March marks a full year since we’ve all been cooped up due to the pandemic, leaving many of us tethered to our TVs to an unhealthy degree. So after such a stressful year, consumers deserve to splurge a bit, and treat themselves to some brain sorbets.
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Disney DIS, -1.02% is also streaming one of its big movies of 2021, “Raya and the Last Dragon” , starting the same day it hits theaters, for an additional $30 fee . The film, about a girl determined to track down the last living dragon in order to save her kingdom from monsters, looks spectacular. If you have kids, it might be worth a splurge , but keep in mind it’ll almost certainly be available on regular Disney+ for no extra fee within a few months.
The long-rumored recut of 2017’s “Justice League” has fanboys drooling. After an online campaign, HBO Max gave the go-ahead for Snyder to recreate his original dark and gritty vision, reportedly adding about $70 million in new special effects and doubling the length of the film, to four hours. Rarely in Hollywood history has such an ambitious project been pulled off.
Netflix Make no mistake, a year of pandemic-related production delays are finally catching up with Netflix NFLX, -1.44%. But with a dearth of original scripted series ready to go in its pipeline, the streaming giant is filling in the gaps with docuseries and foreign-language series. That’s not necessarily a bad thing .
On the sillier side, there’s also “Bad Trip” , a gross-out prank movie from Eric Andre; the supernatural mystery series “The Irregulars” , about Sherlock Holmes’ young proteges; and “Nailed It! Double Trouble” , as the baking-disaster show highlights teams of hapless bakers. div.youtube { height:0; position:relative; padding-bottom:56.25%; } div.youtube > iframe { position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } More iffy is the action movie “Boss Level” , a violent, satirical shoot-em-up about a secret agent reliving the same day over and over that sounds like a “Groundhog Day”/”John Wick”/”Edge of Tomorrow” mashup. It looks like dumb fun and it’s got a good cast, but the biggest name — Mel Gibson as the bad guy — is the most problematic.
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