Dungeons & Dragons, Cocaine Bear, Scream VI and other blockbusters on Showmax this October

24th Oct 2023 | Source: Showmax

<div><em>Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves; Scream VI; Cocaine Bear; Plane; Honk For Jesus; Save Your Soul</em></div>

<div><strong>DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Get out the popcorn for the 19th biggest box office hit of 2023 so far! </span><em>Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> brings the tabletop role-playing game to life with a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers on an epic quest. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed and co-written by the BAFTA-nominated team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (</span><em>Spider-Man: Homecoming</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">has a 91% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes, </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">with </span><em>IndieWire</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> predicting, "The heartfelt story, enchanting characters, dazzling visual effects, and fun-filled nature will [make it] a treasured classic."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Emmy nominee Chris Pine (</span><em>Wonder Woman</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s Steve Trevor, and Kirk in the </span><em>Star Trek</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> movies) leads the cast as thieving bard Edgin Darvis. Also look out for six-time Teen Choice nominee Michelle Rodriguez (Letty in the </span><em>Fast & Furious</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> movies), Black Reel nominee Justice Smith (Tim in </span><em>Pokémon: Detective Pikachu</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), MTV Movie Award winner Sophia Lillis (Sydney in </span><em>I Am Not Okay With This</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, Beverly in </span><em>It</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Emmy nominee Regé-Jean Page (Simon Basset in </span><em>Bridgerton</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and BAFTA winner Hugh Grant (the dastardly Phoenix Buchanan in </span><em>Paddington 2</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), not to mention a cameo from nine-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (the voice of Rocket in the </span><em>Guardians of the Galaxy</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Avengers</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> movies).</span></div>

<div><strong>COCAINE BEAR</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Inspired by the true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, </span><em>Cocaine Bear</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging on a Georgia forest where a 230-kilogram apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for blow ... and blood. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by Emmy-nominated actor and filmmaker Elizabeth Banks (</span><em>Charlie's Angels</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Pitch Perfect 2</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and produced by Oscar winners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (</span><em>Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Lego Movie</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), </span><em>Cocaine Bear </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">was nominated for two 2023 MTV Movie Awards – Most Frightened Performance for Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell in </span><em>Modern Family</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Best Villain... for The Bear. </span><em>Chicago Sun-Times</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it a "wildly entertaining and darkly hilarious B-movie blood-fest." It's the 36th biggest box office hit globally in 2023 so far. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Also look out for the likes of Emmy winners Margo Martindale (</span><em>The Americans</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Mrs. America</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Matthew Rhys (</span><em>Perry Mason</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Americans</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and the late Ray Liotta (</span><em>The Many Saints of Newark</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>GoodFellas</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), to whom the film is dedicated, as well as Emmy nominee Keri Russell (</span><em>The Americans</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Diplomat</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Black Reel nominees Isiah Whitlock Jr. (</span><em>BlacKkKlansman</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Da 5 Bloods</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and O'Shea Jackson Jr. (</span><em>Straight Outta Compton</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Obi-Wan Kenobi</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), Teen Choice nominee Alden Ehrenreich (</span><em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and Kristofer Hivju (Tormund Giantsbane in </span><em>Game of Thrones</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">).</span></div>

<div><strong>PLANE </strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><em>Plane</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> stars MTV Movie Award winner Gerard Butler (</span><em>Last Seen Alive</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Greenland</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Angel Has Fallen</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>300</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as pilot Brodie Torrance, who is forced to make a risky emergency landing on a war-torn island during a terrible storm. But surviving the landing was just the beginning: when they encounter dangerous rebels, the only passenger Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, a fugitive being extradited by the FBI.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Critics Choice and Black Reel nominee Mike Colter (Marvel's </span><em>Luke Cage</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, Lemond Bishop in </span><em>The Good Wife</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-stars as Gaspare. Also look out for Nigerian Remi Adeleke, a real-life Navy SEAL. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The 42nd highest grossing movie of this year so far, </span><em>Financial Times</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls </span><em>Plane</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, "an adrenaline-pumping banger"; </span><em>The Ringer </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">says, "They just don't make 'em like this anymore"; and </span><em>Time Out</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it, "Brisk, easy, brutish. It has explosions, punch-ups, shoot-outs and more than one bit where someone gets smacked in the face with a big hammer. How much more could you reasonably ask? It's a blast."</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Colter is already lined up to star in the equally gloriously named sequel, called ... wait for it ... </span><em>Ship.</em></div>

<div><strong>LOVE TO LOVE YOU, DONNA SUMMER</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color:#333333; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">| Stream now</span></div>

<div><em>Love to Love You, Donna Summer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> is a deeply personal portrait of the Queen of Disco. </span><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The singer and songwriter of a string of anthemic hits like "Hot stuff", "I Feel Love", and "She Works Hard For the Money", Donna Summer was an Oscar and five-time Grammy Award winner whose </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">voice legendary producer Quincy Jones has called, "the heartbeat and soundtrack of a generation". She was also </span><span style="color:#202122; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">the first Black woman to be nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Directed by Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (</span><em>God Loves Uganda</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Life, Animated</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and Donna Summer's daughter Brooklyn Sudano, the HBO documentary film explores the highs and lows of fame, offering an intimate glimpse into the artist's life, both on and off stage. The film </span><span style="color:#2a2c32; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">features extensive photographs and never-before-seen home video footage, as well as interviews with Summer's family, friends and colleagues.</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The film has an 81% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, where the critics' consensus says: "An enigmatic documentary about an equally enigmatic singer, </span><em>Love to Love You, Donna Summer</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s got you covered from disco to soul."</span></div>

<div><em>Love to Love You, Donna Summer</em><em> </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">was nominated for the 2023 Black Reel Award for Outstanding Documentary, having screened at SXSW and Berlin. </span></div>

<div><strong>COMING SOON</strong></div>

<div><strong>SCREAM VI</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from Monday, 30 October </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Named Best Movie of 2023 at the MTV Movie Awards, </span><em>Scream VI</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> brings us a Ghostface unlike any other, just in time for Halloween.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Following the Woodsboro Legacy Murders, the four survivors set out to start a fresh chapter in New York, only to find a new Ghostface killer is targeting them in the big city.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">From the team that brought us 2022's </span><a href="https://usw2.nyl.as/t1/211/9qaxu20k6su5tcajmu0chbx0s/5/f70cf0401e991e97a2eab08feb0b220c334fdd2833831bbf3cd113984bbe3f69" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank"><em>Scream</em></a><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Scream VI </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">is the 23rd biggest global box office hit of the year so far. It won Best Fight at the MTV Movie Awards for franchise alum (and Emmy-nominated </span><em>Friends</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> star) Courteney Cox, and nabbed a nomination for Best Song for Demi Lovato's </span><em>Still Alive</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </span><em>AV Club</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> says it's "one of the franchise's best (and most brutal) sequels", while </span><em>Independent (UK)</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> calls it "wholly satisfying and ridiculously fun," giving it a 4/5-star rating. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Returning as the "core four" are 2022 </span><em>IMDb</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> STARmeter Fan Favorite Award Winner Melissa Barrera (</span><em>In the Heights</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">' Vanessa) as Sam, Emmy nominee Jenna Ortega (aka Wednesday Addams) as Tara, GALECA and Queerty nominee Jasmin Savoy Brown (Taissa in </span><em>Yellowjackets</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Mindy, and Mason Gooding (yep, that's Cuba Gooding Jr. junior, and Andrew in </span><em>Love, Victor</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) as Chad. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Teen Choice Award winner Hayden "Save-the-cheerleader" Panettiere (</span><em>Heroes</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Nashville</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) returns as Kirby Reed, with award winner Roger Jackson reprising "The Voice". New faces among the cast include Fright Meter Award winner and rising scream queen Samara Weaving (</span><em>Ready or Not</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Babysitter: Killer Queen</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Chevalier</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) and MTV Movie Award nominee Dermot Mulroney (</span><em>Secret Invasion</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>The Purge</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> series). Also look out for cameos from franchise alums Skeet Ulrich and Jack Quaid.</span></div>

<div><strong>HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL.</strong><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> | Stream from Thursday, 26 October</span></div>

<div><em>Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> stars 10-time Black Reel nominee Regina Hall (</span><em>The Best Man: The Final Chapters</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Girls Trip</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), and three-time Emmy winner Sterling K Brown (Randall Pearson in </span><em>This Is Us</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> and </span><em>Black Panther</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">'s N'Jobu) as Trinitie and Lee-Curtis Childs, a mega-church power couple determined to rebuild their congregation in the aftermath of a huge scandal.</span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The mockumentary-style satirical comedy had its world premiere at Sundance and was nominated for seven Black Reel Awards this year, including Outstanding Actor (Brown), Actress (Hall) and Ensemble, as well as Outstanding Independent Film, Emerging Director and First Screenplay for writer-director Adamma Ebo (</span><em>Swarm</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><em>Atlanta</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">), who won the Rising Star Award at the Black Film Critics Circle Awards. </span></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Teen Choice and Black Reel Award nominee Nicole Beharie (</span><a href="https://usw2.nyl.as/t1/211/9qaxu20k6su5tcajmu0chbx0s/7/dd958b7ee21a7c508c803314d855c16b56ddd119e5a8ecc67956cf367e73d9fb" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank"><em>Breaking</em></a><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, </span><a href="https://usw2.nyl.as/t1/211/9qaxu20k6su5tcajmu0chbx0s/8/db8ed28edf7ce7901c9fbc3c2c11b22e87df6dc742f506ff3b7ed4ec81f515b2" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank"><em>Miss Juneteenth</em></a><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">) co-stars, along with Nigerian actor Conphidance (</span><em>Little America</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">). Oscar winners Daniel Kaluuya and Jordan Peele are among the producers and executive producers, respectively. </span></div>

<div><em>IndieWire</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> praises Hall and Brown for "doing predictably divine work (do these two performers know any other way?)", calling the film "</span><span style="color:#282828; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a biting send-up straight from heaven.. </span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a winning combination of the divine and the horrific... equal parts hilarious and painful."</span></div>

<div><strong>EVERYTHING ON SHOWMAX IN OCTOBER 2023</strong></div>

<div><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To see everything on Showmax in October 2023, including the Showmax Originals </span><em>Boetie Boer: Inside The Mind of A Monster; </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">the White House-set </span><em>Chucky S3; </em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and </span><em>Yellowstone</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> prequel </span><em>1923</em><span style="color:#000000; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, click </span><a href="https://usw2.nyl.as/t1/211/9qaxu20k6su5tcajmu0chbx0s/9/73aae4dcde74a8c2496f5170de1aabc91eb3b4bd53e11e9603ed335fb6373cb8" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color:#212121; font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.</span></div>