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    6 best movies, podcasts, and TV shows to stream in Houston this weekend

    Craig Lindsey
    Jun 11, 2020 | 4:32 pm
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    SNL's Pete Davidson stars in The King of Staten Island.
    Photo courtesy of Universal

    While there are plenty of reasons to venture out this weekend — including a new drive-in movie series — some of us still loving staying at home to Netflix and, well, you know. If you’re staying inside this weekend, here is another one of our streaming rundowns.

    Look for great new Spike Lee joint, a Saturday Night Live star's cinematic debut, and some edgy family TV fun.

    Movies

    Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)
    The latest movie from iconic filmmaker Spike Lee is, once again, another raw and thought-provoking one. Four Vietnam War vets (Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., and Norm Lewis) travel back to the land to track down the trunk full of gold they found and buried with their late squad leader (Chadwick Boseman). But since this is a Spike Lee joint, expect this film to comment on so much more. (Streaming on Friday)

    The King of Staten Island (Universal)
    Writer/director Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Trainwreck) once again gives a comedian a chance to shine in his very own movie. This time around, it’s Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson, who stars in this semi-autobiographical story of a Staten Island ne’er-do-well who finds he has to get his life together once his widowed mother (Marisa Tomei) starts dating another guy (Bill Burr). (Available for rent on Friday)

    Podcasts

    Double Threat (Forever Dog)
    Tom Scharpling, the eternally cranky host of the long-running podcast The Best Show, has unfortunately put that show on hold for the moment. Thankfully, he’s got this new podcast going, where he has joined forces with longtime guest Julie Klausner (who has a long-running podcast of her own, called How Was Your Week?). Each week, the pair just go off on what’s been going on in the world — specifically, the worst of what’s going in the world.

    Werewolf Ambulance (self-distributed)
    There are so many horror-movie podcasts out there, with hosts ready to give their takes on what’s scary and what’s not. But this one caught our attention mostly because while hosts Allen and Katie will give their thoughts on such classics as The Evil Dead and Poltergeist, they’ve been also known to take weird turns and review movies like You’ve Got Mail, Bring It On and Weekend at Bernie’s. Yeah, it’s definitely our kind of horror podcast.

    Television

    Crossing Swords (Hulu)
    A couple of Robot Chicken producers are behind this deliriously twisted, stop-motion-animated, medieval spoof. Nicholas Hoult voices a peasant who becomes a squire at a royal castle and soon discovers just how messed up this kingdom can be. Luke Evans, Adam Pally and Tony Hale are some of the other voices on this show, which can best be described as Game of Thrones— but if it was on that stuff. (Premiering on Friday)

    F is for Family (Netflix)
    While you can see comedian Bill Burr in The King of Staten Island this weekend, you can also hear him in the fourth season of this foul-mouthed, animated sitcom he co-created. He once again assumes the role of Frank Murphy, the continually frustrated patriarch of a heavily-dysfunctional, suburban family, circa the 1970s. He’s even more frustrated now that his wife (Laura Dern) has another bun in the oven. (Premiering on Friday)

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    Movie Review

    Final Destination: Bloodlines reboots cult favorite horror franchise

    Alex Bentley
    May 15, 2025 | 4:30 pm
    Kaitlyn Santa Juana in Final Destination: Bloodlines
    Photo by Eric Milner
    Kaitlyn Santa Juana in Final Destination: Bloodlines.

    On the surface, the Final Destination films really shouldn’t work. There is no villain other than the concept of death itself, and nearly every death that occurs is foreshadowed so heavily that it removes the normal suspense that comes in horror films. And yet the franchise was successful enough to spawn five films over 11 years in the early 2000s, and now a reboot, Final Destination: Bloodlines.

    A fantastic opening sequence set in the 1960s sets both the tone and the plot of the film, in which Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) has a recurring nightmare about a disaster that her grandmother, Iris (Gabrielle Rose), helped to avert. A visit to the reclusive Iris convinces Stefani that she and her family should not exist, and that each one of them is destined to meet a grisly end in the near future.

    Met with resistance from her family members, Kaitlyn is unsurprisingly proven right as the film goes along, with different people dying in a variety of bizarre ways. A visit to William Bludworth (the late Tony Todd), a mortician who’s been the one constant in the series, provides a glimmer of hope that they can cheat death. But will they figure it out before it’s too late?

    Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, the film does not try to reinvent the wheel for the concept. The entire point is to get as creative as possible with the death scenes, and the filmmakers take that mandate seriously, with each successive death becoming increasingly gruesome. The Rube Goldberg-like manner in which each death occurs makes the scenes come off as entertaining instead of off-putting.

    The idea of Death hunting down an entire family line due to the actions of the family elder is a solid twist on the series’ central premise, and that change keeps the film from feeling repetitive. The story also introduces the possibility that the entire series is connected due to Iris’ actions, with the character possessing a scrapbook that references well-known incidents from previous films, a fun Easter egg for longtime fans.

    The creativity of the kill sequences does not carry over to the overall story, though. Almost every character in the film only exists in order to meet a horrific end, so anything that they have going on outside of being stalked by Death is purely window dressing. Consequently, it’s hard to really care about anybody, even if they are all related to one another.

    Because characters are so easily dispatched in the film, the cast is devoid of well-known actors. This is by far Santa Juana’s biggest role to date, and she does well enough to want to see more of her in the future. Adults like Alex Zahara and Rya Kihlstedt are character actors who bring some history with them, while the younger group is composed of people still trying to make names for themselves.

    Final Destination: Bloodlines is a solid return for the franchise, even if it feels more like a one-off film rather than a justification for more stories in the future. But given how easily the concept can be adapted into new circumstances, don’t be surprised if another movie pops up in a couple of years.

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    Final Destination: Bloodlines opens in theaters on May 16.

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