Since movie theaters are closing, it seems we will have to transform our family rooms into a makeshift, more comfortable cinema. Turn off all the lights, grab the popcorn and soda, or homestyle may include something more fun of your choosing, and check out the staff picks of can’t miss movies.
- It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Tom Hanks plays Mister Rogers, everyone’s favorite neighbor. This story follows the real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
- The Peanut Butter Falcon: After running away from a residential nursing home to pursue his dream of becoming a pro wrestler, a man who has Down Syndrome befriends an outlaw who becomes his coach and ally.
- Color out of Space: After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, Nathan Gardner and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism that infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare.
- Midsommar: A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
- Ice Guardians: Hockey enforcers struggle to rise through the professional ranks as the role slowly disappears from the game.
- The Dawn Wall: Legendary free climber Tommy Caldwell tries to get over heartbreak by scaling the Dawn Wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
- The Other One: The musician’s journey is chronicled from a Palo Alto youth to global success as a member of one of the world’s most influential and popular bands. Includes his relationship with Jerry Garcia, musical performance and archival footage.
- Parasite: Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Actor Rick Dalton gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but is now struggling to find meaningful work in a Hollywood that he doesn’t recognize anymore. He spends most of his time drinking and palling about with Cliff Booth, his easygoing best friend and long-time stunt double.
- 1917: During World War 1, two British soldiers, Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake, receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must cross over into enemy territory to deliver a message that could potentially save 1,600 of their fellow comrades, including Blake’s own brother.
- Remember the Titans: In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, an institution revered, each game celebrated more lavishly than Christmas, each playoff distinguished more grandly than any national holiday. And with such recognition, comes powerful emotions. In 1971, high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the local school board was forced to integrate an all-black school with an all-white school, the very foundation of football’s great tradition was put to the test.
