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PALM SPRINGS It’s a tale as old as Groundhog Day: Boy meets girl, boy gets stuck reliving the same day over and over. But in this hip comedy, Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti find new, hilarious wrinkles in time displacement. Hulu. Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You
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In this Disney Music Group-produced podcast, musicians explain how they composed the scores for various movies and television shows within the Disney hierarchy, from Lucasfilm to Pixar to FX. Highlights: Mark Isham and Florence and the Machine’s Isabella Summers describe their collaboration on Little Fires Everywhere; Henry Jackman unpacks his industrial-influenced score for Captain America: The Winter Soldier; and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez talk Frozen. Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts. –Geoff Carter
Between the pandemic, a Twitter presidency and murder hornets, it’s easy to feel trapped in an alternate timeline. Rodham, a new novel by bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld, imagines a different global outcome. In her story, Hillary Rodham Clinton never marries a future president, never gains that equally famous and toxic last name. NPR calls the counterfactual “nauseating, moving, morally suggestive, technically brilliant.” As we inch closer to a potential second lockdown, there’s no better time to see for yourself. –C. Moon Reed
What happens when filmmakers and actors like Ladj Ly (Les Miserables), Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary) are forced to quarantine due to a pandemic? Homemade on Netflix has some answers, as acclaimed artists and directors from all over the globe channel their creative inspirations into short films about isolation, home and humanity. “Art is a way of surviving,” a voice at the end of the film’s trailer says, and each brief episode provides an enduring examination. Netflix. –Leslie Ventura
