CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s day whatever of the crisis and you’ve spent the last xx hours binge watching a show.
Perhaps you’re now looking for something more compact or easily digestible to cleanse the palette before diving into another series with their multiple seasons and pesky characters with names you have yet to learn.
How about a movie?
In part three of “Stream This,” we have five newish releases that just feel right for the current time.
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“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (rent on iTunes, Prime Video, Google Play)
When Tom Hanks announced he tested positive for the coronavirus, it was a wake up call to many. So, is there anything more apropos during this crisis than everybody’s favorite actor playing Mister Rogers in a movie about the importance of family, forgiveness, and kindness?
Rent on Amazon Prime Video for $2.99
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“The Farewell” (Prime video)
Golden Globe winner Awkwafina plays Billi, a twentysomething New Yorker who travels to China where she and the rest of her family go to great lengths to keep a big secret from her Nai Nai. Full of laughs, tears and heart, the film is timely not just because of its juxtaposition of American and Chinese cultures, it also tries to answer a particularly relevant existential question: if you were given a terminal diagnosis, would you want to know about it?
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“Yesterday” (HBO)
If there’s a lesson to be learned during these unchartered times, it’s how easy we take things for granted. That’s the message of this film which imagines, pun intended, a world without the Beatles. Luckily, there’s a struggling musician who, somehow, is the only person whose memory of John, Paul, George, and Ringo hasn’t been wiped out. Not only does the film leave you with a new appreciation of the Beatles’ music, it just might also force you to look at the things right in front of you in a new and different way.
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“Jojo Rabbit” (rent on iTunes, Prime Video, Google Play)
Set in Nazi Germany during World War II, this Oscar winner for best adapted screenplay is a satire about a little boy whose blind devotion to an authoritarian dictator slowly unravels when he falls in love with the young Jewish girl hiding in the walls of his house and starts to understand the horrors of his hero’s ways. If any of it reminds you of the absurdity of the current political climate, well, that’s purely intentional.
Rent on iTunes for $5.99
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“Frozen II” (Disney+)
Loved the original “Frozen,” but didn’t see the sequel in the theater because you couldn’t find a kid to drag along with you? 🙋🏻♂️ Thank Disney+ for releasing it three months ahead of schedule. Sure, you won’t find an instant karaoke classic like “Let It Go” or even a humworthy ditty like “For the First Time In Forever,” but a 1-hour, 43-minute trip to Arendelle just might be the diversion your day needs.
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