Captivating, Creative, and Comic Movies to Watch This October
Five movies for any mood to stream on Peacock this month.
Emory Cohen, Jodie Comer, and Austin Butler in The Bikeriders
In the mood for an epic American adventure? | The Bikeriders
Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders recalls a tumultuous time in American history through the lens of a Chicago motorcycle gang, The Vandals. Inspired by Danny Lyon's book of photographs of the same name, the film focuses on the relationship between Kathy (Jodie Comer), the biker Benny (Austin Butler) she falls in love with, and the gang’s leader Johnny (Tom Hardy). With a top-notch ensemble cast that includes Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, and Norman Reedus, the film is, as The Hollywood Reporter writes, “a love letter to outsiders.” The Guardian writes, “This film opens up the storytelling throttle with a throaty growl, delivering the doomy romance of an old-fashioned western and the thrills of a mob drama.”
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Kōki and Pálmi Kormákur in Touch
In the mood for an affecting love story? | Touch
In Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch—co-written by Kormákur and the novel’s author, Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson—an older man, Kristofer (Egill Olafsson), leaves his native Iceland to rediscover the great love of his life. Moving back and forth between the present and the early ‘70s, when a younger version of Kristofer (Pálmi Kormákur) fell in love with Miko (Kōki) in London, the film weaves a deeply moving tale about buried dreams and renewed hope. Variety writes, “A search for a lost love makes for a heartrending romantic affair to remember.”
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Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Eddie Marsan in The World's End
In the mood for a sci-fi comedy? | The World’s End
In Edgar Wright’s The World’s End, Simon Pegg plays Gary King, an adult child who pushes four pals from his high school days (Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, and Eddie Marsan) to return to their hometown to finish a pub tour they attempted 20 years earlier. Their pint-chugging reveries are brought to an end when they learn aliens are taking over their village—and soon the world. Like Wright’s other genre-busting comedies (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), The World’s End “manages to play as much like an ode to kooky alien invasion thrillers as it does to the joys of getting plastered with friends,” writes IndieWire.
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Teyana Taylor in A Thousand and One
In the mood for an award-winning drama? | A Thousand and One
A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for its moving tale of a young mother. Released from prison, Inez (Teyana Taylor) kidnaps her young boy, Terry, from foster care and moves to Harlem where she brings him up against all odds. “This is a tough, beautiful, honest and bracingly hopeful movie about mutual care and unconditional love, with a transformative and indelible performance at its core,” wrote The Washington Post. Under Rockwell’s direction, Inez’s plight resonates with our times. “In telling the story of Inez and Terry,” The New York Times writes, “Rockwell is simultaneously chronicling the intersecting life stories of a neighborhood, a city, and a world.”
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Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger, and Evan Rachel Wood in Kajillionaire
In the mood for a zany take on love? | Kajillionaire
With Kajillionaire, Miranda July delivers on her reputation of being one of the most innovative filmmakers today. Born into a family of low-level grifters (Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger), Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) is taught by a stranger (Gina Rodriguez) how to trust people, rather than con them. “It’s an emotional heist story—something that ultimately dealt with parenting and re-parenting and birth and rebirth and love and intimacy,” July told Rolling Stone. The Washington Post writes, “Funny, poignant and ultimately triumphant, Kajillionaire is a precarious balancing act, one that July pulls off with astute writing, careful staging, and trust in her actors to strike precisely the right emotional tones.”
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