Your at-home movie nights are about to get stacked with new things to stream this week, from the Seattle Turkish Film Festival Past Event Like List and Sandra Kogut's Three Summers, streaming via the Northwest Film Forum and SIFF, respectively, to nationwide options like a Euphoria Past Event Like List Christmas Special Past Event Like List on HBO and Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special on Apple TV+. See all our picks below. Plus, if you haven't heard, The Stranger's amateur porn film festival HUMP! is accepting submissions through January 8, as is the stoner short film fest SPLIFF, through March 5! Plus, don't forget to check out the second installment of The Stranger's Film Club, a new biweekly video series entering Black films with Stranger film experts Jasmyne Keimig and Charles Mudede.

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Streaming: Local Connection

76 Days Remind Like List
If you think it's too soon for a COVID-19 documentary, think again. Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and a third anonymous filmmaker created this devastating and candid look into the virus' early days in Wuhan, China, filmed back in January during the city's initial shutdown. 
SIFF
Starting Friday

Another Round Past Event Like List
Danish snack Mads Mikkelsen stars as a bored school teacher who, along with three of his colleagues, takes a note from the books of Silicon Valley microdose enthusiasts and attempts to maintain a constant level of 0.05% drunkenness at all times with the goal of increasing his confidence and quality of life. Addictive substance that it is, the experiment quickly gets out of hand.
Grand Illusion & Grand Cinema
Starting Friday

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan Past Event Like List
You know Shane MacGowan as the wild-toothed lead singer of the Irish punk-rock band the Pogues, but Julien Temple's documentary delves into the musician's story before achieving fame, highlighting his extensive knowledge of music. Variety classifies it "in the upper echelon of recent rock docs."
Grand Illusion
Starting Friday

Mayor
"Local government is the most beautiful field of work in our country," declares Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah and the center of this documentary filmed during a period of socio-political unrest over the 2017 holiday season. "It combines the neorealism of a Rossellini film with the absurdist humor of Veep [...] to astonishing and heartbreaking effect," reads press materials.
SIFF & Grand Cinema
Starting Friday

Minor Premise Past Event Like List
A reclusive neuroscientist (Sathya Sridharan of Bikini Moon and Coup) becomes entangled in his own risky experiment: locking himself at home with his ex-girlfriend (Paton Ashbrook) in a den of trauma, regret, and the dark sides of human nature. Enjoy! 
Grand Illusion
Starting Friday

Sing Me a Song Past Event Like List
Returning to one of the subjects of his 2013 drama Happiness, Thomas Balmès's new film follows a teenage boy studying in a monastery in the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, where smartphones and other modern technology are beginning to compete with ancient practices. Zoomer that he is, the music-loving student strikes up a friendship with a singer on WeChat from the capital city of Thimphu, and he ends up selling medicinal mushrooms to raise enough money to meet her IRL. 
SIFF
Starting Friday

Three Summers
Sandra Kogut's clever second feature spans a trio of summers in the life of Madá, the caretaker of luxury condos owned by a wealthy (and very condescending) Rio de Janeiro family. While working toward her own side career as the proprietor of a roadside snack kiosk, she finds herself a bystander in a major money-laundering scandal.
SIFF
Starting Friday

Film Festivals

HUMP! Greatest Hits, Volume 2 Past Event Like List
The HUMP! team is bringing back some fan-favorite amateur porn shorts from years past in the second volume of streamable compilations. If you get inspired, find out how to make and submit your own HUMP! film here—submissions are due January 8!
EverOut Presents
Saturday only

Seattle Turkish Film Festival Past Event Like List
The Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington will present the seventh annual edition of their community-driven, volunteer-led festival featuring a rich panorama of new Turkish films. We're excited about Queen Lear, Pelin Esmer's documentary about a group of peasant women from southern Turkey who founded a theater group and now travel on the road with their unique production of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Northwest Film Forum
Starting Saturday

Streaming: Nationwide

Big Mouth: Season 4 Remind Like List
Along with well-known stars like Nick Kroll, it seems that all the funniest indie podcast hosts and comedians write, have written, or voice a character on Big Mouth (like Iconography's Ayo Edebri and Keep It's Aida Osman). Knowing that, we have high hopes for the new season of this adult animated show about preteens hitting puberty.
Netflix
Starting Friday

Chef Remind Like List
Jon Favreau plays Carl, a once-promising chef who’s settled into comfortable mediocrity at a high-end LA restaurant. When a critic (Oliver Platt) pans his food as “needy” and uninspired, Carl promptly has a public breakdown that goes viral and renders him unhireable in the fancy food world. Eventually, though, Carl finds his bliss: cooking Cuban street food from an old taco truck. 
Netflix

Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes Remind Like List
If you missed the broadcast of the Radio City Rockettes' Christmas Special on NBC, which was recorded at the Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center and features special appearances from Jenna Dewan, Whoopi Goldberg, Josh Groban, Carla Hall, Padma Lakshmi, and John Legend, you can stream it on Peacock at your convenience.
Peacock

Euphoria Christmas Special Past Event Like List
While the second season of HBO's incredible Gen-Z drama series is on hold until the pandemic lets up, we will get a special one-off holiday episode revolving around where the events of the season 1 finale leave our main character, Rue (Zendaya). 
HBO Max
Starting Sunday

The Fifth Element Remind Like List
Prince was the inspiration for Ruby Rhod, the most striking character in the 1997 film The Fifth Element. Indeed, the director wanted Prince to play the role. He could revisit the delicious extravagances of Christopher Tracy (the character Prince played in Under the Cherry Moon), and even wear a totally nutty and diaphanous costume designed by the film’s wardrobe supervisor, Jean Paul Gaultier. But Prince didn’t like Gaultier’s design for Ruby Rhod (he described it as too effeminate!), and he turned down the role that would immortalize Chris Tucker for millions. Tucker simply stole the movie, which, to be honest, was not hard to do because The Fifth Element is not great. Rhod’s funky walk, his ridiculous fast talk, his popping sexual energy, his blurring between straight and gay, his uppity entourage—all of this is just a remix of Prince-groomed band, Morris Day and the Time. In The Fifth Element, the standard Chris Tucker shtick vanishes in his portrayal of a galactic Prince on a spaceship to the stars. CHARLES MUDEDE
Hulu

The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (Season 3)
Fresh out of serotonin? A new season of the most genteel cooking competition show on TV returns with a bevy of Yuletide-treat challenges, from gingerbread houses to penguin cake pops. 
Netflix
Starting Friday

The Hardy Boys
Brothers Frank and Joe, the protagonists of the nostalgic mystery chapter-book series The Hardy Boys, come to life courtesy of Rohan Campbell and Alexander Elliot in this new sleuthy Hulu series. The adaptation bumps Joe's age up to 13 and Frank to 16 to make this feel less like a kids' show, and it also elaborates on the sudden death of their mother as their reason for being moved to the country to live with their Aunt Trudy.
Hulu
Starting Friday

Mank Remind Like List
The newest film from David Fincher, Mank, is here and it's most certainly not what we expected from the director. It's a black and white, semi-autobiographical biopic of writer Herman J. Mankiewicz as he works on the screenplay for the acclaimed film Citizen Kane. It's been six years since Fincher made his last film, Gone Girl. This new feature could not be more different. I can't overstate how much it stands out as an odd entry in Fincher’s filmography. To be clear, odd does not mean bad. Just different. The praiseworthy aspects remain Fincher's devout commitment to creating precise visuals with near-perfect shot construction. One particular scene is when Gary Oldman's Mankiewicz, who prefers to go by the titular Mank, strolls onto a film set while nursing a hangover. Everything is meticulously crafted, and Fincher creates a unique feeling of being in a fantasy world that also happens to be sharply witty. CHASE HUTCHINSON
Netflix
Starting Friday

Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special
Christmas queen of the 21st century, Mariah Carey, brings on the additional star-power of Tiffany Haddish, Ariana Grande, and Jennifer Hudson in her latest musical holiday special that should serve as a fine visual supplement to her beloved holiday album.
Apple TV+
Starting Friday

Nate — A One Man Show
Comedian Natalie Palamides flip-flops the traditional Netflix stand-up special model by adopting the persona of an alpha male who's leaning into his sensitive side.
Netflix

Runaway Bride
Julia Roberts and Richard Gier star in this post-Pretty Woman rom-com, not as an obscenely rich dude and a prostitute who fall in love, but as a journalist (Gier) chasing a small-town story about a woman (Roberts) who can't stop running away from the altar. (It was clearly a slow news week in this fictional world.) It's a perfect movie to put on in the background while you're baking cookies, polishing your spoons, or mending your socks. 
Netflix

The Secret Garden
When a spoiled Mary Lennox loses her parents to cholera and is sent to live with her uncle (Colin Firth) on his remote country estate in the Yorkshire moors, she discovers a hidden magical garden. This Hulu adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel looks expectedly whimsical. 
Hulu
Starting Sunday

Selena: The Series Remind Like List
Tejano pop superstar Selena gets the Netflix biopic treatment in this nine-episode series chronicling her journey from childhood to mega-stardom, featuring a full Latnix cast led by Christian Serratos.
Netflix
Starting Friday

Sorry We Missed You
From British filmmaker Ken Loach (Loach on Loach, Jimmy's Hall) comes a working-class family drama that exposes the maybe-not-so secret dark side of the gig economy. The New York Times' Wesley Morris calls Loach "one of Earth’s most venerable and venerated directors."
Criterion Channel

Sound of Metal
Sound of Metal is a transcendent film that happens to be deeply grounded. It feels revolutionary, weaving a profound rhythm into its quietest moments. It stars Riz Ahmed as Ruben, a drummer for a metal band who discovers he's rapidly losing his hearing and with it almost his entire way of living. Ruben fears he'll no longer be able to perform and that he'll lose his girlfriend, Olivia Cooke's Lou, a source of stability in his life who tours with him. The path Ruben must undertake requires him to reevaluate his entire sense of self and identity. Sound of Metal explores Deaf—with a capital D—community and culture in a way few other pieces of cinema have, breaking down prevailing notions outsiders might have. The richer reality, which the film taps into, is that the Deaf community is vast in background and beliefs. The film complicates the often leveled-down narrative of the community, exploding what life can be like for those who experience some form of deafness. CHASE HUTCHINSON
Amazon Prime
Starting Friday