New Movies on VOD: A Journal For Jordan, Delicious, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy + more

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Have you been smiling too much this week? Allow me to put a stop to all that by suggesting the tearjerker A Journal For Jordan, directed by Denzel Washington, which is new on VOD. The film stars Michael B. Jordan as First Sgt. Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed in Iraq, who keeps a journal that he fills with advice for his infant son, Jordan. As you can imagine, when King is killed in action, the words he wrote to his son became that much more meaningful and treasured.

Maybe that’s too heavy for you, and that’s okay. There’s also the critically acclaimed film Delicious, which comes from French director Éric Besnard and depicts the life of a chef on the eve of the France Revolution. When his aristocratic boss fires him, his passion for creating food for the masses (letting them eat cake, etc.) and getting revenge on his old employer consumes him.

Finally there’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, which has nothing to do with my Pat Sajak fanfic. In this Japanese romantic anthology, whose Japanese title, Gūzen to Sōzō literally translates to “Coincidence and Imagination,” three separate love stories are told in anthology form. Actresses Kotone Furukawa, Katsuki Mori, and Fusako Urabe take turns anchoring each story that features a love triangle between two friends and a man they’ve both dated, an affair schemed up to destroy a man’s career, and a case of mistaken identity. The film recently won the Silver Bear Grand Jury prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.

These are just a few of the titles that are available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, YouTube, and through your cable service this week. Check out what movies are available to buy or rent on demand now!

A Journal For Jordan

In 2009, New York Times journalist Dana Canedy published the book A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor, which featured journal entries that her husband, First Sgt. Charles Monroe King, wrote to their son, Jordan. King was killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb in Iraq, but during his time away, he kept a journal full of lessons for the son he would only ever get to meet once. Are you crying yet? Screenwriter Virgil Williams adapted Canedy’s story for the screen. The film, directed by Denzel Washington, stars Michael B. Jordan and Chanté Adams as King and Canedy, respectively, and it follows their courtship and marriage, while also weaving in the lessons of love the soldier has for his infant son before, during, and after his tragic death.

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Delicious

Delicious is a love letter to food and those who love it. The film, which takes place in France in 1789, stars Grégory Gadebois as a chef who, after he’s dismissed from his job at an aristocrat’s home for serving something as pedestrian as truffles, decide to open a restaurant with his new apprentice (Isabelle Carré. It’s the world’s first restaurant, in fact. The film meticulously depicts the preparation (and consumption of) gorgeous meals, while offering up a funny and clever revenge story as the chef avenges the man who sacked him.