Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria, Jeremy Piven, and Benny ‘the Jet’ Urquidez co-star, and it’s a fun blast.Įlection (1999) is a darkly comic masterpiece, top to bottom, and if you haven’t seen it in a while you’re overdue. He rekindles a romance along the way and has doubts about his career choices, and the film delivers laughs and action thrills throughout. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) stars Cusack as a hitman who returns to his hometown for a high school reunion despite being targeted by other killers. We may have lost John Cusack to political rants and direct-to-DVD action films, but for a while there he was a pretty damn reliable actor/writer. And that ending! Hoo boy, buckle in people. Everyone, rich or poor, has blood on their hands, and the film’s cynical and nihilistic take is the realization that given the opportunity far too many of us can become terrible people in an instant. The film opens with a lavish wedding as notes and nods to economic strife and class uprisings rest in the background, but very quickly the two worlds mesh as the downtrodden rebel in a bloody, wild, and cruel fashion.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more horrifying, forward-looking dramatic thriller than Michel Franco’s New Order (2020) (premieres September 30th) - and you’d never find one that also manages to hit so damn hard while clocking in at under ninety minutes.

Hulu Pick of the Month for September 2021 Crossing the Streams is our look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Hulu arrivals for September 2021 including new non-English movies worth your time, fun comedies, new shows, and more!

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