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This month’s offbeat streaming recommendations include several very dark satires, a handful of engaging indies, and two documentaries that cinephiles will adore.

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The first of this year’s Envelope roundtables dropped this week, with Jen Yamato talking to “Da 5 Bloods’” Delroy Lindo, “Sound of Metal’s” Riz Ahmed, “Minari’s” Steven Yeun, “The Midnight Sky’s” George Clooney and “Mank’s” Gary Oldman. It’s an invigorating conversation to take in, either on the page or on video. Take Oldman’s response to a comment by Ahme...

Endurance is something we can all identify with these days. No matter who or where you are, weathering the toughest of times without giving way has become a universally shared experience, and we often look to art to reflect and inspire our lives. Endurance is at the heart of co-writer and director Fernanda Valadez’s debut narrative film, “Identifying Features,” a Spanish-language drama that has won over 15 awards on the festival circuit, including Best international Feature at last week�...

Photo: Stills from Identifying Features courtesy of Kino Lorber ‘Identifying Features’: A Mother Embarks on a Dangerous Journey from Mexico to the USA By Lia Gomez-Lang | 19 January, 2021 This article was originally published by Sounds and Colours’s partner, Latin America Bureau. You can read the original Disappearances of young people in Mexico have grown exponentially in recent years. The latest national statistics have listed more than 73,000 people missing across the country, of whom...

Nomadland wins big at 2021 Gotham Awards BANG Showbiz 1/12/2021 Bang Showbiz Nomadland was the big winner at the 2021 Gotham Awards. Chloé Zhaos 2020 independent contemporary western drama - which stars Frances McDormand - scooped Best Feature and the Audience Award at Monday nights (11.01.21) live-streamed ceremony from Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Its the first time in the three-decade history of the prestigious awards show that all the Best Feature nominees wer...