Your Weekend Preview: What to Watch That’s NOT in the Theatres

By Original-Cin Staff

You don’t have to go broke finding good things to stream during the COVID-19 quarantine that has shut down theatres. Some the last year’s best reviewed films (Pain and Glory, The Lighthouse) legally and absolutely free? Our Kim Hughes walks you through how to use kanopy and hoopla with your library card to access a terrific catalogue of new and old movies, documentaries, children’s programs, music, comics and television shows.

The Lighthouse… free to stream with a library card.

Amazon Prime Video is indeed a prime place to binge out on some outstanding button-pushing series. Our collective recommendations include: fifties feminist showbiz story The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the what-if-the-Nazis-won? drama, The Man In The High-Castle, corrupt corporate superheroes Boys, Jill Soloway’s gender-probing dramedies, Transparent and I Love Dick, and, for something new, the comfort-food murder mystery Blow The Man Down.

Several films this week were scheduled for theatrical release but were compelled to go directly to video-on-demand, so they could use your love. Following several award-winning festival bows, Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Rating: A-) follows a Pennsylvania high school student who takes a bus to Brooklyn with her cousin on a mission to terminate her pregnancy. Reviewer Karen Gordon describes it as a “quiet little movie that packs a serious wallop.”

Jim Slotek reviews the amiable Canadian time-travelling rom-com, Jeremy LaLonde’s James Vs. His Future Self (Rating: B-) about a physicist (Jonas Chernick) who gets kidnapped by a gleefully unhinged Daniel Stern who might be… check out the title for a big hint.

Reviewer Liam Lacey found the Second World War thriller Resistance — starring Jesse Eisenberg as future world-famous mime — quite resistible. Liam also reviews the new Netflix comedy, Coffee & Kareem (Rating: C), starring Ed Helms as a Detroit cop partnered with a foul-mouthed 12-year-old in a movie that might make you inclined to sanitize your television.

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