Your week-endless preview: What to watch that’s NOT in the theatres
As the self-isolation thing starts to get old, and you’ve re-watched every episode of Barney Miller and The Wire until you realized they’re basically the same show, it’s time to refresh your watch list. We direct you to Original-Cin and our recommendations on new releases and places to watch them.
A scene from Tigertail.
Snap to it, Soldier: Added this week to the free archive of National Film Board titles is First Stripes, Jean-François Caissy’s 2018 documentary, which follows a group of young male and female Quebecers through their Canadian Armed Forces basic training program. Linda Barnard reviews the “more Canadian side” of basic training, less about yelling, more about rituals and baby wipes.
Picture Yourself on a Boat on a Rideau: Our Jim Slotek talks to Mitch Azaria, about his four-hour immersive “real-time” movie, Tripping The Rideau Canal, for TVOntario, the longest documentary ever on Canadian television, though a few may have seemed longer.
A Gentler Netflix Tiger Show: Bonnie Laufer Krebs talks to Alan Yang, co-creator, with Aziz Ansari, of the smash Netflix series, Master of None about his personal drama, Tigertail, a story based on the experiences of his immigrant father. Liam Lacey reviews the film, with its strong Chinese cinema influences.
When “meeting cute” was a thing: The anthology rom-com, What Love Looks Like? from writer-director Alex Magaña is a collection of five L.A.-set rom-com stories, which, reviewer Thom Ernst says, are “promising one moment and disappointing the next.” Love Wedding Repeat, which dropped on Netflix on Friday, stars Sam Claflin and Olivia Munn in an Italian-set Brit-com with a mumbly, fumbly deja-vu Hugh Grant hue.
Quibi or not Quibi?: Our Bonnie Laufer talks to mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg about Quibi, the long-hyped streaming app, devoted to short-form series you can watch in 10-minute chapters on your phone. Dozens of programs are already rolling out, and - courtesy of the Covid-19 crisis - the first 90 days are free.
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