From the eight-time Oscar nominee “The Imitation Game” to the Korean revenge thriller “I Saw the Devil,” free streaming service Plex is giving audiences new and varied reasons to keep coming back to its library of over 50,000 titles.
As we ring in October, check out The Streamable’s top picks and build your to-watch list from all of the titles coming to the streamer this month!
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The gripping biopic “Experimenter” arrives to Plex to start the month. Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the film focuses on the 1961 behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers, as well as the aftermath of the experiments and the public outcry of their ethics.
As we ring in October, check out The Streamable’s top picks and build your to-watch list from all of the titles coming to the streamer this month!
Watch Now $0+ / month plex.tv What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Coming to Plex in October 2023? “Experimenter” | Sunday, Oct. 1
The gripping biopic “Experimenter” arrives to Plex to start the month. Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the film focuses on the 1961 behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers, as well as the aftermath of the experiments and the public outcry of their ethics.
- 9/29/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Rumor has it that Bo killed Kate.
After she pressed him to remember who he was on Days of Our Lives during the week of 3-20-23, Kate dared Bo to shoot her, and Megan and Rolf both say she's dead.
If Kate's really dead this time, that's a hell of a way for this legacy character to go out! But could she have had another miraculous victory over the Grim Reaper?
Kate's cheated death several times before. This woman crawled from the park to the hospital after Vivian left her for dead.
She's as strong-willed as she is fearless, and so far, we haven't been given any proof that Bo killed her besides Megan and Rolf's say-so. Even Bo's flashback didn't show Kate getting shot, only Bo's gun going off.
View Slideshow: Days of Our Lives Classic Couple Spotlight: Bo and Hope
That's a perfect set-up for a "Kate's still alive" twist!
After she pressed him to remember who he was on Days of Our Lives during the week of 3-20-23, Kate dared Bo to shoot her, and Megan and Rolf both say she's dead.
If Kate's really dead this time, that's a hell of a way for this legacy character to go out! But could she have had another miraculous victory over the Grim Reaper?
Kate's cheated death several times before. This woman crawled from the park to the hospital after Vivian left her for dead.
She's as strong-willed as she is fearless, and so far, we haven't been given any proof that Bo killed her besides Megan and Rolf's say-so. Even Bo's flashback didn't show Kate getting shot, only Bo's gun going off.
View Slideshow: Days of Our Lives Classic Couple Spotlight: Bo and Hope
That's a perfect set-up for a "Kate's still alive" twist!
- 3/25/2023
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me?” —Blaise Pascal, PenséesA master without a masterwork: such, one might say, is the peculiar, paradoxical position of American filmmaker Michael Almereyda. Spanning over three decades, his career is vigorous, accomplished, and frequently inspired, intriguing not just for its eclectic breadth of focus, but also for its doggedly exploratory bent—ranging from sundry experiments with the Pixelvision camera, to a turn-of-the-millennium Hamlet adaptation,...
- 8/19/2020
- MUBI
A Michael Almereyda film can be a special thing. A few years back, the writer/director gave us Experimenter, an impressive kinda-biopic of Stanley Milgram starring Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder. Two decades ago, Almereyda rendered an arresting, modern take on Hamlet. Just as Ethan Hawke was his Prince of Denmark then, so is he Nikola Tesla now.
Tesla plays much like Experimenter in its use of minimalist production design in parts (perhaps forced by budget) and exciting flights of fancy in others. Almereyda has been a Sundance mainstay for much of his career and it makes much sense. His films are a testament to the independent spirit. Limitations be damned! The messy creativity on display is something to admire.
Here we follow Tesla as he leaves his job working under Thomas Edison to pursue some radical notions. He connects with businessman and Edison rival George Westinghouse, to whom he...
Tesla plays much like Experimenter in its use of minimalist production design in parts (perhaps forced by budget) and exciting flights of fancy in others. Almereyda has been a Sundance mainstay for much of his career and it makes much sense. His films are a testament to the independent spirit. Limitations be damned! The messy creativity on display is something to admire.
Here we follow Tesla as he leaves his job working under Thomas Edison to pursue some radical notions. He connects with businessman and Edison rival George Westinghouse, to whom he...
- 1/30/2020
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
If you listen closely enough, even silence sounds like something. Most of us can’t hear it, but most of us aren’t house tuners. Peter Lucian (Peter Sarsgaard) is, though, and he uses his particular set of skills to rid people of their ailments — depression, fatigue, what have you — by mapping out the soundscapes of their homes and reharmonizing them with micro-changes to their sonic ecosystems. As out-there as that may sound, the hero of Michael Tyburski’s debut feature isn’t a charlatan — much like “The Sound of Silence” itself, he’s a unique figure who deserves to be listened to as closely as possible.
We’ve entered an era of sensory deprivation at the movies, with “A Quiet Place” and “Bird Box” presenting it as something terrifying: make a noise or open your eyes, these films warn, and they will get you. Tyburski takes a more cerebral approach,...
We’ve entered an era of sensory deprivation at the movies, with “A Quiet Place” and “Bird Box” presenting it as something terrifying: make a noise or open your eyes, these films warn, and they will get you. Tyburski takes a more cerebral approach,...
- 2/3/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Maniac delivers a climax that it doesn't earn. Still, "Utangatta" is an exciting and cathartic episode of television all the same.
This Maniac review contains spoilers.
Maniac Episode 9
The nice thing about a show like Maniac is that even if it loses the thread completely (and this show has), setting and circumstances change so frequently that that thread can always be picked up again.
The penultimate episode of Maniac, “Utangatta,” is all climax. Annie and Owen meet once again this time as an Icelandic deputy minister named Snorri and a femme fatale CIA assassin named nothing. Icelandic Owen and CIA Annie make their way out of the United Nations headquarters in a tracking shot gun fight that would make Rust Cohle blush (fitting given that Maniac director Cary Fukunaga first achieved his level of Peak TV fame of True Detective Season 1). It’s all pure action and even finds the...
This Maniac review contains spoilers.
Maniac Episode 9
The nice thing about a show like Maniac is that even if it loses the thread completely (and this show has), setting and circumstances change so frequently that that thread can always be picked up again.
The penultimate episode of Maniac, “Utangatta,” is all climax. Annie and Owen meet once again this time as an Icelandic deputy minister named Snorri and a femme fatale CIA assassin named nothing. Icelandic Owen and CIA Annie make their way out of the United Nations headquarters in a tracking shot gun fight that would make Rust Cohle blush (fitting given that Maniac director Cary Fukunaga first achieved his level of Peak TV fame of True Detective Season 1). It’s all pure action and even finds the...
- 9/27/2018
- Den of Geek
Part of living in a society means there are rules that need to be followed. The presence of rules, in turn, mean there are authority figures who see to it that these rules are followed or otherwise a corrective action will be in order. A world without rules and authority figures may seem utopian for a moment, but their absence can also mean a breakdown of order and many valuable things we take for granted such as peace, security, and freedom.
In a 1960s experiment, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of obedience experiments that found people willing to go to great lengths to obey an authority figure. The presence of an authority figure also made compliance much easier.
Learn more about how authority affects our lives by getting to know the different types of authority.
Academic Authority
This isn’t a type of authority found in teachers and college professors.
In a 1960s experiment, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of obedience experiments that found people willing to go to great lengths to obey an authority figure. The presence of an authority figure also made compliance much easier.
Learn more about how authority affects our lives by getting to know the different types of authority.
Academic Authority
This isn’t a type of authority found in teachers and college professors.
- 9/12/2018
- by Jon
- SoundOnSight
Hollywood will be hard-pressed to come up with a more horrifying film this year than writer-director Robert Schwentke’s “The Captain.” Schwentke is perhaps best known to American audiences as the filmmaker behind such hit-and-miss shoot-’em-up movies as “Red,” “R.I.P.D.,” and “Insurgent,” which makes this return to his native Germany a rather surprising departure.
Shot in black and white and set in the final days of World War II, “The Captain” is every bit as violent as those movies, and twice as tense, but it’s a different beast entirely: a period piece — one with a chilling contemporary relevance — about Willi Herold, a kid just 19 years old, who found a Nazi officer’s uniform, assumed the role, and self-righteously went on to murder an estimated 170 of his countrymen. Herold was a real person, and the film assumes a passing respect for history, but it’s hardly the kind of penitent,...
Shot in black and white and set in the final days of World War II, “The Captain” is every bit as violent as those movies, and twice as tense, but it’s a different beast entirely: a period piece — one with a chilling contemporary relevance — about Willi Herold, a kid just 19 years old, who found a Nazi officer’s uniform, assumed the role, and self-righteously went on to murder an estimated 170 of his countrymen. Herold was a real person, and the film assumes a passing respect for history, but it’s hardly the kind of penitent,...
- 7/26/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: One week after picking up SXSW thriller Perfect, blockchain content company SingularDTV has revealed the hires of former Marvel TV exec Joseph White as VP Production, and Daniel Hyman, formerly of sales agent Preferred Content, who joins as VP of Entertainment Finance & Development.
White was formerly VP of Original Programming for Marvel Television where he was co-producer on shows including Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher. He produced 2016 SXSW music doc biopic Sidemen: Long Road To Glory and was a co-producer on 2015 Stanley Milgram drama Experimenter.
Hyman, who will spearhead digital distribution at the firm, was sales manager at La-based outfit Preferred Content where he negotiated deals with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Gravitas and IFC. He previously worked as a management consultant in New York for clients including Barclays and BNP Paribas.
SingularDTV co-founder and President of Entertainment Kim Jackson commented, “SingularDTV leads the blockchain technology field in the entertainment industry.
White was formerly VP of Original Programming for Marvel Television where he was co-producer on shows including Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher. He produced 2016 SXSW music doc biopic Sidemen: Long Road To Glory and was a co-producer on 2015 Stanley Milgram drama Experimenter.
Hyman, who will spearhead digital distribution at the firm, was sales manager at La-based outfit Preferred Content where he negotiated deals with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Gravitas and IFC. He previously worked as a management consultant in New York for clients including Barclays and BNP Paribas.
SingularDTV co-founder and President of Entertainment Kim Jackson commented, “SingularDTV leads the blockchain technology field in the entertainment industry.
- 6/7/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Recent years have seen a renewed dramatic interest in the chestnuts we all remember from Introduction to Psychology. TV has its Masters of Sex, Sundancers get dueling features about the Stanford Prison Experiment and the cruel discoveries of Stanley Milgram. While we wait for a good biopic on Ivan Pavlov, writer/director Robert Budreau examines the Stockholm Syndrome by reenacting the hostage crisis that gave the phenomenon a name. His Stockholm, which gently massages actual events to serve as a fine vehicle for Noomi Rapace and Ethan Hawke, is far from the first movie to believably show a crime victim coming...
- 4/20/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Experiment 20 dramatises the stories of three women who took part in the psychologist Stanley Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ experiments in 1962, and insisted on being heard. More than 800 people were recruited for what they were told was a study about learning and memory. The scenario they took part in urged them to inflict electric shocks on another person. This film by Kathryn Millard is the last in Guardian Australia’s Present Traces series, presented by Macquarie University and linked by archive material
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- 3/11/2018
- by Kathryn Millard
- The Guardian - Film News
Sci-fi effects extravaganzas are a dime a dozen, but bona-fide sci-fi films—that is, movies that exemplify the so-called literature of ideas and not just the sci-fi aesthetic—are rare. Marjorie Prime, the offbeat indie stalwart Michael Almereyda’s thoughtful adaptation of a Pulitzer-nominated play by Jordan Harrison, isn’t interested in futuristic, high-tech backdrops, even though it seems to be set sometime in the 2040s. The most stylish thing about it is the eerie original music by Mica Levi, the art-damaged noise-popster-turned-composer who previously scored Under The Skin and Jackie. But aside from that, the movie lacks ostentation; it appears so simple and unworldly and unhip that one wants to protect it. This is business as usual for Almereyda (Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story, Hamlet), a brainy misfit kind of filmmaker who works with that mostly forgotten credo that indie films should give viewers something that doesn’t...
- 8/17/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
It’s a bad day at the office for the characters in “The Belko Experiment,” a nasty piece of work that ignites a spark of gruesome curiosity about human behavior before extinguishing it with the usual mindless butchery. In 1961, social scientist Stanley Milgram famously revealed to the world that with a little instruction and a lot of authority, ordinary people could be made to do the darkest things to their fellow human beings. In 2017, director Greg McLean (“Wolf Creek”) and screenwriter James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) show that, with only a little creativity and a lot of carnage,...
- 3/15/2017
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Peter Sarsgaard on Jackie composer Mica Levi: "She is incredible. She did the score for [Jonathan Glazer's] Under the Skin." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
- 11/28/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Demolition screenwriter Bryan Sipe with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Omar Gonzales
Jean-Marc Vallée's rockin' Demolition stars Jake Gyllenhaal with Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and introduces Judah Lewis as an impressive teenage mix of Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Paul Valéry, Michael Almereyda's take on Stanley Milgram's "Familiar Stranger" in Experimenter, a Joy Division T-shirt, costume choices by the Dallas Buyers Club and Wild director, a nail in the foot and an ache in the soul, what it means to "deserve", heightened reality in Café De Flore, starring Vanessa Paradis, plus a mini-manual of how to creatively destroy a house - all came up in my Essex House conversation with screenwriter Bryan Sipe.
Bryan Sipe on Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal): "All of a sudden, the most odd things are catching his attention."
Unlike his protagonist, investment banker Davis (Gyllenhaal), who unravels after losing his wife in a car accident,...
Jean-Marc Vallée's rockin' Demolition stars Jake Gyllenhaal with Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and introduces Judah Lewis as an impressive teenage mix of Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Paul Valéry, Michael Almereyda's take on Stanley Milgram's "Familiar Stranger" in Experimenter, a Joy Division T-shirt, costume choices by the Dallas Buyers Club and Wild director, a nail in the foot and an ache in the soul, what it means to "deserve", heightened reality in Café De Flore, starring Vanessa Paradis, plus a mini-manual of how to creatively destroy a house - all came up in my Essex House conversation with screenwriter Bryan Sipe.
Bryan Sipe on Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal): "All of a sudden, the most odd things are catching his attention."
Unlike his protagonist, investment banker Davis (Gyllenhaal), who unravels after losing his wife in a car accident,...
- 3/23/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Amy (Asif Kapadia)
Amy is genuinely moving because it asks what you would do if you were a loved one witnessing Amy Winehouse’s demise. It’s a question many of us would like to pose an answer to, but the reality is that you were dealing with a woman who was fully independent and had more money at her fingers than many could imagine. This...
Amy (Asif Kapadia)
Amy is genuinely moving because it asks what you would do if you were a loved one witnessing Amy Winehouse’s demise. It’s a question many of us would like to pose an answer to, but the reality is that you were dealing with a woman who was fully independent and had more money at her fingers than many could imagine. This...
- 2/5/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
It’s one of the most well-known murder cases in American history, and James Solomon’s reappraisal of it is fascinating and frustrating in equal measure
Between Peter Sarsgaard in Experimenter, Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment and now James Solomon’s documentary The Witness, shocking 20th-century revelations about man’s inhumanity are having quite the moment.
For decades, students have crossed their arms during introduction to sociology lectures and said: “I would never do that.” They said it when Stanley Milgram’s experiments suggested ingrained obedience to authority could lead anyone to commit Nazi atrocities. They said it when the Stanford Prison Experiment suggested even a mock institutional setting could spark brutal, fascist torment. And they said it when learning of the Kitty Genovese murder, in which a young woman was stabbed in the middle of the night as 37 witnesses sat in the safety of their apartments...
Between Peter Sarsgaard in Experimenter, Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment and now James Solomon’s documentary The Witness, shocking 20th-century revelations about man’s inhumanity are having quite the moment.
For decades, students have crossed their arms during introduction to sociology lectures and said: “I would never do that.” They said it when Stanley Milgram’s experiments suggested ingrained obedience to authority could lead anyone to commit Nazi atrocities. They said it when the Stanford Prison Experiment suggested even a mock institutional setting could spark brutal, fascist torment. And they said it when learning of the Kitty Genovese murder, in which a young woman was stabbed in the middle of the night as 37 witnesses sat in the safety of their apartments...
- 9/29/2015
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
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