SCREWBALL COMEDY IN 2020: Fresh off a breakup in the early days of COVID, Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor, left) and Linda (Anne Hathaway, right) are forced to quarantine together. (HBO Max) I watched Locked Down (directed by Doug Liman, streaming on HBO Max) during my children’s midwinter break from remote school. It is one of Hollywood’s first attempts to set a movie in the early days of the COVID pandemic. Linda (Anne Hathaway) has just broken up with her longtime partner Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) when London goes into lockdown, and they are forced to spend their first weeks of breakup trapped in the same house.