This Week in Streaming (October 8th)

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Starz) So many 2024 movies should have been blockbuster hits, but Guy Ritchie’s hyperstylized take on the recently declassified WWII missions of a secret team of criminals and rogues that Churchill handpicked deserved far better than its middling theatrical run last spring. With Ritchie’s trademark machismo ensemble cast that includes Henry Cavill, Henry Golding, Cary Elwes, and Alan Ritchson, it’s the best of its kind since Inglourious Basterds.

The Twilight Zone (Prime and Paramount+) Halloween is the perfect time to revisit Rod Serling’s trailblazing network sci-fi series that used allegory to take on everything from WWII combat trauma to McCarthyism. The gremlin on the plane wing freaking out William Shatner, the aliens invading suburbia, the plastic surgeons with pig snouts—it’s all here. 

Psycho (Netflix) Hitchcock’s most influential film hits America’s #1 streamer just in time for October viewing. More than sixty years after its release, its shock value  still rivals everything made in its wake.