it even more eerie than the original cut but I think it is still a movie that deserves a critical reappraisal for how well made it was for its time and how it influenced a broader interest in industry resetting special effects. Also, Ed Harris rocks in it.
In his directorial debut, director Jerrod Carmichael shines as Val, a suicidal, down on his luck, blue collar factory worker. This day-in-the-life suicide pact film is a thoughtful and comedic weaving of working class desolation, suicidal ideation, and the frustrations of coping with childhood abuse. How do you overcome your feelings from a past you cannot change? What lengths are you willing to go for revenge? Would that even make you feel better? Abbot and Carmichael do everything and all to examine the human condition under the stress of poverty, mental illness, and anger in a world that asks you to solve your own problems or die.
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
The past decade has seen a litany of japanese light novels turn into successful anime films (re: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas 2018), etc) that have become profitable in the west post-initial release, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes is no exception. This tale of magical realism addresses the angst at the core of youth. No longer content with his restlessness and regret, Karou Touno seeks out a magical tunnel that runs under the train tracks in his small rural town. It is said this tunnel can grant a single wish to the one who is brave enough to breach its entrance. After a violent run in with his father, and reeling from the pain of his sister’s death, Karou reaches the tunnel and learns its powerful secret. Advertised as science fiction, this film reserves some tender and intimate romantic moments between Karou and his new classmate Anzu Hanashiro who has transferred from Tokyo to his small town on the coast. Both reeling from the past, can the Urashima tunnel remedy what has been lost?
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If none of these scratch your itch I would also recommend watching The X-Files (starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny) on Hulu. There are a ton of episodes and somehow they manage to make most of them very compelling. Watch the pilot! perhaps the best “freak of the week” show ever made!
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- Mr. GT
***all films are hyperlinked to their imdb page in the title***