In interviews about his smash horror hit Get Out earlier this year, Jordan Peele cited the 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead as one of his biggest influences. The movie of the week for July 23 through 29 is Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is available to stream on Amazon Prime or digitally rent on YouTube, Amazon, Vudu, iTunes, and Google Play. What you can count on is a weekend watch that sheds new light on the week that was. Old, new, blockbuster, arthouse: They’re all fair game. Every weekend, we pick a movie you can stream that dovetails with current events.
