It’s May -- the flowers are in bloom, you and your friends are gathering around the maypole and galvanting in nature. But when rain clouds flood the sky and the nights get chilly (or you’re just tired from all that time in nature), FilmRise has got the goods with our May programming!
This month, we’ve got some great marathons on deck, including Creature Feature Weekend, a showcase of our best otherworldly creatures-with-a-vengeance. Titles include Tobe Hooper’s CROCODILE, Steve Guttenberg in LAVALANTULA, and more monsters than you can shake a stick at. We’ve also got a Mother’s Day Marathon, including titles that star on-screen moms Gillian Anderson, Christina Hendricks, Cybill Shepherd and many others.
We’re also celebrating AAPI Heritage Month with a themed marathon, including titles such as the popular MEET THE PATELS and the Oscar-nominated WHALE RIDER. We’ve got a Spring Into Action marathon, featuring a Nic Cage-heavy line-up of the craziest action movies we could find, including Cage in Werner Herzog’s BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, Woody Harrelson in Oren Moverman’s RAMPART and so much more.
Last but certainly not least we’ve got a space-centric marathon of one of our tentpole shows: Unsolved Mysteries: Space Cases. Binge strange cases of UFOs and alien abductions with Robert Stack! And like every month, we’ve got our Full Moon Madness marathon timed to this month’s Full Moon, with all-things werewolf.
Full Program Info is Included Below!
Editor's Note 🍁 for viewers in Canada: Although many of the titles and live channels mentioned in this article may only be available in the US, be sure to check out the FilmRise app, The Roku Channel*, and Tubi TV in Canada and make your own FilmRise Movie Night Marathon!
*FilmRise Free Movies, FilmRise Classic TV, and FilmRise True Crime live TV channels are available via The Roku Channel in 🍁 Canada.
Creature Feature Weekend on FilmRise Sci-Fi (5/1 - 5/2)
Available to stream for free on The Roku Channel, Redbox Free Live TV, Samsung TV Plus and VIZIO Free Channels
Watch unsuspecting humans fight for their lives against monster spiders, colossal crocodiles, alarming alien invaders and more — all weekend long.
Title Include:
CROCODILE (2000, Dir. Tobe Hooper) A group of college friends are attacked by a giant man-eating crocodile while on spring break.
GLASS TRAP (2005, Ed Raymond) When an army of radioactive ants are unknowingly carted into a skyscraper, a group of people have to find a way out before they're eaten one by one. Starring C. Thomas Howell.
LAVALANTULA (2015, Dir. Mike Mendez) Volcanic eruptions in Los Angeles unleash a swarm of gigantic, lava-breathing tarantulas. Starring Steve Guttenberg.
SPIDERS 3D (2013, Tibor Takacs) After a Soviet space station crashes into a New York City subway tunnel, a species of venomous spiders is discovered, and soon they mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the city.
“Unsolved Mysteries” Space Cases on the Unsolved Mysteries Channel (5/8 - 5/9)
Available to stream for free on The Roku Channel 🍁, IMDb TV, Redbox Free Live TV
Is the truth really out there? Binge strange cases of UFOs and alien abductions on Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack. Featuring The Allagash Abductions; The Kazakhstan UFO; Roswell Crash and Area 51.
Mother's Day Marathon on FilmRise Free Movies (5/8 - 5/9)
Streaming for free on The Roku Channel 🍁, IMDb TV, Redbox Free Live TV, Xumo, Samsung TV Plus, VIZIO Free Channels and TiVO+
Our big-screen tribute to mothers and motherhood, starring Christina Hendricks, Cobie Smulders, Gillian Anderson and more.
Titles Include:
EGG (2018, Dir. Marianna Palka) Centers on conceptual artist Tina, when she introduces her eight-month pregnant art school rival to her non-traditional surrogate Kiki. The truth comes out and the patriarchy fights to hang on. Starring Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Alysia Reiner (“Orange is the New Black”), and Anna Camp (PITCH PERFECT)
MARINE LIFE (2000, Dir. Anne Wheeler) Marine Life revolves around the chaotic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Starring Cybill Shepherd.
THE MIGHTY CELT (2005, Dir. Pearse Elliott) In this tender coming-of-age story, a young boy from a broken home learns the harsh realities of life after adopting an awkward greyhound and befriending a mysterious figure from his mother's past. Starring Gillian Anderson and Robert Carlyle.
MY OTHER MOTHER (2014, Dir. Stan Foster) When gruff and independent Candy meets her angry and stubborn birth mother, can the two open their hearts to each other? Starring Lynn Whitfield (EVE’S BAYOU), Jasmine Guy (“A Different World”).
AAPI Heritage Month Marathon on FilmRise Free Movies (5/15-5/16, 5/22-5/23)
Available to stream for free on The Roku Channel 🍁, IMDb TV, Redbox Free Live TV, XUMO, Samsung TV Plus, VIZIO Free Channels and TiVO+
Celebrate the rich history and cultural contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders everywhere. Featuring inspiring dramas like Whale Rider and in-depth documentaries like Bad Rap, starring Awkwafina.
Titles include:
BAD RAP (2015, Dir. Salima Koroma) Four Asian-American rappers run into tough obstacles as they try to make it big in Hip Hop, a genre rooted in black culture. Featuring Awkwafina.
GAMECHANGERS: DREAMS OF BLIZZCON (2018, John Keating) In 1998 a single video game forever changed the world. The game was StarCraft. It would go on to become the foundation of esports (electronic sports) and the force behind the online streaming medium Twitch.
MEET THE PATELS (2014, Dirs. Geeta V. Patel, Ravi Patel) An Indian-American man who is about to turn 30 gets help from his parents and extended family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way.
WHALE RIDER (2000, Dir. Niki Caro) A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. Starring Oscar-nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes.
Full Moon Madness on FilmRise Horror (5/26-5/27)
Available to stream for free on VIZIO Free Channels
Now airing under every full moon: Celebrate this month’s full moon with the scariest and hairiest werewolves ever seen on screen.
Titles Include:
GINGER SNAPS (2000, Dir. John Fawcett) Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
BEING HUMAN (Season 1, UK) A werewolf, a vampire and a ghost try to live together and get along.
HOWL (2015, Dir. Paul Hyett) When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
HOWLING III (1987, Dir. Phillipe Mora) A female werewolf runs away from her family, and falls in love with a man who works in the movie business, while a sociologist who studies these creatures is looking for proof of their existence.
Spring Into Action Marathon (All Weekend 5/29-5/30)
Available to stream for free on The Roku Channel and VIZIO Free Channels.
Bring on the heat with some of the most explosive action movies ever made. Featuring Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and more.
Titles Include:
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009, Dir. Werner Herzog) Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants. Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Xzibit.
BIG NOTHING (2006, Dir. Jean-Baptiste Andrea) A frustrated, unemployed professor joins forces with a scammer and a friend of his in a blackmailing scheme. Starring Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer.
RAMPART (2011, Dir. Oren Moverman) Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival. Starring Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Jon Bernthal.
STOLEN (2012, Dir. Simon West) A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi. Starring Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas.
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