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Movie theaters are slowly reopening for the summer season, but new streaming films are still coming home to entertain you and your family during socially distanced times.

This Easter weekend, two iconic monsters tussle in a much- anticipated epic romp, Idris Elba plays urban cowboy dad to “Stranger Things” star Caleb McLaughlin in a Netflix family drama, and Casey Affleck plays a psychiatrist with a dead patient and a creepy saboteur in a psychological thriller.

If you’re planning to return to your local theater, the religious horror film “The Unholy” stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“The Walking Dead”) as a disgraced Boston journalist hoping to jumpstart his career.

He meets a deaf Massachusetts teenager able to hear and heal the sick after a supposed visit from the Virgin Mary – but terrifying instances follow her apparent miracles.

But if you’d rather stick closer to home, here’s a rundown of new movies hitting streaming and on- demand platforms this weekend, for every cinematic taste:

If you could use some good ol’ monster- punching fun: ‘ Godzilla vs. Kong’

No movie so far this year knows what it is and owns that fact more than this slugfest featuring a couple of ginormous movie legends. During a well- paced, action- packed two hours, director Adam Wingard (“You’re Next”) sends its leading monsters on a fun and fairly ridiculous collision course, gives humans such as Millie Bobby Brown and Alexander Skarsgard enough to do without getting in the way, and throws in one huge surprise that’ll give you a big stupid grin ( if it’s not already there).

h Where to watch: HBO Max

If you need a great father/ son story: ‘ Concrete Cowboy’

We knew Elba is an impressive thespian but McLaughlin breaks out in a big way here in director Ricky Staub’s engaging tale based on real- life urban horse riders in Philadelphia. After getting kicked out of school, Cole ( McLaughlin) is sent to live with his estranged dad ( Elba).

After a tense reintroduction, the teen begins to turn his life around learning the cowboy way. Elba’s distant dad also finally gets a chance to be a father in a Western- tinged tale that also tackles gentrification and unexplored Black culture.

h Where to watch: Netflix

If you’re a Casey Affleck completist: ‘ Every Breath You Take’

In this psychological snoozer, Affleck stars as a psychiatrist emotionally cut off from his wife ( Michelle Monaghan) and daughter ( India Eisley) following a family tragedy.

So he’s already not in a great place when his life blows up even more after one of his patients commits suicide and her creepily charming British brother ( Sam Claflin) inserts himself into every aspect of the doc’s life.

h Where to watch: Apple TV, Google Play, Fandango Now

PROVIDED BY TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Harp ( Idris Elba) connects with his estranged son in “Concrete Cowboy.”