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Ghostface again haunts Neve Campbell in the slasher flick “Scream 7,” streaming now on Paramount+, while Hulu boasts another masked menace, the Satanic Slasher no less, in the fittingly titled horror movie “Psycho Killer.” Your favorite services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV and HBO Max offer fresh films for all cinematic tastes, including original fare like John Travolta’s directorial debut but also theatrical releases like a Charli XCX mockumentary.
Here are 10 new and notable movies you can stream right now:
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s wild take on the “Frankenstein” mythos borrows from B-movie horror, crime dramas, Broadway musicals and love stories, mashed together in bold, bizarre strokes. Jessie Buckley is the resurrected Bride, who demands to be heard alongside her patchwork partner Frank (Christian Bale) and starts a revolution.
Where to watch: HBO Max
Based on a true story, director Gus Van Sant’s tense 1970s-set crime thriller centers on an Indianapolis man (Skarsgård) who, feeling swindled, takes a mortgage broker (Dacre Montgomery) hostage with a shotgun rigged to a dead man’s switch. The chaotic situation brings in cops, the public and even a local DJ (Colman Domingo).
Where to watch: Netflix
In the animated, animal-filled hoops comedy, Will Harris (voiced by Caleb McLaughlin) has got game, but this dude can’t even get on a roarball court because larger beasts won’t let him. A chance pickup game leads to Will getting a shot with his hometown team but he has to prove himself to the squad, including his idol Jett (Gabrielle Union).
Where to watch: Netflix
Sacha Baron Cohen plays a charismatic but chauvinistic ad executive who, while berating an employee (Rosamund Pike) out of the building, is knocked out after walking into a light pole. He wakes up in a world ruled by women – and that coworker is his new boss – in a comedy exploring gender roles and power dynamics.
Where to watch:Netflix
In the dramedy, Allison Janney stars as an acerbic widow who gets help planning her husband’s funeral from her estranged son’s eager-to-please assistant (Andrew Rannells). She’s initially resentful of him even being there, but they begin to form a bond as each helps the other face grief, loss and ultimately a needed sense of moving on.
Where to watch:HBO Max
Charli XCX is a fictionalized, ticking-bomb version of herself in a mockumentary aiming to be a millennial “This Is Spinal Tap.” The pop singer navigates issues between her creative partner (Hailey Benton Gates) and a mercurial director (Alexander Skarsgård) while planning a world tour, though this Charli needs a vacation more than anything.
Where to watch:HBO Max
John Travolta‘s directorial debut finds him adapting his own 1997 book and also narrating a young boy’s eye-opening 1960s cross-country trip. Clark Shotwell plays the airplane enthusiast who gets a taste of first class – and chicken cordon bleu – flying with his actress mom to Hollywood in a throwback fable from a kid’s perspective.
Where to watch: Apple TV
In this revenge-fueled thriller, Georgina Campbell plays a Kansas highway traffic officer who watches in horror as her cop husband is gunned down by a masked serial killer known as the Satanic Slasher (James Preston Rogers). As he continues his cross-country murder spree, she grows more dogged in her pursuit for justice.
Where to watch: Hulu
Original “Scream” writer Kevin Williamson reunites with franchise final girl Neve Campbell for this seventh slasher installment. Sidney Prescott (Campbell) has her rather normal Midwestern life disrupted by the sudden reappearance of masked menace Ghostface, who now threatens Sidney’s 17-year-old daughter, Tatum (Isabel May).
Where to watch: Paramount+
After four years of the “Jack Ryan” TV series, John Krasinski takes Tom Clancy’s literary action hero back to the movies. In the political thriller, ex-CIA operative Jack gets sucked back into the secret-agent game and teams up with old friends – plus a new MI6 officer (Sienna Miller) – to stop a black-ops squad from causing global chaos.
Where to watch:Prime Video
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