New movies to watch at home include 'Sea Fever,' 'Stray Dolls,' 'We Summon the Darkness,' 'The Lost Husband' and 'Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind.'
If the coronavirus quarantine has you tired of your usual cinematic menu, here’s our guide to watching more adventurous films at home.Early in the quiet crime drama “Stray Dolls,” an Indian immigrant named Riz arrives at a run-down motel managed by Una , a shady Russian who both hires her to work as a maid and rooms her with Dallas , a runaway who does odd jobs with Una’s thug son Jimmy .
References to 1980s pop culture abound in “We Summon the Darkness,” a well-acted horror-comedy that works better as a retro slice-of-life than as a genre film. Alexandrio Daddario, Maddie Hasson and Amy Forsyth are all terrific as a trio of best buds, who meet up with three hard-partying metalheads in the parking lot outside a rock show.
Inevitably, the evening takes a dark and bloody turn; and eventually, the original sextet are joined by new arrivals, including Johnny Knoxville as a fiery televangelist. But director never seems as committed to the “kids getting butchered out in the sticks” part of this story as he is in the “Metallica fans hanging out and swapping stories” part.
Available April 10. Rated: R for bloody violence, pervasive language, some drug use and sexual references. It wouldn’t take much adjusting to convert the romantic drama “The Lost Husband” into a Hallmark Channel Original. Based on a Katherine Center novel — adapted to the screen by writer-director Vicky Wight — the film hits all the usual “boy meets girl in a quaint little community” marks.
Yet while nearly everything about “The Lost Husband” is pat and predictable, the movie’s easy to watch. Credit the charisma and polished professionalism of Bibb and Duhamel — along with the strong supporting performances of Nora Dunn and Sharon Lawrence, who play the heroine’s feisty aunt and estranged mother, respectively. The pace here is more leisurely than a TV movie, but the actors add a touch more depth. Romance fans should appreciate the effort.
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