Weekend Watchlist, 8/14: Day by Day

Happy Friday, PV Guide readers! I hope you have a great weekend ahead of you.

In case you missed it, check out my review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Here are this week’s picks.

Under the Silver Lake

Where to watch: Streaming for free with ads on Brollie*, or for rental/purchase

The biggest new release this week is David Robert Mitchell’s dino blockbuster The End of Oak Street, about a neighborhood that seemingly gets transported to an era with dinosaurs. I was skeptical about the movie until I saw a trailer in theaters last week, when I immediately got very excited to see it on as big of a screen as possible. Mitchell’s second film, It Follows, has a devoted following (pun intended) and is a fun, scary psychological horror movie anchored by a strong lead performance from Maika Monroe. His follow-up, Under the Silver Lake, got more of a mixed response, but I like the movie quite a lot. It’s the sort of seedy LA neo-noir that used to be more common in Hollywood but has become a bit of an endangered species, about an obsessive young man (Andrew Garfield) who unravels a conspiracy while looking for a beautiful missing neighbor (Riley Keough).

*I had not heard of Brollie either

Sorry, Baby

Where to watch: HBO Max

I’m extremely excited for the release of Jane Schoenbrun’s new movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. You can go a lot of ways with additional programming for this one – one of Schoenbrun’s previous movies (do check out We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow if you haven’t yet), lead Hannah Einbinder’s excellent show Hacks, or even a rewatch of The X-Files for Gillian Anderson (we’ve been rolling through the series ourselves).

But to dig slightly deeper, the movie also features filmmaker/actor Eva Victor in a supporting role, which is a great excuse to watch their excellent debut feature Sorry, Baby. Sorry, Baby follows a young college professor (Victor) after her experience being assaulted by a mentor figure in graduate school. It’s an emotional, funny story about real people dealing with real things, and the ways we keep on living and finding joy and meaning in the face of horrible acts.

Baby Assassins

Where to watch: Free with ads on, like, every free with ads service (Tubi, Pluto, Roku, etc.)

Okay, yes, I know. I’ve definitely recommended you watch this movie before. But have you? 

I’ll take any excuse to recommend watching the Baby Assassins movies, and statistically, I know most of you haven’t watched it. My excuse this week? The new stoner girls comedy The Wrong Girls. Is Baby Assassins a stoner comedy? Not exactly, because weed is still extremely illegal in Japan. But does Baby Assassins feel like a stoner comedy? Absolutely. It’s about two slacker girls who just want to laze about the house eating junk food, playing video games, and catching up on their stories all day, but have to do their jobs as assassins (and their cover jobs so people don’t know they’re assassins). If there’s something more fun than the Baby Assassins series, I haven’t found it yet.