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Five Action Movies to Stream Right Now
Looking for some high-octane thrills? We scour the streaming services to find the right options for you.
Olga Kurylenko in “Sentinelle.”Credit.Netflix
By Robert Daniels
April 23, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET
There is no genre I associate more with the theatrical experience than action. Often painted across a wide canvas and bolstered by extravagant set pieces, these movies are uniquely fashioned to play on the biggest screen possible. By the grace of the entertainment gods, thank goodness, home flat screens just keep getting bigger. Action further suits the home because the outsize nature of the genre has the ability to turn your cozy living room into an energetic hub for adventure.
Movies with Mary: Finding Ohana is golden
Mary Cox, mary.cox@edwpub.net
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Who doesn’t want to go on a treasure hunt? “Finding ‘Ohana” is about finding treasure. I know I would have loved to discover a box crammed full of gold and jewels when I was young and adventurous. Now, I play the lottery instead. I probably stand a better chance of finding lost gold than winning the lottery but someone’s gotta try.
When two Brooklyn teenagers, Pili (Kea Peahu) and Ione (Alex Aiono), are forced to spend a summer in rural Oahu, Hawaii, helping their widowed mother, Leilani (Kelly Hu), to nurse their estranged grandfather, Kimo (Branscombe Richmond) back to health, they are less than thrilled and are not shy at showing it to their mother and grandfather.