Your Juno Streaming Guide: The Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch During the Snowpocalypse Inline
Photo: Courtesy of ©The Weinstein Company1/7If you’re staying in with your significant other . . .
Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy star as a married couple whose relationship inevitably falls apart in **Ned Benson’**s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. The film depicts both sides of the breakup, each remembered in vastly different ways. Think of it as a more compelling version of the concept of memory explored in Showtime’s The Affair.
Available on iTunes
Photo: Courtesy of ©Lions Gate Entertainment2/7If you’re stuck at home with your roommates . . .
**Justin Simien’**s college campus satire Dear White People is bold, smart, and way funnier than most comedies we’ve seen in a while. A refreshing look at race in today’s “post-race” world, this film will have you both laughing and cringing.
Available on iTunes
Photo: Courtesy of ©Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France3/7If you’re going through a French New Wave period . . .
Skip the obvious (Godard, Truffaut) and give Elevator to the Gallows by Louis Malle a chance. This 1958 film about a femme fatale (played by Jeanne Moreau) who is plotting to kill her husband was Malle’s directorial debut and features a soundtrack completely improvised on the spot by Miles Davis.
Available on Hulu Plus
Photo: Courtesy of ©FX Networks4/7If you feel like binge-watching . . .
Go ahead and prepare for the season-three premiere of the critically acclaimed FX series The Americans. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play a pair of Russian KGB spies who have lived undercover as a picture-perfect American family in a suburb outside Washington, D.C., for years. Things get complicated when the terms of their fake marriage start to get blurry.
Available on Amazon Instant Video
Photo: Courtesy of ©IFC Films5/7If you want to be prepared for awards season . . .
If you haven’t watched **Richard Linkalater’**s groundbreaking film Boyhood, what are you waiting for? Filmed over the course of twelve years, the movie not only tells a coming-of-age story we can all relate to, but it’s also a fascinating meditation on aging and onscreen storytelling.
Available on iTunes