Eighty-nine minutes: Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
A chance encounter with a biker (played by Joe Manganiello) convinces Pee-wee Herman to leave his sheltered, idyllic town for the first time. And wouldn’t you know it, all kinds of zany hijinks ensue. Catch it Friday on Netflix. (netflix.ca)
Three minutes, forty-three seconds: Came Here to Forget
Even though Blake Shelton didn’t write the song, the first release from his upcoming album, it’s too tempting not to search it for clues about the country singer’s divorce from Miranda Lambert and subsequent relationship with Gwen Stefani. (youtube.com)
Five minutes: VancouFUR
If you’ve been wondering what would happen if a convention of furries, people who dress up as anthropomorphic animals, coincidentally happened to be held in the same Vancouver hotel where Syrian refugees are living? Well, it happened. And everyone there apparently loved it. (independent.co.uk)
Two minutes, twenty seconds: Florence Foster Jenkins
Meryl Streep plays an American socialite who takes up singing even though she’s terrible at it. The first trailer plays up the farce that no one has the nerve to tell Jenkins how bad she is, but ultimately director Stephen Frears (The Queen) telling an inspirational story, based on a real one. (youtube.com)