These Are The 12 Best Movies On Peacock:
Many people believed that NBC Universal’s streaming service Peacock would become the new home of The Office. They believed it so much that they built the show into their price plan.
But they would be perfectly fine to promote their own shows as well. Peacock’s movies come from a core part of Universal Pictures’ library for more popular tastes as well as a smaller selection from their Focus Features name for more arthouse films.
They also show a lot of big-budget movies and lesser-known independent films that aren’t made by their own company. The best part? All of it is offered for free, with some ads that aren’t too annoying.
Where do you start, though, with locating the right movie upon the platform to watch next? The NewsTrace is here to give you a boost by going through all of Peacock’s movies and giving you 50 good suggestions for a wide range of tastes and moods.
Instead of going to the Scranton branch of Dunder-Mifflin for the hundredth time, let these masterful movies take you away and change you. Peacock has what you’re looking for, whether you want an old favorite from the 1980s or 1990s, a new indie hit, as well as a cute little movie.
Billy Madison:
Adam Sandler’s first lead part is still one of his best. The Sandman has used the obese, childish, yelling man-child character a lot, but it’s not often that it fits a movie’s story so well as it does in “Billy Madison.”
Sandler plays the main character, a dim-witted hotel heir who has to go back to school to get his father’s business. When you think about the idea, the pranks are just plain silly, and even after 25 years, they’re still funny.
Afternoon Delight:
Kathryn Hahn appears to be good at writing about people whose lives are really messy. Well, she used to be Rachel, a stay-at-home mom who was unhappy with her normal habits and her sexual dry spell alongside her husband Jeff before she played Clare within Tiny Beautiful Things.
She drags Jeff to a strip club to try to save their marriage. There, they meet McKenna from Juno Temple, a full-time sex worker who later becomes their live-in nanny as well as with whom Rachel forms an oddly close bond.
Quentin Tarantino has said that Afternoon Delight is a pleasantly awkward and hilariously hot movie. Temple told EW that the movie is “about women admiring things regarding each other as well as learning from each other.” But also kind of killing each other in the end.”
The Northman:
Anders Skarsgard as well as Nicole Kidman star in this Norse tale that is full of guts and glory. Even though it is violent and bloody, director Robert Eggers finds a certain beauty in this revenge story.
The Witch and The Lighthouse were more understated, but The Northman shows that Robert Eggers is capable of branching out while still having a knack for beautiful photography and a somber mood.
Monsters:
Some of you may know the name Gareth Edwards from his work as a director on the Star Wars and Godzilla movies. For those who are ever interested in the “audition” that gets people these jobs, check out Edwards’s 2010 film Monsters.
This creature movie isn’t about fancy visual effects at all. It’s about how strange living things can have an effect on a reporter and a tourist traveling through the US. Into Mexico. Edwards came from a poor background, but the seeds of great things were already growing.
American Psycho:
Meet Patrick Bateman’s well-kept exterior. He not only slays his morning skin care routine, he also, well, slays. The movie American Psycho is based on Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 book of the same name. It follows Bateman as he lives two lives: one as a slick New York City hedonist and one as a selfish coworker.
He works as a financial banker and a serial killer in his spare time. This comedic horror movie does a great job of breaking down the mindless capitalist culture of the 1980s, where greed is king and ego is a virtue. Christian Bale creates a massive character study alongside his morbid and monster-like Bateman.
EW’s critic said, “Funny, pungent, as well as weirdly gripping, American Psycho was a satire that feels such as a hallucination” covered within a “tone of rambunctious, light-fingered malevolence.”
The Super Mario Bros Movie:
Streaming of one of the largest movies of the year has become possible, which is great for both players and families.
Plumber Mario and his brother Luigi are taken from New York to the Mushroom Kingdom in the Super Mario Bros. movie and have to save the land from Bowser, who wants to marry Princess Peach.
Putting aside the Jack Black jokes as well as Chris Pratt voice-acting hot takes, The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a huge hit because it brought so much joy and color to the story of a brave journey.
First Cow:
The gentle, patient stories of quiet bravery directed by Kelly Reichardt are the opposite of what we usually expect from Westerns. While still being easy to read, First Cow is her most controversial book yet because it changes the way people think about American success and desire.
Back in the days when the Pacific Northwest was still a frontier, a skinny cook and a Chinese newcomer become famous for selling delicious cookies to hungry people. What’s the catch? They need to steal milk from a prize cow that lives on the rich man’s land.
Asteroid City:
In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson’s signature style covers a fantasy environment with a color palette that looks like a VSCO filter. This unusual mid-century Western puts the “Wes” in it.
The story takes place in a town in the southwestern United States in the 1950s. The town’s residents and teachers come together for the yearly Junior Stargazer gathering. When an alien visitor shows up, things take a turn for the worse, making Anderson’s already complicated story even more difficult to follow.
EW’s writer noted, “Anderson appears to be philosophizing regarding the gap between the truth we seek within storytelling as well as the lush, bravura craftsmanship taken to tell it.”
Renfield:
Just four words Nicolas Cage in a monster movie. Truthfully, that should be enough to get you to see this movie, but I’ll keep going anyway. Renfield is about Renfield, Dracula’s loyal helper, who wants to get away from his master’s shadow. It’s a mix of horror, comedy, and camp.
Cage loves playing the most renowned literary vampire in the world. He gets drenched in blood all the time. You won’t be on Team Edward as well as Team Jacob after seeing this ridiculously bloody mess; you’ll be on Team Renfield 100%.
Putney Swope:
You know Jr., yet who is his dad? Robert Downey Sr. was an artist who broke new ground and was ahead of his time in his own way. It was, after all, the underground. Start alongside Putney Swope to obtain a sense of his bold work that summed up the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s.
This biting spoof starts with a simple idea: the only black person on the board of an advertising firm becomes the head of the company. Even though it’s been fifty years, the movie still feels current because it doesn’t hold back.
Django:
After giving in to the movie’s beautiful music, you’ll find yourself suddenly singing Rocky Roberts’ catchy “Djangooooo.” Sergio Corbucci’s classic spaghetti Western is about the title character, an ex-Union soldier named Antonio who roams the dry borders between the U.S. and Mexico, with his runaway girlfriend, Maria.
In the middle of it, they get caught in a vicious fight between the Ku Klux Klan as well as Mexican rebels. The film’s unapologetic violence got it banned in several countries, and it stayed within the U.K. until 1993, which shows how deeply it affected people. It’s easy to see why Quentin Tarantino got ideas for Django Unchained, his own reimagined Western.
Polite Society:
This very funny movie from writer/director Nida Manzoor mixes Bollywood and British comedy. Polite Society is about a young woman named Ria Khan who wants to save her sister Lena from getting married.
This movie is full of heart, action, and fun. It takes ideas from kung-fu action movies, Bollywood, as well as witty British humor. Look no further than Polite Society if you want to see a new and funny heist movie that also does a great job of exploring sisters.
