What to Watch on FandangoNOW and Vudu: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon,’ ‘Chaos Walking,’ ‘Barb & Star’ and More

Wish to know what’s coming quickly to digital and what to look at proper now on FandangoNOW and Vudu? Right here is your weekly information to the newest releases:

What are the newest new releases to look at proper now?

Disney’s newest animated characteristic, Raya and the Final Dragon, is now accessible to buy digitally on FandangoNOW and Vudu. The hilarious and visually breathtaking film follows the action-packed journey of a warrior princess (voiced by Kelly Marie Tran) who groups up with a wacky dragon (Awkwafina) to save lots of their world from an evil entity that's turning everybody into stone. If you purchase Raya and the Final Dragon, you additionally get a bunch of extras, together with deleted scenes, outtakes, options about the way it was made, the animated brief movie Us Once more and extra.

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Direct from its theatrical launch, Chaos Strolling can be now accessible digitally from FandangoNOW and Vudu for the primary time, as a premium VOD rental. The sci-fi motion film — directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Id) and based mostly on the best-selling dystopian YA novel The Knife of By no means Letting Go — pairs Spider-Man actor Tom Holland and Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley in a future-set story of survival in a time and a world the place males’s ideas are uncovered and girls are extinct. That's, till Ridley’s mysterious feminine character crash lands on the planet.

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You can even now lease or purchase the brand new comedy that everybody’s speaking about — Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar — from FandangoNOW and Vudu. Written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who final collaborated on the Oscar-nominated script for Bridesmaids a decade in the past, the very foolish comedy additionally stars the duo because the titular sheltered Midwest women, who resolve to go on a seaside trip and discover extra journey than they’ve bargained for. Be careful for Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Gray), who unexpectedly steals the film as a lovelorn villain’s henchman.

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What films are nice to pair with these new releases?

Raya and the Final Dragon pairs effectively with quite a few different modern-era Disney animated options, together with the equally plotted and culturally wealthy Moana, the progressively magical fairy story sequel Frozen II, the diverse-landscape-oriented Zootopia and the martial-arts heavy Mulan (you would additionally pair it with the brand new live-action model). If you wish to transcend the borders of Disney films and even exterior of animation, I additionally assume it goes very effectively with The NeverEnding Story with its dragon sidekick, Falkor, and its summary evil entity, The Nothing.    

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For Chaos Strolling, you can also make a double characteristic with director Doug Liman’s different future-set sci-fi motion film, Fringe of Tomorrow. There’s additionally the primary installment of the YA-based Maze Runner franchise, which equally introduces a mysterious feminine character right into a world of males, or Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian sci-fi film Youngsters of Males, wherein one pregnant lady in a time of absolute infertility is escorted by means of harmful territory. And in case you simply need an excellent under-seen film starring Tom Holland, give The Misplaced Metropolis of Z a shot.

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There are quite a lot of nice choices for a double characteristic with Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, from Bridesmaids, with its Wiig and Mumolo script and Wiig lead function, to the ‘90s thriller The Net, in which Sandra Bullock plays a woman who becomes mixed up in a conspiracy plot while on a beach vacation. But you’ll in all probability need one thing simply as foolish, so pair it with Austin Powers: Worldwide Man of Thriller, which matches effectively with Barb & Star’s ridiculous villain and her evil scheme, or Keanu, one other loopy comedy wherein two different common of us get pulled right into a wild plot.

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Are we celebrating any massive film anniversaries this week?

This week marks the fortieth anniversary of the Medieval journey film Excalibur and the Sylvester Stallone thriller Nighthawks. Different films with anniversaries this week embody the Watergate scandal drama All of the President’s Males, Alfred Hitchcock’s Household Plot and the little league comedy The Dangerous Information Bears, which all flip 45, and the sci-fi horror traditional The Factor from One other World, the Ronald Reagan chimpanzee comedy Bedtime for Bonzo and the romantic drama A Place within the Solar, which all flip 70. Additionally, the Finest Image-winning biopic The Nice Ziegfeld and Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to City each flip 85.

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More moderen films with anniversaries embody the cult traditional black comedy The Final Supper, which turns 25, the drug supplier biopic Blow and the crime thriller Alongside Got here a Spider, which each flip 20, the Nicole Holofcener comedy Associates with Cash, which turns 15, and the Saoirse Ronan motion film Hanna, the Bethany Hamilton biopic Soul Surfer, David Gordon Inexperienced’s Medieval comedy Your Highness, the favored IMAX nature documentary Born to Be Wild, and the comedy remake Arthur starring Russell Model and Greta Gerwig, which all flip 10 years previous.

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What are some nice little league baseball films to lease this week?

Main League Baseball kicked off its 2021 season final week, and The Dangerous Information Bears turns 45 years previous this week (see above), so I’d like to focus on some little league films accessible to lease. Along with the unique Dangerous Information Bears and its sequels, The Dangerous Information Bears in Breaking Coaching and The Dangerous Information Bears Go to Japan, there’s additionally Richard Linklater’s remake. You can even choose up the unique and remake collectively in a bundle or purchase all 4 in a single assortment. We’ve additionally obtained the Little League World Collection drama The Excellent Sport, the comedy Rookie of the Yr, the Keanu Reeves sports activities drama Hardball and although it's not about Little League, I’ll throw The Sandlot in there, too.

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Are you able to suggest some extra nice film offers on Vudu?

This week, Vudu has a sale on Fifties films for simply $5 every, together with such classics as A Place within the Solar and Bedtime for Bonzo (each are celebrating a giant anniversary this week — see above). Double options I like to recommend embody Hitchcock’s James Stewart necessities Vertigo and Rear Window, Orson Welles-led movies Contact of Evil and The Third Man, westerns Excessive Midday and 3:10 to Yuma, Marilyn Monroe favorites The Seven Yr Itch and There’s No Enterprise Like Present Enterprise and Billy Wilder’s William Holden masterpieces Sundown Boulevard and Stalag 17.

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Vudu’s Actor’s Highlight collection celebrates the next performers this week: Antonio Banderas, Bryce Dallas Howard, Wesley Snipes, Connie Nielsen, Colin Farrell and Regina King. And I’ve obtained a favourite movie of every to suggest: Pedro Almodóvar’s Ache and Glory, for Banderas; the Disney remake Pete’s Dragon, for Howard; the sci-fi motion film Demolition Man, for Snipes; the current sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, for Nielsen; Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal comedy The Lobster, for Farrell; and Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Road Might Discuss, for King, who received her Oscar for the movie.

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What are the ten hottest new films on FandangoNOW?

1. Raya and the Final Dragon
2. Marvel Lady 1984
3. The Little Issues
4. Chaos Strolling
5. The SpongeBob Film: Sponge on the Run
6. Information of the World
7. Boogie
8. The Father
9. Each Breath You Take
10. The Vault
 

What are the ten hottest films on Vudu?

1. Raya and the Final Dragon
2. Marvel Lady 1984
3. Willy’s Wonderland
4. Chaos Strolling
5. The Little Issues
6. Information of the World
7. The Croods: A New Age
8. Freaky
9. Monster Hunter
10. Soul