Sonic and Nosferatu Race To Your Living Room

The Oscar nominations are here! So if you’re looking to watch some of the films that were nominated or are just in need of a good flick, you’re in luck, as there’s plenty of great movies that will be available on streaming this week.

New on VOD:

‘Nosferatu’

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Robert Eggers, the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman, resurrects one of the most influential horror stories ever brought to the screen in Nosferatu.

A retelling of Henrik Galeen‘s 1922 classic, which in turn was an adaptation of Bram Stoker‘s classic 1897 novel Dracula, Nosferatu tells the story of the supernatural connection between young Ellen Hutter and the ancient vampire in love with her, Count Orlok. Count Orlok’s plot begins to come to fruition upon meeting Ellen’s weary husband Thomas, who is hired to sell a home to the vampire king.

The film recently received 4 Academy Award nominations: Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairysling, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Production Design, and Best Achievement in Costume Design.

Nosferatu stars Bill Skarsgård (It), Nicholas Hoult (Juror #2), Lily Rose-Depp (The Idol), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Guy), Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine), and Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man).

Rent on Prime Video

‘Oh, Canada’

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Over four decades after the release of their film American Gigolo, Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader and Richard Gere have reunited for the drama, Oh, Canada.

Based on Russell Banks‘ 2021 novel Foregone, Oh, Canada, follows aging documentarian Leonard Fife, who is being interviewed by one of his former students about his past. Leonard now must confront dodging the draft for the Vietnam War as well as his thorny past relationships as he sits down to bear it all to the interviewer.

Oh, Canada also stars Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman (Kill Bill), Victoria Hill (First Reformed), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), Penelope Mitchell (Star Trek: Picard), and Kristine Froseth (Looking for Alaska).

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‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’

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Everyone’s favorite speedy blue hedgehog is back in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the latest installment in the hit franchise based on the Sega video game series.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are called upon to travel to Tokyo to apprehend a rogue alien lifeform known as Shadow the Hedgehog, who bears a striking resemblance to the blue blur. However, Shadow proves himself to be quite the challenge, which forces Team Sonic to reluctantly join forces with their arch-nemesis Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his father Gerald Robotnik, to stop Shadow before it’s too late.

Jeff Fowler, who directed the previous two Sonic films, returns alongside franchise veterans Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, Ben Schwartz as Sonic, Idris Elba as Knuckles, Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Tails, James Marsden as Tom Wachowski, Tika Sumpter as Maddie Wachowski, Natasha Rothwell as Rachel, Shemar Moore ​​​​​​as Randall Handel, Lee Majdoub as Agent Stone, and Adam Pally as Wade Whipple. New cast members include Keanu Reeves (John Wick) as Shadow, Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones) as Director Rockwell, and Alyla Browne (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) as Maria.

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New on Paramount+:

‘Gladiator II’

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The legacy of Maximus lives on in Gladiator II, a sequel to the beloved Best Picture winner from 2000.

Picking up a decade-and-a-half after the events of the first film, Gladiator II follows Lucius Verus Aurelius, who, after his wife is slayed in battle, is taken to Rome as a slave and is forced to do battle as a gladiator. He soon catches the eye of the opportunistic socialite named Macrinus, who is building his own kind of uprising.

The film recently received an Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Costume Design.

Academy Award nominee Ridley Scott returns to direct this sequel, which features a star-studded cast that includes Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Academy Award winner Denzel Washington (Training Day), Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus), and Lior Raz (The Crowded Room), with Connie Nielsen and Derek Jacobi reprising their roles from the first film as Lucilla and Senator Gracchus.

Watch on Paramount+

New on Netflix:

‘Saturday Night’

Available on: Saturday, January 25

Academy Award nominee Jason Reitman (Juno) takes us back in time to October 11, 1975, in the chaotic moments leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live.

Saturday Night finds the ever-ambitious Lorne Michaels fighting against the odds to get his sketch series live on the air, amidst his cast clashing with one another, his head writer stirring the pot, his host frustrated, and the bigwigs at NBC rooting for him to fail.

Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans) leads an all-star cast for the film which includes Rachel Sennott (Bottoms), Cory Michael Smith (May December), Ella Hunt (Dickinson), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Emily Fairn (Black Mirror), Matt Wood (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Kim Matula (Fighting with My Family), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Nicholas Braun (Succession), Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza), Andrew Barth Feldman (No Hard Feelings), Kaia Gerber (Bottoms), Tommy Dewey (Your Monster), Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man), Matthew Rhys (The Americans), Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), Academy Award winner Jon Batiste (Soul), and Naomi McPherson.

Watch on Netflix

New on Max:

‘Your Monster’

Available on: Friday, January 24

Modern scream queen Melissa Barrera has gone face-to-face with Ghostface in Scream and Scream VI and battled a tweenage vampiric ballerina in Abigail. Now she’s going to be romancing a monster.

In Your Monster, Laura Franco is going through a tough time. She’s recently been diagnosed with cancer and her boyfriend has just broken up with her. Life couldn’t get any worse. That is, until she befriends and soon falls in love with the charismatic monster living in her closet.

Caroline Lindy directs the film, which also stars Tommy Dewey (Saturday Night), Edmund Donovan (Civil War), Kayla Foster (The Deuce), and Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus).

Watch on Max

New on Peacock:

‘The Wild Robot’

Available on: Friday, January 24

Animation legend and Academy Award nominee Chris Sanders (How To Train Your Dragon) returns to DreamWorks Animation with one of their finest collaborations to date, The Wild Robot.

Based on the best-selling series of children’s novels by Peter Brown, The Wild Robot begins when Roz, a helper robot, washes ashore on a remote island filled with wildlife critters. After getting into a freak accident, Roz learns to adapt to her new environment, and alongside her new friend, Fink the Fox, helps raise an orphaned gosling named Brightbill.

The film recently received three Academy Award nominations: for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Score, and Best Sound.

The Wild Robot features an all-star voice cast including Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Kit Connor (Heartstopper), Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek), Academy Award nominee Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Academy Award nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning), and Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows).

Watch on Peacock

New on Mubi:

‘The Girl with the Needle’

Available on: Friday, January 24

The Girl with the Needle is a gripping and disturbing psychological horror film loosely inspired by the true story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye.

In the film, a pregnant young factory worker Karoline is thrown on the street and is desperately trying to escape poverty after the events of World War I. As fate would have it, Karoline befriends Dagmar, a candy store owner who runs a hidden adoption agency within her store. However, Karoline begins to expect that Dagmar isn’t the saint that she appears to be, and that she’s hiding some truly sinister secrets.

The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best International Film.

Magnus von Horn (Sweat) directs the film, which stars Vic Carmen Sonne (Azrael), Trine Dyrholm (Mary and George), Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, and Avo Knox Martin.