MARCH 29 — With preparations for the upcoming Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration kicking into full gear this weekend, I’m pretty sure that most Muslims in Malaysia would either be spending their time on the road and getting stuck in traffic trying to reach their respective hometowns, or running around their local markets buying all the ingredients needed to cook their usual Raya feast for the whole family and visiting friends and relatives to enjoy.

Surely going to the cinema is not an option for a lot of us in the midst of all this traffic jam and Raya preparations.

But if you’re looking to stream some movies as you wind down your busy day in bed or in front of the television, here are a few recommendations, some on Netflix and some on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Google Play.

Some are suitable for the whole family while some not so much.

Revelations

This latest film from Yeon Sang-ho, director of Train To Busan, is a Netflix original, and it’s thankfully much, much better than his last Netflix movie, the quite disappointing JUNG_E.

An investigation on how religious mania, specifically how an unrelenting devotion to a messianic figure can somehow corrupt the human soul if followed blindly, the film focuses on two characters; a young pastor named Sung Min-chan (played by Ryu Jun-yeol from Alienoid) and a female detective named Lee Yeon-hui (played by Shin Hyun-been).

Cold Wallet

What would you do if your crypto investment turns out to be a scam? According to the hapless lead characters in Cold Wallet, the best option is to find the crypto king responsible and not only get their money back, but also give back the stolen money to everyone else who invested in the cryptocurrency called Tulip.

In an escalating series of blackly comic moments once they’ve managed to infiltrate the hideout of said crypto king, our three heroes — single father Billy (an excellent Raul Castillo), his hippie friend Dom (Tony Cavalero) and his friend from Reddit named Eve (Melonie Diaz) — find themselves way in over their heads once the situation escalates further and further to finally involve violence and death.

It’s clearly a low budget film with only one main location, but director Cutter Hodierne has crafted an engrossing and often very funny thriller that should make him a name to watch in the near future.

* This is the personal opinion of the columnist.