Thompson on Hollywood: Your Week in Streaming: A Bad Teacher, Zac Efron in Tighty Whities, Pasolini's Marxist Jesus and More

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Your Week in Streaming: A Bad Teacher, Zac Efron in Tighty Whities, Pasolini's Marxist Jesus and More Aug 26th 2013, 21:30, by Ryan Lattanzio As you suffer the excruciating seven days until the next episode of "Breaking Bad" -- and the ramp-up to fall festivals -- here's a roundup of solid movies new and old now streaming on VOD to ease the pain. Trailers for all after the jump. "A Teacher" (2013) Dir. Hannah Fidell iTunes, Amazon My number one pick for the week. Hannah Fidell's moody psychological drama "A Teacher," about a high school English teacher caught in a torrid affair with her 17-year-old student, announces the arrival of a bold new talent. Rather than dramatizing a tabloid scandal, this is an intimate, tres European, two-character piece free of easy moralism that ranks among the best debuts in recent memory. Lindsay Burdge's furiously internalized performance as the bad teacher in question is a thrill to behold and so convincing that we understand, at all times and in so few words, what she's feeling and why she might be attracted to this teenage boy. An early subplot about mommy issues is suggestively... Media files: a-teacher.jpg (image/jpeg)

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