Donald Glover and Rihanna's new movie to stream for free this weekend on Amazon and Twitch
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Earlier this week, we wrote about the initial streaming plans for Donald Glover’s new movie Guava Island, which the Childish Gambino alter-ego intends to debut at Coachella this weekend via YouTube. Now, Amazon Studios—which picked up Glover’s film, which co-stars Rihanna, and was directed by Hiro Murai, a few months ago—is giving the movie an even stronger promotional push, announcing that it’ll be streaming for free for everybody throughout this upcoming weekend on Amazon Prime. (And on Twitch, to boot, in case you prefer your corporate conglomerate streaming options to have a more hip, youthful aesthetic.)
The studio also gave us our first tease of what the film—shot in Cuba over the course of four very fast weeks—actually looks like. Watching the teaser, it’s still pretty hard to tease out what Guava Island is actually about, though. Certainly, Glover and Rihanna are both present, as is an island itself. No guavas are in evidence. At one point, we see a bird.
Still, Murai and Glover have produced some pretty fantastic work in recent years—including some of the most memorable episodes of Atlanta, and the fascinating video for “This Is America”—so it’s pretty hard to write them off at this point, extant guavas or no. You can check out the film, starting at 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday, for free via a special landing site Amazon built for the event.
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Instead of bad gal rih rih, couldn’t they have done it with a good gal actor?
She held her own in Ocean’s 8 I thought. It wasn’t “Janelle Monae in Moonlight” levels of amazing, but she was fine.
This type of movie might play to her strengths as a character more like herself and naturalistic acting though, and like B Town said, she wasn’t bad in Ocean’s 8, and I thought she was good in Valerian. I think Battleship probably just wasn’t a good fit for her.
is this about what happened to Troy after he and LeVar Burton were captured by pirates? Because honestly either way i’m going to watch it as if it is.
Since this article didn’t make it clear, if you have Amazon Prime, you can watch it this weekend or any time afterward. If you don’t have Amazon Prime, you can watch it for free this weekend only, not after.
Ah, the AV Club. Come for the articles, stay for the comments clarifying information that is missing, misstated, or misspelled in the articles.
I’m gonna watch it because I’ll watch pretty much anything Donald Glover is in, I don’t have amazingly high hopes for Rihanna’s acting though.
I know it’s released at midnight but…it looks like they are releasing it against people watching Coachella live (broadcast live)? Or are they like screening it at Coachella too?
I think Glover is remarkably talented. This movie doesn’t look very good though. I plan on being wrong though.