With so much competing media, it can be easy to miss the latest movie rentals on iTunes and other digital stores when they arrive. AppSpy is here to help.
Netflix and Amazon Video are all well and good, but when it comes to watching the latest films mere months after they leave the cinemas, you still can't beat a good digital rental.
This week, we've got angry superheros, supernatural mysteries, biting satire, and some good old-fashioned family fun involving talking animals.
Do you want to see the two biggest superheroes of all time punching each other in the face repeatedly? Your raised nose and furrowed brow may say no, but your inner 12-year-old is screaming yes. Batman v Superman may be stupid, overwrought, and a bit rubbish, but it features Batman and Superman smacking each other around on the way to becoming best superbuds. Enjoy.
This twisty-turny drama sees Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character waking up in a bunker after a car crash, with John Goodman's big crazy telling here that there's been some kind of apocalyptic event on the surface. Is he telling the truth? Just what in blazes is going on here? And what is the film's relation to the original Cloverfield, which was also made by JJ Abrams's Bad Robot productions?
Tom Hiddleston stars in this effective adaptation of the 1975 J.G. Ballard novel about a huge luxury tower block that appears to cut its richer tenants off from the concerns of the outside world. Needless to say, it all goes to hell, and a number of stinging and oh-so-timely social points are made along the way.
If you likes your horror films to have more depth than schlock, then The Witch should be right up your street. It follows a 17th century New England family who are banished from their Puritan community. Setting up home near a creepy forest, things soon begin to go wrong as their youngest child goes missing.
Based on the true story of Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky's five-day road trip with literary wunderkind David Foster Wallace, The End of the Tour manages to do an awful lot with what essentially amounts to a pair of writers (played by Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel, respectively) sitting around and talking a lot.
Who says that Pixar makes all the best CGI films? Disney's Zootropolis (also known as Zootopia) tells a funny tale of two cops - who also happen to be a rabbit and a fox - solving a case together. Like all the best kiddie films, it works well on multiple levels, so adults will appreciate the smartly jokes and topical message while the kids enjoy the talking animals doing silly stuff.
