Callum Turner's "perfect" thriller with Patrick Stewart lands new UK streaming home

A thriller starring Callum Turner and the late Sir Patrick Stewart is now available to stream. Green Room, which came out in 2015, stars Turner, Anton Yelchin (Only Lovers Left Alive), Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) as a punk band who find themselves at the mercy of neo-Nazi skinheads after witnessing a murder at their performance in a remote club.

The film was written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, and starred Stewart, who passed away recently at age 86, as antagonist Darcy Banker. It was also Yelchin's final film to be released before his death in 2016.

Green Room was recently added to Amazon MGM+, which can be added to Prime Video as a channel and comes with a 7-day free trial.

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Green Room received critical acclaim, earning a critical rating of 90% and an audience score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.

In their review, Globe and Mail wrote that "it's a delightfully cruel work of high tension, perfect in just how quickly and easily it gets under your skin", while The Atlantic said: "Scrape off the scum, and you'll find Green Room full of visual artistry, dark humor, smart writing, and glints of humanity."

Meanwhile, The Guardian had high praise for Stewart's performance, writing: "Smartly cast, Stewart brings an almost Shakespearean edge to the drama, delivering lines such as 'all is for nought' in the manner of a theatrical king surveying the devastation of a five-act tragedy."

However, the X-Men star brought more than just bring a stellar performance, as director Saulnier revealed that he'd also prevented the film from being shut down.

Ahead of the film's 10th anniversary screening on 31 October, Saulnier paid tribute to the star, adding that before he joined production on Green Room, they were "at the point of no return".

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He continued (via The Hollywood Reporter): "We’re f***ed, and we were close to shutting down. And Patrick Stewart, out of the blue, sort of expressed interest in the project. And in a whirlwind, about a week later, I was on the phone with him. I left the stage [thinking,] ‘Maybe we’re gonna have to break down the sets and shut the whole movie down.’

"Instead, this dude came out of nowhere, from way above our sort of zone, and just swooped down, nosedived into our cruddy ass movie and saved us, and said yes. And the movie was instantly greenlit."

Green Room is now available to stream on Amazon MGM+, which can be added to Prime Video as a channel and comes with a 7-day free trial.

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