A Quiet Place Part II 2021
Postponed indefinitely that morning.
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Hollywood Is Pressing Pause. So Stream These Movies. | The Big Picture
March 13, 2020/ 49 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Recorded the week COVID-19 became a pandemic: what the release-calendar carnage means for movies, then eight streaming picks for the lockdown.
24 films across 2 segments.
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Hollywood presses pausethe week the calendar collapsed
F9 2021
Pushed a full year to 2021, which Sean is using as his bellwether for how long the ripple lasts.
No Time to Die 2021
Already bumped to November; the pricey blue-chip title in the pair's what-would-you-pay thought experiment.
The Hunt 2020
Opening that weekend after its own delay; they flag it as the movie whose online notoriety could make it a streaming test case.
Bloodshot 2020
The weekend's other wide studio release into empty theaters.
Lost Girls 2020
New Netflix drama, Amy Ryan, a serial killer on Long Island.
The Platform 2019
Spanish horror hitting Netflix March 20.
Crip Camp 2020
Sundance documentary, Netflix March 25; Amanda saw it at the festival.
Uncorked 2020
One of the Netflix dramas on the six-week slate.
Coffee & Kareem 2020
Netflix action-comedy on the same run.
Tigertail 2020
Alan Yang's Netflix drama.
Spenser Confidential 2020
The 'good enough' streaming movie that wins when the alternative is $100 a night.
Mulan 2020
Sean's would-you-pay example; Amanda's answer: no dollars.
Contagion 2011
The Soderbergh title Amanda is pointedly refusing to rewatch.
Wonder Woman 1984 2020
Among the tentpoles still on the calendar in the next six weeks.
Top Gun: Maverick 2022
Another studio bet in the danger zone.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019
The film built for a giant screen: the case against watching everything at home.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always 2020
Eliza Hittman's small release; the one Sean's heart breaks for, and one that survives a home viewing.
Stream these movies four picks each, with book pairings
Picked by Amanda Dobbins
Anna Karenina 2012
Joe Wright's staged-on-a-theater adaptation of Tolstoy; a thousand-page novel in two hours for ~$40M. On Netflix. Book pairing: the novel itself.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010
Edgar Wright as if John Hughes designed a Nintendo game; a box-office bomb loaded with future stars (Winstead, Culkin, Evans, Larson, Plaza). Worth remembering it exists.
Picked by Amanda Dobbins
A Hard Day's Night 1964
Richard Lester more or less inventing the music video; satirical, endlessly rewatchable. On the Criterion Channel.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
The Descent 2005
Neil Marshall's cave horror lit by flares: five women, more trauma inside than out. Newly on Amazon Prime.
Picked by Amanda Dobbins
Working Girl 1988
Mike Nichols with Griffith, Ford and Weaver; Carly Simon's 'Let the River Run' and that final pull-back from one office to thousands. On HBO.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
Black Mother 2018
Khalik Allah's impressionistic, non-linear portrait of Jamaica; under 75 minutes, no reggae by design. On the Criterion Channel.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Sean's Kevin Smith detour Jay and Silent Bob RebootClerk
Joe Wright, elsewhere Pride & PrejudiceAtonement
Edgar Wright, elsewhere Shaun of the DeadHot FuzzBaby Driver
In passing SuperbadBirds of PreyNick and Nora's Infinite PlaylistHellboyAfter HoursThe Color of MoneyMaid in ManhattanMeet Joe BlackAliens
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV NarcosThe Last DanceGame of ThronesSuccessionParks and RecreationThe Simpsons
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