Stream Guide Countdown: The Shape Of Water & The Walking Dead: Season Eight (September 28th, 2018)

GEMINI

Original Release Date: March 30, 2018
Directed by: Aaron Katz
Studio: Neon
Streaming: Hulu

Official Synopsis: A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.

Starring: Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, Greta Lee, Michelle Forbes, Nelson Franklin, Reeve Carney, Jessica Parker Kennedy, James Ransone, Ricki Lake, and John Cho

RED KNOT

Original Release Date: December 5, 2014
Directed by: Scott Cohen
Studio: Thunder Perfect Mind
Streaming: Hoopla

Official Synopsis: Peter (Vincent Kartheiser) and Chloe (Olivia Thirlby), a young married couple, jump at the chance to go on a belated honeymoon aboard a research vessel bound for Antarctica.

Starring: Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Thirlby, Lisa Harrow, Billy Campbell, Roger Payne, and Larry Pine

HUSH

Original Release Date: April 8, 2016
Directed by: Mike Flanagan
Studio: Intrepid Pictures
Streaming: Hoopla

Official Synopsis: A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.

Starring: Kate Siegel,  John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan, and Emilia “Emma” Graves

THE ILLUSIONIST

Original Release Date: August 18, 2006
Directed by: Neil Burger
Studio: Yari Film Group
Streaming: Prime Video

Official Synopsis: Set in early 20th-century Vienna, a stage magician uses his magic to win back the great love of his life from a brutal enemy, her fiance, who is also the powerful crowned prince of Austria.

Starring: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, and Jessica Biel

IN DARKNESS

Original Release Date: May 25, 2018
Directed by: Anthony Byrne
Studio: Vertical Entertainment
Streaming: Netflix

Official Synopsis: A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London’s gritty criminal underworld.

Starring: Natalie Dormer, Emily Ratajkowski, Ed Skrein, Joely Richardson, Neil Maskell, James Cosmo and Jan Bijvoet

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS

Original Release Date: July 27, 2018
Directed by: Elijah Bynum
Studio: A24
Streaming: Prime Video

Official Synopsis: Circa 1980s, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends in Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head.

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Maia Mitchell, William Fichtner and Thomas Jane

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

Original Release Date: July 9, 2003
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Streaming: Netflix

76th Academy Awards
Best Leading Actor (Johnny Depp) (Nominee)
Best Makeup (Nominee)
Best Sound Editing (Nominee)
Best Sound Mixing (Nominee)
Best Visual Effects (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor’s daughter, from Jack’s former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Kevin McNally, Zoe Saldana, and Jonathan Pryce

LOVELESS

Original Release Date: May 18, 2017 (Cannes)
Directed by: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Streaming: Starz

90th Academy Awards
Best Foreign Language Feature (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: In LOVELESS, Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

Starring: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, and Andris Keišs

THE WALKING DEAD: SEASON EIGHT

Original Release Date: October 22, 2017 – April 15, 2018
Episodes: 16
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Streaming: Netflix

Official Synopsis: Season 8 of this drama series brings an all-out war. Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Ezekiel (Khary Payton) all rally their respective groups to fight against Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his forces, in order to live a better life. But Negan’s squad, The Saviors, are better-equipped and more experienced, so the battle for freedom will be paved with casualties and tragedy.

Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Lennie James, Alanna Masterson, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, and Steven Ogg

THE SHAPE OF WATER

Original Release Date: December 1, 2017
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Streaming: HBO Go

90th Academy Awards
Best Picture (WINNER)
Best Director (WINNER)
Best Leading Actress (Sally Hawkins) (Nominee)
Best Supporting Actor
(Richard Jenkins) (Nominee)
Best Supporting Actress
(Octavia Spencer)
(Nominee)
Best Original Screenplay (Nominee)
Best Original Score (WINNER)
Best Sound Editing (Nominee)
Best Sound Mixing (Nominee)
Best Production Design (WINNER)
Best Cinematography (Nominee)
Best Costume Design (Nominee)
Best Film Editing (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER – an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.

Starring: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer