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I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of February 11

So many ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day week from the comfort of your couch. Break into that box of chocolates (whether it was a gift or you bought for yourself) and sidle up to one of these Oscar nominees or underseen gems.

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Shoplifters

The Happy Prince

The Front Runner

Bohemian Rhapsody

Maria by Callas

I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of February 4

You know what you’ll find out this week? Two movies that should have had a couple of performances worthy of Oscar consideration, a theme of women who will hurt you, and one Oscar nominee that has no business in contention.

Let us help you make your choices.

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Widows

The Sisters Brothers

Piercing

The Girl in the Spider’s Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JshbIplBkc

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of January 28

Loads of movies to keep you company during this stupifying cold snap. A lot of them are pretty great. Here are the options, from best to worst:

Suspiria

Boy Erased

The Wife

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Hunter Killer

Screening Room: Glass, Shoplifters, Pledge

Can Shyamalan do his trilogy right? Is Shoplifters the best foreign language film of the year? Are fraternities ever a good idea? We cover Glass, Shoplifters and Pledge, plus all that’s worth note in new home entertainment, on this week’s podcast.

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I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of January 14

It’s Halloween all over again! Two above-average spookfests and one longshot Oscar contender ensure that just about everything this week in home entertainment is a tasty treat.

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Halloween

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbOgr4aTvM

The Old Man and the Gun

The Bookshop

Screening Room: Upside, Basis of Sex, Replicas and More

A lot of movies, some of them quite surprising, to talk about this week in the screening room: The Upside, Replicas, On the Basis of Sex, A Dog’s Way Home, El Angel and Rust Creek. Plus, we peek at new releases in home entertainment and tease next week’s features.

Listen to the full podcast HERE.

Screening Room: Beale Street, Escape Room, Liyana

We crash into the new year with a mixture of Oscar contenders and off-season studio mediocrity: If Beale Street Could Talk, Escape Room, Liyana. We also cover all that’s new and interesting in home entertainment.

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I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of January 1

It’s a new year! What do you want to watch? Whether you are into hip-and-twisty or not-very-good, you have options. Let us help you choose.

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Bad Times at the El Royale

Night School

I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of December 17

Know what you can do this week if you get super bored at your in-laws’, or if you get lonely while you’re away from home for the holidays? You can watch a butt-load of movies. Look at them all! Most of them are so-so, to be honest, but a couple are really good and a couple are better than you think.

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Fahrenheit 11/9

A Simple Favor

Venom

The House that Jack Built

The Predator

The House with a Clock in its Walls

Assassination Nation