If you’re depressed that Halloween is over, don’t fret — Hulu has you covered.
The Disney-owned streamer has a stellar November lineup of hit movies, so much so that it’s hard to pick which ones to watch.
Well, not for Watch With Us. We’ve curated a brief list of 3 under-the-radar Hulu movies you should watch this weekend.
You can’t go wrong if you stream with the historical comedy A Knight’s Tale, the searing drama Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead or the underrated fantasy flick Eragon.
‘A Knight’s Tale’ (2001)
In the late ‘90s, Heath Ledger’s star was ascending thanks to a series of modestly successful teen comedies like 10 Things I Hate About You, but he established himself as a leading man with A Knight’s Tale, a rousing Medieval rom-com that charmed moviegoers in the summer of 2001. Nearly a quarter of a century later, it will charm you, too.
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Ledger stars as William Thatcher, a poor squire who impersonates his very wealthy but very dead master in a jousting tournament to win some badly needed money. To maintain his noble disguise, he teams up with struggling author Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany) to fool the tournament’s organizers and woo Jocelyn (Shannyn Sossamon), a noblewoman who longs to have some fun. But how long can Will’s charade last, especially when his rival, the evil Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell), smells a rat?
Even though it incorporates real historical figures and faithfully recreates 14th-century England, A Knight’s Tale plays fast and loose with facts. When William dances with Jocelyn at a ball, they shake their butts to David Bowie’s “Golden Years” instead of more period-accurate harpsichord music. It’s that kind of anachronistic, free-wheeling spirit that permeates throughout A Knight’s Tale, and makes it as irresistible as Ledger himself.
A Knight’s Tale is streaming on Hulu.
‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ (2007)
Ethan Hawke just gave one of his best performances ever in the biopic Blue Moon, but the Before Sunrise actor has been quietly great for decades. One underrated movie of his you should check out is Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, an ensemble drama featuring some of the best actors of this generation and masterful direction by Sidney Lumet, who would pass away shortly after this movie’s release.
Cash-strapped brothers Hank (Hawke) and Andy (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) concoct a wild scheme to get some much-needed cash — they will rob their parents’ jewelry store in the hope that they can fence the stolen goods and pocket the insurance money. But their best laid plans soon go awry, and a tragedy tears their family apart. As their involvement in the crime threatens to surface, each brother has to deal with the likelihood that they will go to jail — or a fate much worse than that.
Hawke is terrific as the easily swayed Hank, who just wants to win the approval of his big brother, but Hoffman is even better as the son who never felt as loved as his other sibling. That resentment explains a lot of his behavior throughout the film, which borders on the cruel. Albert Finney and Marisa Tomei round out the cast as the patriarch and Andy’s cheating wife, respectively, and they give some of the best performances of their careers. By the end, the movie transforms into a modern-day Greek tragedy, with an emotionally shattering climax that Aeschylus himself could have written.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is streaming on Hulu.
‘Eragon’ (2006)
In the mid-2000s, Harry Potter reigned supreme at the box office, and every studio wanted its own family-friendly fantasy franchise. That explains why Eragon was one of 2006’s most eagerly awaited movies. Based on Christopher Paolini’s successful YA novels, the film ultimately proved a monumental disappointment, and a newly born franchise was cut short before it could truly take flight. Seen nearly 20 years later, the film still has its flaws, but it’s a surprisingly fun adventure story with an impressive cast of Oscar winners and some of the best English character actors around.
When curious farm boy Eragon (Edward Speleers) finds an ancient stone while foraging, he thinks he can trade it for some money. To his surprise, the stone is actually a dragon’s egg that quickly hatches. Eragon raises the dragon, which calls itself Saphira (voiced by Rachel Weisz) and talks to him via a telepathic link with his mind. They quickly become the best of pals, but soon, they’re both hunted by the evil king Galbatorix (John Malkovich), who wants them dead because they threaten his power. Now Eragon must train to battle Galbatorix’s army to save himself, Saphira and all of Alagaesia before it’s too late.
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Sound familiar? That’s because Eragon borrows shamelessly from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and pretty much any fantasy franchise you can think of. Original it is not, but it’s amusing enough to watch if you’re craving something that’s not too challenging. The stacked cast makes it watchable, with Weisz bringing it as the fierce dragon and Malkovich making a meal out of any piece of scenery he can chew on and spit out.
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