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Would audiences pay to see a new movie on the big screen if they could watch the same title at home from the comfort of their couch? Prior to the pandemic, the response from theater operators and cinema purists would have been a resounding “no.” Yet Hollywood is finding that, at least while a plague of Biblical proportion rages, the answer is: sorta. The Little Things, a crime thriller starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek, topped domestic box office charts, debuting to $4.8 million from 2,171 venues in North America

New Movies to Watch This Week: 'Supernova,' 'The Little Things,' 'Palmer' Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Audiences who feel like their movie options have been a little light on actual movie stars this past month get a boost of A-list energy this weekend, between the Justin Timberblake small-town ex-con drama “Palmer” on Apple TV Plus and Netflix’s feel-good “Penguin Bloom,” in which a disabled woman played by Naomi Watts bonds with a baby magpie. But the really starry option is Warner Bros.’ “The Little Things,” a big-budget serial-killer thriller starring th...

New Movies to Watch This Week: ‘No Man’s Land,’ ‘The White Tiger,’ International Oscar Submissions Variety 1/22/2021 With the Sundance Film Festival less than a week away (and available to anyone in the U.S. willing to buy tickets to a COVID-safe 2021 virtual edition), late January sees more streaming options than virtually any week since the pandemic began. That doesn’t necessarily mean big movies for home viewers, but at least it offers a raft of new options. For those seeking diversion with familiar faces, genre movies such as “Brothers by Blood” (featuring Matthias Schoe...

Last modified on Thu 24 Dec 2020 03.19 EST The review – Shirley Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo During quarantine and its long, unending tail, my mind has often returned to Shirley, the psychodrama from director Josephine Decker and screenwriter Sarah Gubbins that imagines a chapter in the life of the mid-century horror master Shirley Jackson with her signature slippage of sanity. For one thing, the author, played exquisitely by Elisabeth Moss, was agoraphobic, often trapped for months indoors, the weight of anxiety consuming her house like gnarled, enchanted roots. It’s som...

Starring: Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Dylan Moran What's it about? Not a Beach Boys biopic, this 2013 film brings the story of Irish record label owner Terri Hooley to the screen. A major player in the Belfast punk scene during the 1970s, Hooley's record store and label, both called Good Vibrations, introduced the world to Northern Irish bands like Rudi and The Undertones (known for their song "Teenage Kicks" and lead singer Feargal Sharkey). Set in the midst of The Troubles conflict that raged for decades in Northern Ireland,  Good Vibrations brings the energy and urgency of the er...