Ready for the weekend? Kick back with this week’s new movies on VOD which feature some incredible performers like Elizabeth Banks, Zoe Kazan, and Carey Mulligan, as well as this year’s Cannes darling, director Park Chan-wook’s latest, Decision To Leave.
Decision To Leave, which earned Park Chan-wook the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival this year has also been placed on the New York Times‘ list of the Best Films of 2022. The film, which takes some inspiration from Hitchcock’s Vertigo, is about a detective (Park Hae-il) investigating the death of a man who died on a mountain. He suspect’s the man’s wife (Tang Wei) is the killer, but in the process of investigating and surveilling her, he gets too close to her and… needless to say, it complicates the investigation.
These are just a few of the titles that are available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, YouTube, and through your cable service this week. Check out what movies are available to buy or rent on demand now!
She Said is based on the book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and in the film, actresses Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan play the two journalists who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of widespread sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood. The film is your classic investigative journalism story, but it’s unique in that many of the subjects who accused Weinstein of wrongdoing are actresses who are still key players in Hollywood today, and they even appear in the film. Ashley Judd, one of the first women to agree to publicly accuse Weinstein appears in the film playing herself as does Gwyneth Paltrow, though only her voice is used on the other end of a phone call. It’s a fascinating blend of real and dramatization that goes deep into the story that spawned the #MeToo movement.
Where to stream She Said
Another film based on the heroic actions of a few women is Call Jane, the abortion drama in which Elizabeth Banks stars as a woman named Joy who, in 1968, needed an abortion when she learns her pregnancy is life-threatening. Facing resistance from her doctors, Joy finds Virginia (Sigourney Weaver), a member of The Jane Collective, a real-life underground network of women who would help other women find access to safe abortions before Roe Vs. Wade legalized them in 1973, who helps her get the treatment she needs to save her life. The film has been in production for a few years – well before the Supreme Court overturned Roe this year – making it that much more relevant now that we’re back in the same place Joy finds herself in the film.
Where to stream Call Jane
To Buy:
Call Jane
Decision To Leave
To Rent:
She Said
I Am D.B. Cooper
Ageless Love
Reflections of a Broken Memory
Detective Knight: Redemption
Christmas Bloody Christmas
The Railway Children (2022)
Deinfluencer
Nr. 10
Black Warrant
Glorious
The Advent Calendar
The Leech
Young Plato
Accidental Family
Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible
Alienoid
Rickshaw Girl
Divorce Bait
Party Dream
Streetwalker
Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show Chain Reaction.