9 new trailers you should check out this week

One of the few minor benefits of the current global mess is that a lot of movies are hitting streaming services and rental platforms earlier than usual: Emma., Forward, and Birds of prey are on that list, among other things.

Another one now streaming early in Hulu is Portrait of a lady on fire, which I caught last weekend. It’s a wonderful film about two women who slowly get closer together over the course of about a week and have to spend them together.

The film revolves around painting, as the title suggests, but the film also does very fascinating things with music. There are three moments in the movie where music plays, and in all three cases you see its origins (a piano, singers, an orchestra) not long before the music starts, if at all. It creates a very strange, unbound feeling. Is this sound really happening or is it part of the score? There’s excitement to just figure it out, and it adds an important, weird element to some particularly crucial scenes.

Watch nine trailers this week below.

Snowpiercer

TNT is running Snowpiercer in a TV series, and so far it seems that it will be as lively and violent as the movie adaptation. I hope it can go a step further, too – the film is ripping through so many ritzier cars off the train, leaving plenty more of this extravagant and divided world for the show to explore. The show debuts on May 17.

Normal people

Hulu has adapted from Sally Rooney’s novel Normal people Shortly. It looks quiet and beautiful and looks more like a movie than a TV series, for whatever that distinction is worth. The show debuts on April 29.

The Innocence Files

Netflix has produced more than a lot of the real crime shows, so it’s nice to see it present a different perspective of the justice system with The Innocence Files, which highlights eight people who have been wrongfully convicted and the effort it takes to get them out. The series will be released on April 15.

Selah and the spades

After getting great reviews from Sundance, this very classy-looking high school drama is about leftovers, drugs, and the difficulties of being a teenager to Amazon. It debuts on April 17.

Chrissy’s Court

Although this show still very much sticks to the rule that every Quibi series should sound like a fake show inside 30 Rock, Chrissy’s Court is a great idea. It will be launched along with Quibi on April 6.

You don’t have these

Lena Waithe is the executive producer of this series on sneaker heads and sneaker culture for Quibi. It’s one of the few Quibi series without a completely ridiculous premise, and it looks like it could just be a legitimately interesting show.

Here we are: Notes for life on Earth

This is purely a cheap children’s title, adapted to a children’s book, but the film is told by Meryl Streep and the animation is downright charming. It’s coming to Apple TV Plus on April 17.

Peninsula

The director behind Train to Busan is back with a sequel to the highly rated zombie movie from 2016. It looks flashy, packed with action and a little more like Mad Max than a traditional zombie movie. There doesn’t seem to be a US release date yet.

50 states of fear

The Quibi trailers are in full swing this week and the service is ready to launch on Monday. One of the more promising series is 50 states of fear, a horror anthology manager produced by Sam Raimi, who is believed to cover urban legends in the US.