Appointment Pet Dogs; Prey.
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Another week, another handful of television and motion picture choices for y’ all. It >’s a light one, but we’ll just call it quality > quantity. The choices below may vary from excellence to trashy enjoyable, but that’s simply how we like to invest our weekends, no? There’s David Leitch’s Bullet Train, and, to be fair, I’m mostly recommending this because Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry’s beautifully funny chemistry is a surprising reward to see. Oh, and I can not forget that it’s Bad Bunny’s sexy and poised film launching. (You know that’ll get some butts in the theater seats.) And there are even more fresh and amazing choices, like a new season of Appointment Dogs (charm!) and the launching of a brand-new Predator movie. Here are the picks:
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Readily available to stream on Hulu.
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Readily available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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Available to stream on Hulu.
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Offered to stream on Netflix.
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Also! Read our streaming recommendations from the weekend of July 29. Vulture’s next list of weekend streaming picks goes online on Friday, August 12.
Source: https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/what-to-watch-this-weekend-best-movies-tv-august-5-7.html