'The Lighthouse' hits Amazon Prime, 'Moonrise Kingdom' streams on Facebook

Posted April 18, 2020 7:25 am

Associated Press

Looking for new movies to watch at home? Here are three:

• "Moonrise Kingdom": Summer camps are in jeopardy this year, but you and the (older) kids can escape to New Penzance in Wes Anderson's enchanting and wonderfully dark "Moonrise Kingdom," playing for free on Facebook through Focus Features' Movie Mondays. With a delightful soundtrack featuring Francoise Hardy and Hank Williams, the best of 1960s preppy New England styles and a young Lucas Hedges, it's an aesthetic treat.

• "The Lighthouse": If you'd rather double down on cabin fever, Amazon Prime has Robert Eggers' "The Lighthouse." Moody, claustrophobic and flatulence filled (really), Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star as a few grizzled "wickies" who are tasked with minding a lighthouse in New England in the late 19th century. They go a little mad in the process.

• "Roar": Or maybe you're craving some "Tiger King" adjacent material? "Roar" is just the ticket, available on video on demand through Alamo Drafthouse and Vimeo. From 1981, the film with Tippi Hedren, a teenage Melanie Griffith and 150 lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars and elephants is fiction, but the injuries sustained by at least 70 members of the cast and crew were very real.

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