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. 

Some weeks, there’s not much to talk about on the new release front – and some weeks, it feels like the video distributors and streaming platforms got together and just decided to clobber everybody.

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How soon is now, is now, and the neon painted landscape strokes to the club beat. That night was more than a sweaty crowded dance floor your friends dragged you to—criminally packed bodies bumping, tossed together—searching for one another. A forest with one tree swaying in a different air. A glance meets yours—conversation follows—and your changing complexion is more than the Vegas drinks talking. The happenstance night turns into the happenstance day: anniversaries follow, squabbles, and vacations, too.

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For many of us (though we New Englanders have had to suffer a bit longer) it’s officially Spring, which typically means more time to spend outdoors and less time to spend catching up on films. Considering the state of things though, we won’t jump to that conclusion too quickly. May isn’t rich with new releases, but there are plenty of gems among them including a film that’s already debuted on Netflix to positive reviews, a re-scheduled Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani comedy and a final return of the “The Trip” duo Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.

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A little more than two weeks ago was when the general public was set to watch Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae in the new comedy film, “The Lovebirds.” This would have taken place just a few weeks after the film premiered to a huge crowd at SXSW. Unfortunately, COVID-19 had other plans and the world premiere and the entire theatrical release were scrapped. Now, we are about two weeks away from the film finally being released, but in a completely different way than originally planned—through Netflix.

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Paramount’s upcoming comedy, “The Lovebirds,” doesn’t have the hype of, say, “A Quiet Place Part II” or the latest ‘Fast & Furious’ sequel. However, in light of those films running for the hills away from coronavirus, delaying their respective release dates, it seems as if Paramount feels that it would be better served by doing the same for “The Lovebirds.”

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According to Variety, Paramount has officially delayed the April 3 release of “The Lovebirds,” starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani to an unspecified date.

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With back-to-back films such as “Hello, My Name is Doris” and “The Big Sick,” filmmaker Michael Showalter has proven that he’s one of the best comedic directors working today. So, no matter what his next project was going to be, you better believe that we were going to keep an eye out for whatever he has up his sleeve. Well, that next project is “The Lovebirds,” arriving this spring, and as seen in a new image from the film, the cast alone is worth the ticket purchase.

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