Movies, series to stream this weekend: Check full list
Picked by entertainment journalists from AP, some of the noteworthy offerings to watch include the return of Julian Fellowes' «The Gilded Age» for a second season on HBO and Hollywood's latest exploration of the opioid crisis with the star-studded «Pain Hustlers,» featuring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, and Andy Garcia.
New Movies to Stream
Hollywood’s latest attempt to delve into the opioid crisis is the glossy, starry “Pain Hustlers,” starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia. Based on a New York Times Magazine article (which then became a book) by Evan Hughes, “Pain Hustlers,” on Netflix on Friday, October 27, centers on a pharmaceutical startup, Insys Therapeutics, which engaged in criminal activities like bribery and kickbacks and misleading insurers to push their addictive oral fentanyl spray called Subsys. Blunt plays a high school dropout who gets a job at the company, run by Garcia, where she excels. Directed by David Yates, “Pain Hustlers” was not generally well received by critics at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, but Alyssa Wilkinson wrote for Vox that, though predictable, “’Pain Hustlers’ manages to be lively and moving.”
The video game series “Five Nights at Freddy’s” is now a movie, available both in theaters and on Peacock on Friday, October 27. The horror pic, from Blumhouse Productions, follows a security guard (played by “The Hunger Games’” Josh Hutcherson) who accepts a job at an old family entertainment center, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where the animatronic mascots are mobile and murderous after midnight.
Filmmaker Paul Schrader rounds out his unofficial Man in a Room trilogy (“First Reformed,” “The Card Counter”) with “Master Gardener,” arriving on Hulu on Thursday.
