Welcome to Boston.com weekly streaming guide. Every week, we recommend five must-see movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms including: Netflix, Hulu, amazon prime, disney plus, HBO MaxPeacock, Paramount+, and more.
While many of our recommendations are for new shows, others are for lesser-known releases you may have missed or classics that are scheduled to end on the streaming service at the end of the month.
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“Your idea”
The huge success of Anyone But You proves that audiences are hungry for romantic comedies, no matter how bad. Thankfully, “The Idea of You” is much better than the aforementioned Sidney Sweeney and Glen Powell hit, adopting the wish-fulfillment plot of a Hallmark movie and featuring star and Michael Director Showalter’s deft touch elevates it. Anne Hathaway plays Solene, a single mother accompanying her 16-year-old daughter on a trip to Coachella. There she meets Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), a boy band singer 16 years her junior who resembles Harry Styles.
Hathaway and Galitzine have great chemistry, and their whirlwind ride feels sincere, both in its physicality and the unintended damage it causes. If you want pictures, check out the fangirl meltdown over the real-life romance between Styles and Olivia Wilde.
How to watch: “The Idea of You” is now available on Prime Video.
“Iron Claw”
Perhaps one of the victims of the SAG-AFTRA strike was the 1980s wrestling biopic “The Von Erichs”, which depicts the many real-life tragedies of the Von Erich brothers (Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson). It would have been the Oscar campaign for “Iron Crow.” Unable to release the film at fall festivals, A24 seems to have shifted their focus and dumped this very good film just before Christmas without the hype it deserved. Director Sean Durkin captured the visceral nature of early professional wrestling, and Efron won an Oscar for his role as Kevin Von Erich, the oldest brother (the oldest alive anyway) who takes the brunt of his ex-lover. He shows off a performance that could have earned him a nomination. -The dreams and anger of a wrestler’s father (Holt McCallany).
How to watch: “The Iron Crow” is now available on Max.
“let it be”
Director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings) had already released the Beatles’ masterpiece, Get Back, during the pandemic. The film is a combination of unearthed audiotapes and more than 60 hours of footage filmed by filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg for a 1970 documentary. “Let it be.” The film was supposed to capture the Beatles at the height of their career. Instead, it was released a month after they broke up.
Knowing that the band’s end was near, Jackson had the benefit of hindsight when compiling Get Back, picking up minor arguments from the scrapheap and creating the centerpiece of the three-part series. It was set at Lindsay-Hogg’s film, which Jackson restored for Disney+, instead captures the Beatles as they were: wildly creative musical geniuses who spun gold from jokey improvisations.
How to watch: “Let It Be” is now available on Disney+.
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“Doctor Who”
Speaking of the Beatles, Doctor Who, another great British cultural export from the 1960s, is returning for another season on Disney+.In fact, in the episode, the new doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his sidekick Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) visit the Beatles while they are recording their first album, but in this world they are terrible. It’s the kind of fluffy, unpretentious sci-fi fun you’d find in modern versions of Doctor Who that feels like a throwback to the show’s earliest episodes. In fact, showrunner Russell T. Davies has referred to this edition as a “new season 1,” with each episode feeling more like a standard “mystery of the week,” with complex twists and turns with converging temporal realities. The emphasis is more on entertaining diversions than on the story.
How to watch: “Doctor Who” is now available on Disney+.
“John Mulaney Presents: We’re All in L.A.”
Assuming you’ve already watched Netflix’s Tom Brady Roast (and read the nearly 600 articles we wrote about it this week), here’s another Netflix live comedy special worth watching. concludes the six-part series with “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA.” – Live show episodes run Fridays at 10 p.m. His Mulaney talk show is unlike any other talk show on TV. It has some elements of a talk show format, including a fabricated set, an opening monologue, and a sidekick (Richard Kind). But celebrities don’t show up to promote their latest movies or tell pre-approved jokes.
Instead, Mulaney speaks at length with his guests about topics of his choosing, like Nepo’s babies and (because it’s Los Angeles) earthquakes. This is fitting, since the show shares a bit of DNA with early episodes of Conan O’Brien and David Letterman, with the latter appearing in the episode.
How to watch: “John Mulaney Presents: We’re All in LA” is now available on Netflix.
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