This Week in Streaming (March 11th)

Heretic (Max) Hugh Grant deserved a lot more awards buzz for his turn as a sadistic atheist who entraps two Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) in his house of horrors to punish them for their belief in A24’s fall horror hit. Somehow, the film succeeds at treating Mormonism even handedly and calling out the the worst tendencies of armchair secular humanism while remaining tense as all heck. It’s a shame this wasn’t out when we published our thoughts on horror’s religious turn last summer. 

Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+) Marvel reboots its signature TV series about a blind lawyer who moonlights as a Hell’s Kitchen vigilante to promising results by favoring premium cable character development and making audiences work for the shock and awe. 

Sideways (Hulu)  Twenty years on, Alexander Payne wine country buddy comedy about a loser high school teacher with literary ambitions (Paul Giamatti) and a fading soap star (Thomas Hayden Church) remains as visceral and hilarious as ever. Millennials will enjoy the arthouse nostalgia until their realization that they are the same age as these dudes now may send them into a spiral.