The Nerd’s Watch: Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Streaming in Nov. 2021

What’s out there on Hulu on November 1?

10,000 BC -What Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 BC might need lacked in historic accuracy, it tried to make up for with the epic scale and drama of its story about prehistoric hunter-gatherers trekking via the Ural mountains searching for wooly mammoths. The ways in which the mammoth inhabitants waxes and wanes offers motive for 10,000 BC’s characters to suspect that supernatural forces are at work, shaping humanity’s destiny, as they depend upon the wild animals for survival.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs – Beneath its nonsensical premise and wacky visuals, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is a surprisingly considerate story in regards to the significance of individuals having correct entry to quite a lot of meals choices, in addition to an understanding of the damaging meteorological phenomena shaping their world.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again! – In this 1972 sequel to cult horror-comedy The Abominable Dr. Phibes, the diabolical doc (horror legend Vincent Price in excellently campy type) returns—nay, rises—from the sarcophagus the place he’s been hiding out since unleashing vengeful chaos within the first movie. Still hellbent on resurrecting his beloved spouse, this time he turns to the secrets and techniques of historic Egypt to attempt to convey her again.

The Fifth Element – The eye-candy that’s The Fifth Element has no competitors. Besides its over-the-top forged of Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker, comedian artists Jean “Moebius” Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières labored on manufacturing design and Jean-Paul Gaultier did costumes. Did we point out the alien opera singer? Worth the value of admission.

The Fly – It is likely to be a little bit late for Halloween, however David Cronenberg’s remake of the enduring horror film asks you to think about the scariest thought of all of them: what if Jeff Goldblum turned a really gross human-fly hybrid?

Inception – Christopher Nolan’s dream inside a dream inside a dream is nice for repeat viewing. See the place it lands on our Nolan rating.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – This is the movie, not the TV collection (which was fairly nice). It stars Jim Carrey because the villainous Count Olaf to the Baudelaire youngsters and Jude Law performs the titular character.

Love Potion No. 9 – A really questionable ‘90s film starring Sandra Bullock (before she hit it big), Tate Donovan, and Dale Midkiff. It’s technically primarily based on the tune however when a biochemist and a biologist determine to fiddle with love potions, makeovers and hilarity ensue.

Maggie – When a younger lady named Maggie is bitten by one of many contaminated, undead zombies plaguing her ruined metropolis, she understands that it’s solely a matter of time earlier than she, like them, begins to crave the style of residing flesh, and so she decides to spare her household the grief of getting to look at her turn out to be a monster. Desperate to seek out his daughter, Maggie’s father units out to seek out her, impending-zombism be damned as a result of he has religion that his love and determination is likely to be the remedy she wants. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin star.

The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions – The Wachowski’s unique Matrix trilogy will all the time stand as a set of movies that basically captivated the world’s creativeness and put a set of concepts into folks’s heads which were mirrored in numerous different artistic endeavors. With a fourth installment to the franchise on the way in which, the primary three movies had been already lengthy overdue for thorough rewatches.

Minority Report – If you like Tom Cruise working and yelling, this Steven Spielberg jam is likely to be for you. It stars the all the time improbable Samantha Morton as one in all three “precogs” who predict crime… till Cruise’s character realizes there’s a margin of error. This one additionally options Neal McDonough, early Colin Farrell, and the incomparable Max von Sydow.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – The tough factor about unknowingly being born right into a household of Greek gods the way in which Percy Jackson was is that there’s all the time an opportunity that, via some ridiculous circumstance, your existence ultimately alarms one in all your kin so a lot that they really feel as in the event that they’ve no choice however to kill you. The state of affairs’s a little bit extra sophisticated with Percy, because the younger teen is abruptly swept up right into a whirlwind of occasions that reveals the magical nature of his environment.

The Prestige – So many Marvel and DC stars in a single movie that has nothing to do with superheroes and the whole lot to do with science, ardour, and obsession. Bonus: David Bowie as Nikola Tesla.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre II – Leatherface is again and meat’s on the menu, because the cannibalistic Sawyer household returns to wreak chainsaw-based havoc throughout Texas—and… the state chili cook-off?

Universal Soldier – In life, military troopers Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) had been each extremely expert combatants deployed within the Vietnam warfare to be killing machines, and regardless of being a part of the identical army pressure, they turned enemies within the closing moments of their lives. Because the pair had been each such helpful belongings, nevertheless, their tales don’t finish there, as their our bodies are cryogenically frozen and ultimately resuscitated to turn out to be a part of the Universal Soldier program that transforms them into much more deadly killing machines.

Vampire in Brooklyn – Despite being a comedy, Vampire in Brooklyn affords one in all Eddie Murphy’s extra surprisingly dramatic and villainous turns as Maximillian, the movie’s historic vampire who arrives in New York City searching for a Dhampir he intends to make his bride.

The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells’ novel dropped at life within the ‘50s stunned and impressed many at the time and, of course, went on to be hugely influential to the film industry at large. It also went on to win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

What’s out there on Hulu on November 2?

Prospect – Pedro Pascal, Sophie Thatcher, and Jay Duplass star on this off-Earth drama about individuals who have to mine for a particular gem to afford to stay. Back in 2018 we known as it a “space Western that should satisfy all your dirty sci-fi cravings.” How’s that for a pitch?

What’s out there on Hulu on November 5?

Animaniacs: Complete Season 2 – We didn’t love season one of the revamped animated collection however for individuals who did, you’ll be blissful to know you may watch extra quickly.

What’s out there on Hulu on November 14?

Star Trek Into Darkness – Yeah. The one with fake-Khan… if that’s your factor.

What’s out there on Hulu on November 15?

Deadpool, Deadpool 2 – Though Fox’s X-Men films performed a big function in laying the groundwork for our trendy superhero leisure panorama, Deadpool—of all characters—has ended up changing into the final residing chunk of the outdated movie studio’s Marvel legacy. The Deadpool films streaming on Hulu reasonably than Disney+ speaks to the truth that the foul-mouthed character isn’t, you recognize, technically a correct a part of the MCU household simply but, but it surely’s solely a matter of time.

What’s out there on Hulu on November 17?

Marvel’s Hit Monkey Season 1 – When a wild monkey witnesses its total tribe being murdered by a bunch of human assassins, it has the choice to simply run away and transfer on with its life, however on the insistence of the ghost of a benevolent human, the monkey decides to take up a gun himself in an effort to hunt down revenge in opposition to those that wronged him.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows – The second movie within the maligned (and seemingly now very lifeless) live-action/CG reboot of the venerable pizza-loving ninja turtles pairs Shredder up with beloved villains Baxter Stockman, Bebop, and Rocksteady because of the lethal mutagenic virus that may rework folks into animal hybrids.

What’s out there on Hulu on November 18?

Mandibles – When mates Manu (Grégoire Ludig) and Jean-Gab (David Marsais) uncover a home fly the dimensions of a small canine simply… chilling within the trunk of their automotive, as a substitute of doing the smart factor—setting the automotive on hearth—they elect to undertake it as a pet, considering they may be capable to make some fast money off of it by some means. (Nope.)

What’s out there on Hulu on November 30?

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Timur Bekmambetov’s adaptation of the novel of the identical identify didn’t please many, however should you’re within the temper for one thing bizarre, give it a shot. Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Rufus Sewell star.