Reel People picks for what movies to stream

BY Ron and Leigh

During these trying times, movie theaters and just about everything else, have been closed. Yet, more people than ever are watching movies… they’re just watching them at home. Reel People have been offering our friends ideas and suggestions for what to rent or stream at home. Below, we have listed our Top 10 favorite movies, in sequence, for each of the past six years. These are the same lists we’ve posted in The Friday Flyer each year at Academy Award season.

2014

Leigh’s 2014 Top 10: Maleficent, Whiplash, Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, Into the Woods, Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies, Dawn of Planet of Apes, Gone Girl, American Sniper, Unbroken.

Ron’s 2014 Top 10: Imitation Game, Whiplash, Grand Budapest Hotel, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, American Sniper, Dawn of Planet of Apes, Edge of Tomorrow, Selma, Lucy.

2015

Leigh’s 2015 Top 10: Furious 7, Hunger Games Finale, Jurassic World, Inside Out, The Martian, Star Wars VII, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Spectre, Bridge of Spies, Spotlight.

Ron’s 2015 Top 10: The Revenant, Mad Max Fury Rd, The Big Short, Spotlight, The Martian, Jurassic World, Bridge of Spies, Inside Out, Star Wars VII and Creed

2016

Leigh’s 2016 Top 10: Passengers, Jungle Book, Sully, Fantastic Beasts, Dr. Strange, Jason Bourne, Allied, The Accountant, Girl on the Train, Star Trek Beyond.

Ron’s 2016 Top 10: La La Land, Hidden Figures, Lion, Girl on the Train, Jungle Book, Deadpool, Hell or High Water, Dr. Strange, The Accountant, Rogue One.

2017

Leigh’s 2017 Top 10: Wonder Woman, The Post, Darkest Hour, Thor: Ragarok, Coco, Logan, Beauty and Beast, Fate of the Furious, Pirates: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and The Greatest Showman.

Ron’s 2017 Top 10: Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, Three Billboards, Dunkirk, Wonder Woman, The Post, Greatest Showman, Coco, I, Tonya, and Thor: Ragarok.

2018

Leigh’s 2018 Top 10: Quiet Place, Crazy Rich Asians, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Mission Impossible, Green Book, Aquaman, On the Basis of Sex, Mary Poppins, Venom.

Ron’s 2018 Top 10: Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Rich Asians, Quiet Place, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Black Panther, A Star is Born, On the Basis of Sex, Aquaman, First Man.

2019

The Joker (Joaquin Phoenix), a failed stand-up comedian in the early 1980s, is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure. Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

Leigh’s 2019 Top 10: Avengers, Downton Abbey, The Irishman, Joker, The Two Popes, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Knives Out, Frozen II, Judy, Shazam.

Ron’s 2019 Top 10: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Joker, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Two Popes, Midway, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Rocketman, Knives Out, Yesterday.

You just have to find one or more in this list that looks interesting that you haven’t seen! Regular readers of our Reel People column know we rarely agree with serious moviegoers and don’t always agree with each other. We’re not saying these are the best movies. We’re just offering movies we enjoyed watching and hope you find one or more that you like as well.

A good movie can help pass the time enjoyably. We sincerely hope everyone stays safe and can resume a “normal” life sooner rather than later. We are looking forward to the summer blockbuster season and holiday movies once again. We hope to see you all there, or anywhere.

This review is rated R (Restricted) for long periods of boredom, extensive anxiety and inexplicable weeping. It’s kind of interesting that every disaster movie starts with the government ignoring a scientist, ouch! Worse yet, this Sci-Fi fantasy features some slob eating bat soup in a Chinese meat market, which causes a U.S. shortage of toilet paper, naw!

Or, maybe we’re all seriously over-reacting like Brendan Fraser’s parents in “Blast from the Past” (1999). It’s all documented in the movies, so go see one! We never thought we’d actually be in a futuristic apocalyptic flick. Yet here we are, living the dream.