If you’re looking for something good to settle down with and watch this Easter Bank Holiday weekend, then you’ve come to the right place.
Streamers such as Netflix, BBC iPlayer and Channel 4 have a host of great movies that have just been added, including an “outstanding” tense kitchen drama featuring Stephen Graham.
Digital Spy has rounded up five of the best to add to your watchlists. Check out our list below.
Netflix
Best movie new to Netflix this week
Humint: This brand new South Korean spy thriller comes from director Ryoo Seung-wan, and forms the third part of his ‘Overseas Location’ trilogy after The Berlin File and Escape from Mogadishu.
Starring Zo In-sung, Park Jeong-min, Park Hae-joon, and Shin Sae-kyeong, the movie takes place in Russian city Vladivostok, and focuses on four characters who cross paths amid a series of incidents along the North Korean-Russian border, and with “their own motives and pasts, they become entangled in a dangerous web of shifting alliances, hidden agendas, and escalating confrontations”.
Humint only has a few reviews so far, though the reception has been largely positive, with the South China Morning Post saying it eventually “kicks into gear” with “breathless non-stop action”.
Also new to Netflix this week: Let Him Go, Trolls, Problemista, The Accidental Getaway Driver, Hell of a Summer
20th Century Studios
Best movie new to Prime Video this week
28 Days Later: If you’ve been wowed by the new 28 Years Later movies, especially this year’s The Bone Temple, then what better time to head back to where the horror franchise started.
Starring Cillian Murphy, the 2002 flick follows a bicycle courier who wakes from a coma to find that society has collapsed due to a rage-inducing virus, before crossing paths with a fellow group of survivors.
Danny Boyle’s movie also stars Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston and Brendan Gleeson, and was called “one of the great horror classics of the early ’00s” by The Movie Sleuth.
Also new to Prime Video this week: Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Social Network, The Witch, Crime 101, Casino Royale (2006), The Terminator, American Fiction
Lionsgate
Best movie new to BBC iPlayer this week
La La Land: Regarded as a modern movie musical classic and the winner of six Oscars, this 2016 film stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling and an aspiring actor and jazz musician who follow their dreams in Los Angeles while falling in love.
Sitting at a 91% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, Sight & Sound said it blends “nostalgia and contemporaneity in a candy-sweet love letter to cinema”.
Directed by Damien Chazelle, La La Land also boasts an excellent original soundtrack, including songs ‘City of Stars’, ‘The Fools Who Dream’ and ‘Another Day of Sun’.
Also new to BBC iPlayer this week: Femme, The Ipcress File (1965), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Good Vibrations, The Prestige, A Simple Favour, Insomnia (2002), The Mist (2007), Belfast
Lionsgate
Best movie new to ITVX this week
Reservoir Dogs: Called a “tour de force” by Time Out, this classic heist movie marked the feature directing debut of Quentin Tarantino in 1992.
Reservoir Dogs follows a group of thieves who plan to pull off a diamond heist, though things turn bloody when one turns out to be a police informant as the group begins to question each other’s guilt.
The movie boasts an impressive cast as the colour-monikered baddies, including Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney and Chris Penn.
Also new to ITVX this week: Fast & Furious 9, School of Rock, Twilight, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Dirty Dancing
Vertigo
Best movie new to Channel 4 this week
Boiling Point: Stephen Graham stars in this 2021 movie as the head chef in a top London restaurant as personal and professional crises threaten to destroy everything on one of its busiest nights.
Shot in one take by director Philip Barantini, who would go on to use the format in Graham-starring Netflix hit Adolescence, Boiling Point boasts a very-near-perfect 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while viewers have been fans too, one on IMDb calling it “captivating, brilliant, and outstanding”.
The movie was later continued in an acclaimed BBC series of the same name, with Graham and co-stars Vinette Robinson, Hannah Walters and Izuka Hoyle among those returning from the original movie.
Also new to Channel 4 this week: Little Monsters (2019), Men in Black, Toy Story 2
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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies, TV and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME and Screen International. Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings to Love Is Blind, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.