It’s letting guest curators like Barry Jenkins, Guillermo del Toro, or Mira Nair take you on an adventure in moviegoing—or setting out on one of your own! Hulu. And yet, specialized streaming services have been proliferating like cinematic universes and NBC’s There have never been more options for streaming — and making sense of where to do that has never been more overwhelming. With no ads. A previous version of this story misstated the name.DramaFever was acquired by Warner Bros. in 2016. IndieFlix. Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection. Watch now on desktop and mobile web browsers or through apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Roku, iOS, and Android devices. Wherever you are. Yaddo (£3.99 a month; worldwide) An all-documentary network that can be viewed anywhere in the world.
Sony is the rare exception, launching this free, ad-supported movies and TV service in 2007 that leans heavily on male-skewing content. Start your free 7 day trial, now. Features current and past episodes of TV shows. A new film every day. A movie lover’s dream, the Criterion Channel offers classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection. Confusing things further, Amazon has started offering several of these streaming services separately from their respective discrete apps via its Amazon Channels option.To help make sense of it all, here is a small sampling of services available within the current streaming landscape, along with how much they cost and what devices you need to watch them. It's spotlighted series on directors, stars, genres, and themes. Watch truly great cinema. 30 hand-picked, award-winning films every month. Soon enough, all three also began streaming original content, which has gone on to win Emmys and Oscars and lead crucial national conversations about All of that would provide enough #content — delivered through a sprawling technological ecosystem of tablet apps, set-top boxes, smart TVs, and USB sticks — for several lifetimes. (Also consider the British Film Institute’s streaming service, BFI Player.) From art-house movies to British TV to anime and Bollywood, here is a sampling of the expansive world of (legal) online streaming.
Streams on … (Note: While some of these services are available outside of the US, all viewing and pricing options listed here are for their US versions only. Last updated on June 29, 2017, at 3:39 p.m. Michael Bay's.Like Amazon and Netflix, Mubi has also moved into limited theatrical distribution for a highly limited number of films, most recently the Cannes prize-winner There are also a handful of TV shows, like the '80s horror anthology There are currently just 10 TV series available on UMC, but one of them is the first season of the indelible reality show Not surprisingly, Feeln is the exclusive streaming home for the storied Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series, and it also features some exclusive short-form series like The film selection is smaller — roughly 50 in any given month — and largely showcases actors' earlier work, like David Oyelowo in the 2013 crime thriller Acorn is also beginning to back original productions, like the six-part crime drama For Funimation: Some content is free with ads; $5.99/month or $59.99/year, for two concurrent streams; and an additional $1.99/month for three additional concurrent streamsFor Funimation: Desktop, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Kindle Fire, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360Altogether, there are over 1,700 series and 750 movies available across all of VRV’s services.The most unusual section is titled Chill Out, which is attempting to expand the meaning of its name: There’s the Eye Candy channel that features women in various states of undress; the Man Up channel that promises the programming equivalent to “a roundhouse kick to the head”; The High Channel (i.e., THC), content self-explanatory; and the Slow TV channel, which includes a feed from the front of a Norwegian rail line.Additionally, Go90 has a ton of sports: There are over 25,000 hours available a year of football, basketball, and soccer.Amazon's selection of streaming services is called Amazon Channels. Criterion's editions of Wes Anderson's filmography, or (alas?) It’s our 15-minute-a-month film school, Observations on Film Art, or the Tuesday Short + Feature and the Friday double bill. Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion CollectionEnjoy continuous access to Criterion’s streaming library of more than 1,000 important classic and contemporary films, plus a constantly refreshed selection of Hollywood, international, art-house, and independent films from major studios and dozens of independent distributors. A previous version of this story misstated the year.Looks like your browser doesn't support JavaScript. While just about every TV network has its own streaming portal, very few movie studios have followed suit, preferring instead to use established ones like Netflix, and VOD options like Vudu. )Crackle also includes a growing assortment of original series, including Without the participation of most major US networks, the TV options are more rarefied, emphasizing British options like About once a quarter, Fandor will also offer original scripted and nonscripted series to US audiences, including For an additional fee, subscribers can also access most of the 1,100-plus films in the Criterion Collection — though not (alas!)
Universal search sites like Yidio and GoWatchIt don't cover many of these services. It's been 10 years since Netflix first opened our eyes to the world of streaming movies and TV shows directly to our computers. ET Ever.
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