This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes some highlights of the art streaming at the “Brattlelite,” the antihero classic “Cool Hand Luke” and a bunch of others, including a Liam Neeson misfire, a pretty weepie and some sci-fi curiosities.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes all those in the 18th annual Belmont World Film’s Family Film Festival and what’s in the Brattle Theatre’s new “Brattlite” initiative, but leave room for the classic “Steamboat Bill Jr.,” intriguing “Happy Face” and much more.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes a prison movie unlike any other, a tale of a mother’s empowerment, a documentary that demands unpeeling – like an onion – and a crazy ride into a World War II bomber where the enemy may be inside.

Relegated largely to the small screen, many of our favorite films looked inside as well, from the psychology of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” to the forced interiority of “Sound of Metal,” or just shrank the American dream, from “Nomadland” to “First Cow.”

For even more reason to look forward to 2021, the exhibit “The Carpet Grew Like a Garden” begins Jan. 14 at Gallery 263 in Cambridgeport, showing works by Iranian-born Shabnam Jannesari.

Boston expat comedian Myq Kaplan has signed on as co-host of the weekly “Comedy Studio Podcast” produced out of the Union Square, Somerville, comedy club, replacing the outgoing Eli Levy. But he had terms.

People interested in serving on the Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women should show interest by Jan. 15.

Immeasurable rage simmers below the surface of “Promising Young Woman,” a biting play on the rape-revenge thriller with a deliberately jarring and divisive tonal shift in the third act.

What started as a local mentorship program has grown into a national contest for girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Oompa and Walter Alice Sickert, of Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys, have penned a full-fledged battle cry in “Love Be the Way,” part of a compilation of tracks inspired by “And She Could be Next,” a PBS documentary on rising women of color in politics.