Welcome to Boston. com’s weekly streaming guide. Each week, we feature five must-see videos and TV shows available on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, Paramount+ and more.
Many of the recommendations are for new shows, while others are for hidden releases you may have missed or classics that are about to leave a streaming service at the end of the month.
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Earlier this week, I published a list of the 30 best videos on Netflix today, offering picks for virtually any and all genres and styles to help you navigate your weekend. A must-see that recently returned to the streaming service is “Call Me By Your Name,” Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 coming-of-age film that perfectly captures the fleeting, heady feeling of a summer romance. Precocious young Elio (Timothée Chalamet) falls in love with graduate assistant Oliver (Armie Hammer), who is staying with Elio’s family at their villa in northern Italy. Watching the film will leave you with a feeling of longing, whether for the sun-drenched Italian countryside, sumptuous dinners, or the summer love of years past. Chalamet is transcendent, but don’t sleep on Michael Stuhlbarg (“A Serious Man”) as Elio’s knowledgeable father.
How to watch: “Call Me by Your Name” is streaming on Netflix.
In terms of legacy sequels that had to be made, “Twisters,” a sequel to 1996’s “Twister,” turns out to have been pretty low on Hollywood’s list of precedents. (After watching the film last week, I’d say Hollywood has left these intellectual resources alone. )Instead of wasting money and time at the cinema this weekend, watch the original directed by Jan de Good. Helen Hunt stars as Jo Harding, a typhoon hunter motivated during the tragedy of her formative years to create a generation that will help be more informed about tornadoes and (hopefully) save lives. Her ex-husband, played by Bill Paxton, shows up before a typhoon to try to sign their divorce papers. But as the funnel crowd grows, so does the chemistry between the two prospects. “Twister” is by no means a fashion classic, however, the interaction between Hunt and Paxton along with the strangely deep cast of supporting actors (Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Jeremy Davies) make this film worth watching. ‘To be looked at.
How to watch: “Twister” airs on Max.
After five fabulous seasons of serial tales, it turns out that season 6 of “Cobra Kai” is still coming to an end. Although not immediately, Netflix is splitting the final season of this “Karate Kid” twist. Divided into 3 parts and frankly the first component made me need to know more until the last of the five episodes. Johnny (William Zabka) and Daniel (Ralph Macchio) have merged their dojos and are preparing for a world karate tournament. , and it will depend on which of his young disciples will constitute the Miyagi-do and Eagle Fang Karate dojos. In fact, there’s a chance that more exciting things will happen at the end of the series, especially with one main cliffhanger that we may not reveal. Here, however, dividing this story into 3 parts might lengthen things a bit.
How to watch: Season 6 of “Cobra Kai” is streaming on Netflix.
Having seen only the first two episodes so far (other critics have noted all seven), I’m cautiously intrigued by “Lady in the Lake,” a 1960s police homicide starring Natalie Portman in her first jump from the big screen to the little one . . Based on Laura Lippman’s 2019 novel of the same name, Portman plays Maddie Schwartz, a dissatisfied Jewish housewife who leaves her husband (Brett Gelman) to pursue a career as a loathsome journalist in 1960s Baltimore, which It is very segregated. to get to the bottom of two unsolved homicides, one involving an 11-year-old Jewish woman and the other involving an unsolved black activist and single mother named Cleo Sherwood (Moses Ingram). Cleo rises from the dead, so to speak, telling us the story of her life through a disembodied narrative, and we see how Cleo and Maddie’s respective paths mirror each other. There’s a chance that whole time jump thing could fall apart, but for now, I’m interested in looking for more.
How to watch: “Lady in the Lake” is streaming on Apple TV.
Roland Emmerich has directed of cinema’s most beloved disaster films (“Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow”) and many of its least essential (“Moonfall,” “Independence Day: Resurgence”). But even at his most incoherent, Emmerich is a master of spectacle. With the debut of his first TV series, the swords-and-sandals series “Those About To Die,” many of the German director’s hallmarks are on display, including wooden dialogue and garish CGI. Tenax (Iwan Rheon, “Game of Thrones”) is our guide, an orphan who has learned the ways of Rome’s streets and his trying to make his way in the cutthroat world of chariot racing. Your mileage may vary, but “Those About to Die” is exactly the type of trash TV I’ll gladly consume while waiting for “Gladiator 2” to hit theaters this fall.
How to watch: “Those About to Die” airs on Peacock.