What's New To Streaming In April 2024
Plus, the top 10 action movies of the 21st century
We’re almost two weeks into April, but it’s not too late to catch you up on the best of what’s new to streaming this month! Check it out below, as well as our podcast this week on the top 10 action movies of the 21st century. As always, thanks for reading and listening!
Drew recommends…
To Catch a Thief
Spring is here and the weather is warming up. Maybe you’re thinking about where you should get away for a vacation this summer. If the French Riviera is too expensive then just let Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, and Alfred Hitchcock transport you there in the exquisite 1955 romantic thriller To Catch a Thief. The coastal views are as resplendent as Kelly’s costumes, and you get to see Hitch working in a more relaxed mode than usual. You’re guaranteed to have a lovely time if Hitchcock + mid-century movie stars + the South of France is an equation that works for you.
Grant plays John “The Cat” Robie, a retired jewel thief, and Kelly plays rich heiress Frances Stevens, but the details of the story aren’t what the movie is selling. It’s way more interested in giving us Grant and Kelly in front of a gorgeous Mediterranean backdrop. Every scene between these two mega stars crackles with glamour, wit, and romance. And while the suspense isn’t at the same level as a Psycho or Rear Window, we do get a fun rooftop sequence near the end that only Hitchcock can pull off. Even if you can’t make it to the South of France this summer, To Catch a Thief isn’t a bad consolation.
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+
Billy recommends…
Inside Man
This is a re-post from June 2020
This feels like a “I’ll do one for you if you’ll do one for me” scenario. Spike Lee was a bonafide superstar at this point in his career, but his persona of a film auteur may have been on the fritz at this point in his career. The beginning of his career was a lot of him doing everything: Writing, directing, acting, and even editing. During the rise of his stardom he began to team up with Michael Jordan to direct Air Jordan commercials and reprise his character of Mars Blackmon (from She’s Gotta Have It). He attended Knicks games courtside as a loud character and a wardrobe that made him always recognizable on TV. He directed music videos for iconic rap songs “Fight the Power”, “Hip Hop Hooray”, and “Headlights.” These types of choices cemented him as an iconic figure. Politely speaking, this made white critics… slow to give him the credit he deserved. Inside Man gave him the opportunity to bring his style and unique lens into the popular heist genre, while extending his opportunity to make more “Spike Lee” style films…
Streaming on Netflix
New To Streaming In April 2024
Netflix
American Graffiti
Baby Driver
Born on the Fourth of July
Glass
Happy Gilmore
The Matrix
Molly’s Game
Smokey and the Bandit
Split
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
The Theory of Everything
Wild Things
You’ve Got Mail
Knocked Up (April 16)
Amazon Prime Video
Batman & Robin
Chinatown
Cloverfield
Disturbia
It’s Complicated
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Lone Survivor
Nebraska
Neighbors
Out of Sight
Red Eye
Rosemary’s Baby
Saturday Night Fever
Snatch
The Aviator
The Big Short
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Notebook
The Way Back
Titanic
Top Gun
We Own The Night
The Exorcist: Believer
Hulu
The Big Lebowski
Blockers
Captain Phillips
Don’t Worry Darling
The Fifth Element
The Host
Ocean’s Eleven
Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean’s Thirteen
Pacific Rim
Shazam!
Take Shelter
Wonder Woman
X2: X-Men United
Little Women (April 22)
The Meg (April 23)
Max
Black Swan
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Lost In Translation
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
A Serious Man
The Social Network
Source Code
The Strangers
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Watermelon Woman
Zola
The Zone of Interest
DYLA Podcast
This week on the podcast was our most epic episode yet, at least in length. If two dudes talking about action cinema for almost two hours is up your alley, then boy, is this the one for you! With all of the recent action movies released this year, we decided to build a top 10 action movies list for the 21st century. One by one, we go through a list of 30 action films since the year 2000, making the case if they are top 10 worthy or not. Listen in to hear which 10 end up as our best of the century so far, and then let us know which ones we left out!
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Much like the first Joker, its sequel, Joker: Folie a Deux, has a barn-burner of a teaser trailer. Love or hate these movies, whoever cuts the trailers knows what they’re doing. I’m sure people will be very normal about this movie when it comes out.
Director Ti West and star Mia Goth return to cap their “X” trilogy with the retro 80s horror of MaXXXine, out in theaters on July 5. This trailer also has the goods.
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced this week. In addition to films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold, and Sean Baker, the fest will feature new work from old masters like Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader, and David Cronenberg. Coppola’s self-funded Megalopolis has been the subject of much consternation about its distribution. That’s nothing new for him, though.