It’s Beast Week on the Great British Baking Sh… er, Evil Sexy Hamlet. First, Andy & Jenna review ‘A Real Pain,’ Jesse Eisenberg’s somber, anxious dramedy about a pair of cousins reckoning with generational trauma (2:15). Then, it’s a hard gear shift to the rest of the week in movies — a wild rogues gallery of monsters (18:56) and men (45:05).
Movies covered in the episode:
A Real Pain (2024) Dir. Jesse Eisenberg
* Now in Theaters
Beauty and the Beast (1946) Dir. Jean Cocteau
* Streaming on Max
Winterbeast (1992) Dir. Christopher Thies
* Streaming on Tubi
Ghoulies II (1988) Dir. Albert Band
* Streaming on PlutoTV
From Russia with Love (1963) Dir. Terence Young
* Streaming on Prime
Lair of the White Worm (1988) Dir. Ken Russell
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) Dir. John Carpenter
* Streaming on Tubi
Gladiator (2000) Dir. Ridley Scott
* Streaming on Paramount+, PlutoTV, Roku Channel
