Things to stream
IF YOU
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80
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Let it Be — Disney+
Peter Jackson restores original director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s bittersweet film of The Beatles’ final recording sessions to its intended glory. Nostalgic but also enlightening in its focus on the small details of the process that went into the creation of the band’s final album and legendary final performance on the rooftop of Abbey Road Studios, it’s a film that remained criminally underseen for more than half a century.
IF YOU HAVE
2 HOURS
The Idea of You — Prime Video
Anne Hathaway stars in this heartwarming romantic comedy based on the novel by Robinne Lee and directed by Michael Showalter. In a Notting Hill reversal, Hathaway plays 40-year-old, single mom Solène who falls for 24-year-old Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine) the lead singer of August Moon, “the hottest boy band on the planet”.
IF YOU
HAVE 3 HOURS Dark Matter — Apple TV +
Blake Crouch adapts this dark, twisted sci-fi head scratcher from his own novel of the same name. Joel Edgerton stars as Jason Dessen, a once promising physicist who now finds himself teaching college students, but is content in his marriage to artist Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and is a parent to a teenage son. When Jason is abducted coming home from a bar one night, he wakes up in an alternative version of his life where he’s no longer a college professor, not married and not a father. It’s up to him to figure out what’s going on before it’s too late to save the ones he loves.
IF YOU HAVE 4
HOURS
Shardlake — Disney+ Arthur Hughes stars as the titular character in this period mystery thriller adapted from the book by CJ Sansom. Sent by Henry VIII’s chief enforcer Thomas Cromwell (Sean Bean) to investigate a murder in the remote town of Scarnsea, Shardlake finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy that implicates the highest levels of power in Tudor England.
IF YOU HAVE 5 HOURS
Bodkin — Netflix
Will Forte stars in this black comedy in which a group of podcasters arrive in a small Irish town to investigate the disappearance of three people and soon find themselves opening a madcap can of worms that leads to more bizarre and bigger places than they could ever have imagined.