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The Oscars are Sunday, which means you have just a few days to watch the nominees you haven’t seen yet. You might not be able to watch every nominated film this year like our own Joe Reid, but you can sure make a valiant effort–especially since some major contenders are now available to watch at home. Whether you use Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu or your cable’s on demand service, there are always a lot of new releases out there waiting for you to discover.
If you missed Best Animated Feature nominee Coco when it was in theaters and didn’t want to pay full price for a digital copy, the time to rent the latest Pixar smash hit is now! You can also rent fellow nominees (albeit in the live-action categories) Darkest Hour, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird. And while you can’t rent it yet, you can purchase I, Tonya digitally, meaning you’ll be able to rewatch Margot Robbie and Allison Janney’s performances forever!
What else can you buy or rent this week? Find out by taking a look at the collection of dreamy romances, fishy romances, and riveting documentaries now available for you to enjoy from the comfort of your very own home!
The Shape of Water
Even if you haven’t seen this Oscar frontrunner yet, you probably know what it is: Guillermo del Toro’s old Hollywood-style, sweeping romance between a mute laboratory janitor (Sally Hawkins) and an exotic man-shaped fish creature (Doug Jones). The thing that doesn’t get talked about enough (obviously, there’s fish/woman sex in this movie) is Richard Jenkins’ Oscar-nominated performance as Giles, a older gay man struggling with his career and hopelessly lonely, yet still manages to get by. It’s charming, bittersweet, and easily my favorite supporting performance of the year. But that’s just me letting you know that there’s more to this stellar movie than underwater lovemaking! The Shape of Water will be available to rent digitally on March 13.
[Where to stream The Shape of Water]
Call Me By Your Name
You can purchase Call Me By Your Name right now, and if you need to be convinced to add it to your digital library, here’s what Joe Reid wrote when he put this movie at the top of his list of 2018’s Oscar nominees:
A screen romance that translates the intoxicating, frustrating, head-swimming rush of a physical attraction that takes you fully by surprise. Director Luca Guadagnino and his utterly perfect cast — the nominated Timothee Chalamet, the unjustly robbed Michael Stuhlbarg, the aggravatingly perfect Armie Hammer, the unsung Amira Casar — built a world that exists very much of its time and place (the 1980s Italian countryside) while still seeming so deeply relatable on any number of emotional and memory levels. It’s a triumph of desire and fleeting moments that will rightly linger in cinematic history.
You can rent CMBYN digitally on March 13.
[Where to stream Call Me By Your Name]
To Buy:
Call Me By Your Name
Faces Places
Ferdinand
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
To Rent:
Coco
Darkest Hour
Hangman
Just Getting Started
Lady Bird
Let There Be Light
Murder on the Orient Express
Spettacolo
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
$0.99 iTunes Movie Rental
I’m definitely not one to really recommend you watch any of Michael Bay’s Transformers work, let’s get that clear. These movies, they are… they are certainly a thing! But for $0.99? A penny under a dollar? This is a movie that connects modern day alien/robot/cars with legit Arthurian legend, meaning it’s both a movie about an ’80s toy line and also a movie about knights and swords and legends and all that stuff. Doesn’t that sound like it’s worth at least $0.99? Even if you just fast-forward to the parts that look the most spectacle-ish, this could be a curiosity worth investigating.
