Peacock Added 91 New Movies Today – Here’s the 5 Best

By Phillip Swann
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Peacock today (August 1, 2024) has added 91 new movies to its lineup. Here’s the five best, in my humble opinion:

Casino (1995)
Director Martin Scorsese’s brilliant cinematic essay on the rise and fall of the Mob-controlled Las Vegas stars Robert De Niro as an obsessive gambler named Ace Rothstein who’s hired to operate a casino. Ace’s master plan is soon derailed by his chorus girl wife (played beautifully by Sharon Stone) and a ruthless sidekick (played deliciously over the top by Joe Pesci.) While some critics chafed that Casino did not measure up to Scorsese’s Goodfellas, the 1995 is an iconic classic on its own.

Do The Right Thing (1989)
Spike Lee’s masterpiece stars the director as a pizza delivery employee who tries to navigate a hot summer day in race-torn Brooklyn. The film still provokes controversy for its brutal characterizations of both white and black Brooklynites but it’s an absorbing and often funny look the deep divide between races and cultures.

Field of Dreams (1989)
This fantasy sports film stars Kevin Costner as a struggling Iowa farmer who’s summoned by the ghosts of the game to build a baseball field on his property. Only prime Costner (or maybe Tom Hanks) could pull this premise off, but it’s a great and tearjerking movie about baseball, family and the power of nostalgia. And you don’t have to be a baseball fan to love this sweet-hearted film.

Moneyball (2011) 
Brad Pitt stars as Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane who uses modern analytics to assemble a playoff team on a shoestring budget. Based on Michael Lewis’ book, the movie glosses over some of the real reasons why the A’s made it to the playoffs (the team had one of the best trio of starters in the game: Tim Hudson, Barry Zito and Mark Mulder) but Pitt wins the day with a real movie star performance. You root for him from beginning to end as he schools the old school crowd.

Mean Girls (2004)
Written by 30 Rock’s Tina Fey, who also plays a teacher here, the 2004 comedy stars Lindsay Lohan as a high school student who befriends a gaggle of popular but bitchy classmates played by Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert. The decision leads to a series of misadventures and backstabbing as well as various plots of revenge. Mean Girls is a funny and smart take on high school life from one of America’s greatest living satirists, Ms. Fey.

Complete List of Movies Added Today to Peacock

50 First Dates*

American Girl*

The Back-up Plan

Battleship

Bee Movie

Beethoven (’92)

Beethoven’s 2nd

The Best Man

The Best Man Holiday

Blair Witch

The Blair Witch Project

Blue Valentine*

The Book of Eli

Book of Shadows: The Blair Witch 2

The Boss*

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Bulletproof

The Cases of Mystery Lane

Casino

Clueless

Couples Retreat

Dear Evan Hansen*

Do the Right Thing

Doom

Exodus: Gods and Kings

F9: The Fast Saga*

Faster*

Field of Dreams

The Fighter

For the Colored Girls*

For the Love of the Game

The Great Outdoors

The Heat

The Help

Hesher

The Hulk

Hustle & Flow

Johnson Family Vacation

Just Go With It

K-9

Kindergarten Cop

King Richard

Knocked Up

Little Fockers

Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade

Madea’s Witness Protection

Major Payne

Man Up

Mean Girls

Meet the Fockers

Meet the Parents

A Midnight Kiss

Moneyball (2011)

Moonrise Kingdom

My Best Friend’s Girl*

Napa Ever After

Old*

The Other Guys

Over the Hedge

The Proposal (2009)

Push

Puss in Boots

R.I.P.D.

Rally Road Racers

Ride Along

Royal New Year’s Eve

Safe*

Self/Less

Sense and Sensibility

Shazam!

Shrek*

Space Jam

Then Came You

Think Like a Man*

Think Like a Man Too*

This is 40

To Her, With Love

Unthinkably Good Things

Waterworld

The Wedding Veil

The Wedding Veil Expectations

The Wedding Veil Inspiration

The Wedding Veil Journey

The Wedding Veil Legacy

The Wedding Veil Unveiled

Wild Oats

Zodiac

*Denotes exclusive to Peacock.

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