It seems like movies are everywhere these days. With the advent of streaming services, the selection has ballooned, and on one occasion you might have found yourself staring blankly at your Paramount+ library, vainly wondering what to watch. Well, never fear. We at Streaming Now have prepared a virtual charcuterie board, if you will. Here are three of our favorite Paramount+ films to watch this month.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
There’s no better place to start than the 2022 Best Picture winner, and the history-making most-awarded film of all time. Michelle Yeoh stars in Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Wang, a middle-aged Chinese immigrant and laundromat owner who finds herself faced with tax concerns, a weakening marriage, and a growing rift between herself and her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu). But if you thought this would be a quiet family drama, you’re in for a surprise (and also probably are doing a great job avoiding screens).
Evelyn’s quiet life is turned upside down when her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) suddenly has his consciousness taken over by a version of himself from an alternate dimension. This new version of Waymond explains that for every different life choice a person takes, a new dimension is created, that people can learn to travel between dimensions, and – oh yeah – that a nihilistic and evil other-dimensional version of their daughter is going to destroy everything.
With her family by her side, Evelyn sets out to defeat Alpha-Joy – and, just maybe, reconcile with her own family as well.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Years have passed since the bard-turned-thief Edgin Darvis (Chris Pine) was imprisoned, but now, in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, he and his longtime friend, the barbarian Holga Kilgore (Michelle Rodriguez) have finally escaped. The first order of business? Rescue Edgin’s daughter Kira (Chloe Coleman) from Lord Forge (Hugh Grant), the man who betrayed them. The second? Steal a Tablet of Reawakening to resurrect Edgin’s wife.
Together, they recruit their last former ally, the sorcerer Simon, as well as Doric, a druid whose forest is under threat from Forge’s machinations – and set their sights squarely on the heist of the century. If they succeed, Edgin will have his wife and daughter back. If they fail, well, he’ll still be reunited with his wife, in a certain sense at least. Lauded by Rotten Tomatoes as being “an infectiously good-spirited comedy with a solid emotional core,” this fantastic action comedy will keep you smiling until the credits roll.
Devotion
For our final film, we’re closing with a heartstring-plucking guitar pick of a true story, Devotion. It’s the 1950s, a time when America is bitterly racially divided (yes, even more so than now). Nevertheless, when the Black fighter pilot Ensign Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors) meets his white fellow aviator Lt. Tom Hudner (Glen Powell), the two men become friends.
As their friendship deepens, each man is irrevocably changed – Hudner gains a new appreciation for the struggles Brown has gone through due to nothing more than the color of his skin, while Brown gains a glimmer of hope that the bitter racism that sets his family apart might someday weaken. Then the Korean War breaks out, but the friendship between Brown and Hudner is stronger than any North Korean bullet or bomb. One for action and drama fans alike, Devotion is a hidden gem with a whole lot of heart.
Each of these movies is streaming now on Paramount+.
