Instead of asking the person you want to smush over to “Netflix and chill,” you’ll probably gain more points by asking them out to the movies. Here are some suggestions for today:
The Big Lebowski: The Coen Brothers’ neo-noir comedy inspired by Raymond Chandler, about an LA slacker and avid bowler.
Cinerama Fan Film Series: Cinerama let fans vote on over 40 films for inclusion in this series. Today: The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, The Godfather, and Spirited Away.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: A fifteen-year-old girl explores her sexuality and has a relationship with her mother’s boyfriend. Scandalous!
Dope: If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. Ijeoma Oluo says it’s “A smarter, sweeter, and much better-acted movie in the tradition of Friday and House Party.” I think Blake Anderson (Workaholics) is the only white person in the whole movie.
The End of the Tour: Jason Segal is amazing as the late David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg is insufferable as always as David Lipsky, the journalist who profiled Wallace for Rolling Stone.
Mistress America: Another collab between partners in life, love and ART, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. Gerwig plays Brooke, a Holly Golightly type who shows her soon to be step-sister Tracey (Lola Kirke) how to live more freely. Like Harold and Maude!
Porco Rosso: Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film about a former World War I pilot, now freelance bounty hunter, who has been transformed into an anthropomorphic pig due to a strange curse.
Ricki and the Flash: Meryl Streep plays a woman who shirks motherhood in favor of rockstardom.
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine: Did you know that Steve Jobs was an asshat? Well, ur gonna.
Straight Outta Compton: A biopic about the legendary hiphop group N.W.A. It stars O’Shea Jackson, Jr., as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Easy-E, and Paul Giamati and N.W.A’s manager Jerry Heller.
Trainwreck: Amy Schumer plays Amy, a woman of “questionable morals” who meets the cute/smart/funny Aaron (Bill Hader) and learns HOW TO LOVE. It sounds iffy, but it actually flips a lot of rom com genre conventions, which we appreciate.
For a full list of our recommended films this Sunday, check out our Movie Times page.