Streaming services are loading up for Memorial Day, and 's Watch Party newsletter says there are 10 new and notable movies you can stream right now. Netflix is part of the mix, alongside Amazon's Prime Video and Hulu, in a roundup built for the long weekend. The list ranges from a John Krasinski Jack Ryan movie to Quentin Tarantino's four-hour, 41-minute "Whole Bloody Affair," which comes with new bonus sequences and a 15-minute intermission.
The biggest attention grabber may be Maggie Gyllenhaal's wild take on the "Frankenstein" mythos, where Jessie Buckley plays the resurrected Bride and Christian Bale plays Frank. It is one of several new Netflix movies and other streaming picks aimed at people looking for something bigger than another familiar franchise title. The same roundup also points to a documentary from director Lawrence Kasdan that tracks Martin Short's comedy life, including his early years on "SCTV" and "SNL," and is described as a companion piece to last year's "John Candy: I Like Me."
There is also a run of genre titles that lean hard into oddball premises. Sally Field stars as Tova, an aquarium cleaner, with Alfred Molina voicing the octopus Marcellus in the dramedy. Lewis Pullman plays Cameron, a young cash-strapped drifter, while Rachel McAdams appears as a strategy expert and "Survivor" superfan opposite Dylan O'Brien as her sexist tech-bro boss in Sam Raimi's dark comedy-thriller. Elsewhere, Shirley Chen plays a Chinese-American teen with prom-queen dreams in a body-horror satire, with Mckenna Grace handling the white girl transformation.
The round-up also includes a comedy about a charismatic but chauvinistic ad executive, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, who wakes up in a world ruled by women and finds Rosamund Pike as the employee who becomes his new boss. Gabrielle Union voices Jett and Caleb McLaughlin voices Will Harris in an animated hoops comedy, adding one more option for viewers who want something lighter. The only catch is that the source cuts off as it starts to describe a Jack Ryan TV series after four years, leaving that title unfinished just as the holiday viewing window opens.
