Streaming Review

Canadian filmmaker Robert Budreau directs fellow Canuck Stephen James in his latest film, the thriller Delia’s Gone from Vertical Entertainment.

Director Julius Avery teams up with action legend Sylvester Stallone and ventures into the world of superheroes for his third effort in Samaritan from Amazon. Thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton) suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith (Sylvester Stallone), is actually a legend hiding in plain sight.

The Flora colossus pop culture icon Groot leads a series in Disney +’s I Am Groot. Kirsten Lepore oversees the show, which follows Baby Groot as he grows up in the galaxy, going on adventures with new and unusual characters that get him into trouble.

An iconic action science fiction franchise changes things up for its latest entry in Prey which will stream exclusively on Hulu.

Director Akin Omotoso brings a heartwarming true-life tale to Disney+ in the winning basketball drama Rise. Audiences have never seen a story like that of the Antetokounmpos. After emigrating from Nigeria to Greece, Charles and Vera Antetokounmpo (Dayo Okeniyi and Yetide Badaki, respectively) struggled to survive and provide for their five children while living under the daily threat of deportation.

R&B’s original bad boy Mr. Bobby Brown returns to the television screen for another reality show with Bobby Brown: Every Little Step. After facing immense tragedy and adversity in the public eye, the Browns are ready to invite fans into their world as they embark on a new chapter of life in the 12-episode docuseries Bobby Brown: Every Little Step.

Writer and director Jared Cohn make a return to the world of action in Vendetta. After his daughter is the victim of a brutal murder set up by local kingpin Donnie (Bruce Willis) and legal justice looks unlikely, William Duncan (Clive Standen) takes the law into his own hands.

The other animated chipmunks you grew up with receive a live-action feature film in Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers from director Akiva Schaffer. Chip and Dale live amongst cartoons and humans in modern-day Los Angeles, but their lives are pretty different now. It has been decades since their successful television series was canceled, and Chip (voice of John Mulaney) has succumbed to a life of suburban domesticity as an insurance sales clerk.

Following a stint in the world of television, director Teppo Airaksinen makes a return to features in Vertical Entertainment’s Super cool. High school nerds Neil (Jake Short) and Gilbert’s (Miles J. Harvey) lifelong friendship is tested when Neil’s wish to transform into a handsome ‘cool’ guy comes true.

Award-winning short director Sophia Banks makes her feature-directing debut with the action flick Black Site from Vertical Entertainment. John Colee and Jinder Ho pen the film’s script, which features a familiar story. CIA Agent Abby Trent (Michelle Monaghan) manages an underground black site facility that imprisons dangerous and high-risk detainees.

Actor Brian Presley takes a trip to the Wild West for his directorial debut in Hostile Territory from Saban Films. Hostile Territory is a rousing western action-adventure inspired by a true story that tells the story of former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves to Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children Lizzy (Emma Presley), Lilly (Ruby Presley), and Charlie (Jackson Presley) following the Civil War.

From Saban films, espionage, fisticuffs, and gunplay fill director Grant S. Johnson’s latest directorial effort, Agent Game. Harris (Dermot Mulroney), a CIA interrogator at an Agency black site, finds himself the target of a rendition operation after being scapegoated for an interrogation gone horribly wrong.