The saga of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her ground-roots coup against the totalitarian regime of the Capitol arrives on Peacock this month. That includes the original “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire,” and “Mockingjay” parts one and two. 

The series is set in a dystopian future America where children fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games to entertain the ruling classes. When Katniss emerges as an unlikely champion from one of the poorest districts, what begins as a contest for survival snowballs into a full-blown revolution. Of course, this wouldn’t be a young adult flick without a love triangle, but thankfully the teenage drama takes a back seat to the political intrigue and nail-biting action of the games themselves. 

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‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

“Jesus Christ Superstar” is one of those movies that feels like a fever dream and is all the better for it. The rock opera soundtrack is of course iconic, filled with earworms that are bound to get stuck in your head like Carl Anderson’s “Heaven on Their Minds” or “Superstar.” 

But it’s the movie’s setting, filmed on location in a literal desert in Israel, combined with modern-day costumes and props that land somewhere between backwoods renaissance fair and retrofuturist cosplay that really leave a lasting impression. Ted Neely delivers a powerful yet understated performance as Jesus, but it’s really Anderson as Judas who forms the heart and soul of the movie, whether he’s belting out his inner turmoil and reservations from the hills of Jerusalem or beyond the grave. 

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‘The Prince of Egypt’ 

Ok I know what you’re thinking: “Good lord, are there really three musicals on this list?” Listen, when you give a grown-up theater kid free rein to pick their favorite movies, you get what you get.  

Before Dreamworks pivoted exclusively to 3D after the runaway success of “Shrek,” the studio firmly established itself as a competent Disney rival with “The Prince of Egypt.” The second feature film from DreamWorks and the first to be traditionally animated, “The Prince of Egypt” wowed critics and audiences alike with its poignant, haunting soundtrack and gorgeous visuals that blended then-nascent 3D technology with traditional 2D animation. 

Like a lot of kids, I was too busy being scared out of my wits by “The Prince of Egypt” to appreciate it growing up. Only upon revisiting it as an adult was I finally able to understand why it’s such a critically acclaimed movie (even if “The Plagues” sequence is still absolute nightmare fuel).

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