“You can now watch 'Obsessed,' Beyoncé and Idris Elba's ridiculous thriller, on Netflix - The Daily Dot” plus 2 more |
- You can now watch 'Obsessed,' Beyoncé and Idris Elba's ridiculous thriller, on Netflix - The Daily Dot
- Obsessed Set the Blueprint for Enjoyably Mediocre Black Thrillers - Jezebel
- 40 great films to see this summer: Spider-Man, Toy Story, Lion King, Tarantino and more - The Irish Times
Posted: 05 Apr 2019 12:00 AM PDT Think back, if you dare, to the year 2009. Barack Obama's presidency was still young, Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMAs, and the Black Eyed Peas scored three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Oh, and Beyoncé happened to star alongside Idris Elba in the psychological thriller Obsessed. As far as thrillers go, the film is a glorious trainwreck—which is exactly why you should tune in to watch Obsessed on Netflix this weekend. Obsessed on Netflix: What's it about?Elba plays Derek Charles, a finance worker married to Sharon (Beyoncé). He introduces himself to temp worker Lisa (Ali Larter), who mistakes his politeness for flirting. Lisa makes several increasingly desperate attempts to seduce Derek, all of which he declines. But Sharon still suspects that he's hiding something from her. Obsessed has all the hallmarks of a classic thriller: stalking, manipulation, home invasion, child abduction. Without giving away too much, it all climaxes in an epic brawl between Sharon and Lisa. Does Sharon ward off her husband's stalker and resume her normal life with her family? You'll have to watch Obsessed on Netflix to find out. Should you watch Obsessed on Netflix?Your mileage with Obsessed depends on your appreciation of Beyoncé and Elba—and your tolerance for trashy, nonsensical cinema. From a critical perspective, the movie is a complete mess: The dialogue is cheesy, Lisa's motivations are underdeveloped, and the film misses a big opportunity to explore the racial tension between the Charles family members, who are Black, and Lisa, who is white. READ MORE: But you're not here for a critical evaluation, are you? The only reason you would entertain watching Obsessed on Netflix in the first place is because you want to see two of the entertainment world's most glamorous stars in an absurd, melodramatic B-rate thriller. If that's the case, Obsessed will absolutely satisfy your cravings. The drama is ham-fisted in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way, and the final fight scene is nothing short of iconic. You likely won't catch Beyoncé in any trashy action flicks in the near future, so you ought to seize the opportunity and watch Obsessed on Netflix while you can. Still not sure what to watch tonight? Here are our guides for the absolute best movies on Netflix, must-see Netflix original series, documentaries, docuseries, and movies. Looking for something more specific? Here are our Netflix guides for the best war movies, documentaries, anime, indie flicks, true crime, food shows, rom-coms, LGBT movies, alien movies, gangster movies, Westerns, film noir, and movies based on true stories streaming right now. There are also sad movies guaranteed to make you cry, weird movies to melt your brain, old movies when you need something classic, and standup specials when you really need to laugh. Or check out Flixable, a search engine for Netflix. |
Obsessed Set the Blueprint for Enjoyably Mediocre Black Thrillers - Jezebel Posted: 09 Apr 2019 12:00 AM PDT ![]() On April 24, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter's filmic magnum opus celebrates its 10th anniversary. Said magnum opus isn't her self-titled album or the critically acclaimed Lemonade, or even the Oscar-winning Dreamgirls, but a tiny 2009 film titled Obsessed, added to Netflix this month. A ridiculous movie that might have been lost to the annals of history if Beyoncé never became BEYONCÉ, Obsessed doesn't really hold up in the slightest, but its impact is large. In addition to giving us the most often quoted phone call in the world, it also ushered in a slate of middling thrillers with black casts, all of which are iconic in their mediocrity. Obsessed is an objectively bad movie. The pacing is odd, Elba's character Derek continuously makes inexplicably poor choices, Beyoncé's role as his much younger wife Sharon is paper thin and seems to exist only for the final, bloody confrontation, and Larter's Lisa may be the single most deranged and problematic depiction of a woman scorned since 1987's Fatal Attraction. And yet despite all that, it's still fun as hell. Beyoncé's Texas twang is in full swing, her line readings are terrible, and Elba's beardlessness and abysmal suiting makes it hard to believe he'd eventually be named the sexiest man alive. The soundtrack is intrusive and dated in the way contemporary pop music always is, but the classic thriller score is deliciously ham-fisted. Who doesn't want to see Beyoncé make the precedent setting choice to passive-aggressively call a white woman by the wrong name as punishment for flirting with her husband? And we haven't even gotten to Jerry O'Connell's ridiculous mix of pervy encouragement and genuine concern as Elba's coworker Ben. Terrible as it was, Obsessed set the stage for the black thrillers that have continued to pop up in regular intervals since the movie's 2009 release. The plots of these films tend to be paper thin after-thoughts that place black (heterosexual) couples in opposition to an outside antagonist, usually with a focus on the interiority of the black woman and the struggles she faces, up to and including the inciting incident. Whether it's Gabrielle Union fending off home invaders in 2018's Breaking In or Sharon Leal being stalked by the lover she took during the throes of her sex addiction in 2014's Addicted, this hyper-specific genre is chock full of scenarios that put black women in the role of both the damsel in distress and the righteous wronged heroine, often allowing them to save themselves, as in 2014's No Good Deed and 2015's The Perfect Guy. Part of what makes them so enjoyable is that they present a universe in which black women nearly always maintain the moral high ground; there is no disputing that our sympathies as an audience should lie with them. They're a welcome, if imperfect respite in an entertainment landscape where black women are still too often relegated to the role of best friend to the white lead. Black thrillers center black women and black families in a way that is still rare to see in other, less niche genres. That isn't to say that black thrillers don't have their flaws. As in 2016's When The Bough Breaks and Unforgettable, many of these films put women in direct conflict with each other, usually over a man. The female antagonists are depicted as shrewd, melodramatic stalkers hellbent on destroying the heroine for the crime of being coupled with a man they want for themselves. In extreme examples like 2013's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counsellor and 2018's Acrimony, the stories themselves are downright regressive. In the former, the wayward female protagonist is punished for cheating on her God-fearing husband by contracting HIV, and in the latter, the combustible leading lady is driven mad with jealousy when her trifling husband only finds success after she leaves him. These stories are almost offensive in the way they reduce black women's motivations to resentment at the men in their lives, but the wild ride can sometimes justify the journey. That these two films both hail from the Tyler Perry ouvre is an issue worthy of its own analysis. Obsessed is Beyoncé's last live-action, non-documentary film appearance to date and is the only role in which she does not perform (though music from her third album I Am… Sasha Fierce plays over the credits). Just 27 years old at the time of release and another four years from cementing herself as a living musical legend with the surprise drop of her self-titled album, the movie was clearly Beyoncé's attempt to branch out into more serious fare and position herself as a "proper actress." Her father and former manager Matthew Knowles is credited as a producer. Playing opposite up and comer Idris Elba, who at the time had had most of his credits in television, it's obvious in hindsight that the film was meant to act as a proving ground for the fabulous diva who could command a stage but had little formal acting training. It's little wonder that Obsessed is the film that spawned the "Beyonce can't act" meme despite having turned in more than serviceable performances in Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records respectively. It was the first time her narrative didn't center on music, and without the opportunity to embody Sasha Fierce, her appearance was admittedly lackluster. Though Beyonce may not have managed to have her A Star Is Born moment just yet, her impact as always is in felt in the legacy she leaves in her wake. Because of Obsessed's commercial success, black actresses have been able to retain amide-budget arena they can use to prove their skills and staying power without the pressure of a multi-billion dollar release. It's a trend that I hope never dies, and The Intruder is next in line. Cate Young (@battymamzelle): smugsexual, thundercunt hagbeast. |
Posted: 20 Jun 2019 12:00 AM PDT We may be two Marvel movies and one DC film deep into 2019, but there are still plenty of traditional tent poles holding up the summer months, including Spider-Man: Far from Home and Toy Story 4. Expect the photorealistic remake of The Lion King to eat up the box office from July 19th. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw will likely capture the lion's share of older viewers from July 31st. Watch out for horror sleeper hits in the Child's Play reboot (which comes out tomorrow), Ari Aster's Midsommar (July 5th) and It Chapter 2 (September 6th). Here's how they line up. Out nowBrightburn Siblings Brian and Mark Gunn – brother of James, he of off-colour jokes and Guardians of the Galaxy fame – invert Superman's origins into a horror film, in which an alien baby is raised by an adoptive Kansas couple only for the parents to realise that their charge a bad 'un. Out tomorrowChild's Play A mother, Karen (Aubrey Plaza), gives her son, Andy (Gabriel Bateman), a doll for his birthday, blissfully unaware that the toy is Chucky, the serial-killing plaything headliner of some eight films since his 1988 bow. Mark Hamill now voices the little monster. Toy Story 4 Even if this fourth instalment in the 25-year-old franchise proves superfluous, who wants to miss hearing Mel Brooks as Melephant Brooks and Carl Reiner as Carl Reineroceros? Wednesday, June 26thWhat We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek – Deep Space 9 The showrunner Ira Steven Behr and his DS9 squad, including the incomparable Colm Meaney, reunite to ponder well-loved plots and the legacy of the fan-favourite series. "We did wonderful work," René Auberjonois says. "It was often very painful to do." Top fan service. Friday, June 28thApollo 11 Todd Douglas Miller, director of the wonderful Dinosaur 13, recounts the events leading up to July 20th, 1969, as the Apollo 11 mission sets out for the moon, 50 years before it became known as, erm, part of Mars. In Fabric Peter Strickland, the giallo-obsessed genius behind The Duke of Burgundy and Berberian Sound Studio, takes a swipe at consumerism with this winning horror-comedy in which Marianne Jean-Baptiste purchases a haunted dress. Support the Girls Breastaurant manager Lisa (Regina Hall) plays den mother to her colleagues, including single mom Danyelle (Shayna McHayle) and naive Maci (Haley Lu Richardson) in this winning and sisterly comedy from the American auteur Andrew Bujalski. Yesterday Jack (Himesh Patel) is a struggling singer-songwriter who, following a mysterious blackout, awakens in a world where only he can remember The Beatles. Danny Boyle directs Richard Curtis's best script since Four Weddings and a Funeral. Tuesday, July 2nd![]() Spider-Man: Far from Home Set right after the events of Avengers: Endgame, the eighth standalone Spider-Man film of the 21st century sees Peter Parker (Tom Holland), still mourning the death of his mentor Tony Stark, head to Europe on a school trip, where he is promptly recruited by Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson). Friday, July 5thAnna Following the catastrophic Valerian, Luc Besson goes back to the girl and gun basics of Lucy and Leon, with a shoot 'em up starring Cillian Murphy and Russian supermodel Sasha Luss. Knife + Heart Yann Gonzalez pays homage to peak Brian De Palma with this queer erotic thriller set in the Parisian pornography sector of the 1970s and starring Vanessa Paradis as an aspiring smut auteur. ![]() Midsommar A toxic American couple (played by the non-Americans Jack Reynor and Florence Pugh) journey to rural Sweden for a nightmarish holiday in Ari Aster's eagerly awaited follow-up to Hereditary. Vita & Virginia Film adaptation of Eileen Atkins's 1992 play, an account of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, played by Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki. Wednesday, July 10thAnnabelle Comes Home The third headlining outing for the spooky doll and the seventh film from the Conjuring Universe drafts in the big guns. The franchise's creator, James Wan, cowrites, and Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren, ahead of next year's Conjuring 3. Do keep up. Friday, July 12thKursk: The Last Mission Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, The Hunt) directs a thriller inspired by the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster, in which 118 Russian sailors died. Matthias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth and Max von Sydow star. Only You The rising stars Josh O'Connor (God's Own Country) and Laia Costa (Victoria) make for a luminous pairing in the most grown-up meet-cute picture since Richard Linklater's Before Sunset. ![]() The Dead Don't Die Bill Murray and Adam Driver head up a lovable cast in Jim Jarmusch's winking shaggy-zombie picture, the director's most knockabout effort since Roberto Benigni led a chorus of "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream" in Down by Law. The Intruder Last month's sleeper American hit sees the city slickers Meagan Good and Michael Ealy relocate to Napa Valley, where a friendly neighbour (Dennis Quaid) soon gets a little too friendly. Monday, July 15thPavarotti This portrait of the late, much-loved operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti uses family archives, interviews and live footage. Ron Howard, on a blockbuster break, directs. Friday, July 19thGwen William McGregor's spooky debut feature, set in north Wales in the mid-19th century, sees a teenage girl (the Olivier-award winner Eleanor Worthington-Cox) struggle with an ailing mother (Maxine Peake), a ruthless mining company, suspicious locals and things that go bump in the night. ![]() The Lion King Jon Favreau (Iron Man, The Jungle Book) directs the third photorealistic remake of a Disney animated feature of 2019. Donald Glover voices Simba; Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is Nala, and lion-sized box-office returns seem nailed on. Friday, July 26thHorrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans The first two Horrible Histories books were published in 1993. Since then the collection has grown to 23 school-library favourites, produced multiple spin-offs, and spawned a popular BBC children's show. Kim Cattrall and Derek Jacobi bring the star wattage to the inevitable big-screen outing. Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love Nick Broomfield may have come to international prominence as the tenacious doorstepper behind such scandalous music docs as Kurt & Courtney and Biggie & Tupac, but his more recent work is urgent (Tales of the Grim Sleeper) and thoughtful (Whitney: Can I Be Me). The sorry lot of the muse is examined in this account of the troubled romance between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen. Wednesday, July 31stFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson bicker as they take on Idris Elba's genetically enhanced cyberterrorist in a spin-off of the popular franchise. So no chance of Vin Diesel and the rest of the gang cameoing, then. Right? Friday, August 2ndThe Angry Birds Movie 2 Picking up where the surprisingly competent 2016 animation left off, this sequel sees all-out war between Bad Piggies and the video-game stars of the title. The returning voice actors Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride and Peter Dinklage are joined by Leslie Jones. Friday, August 9thBlinded by the Light In 1987, against the depravities of Margaret Thatcher's Britain, a teenager (Viveik Kalra) in Luton finds solace and joy in the music of Bruce Springsteen. The film's director, Gurinder Chadha, returns to the crowd-pleasing form of Bend It Like Beckham. Playmobil: The Movie The delightful Anya Taylor-Joy is transported to a plastic wonderland fashioned around the German toys of the title, where Daniel Radcliffe voices a sleek Bond-inspired spy and Adam Lambert is the dastardly Emperor Maximus. The Sun Is Also a Star Deportation threatens the romance between a young quantum-physics student (Yara Shahidi) and a medical-school hopeful (Charles Melton) in this teen drama directed by Ry Russo-Young and based on the young adult novel by Nicola Yoon. Wednesday, August 14th![]() Once upon a Time... in Hollywood Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a TV star, and his long-time stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), cruise around the same 1960s Hollywood as the Manson Family and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). It's history by Quentin Tarantino, so expect revisions and splatter. Dora & the Lost City of Gold Kids who grew up this century may be excited (and nostalgic) to learn that the Nickelodeon teen star Isabela Moner takes on the Latina heroine in this big-screen adaptation of the cartoon show. Others may be intrigued by the (splendid) idea that Danny Trejo voices Boots the monkey and Benicio del Toro is Swiper the fox. ![]() JT LeRoy Savannah Knoop (Kristen Stewart) spends six years masquerading as JT LeRoy, the literary persona of the writer Laura Albert (Laura Dern), while the latter promotes Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful above All Things in a film based on Knoop's memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy. Transit Christian Petzold's thrilling adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel transports second World War intrigue to contemporary Marseilles. That displacement might sound gimmicky, but it translates into one of the most exciting and original films of the year. Franz Rogowski (Victoria) and Paula Beer (Marie) make for a mysterious romantic pairing, as the former assumes the identity of the latter's dead husband. Friday, August 23rdAngel Has Fallen Did somebody call for a third instalment in the Has Fallen series? Anybody? Following the events of London Has Fallen, Gerard Butler's secret-service agent is framed for an assassination attempt on President Morgan Freeman. Expect terrorists and explosions. Hail Satan? The documentarian Penny Lane's antidote to the Satanic Panic concerns the Satanic Temple, a nontheistic group started in 2013, dedicated to protecting the first amendment of the United States constitution ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"). No. They don't actually believe in Satan. Crawl Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D, Horns) directs Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper as a father and daughter attempting to survive a hurricane in Florida. Pain and Glory The 21st film by Pedro Almodóvar casts Antonio Banderas (named best actor at Cannes film festival for his efforts) as a version of the Spanish auteur as he recalls old romances, childhood chums, former collaborators and a lifelong love of cinema. Friday, August 30thThe Souvenir The British auteur Joanna Hogg won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance with this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama about a withdrawn young woman (Honor Swinton Byrne) who meets a toxic, slightly older man. The Hogg regular Tilda Swinton plays her real-life daughter's doting mum. ![]() The Informer A former special-operations soldier (Joel Kinnaman) is sent to prison to infiltrate the Polish mob in this adaptation of Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström's bestselling Scandi thriller Three Seconds. The Mustang Inspired by a real prison rehabilitation program in Nevada, The Mustang is about a violent domestic abuser (Matthias Schoenaerts) who is placed in a wild-horse training programme while incarcerated. Jason Mitchell plays his mentor; Bruce Dern is the rancher who runs the programme. Friday, September 6thIt Chapter 2 The concluding part of the $700 million 2017 hit adaptation of Stephen King's scary-clown novel sees Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) return to Derry, Maine, necessitating a regrouping of the Losers' Club, now comprised of Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa and James McAvoy. We believe these release dates to be accurate, but they are liable to change |
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