Linda Holmes

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And sometimes it's worth taking a breath and checking in on some of the ones you might have missed.

That's right.

I'm calling these fun streaming movies to check out at home.

And they are fun, I will say, in different ways as we will get into.

So Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice is a movie that came out on Hulu at the end of March.

It stars James Marsden, Vince Vaughn and Aza Gonzalez.

Mike, who is played by Marsden, is kind of a hired gun.

They're both sort of gangsters.

And Mike is also having an affair with Nick's wife, Alice, who is played by Gonzalez.

Mike is trying to quit the gangster business, I guess you'd say.

But one night, Nick comes and cajoles Mike into doing a job for him.

And that job ultimately reveals the existence of a time machine, just saying, a time machine that has created a second Nick.

So now there are two Vince Vons.

There's present Nick.

There's future Nick.

It turns at that point into kind of a one wild night comedy where everything is happening and everything is just going on simultaneously.

But the difference is that they're all trapped in this bizarre kind of science fiction tinged crime picture.

I would probably have liked it a little bit more if it were about 10% less violent.