This Week in Streaming (May 27th)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Novocaine (Paramount+) Jack Quaid stars as a mild-mannered bank branch assistant manager who goes HAM on the gang that took his crush hostage after a botched robbery. Thing is, he has a disability that prevents him from feeling pain. A hilarious, well-written jolt of action comedy about getting past the beta life.
Motorheads (Prime) Former 90s teen movie staple Ryan Phillippe is the father figure and former NASCAR flame-out who gives some Trump Country high schoolers the drag racing bug in the type of soapy teen drama the kids need at the moment.
Smokey and the Bandit (Netflix) No movie kicks off a Southern summer better than Burt Reynolds’s iconic turn as a Trans-Am driving roadman who bets he can bootleg some Coors across state lines from Texas to Georgia in 28 hours. I‘d bet no one on Metro Council has ever seen it.