Movies to watch during the pandemic
Continuing from an earlier column, I shared a list of shows and series I’ve been watching during the last four months in lockdown. Here is my list of movies to watch between bingeing shows. Also note many/most of these are not family friendly (marked with *), but parents need something to watch after the kids go to bed too.
Onward (Disney+) — This was the last movie we saw in theaters, and being a big Dungeons & Dragons nerd, I fell in love immediately with the high fantasy whimsy and adventure story of two brothers seeking the magic needed to bring their father back for one day. Featuring voices of Chris Pratt, Tom Holland and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, what’s not to love?
Twister (Netflix) — I curated a World Tour Day for my wife for her birthday since we couldn’t go anywhere, with breakfast in France, lunch in Italy, afternoon tapas in Spain and concluding with a movie night in the park based on a very popular summer movies series in Bryant Park in NYC. The movie Rachel picked was one of my favorites, Twister, which had just dropped on Netflix a few days prior.
Is it good? Well … Is it fun? Oh heck yeah. Tornadoes scare me to death, but there’s something about watching Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt survive an F5 that always makes me want to hop in a pickup and drive through Kansas in July.
Frozen II (Disney+) — It’s a great movie, what can I say? The music is fantastic, the story is uplifting and female-forward, and it’s simply a good time. Plus Elsa’s song “Into the Unknown” as covered by Panic! at the Disco is my pump-up jam.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (Disney+, Netflix, Starz) — I had written an entire review of bingeing the MCU in chronological order, but it ended up being several pages long and would never fit in the paper! Suffice it to say, watching all 3,000 minutes of the MCU was a blast and not unlike binge-watching a TV show. Have you ever sat and watched five seasons of a show? Then you can watch all the Marvel movies. Do it. It’s a blast.
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