Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

Unlike previous weeks, when streaming or buying new films to watch in the comfort of your home is a luxury, the COVID-19 pandemic has made home viewing a necessity.

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It is, without a doubt, an odd month for movies. Even though Disney has taken steps to spread out their films over the course of 12 months, to help completely dominate the box office (and soon, the world), the studio has two big releases bookending March, making it feel as if all the films that fall in between the Mouse House’s two movies will be doing their all to simply stay afloat.

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Other than Disney’s offerings, new films from filmmakers such as Kelly Reichardt and Julia Hart will be worth seeking out as well as some oddities that might’ve fallen through the cracks elsewhere but are still worth checking out, if you’re looking to divert your attention from the regular blockbuster fare. 

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There’s a term that seems to immediately doom a romantic comedy from the jump — “manic pixie dream girl.” If your film features a hapless man falling in love with a girl that has all the signs of a manic pixie dream girl, then audiences are most likely going to point it out. Well, we’ll have to see how this affects “Stargirl,” aka “Manic Pixie Dream Girl: The Movie.”

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As seen in the new trailer for the YA film coming to Disney+, “Stargirl” tells the story of a boy that was picked on for being unique.

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Friday evening Disney + took the streaming world by storm with its two-hour presentation at D23 Expo, and it was the first moment the sheer amount of IP’s the Mouse owns genuinely sunk in. Everything from Marvel, to Star Wars, to The Muppets, even The Simpson’s theme graced us with its presence while waiting for the panel to begin – which admittedly still needs an adjustment period.

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