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What to stream during Hurricane Irma
You’ve purchased your water and food. You’ve filled up your car. You’ve put up the storm shutters. You’re prepared for Hurricane Irma. Now what?
Keep yourself entertianed with these great movies and TV shows avalible for streaming, either via one of the major subscription servies or a digital retailer.
Workplace sitcoms
These classic TV comedies are perfect for any of you who find yourself missing work while you’re hunkered down — or just wish you spent your days in a more fun and interesting office:
“Better Off Ted”
A handful of goodhearted eccentrics do their best to keep their mega-corporate employer from doing too much evil, in the absurdist social satire.
“Taxi” (Hulu) (Netflix)
A dingy cab company becomes an affable purgatory for a group of New Yorkers struggling to follow their dreams. One of the last great sitcoms of the ’70s (and one of the first greats of the ’80s).
“30 Rock” (Netflix) Tina Fey plays the producer of a struggling sketch-comedy show and Alec Baldwin plays her cocky network boss in one of the most acclaimed and innovative comedies of recent years.
Kids movies
Here are three excellent family-friendly animated features:
“Kubo & the Two Strings” (Netflix)
A 12-year-old Japanese adventurer and his skilled animal sidekicks look like magnificently handcrafted toys in this charming fable.
“The Little Prince” (Netflix)
Master animator Mark Osborne spent over half-adecade making and selling his adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic novella, about a lost aviator and the soulful child who tells him stories. “Shaun the Sheep Movie” (Amazon Prime) Anyone who thinks the art of silent comedy died with the likes of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin should check out Aardman Animation’s feature-length film version of their popular TV series “Shaun the Sheep.” With almost no dialogue, the movie tells a colorful and complicated story about the title ovine’s eventful “day off” from being a farm animal.
Hidden gems
We’re heading into “prestige season” at the multiplex, when all the Oscarcontenders begin trickling out. So now’s the time to start catching up with any critically acclaimed 2017 films you may have missed. All of the below are available from multiple online retailers to rent or buy:
“Contemporary Color”
In 2015, art-rock legend David Byrne organized an exhibition of high school color guards, backed by hip musicians like Lucius, Tune-Yards and St. Vincent. This stirring documentary about the event is a tuneful, energetic salute to cultural diversity.
“Their Finest”
Gemma Arterton shines as a writer who overcomes bombings, shortages and her own complicated personal relationships to help the Ministry of Information make an inspiring movie about the evacuation of Dunkirk. “The Lost City of Z” Charlie Hunnam plays real-life explorer Percy Fawcett in writer-director James Gray’s adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction best-seller, about one early 20th century Englishman’s obsessive quest to find a fabled Amazonian civilization.