You know how movies credits include an assurance that no animals were hurt in the making of the film? That is a certification that is independently verified and taken very seriously. If a bug is discovered in the studio, okay to kill it. If a bug is on screen, someone will be there to make sure it is alive and healthy when filming is over.

And now ReFrame has adopted that model to ensure that films are made with gender parity on and off screen. Watch for their new “stamp” in the credits, from “Bumblebee” to “Crazy Rich Asians” and “A Simple Favor,” Films already showing the stamp of gender equality are listed here.

There won’t be crowds on Capitol Hill, but the concert will go on this year, with Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise hosting a special presentation of PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert: America’s Night of Remembrance.

FandangoNOW, Fandango’s on-demand streaming service is giving home movie watchers a “Mega Movie Weekend.” Starting today until end of day Monday, May 25th, fans can enjoy renting hundreds of films starting at 99 cents, including critically acclaimed indies, Oscar-winners, and fan favorites.

Movies to Watch for $0.99 include:
The Disaster Artist
Eighth Grade
Escape Plan
Ex Machina
The Expendables 2
The Farewell
Force Majeure
Hereditary
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Lady Bird
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Lighthouse
Mandy
Midsommar
Moonlight
The Secret of Kells
Short Circuit
Short Term 12
Sliding Doors
Sophie’s Choice
Waves
Whale Rider

Movies for $1.99 include:
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Star is Born (2018)
About Time
Air Force One
Annabelle: Creation
Apocalypse Now
Back to the Beach
Bad Moms
Beverly Hills Cop
The Big Sick
Carol
Chef
Chinatown
The Conjuring
Couples Retreat
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Dirty Dancing
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Get Him to the Greek
Glory
Gravity
Hacksaw Ridge
Hamburger Hill
The Hangover
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Horrible Bosses
Inception
It’s a Wonderful Life
Red
Last Flag Flying
Lucy
Magic Mike
Mud
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
The Notebook
The Nun
Oblivion
The Patriot
Rambo
The Shack
Silver Linings Playbook
Sisters
Snowpiercer
Spotlight
Stripes
Summer School
Terminator 2: Judgment day
Tortilla Soup
Transformers
Twilight
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I
Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part II
The Wall
Wonder

Movies for $2.99 include:
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Bombshell
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who
The Good Liar
Ip Man 4
Knives Out
The Last Full Measure
Like a Boss
Midway (2019)
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Pitch Perfect 3
Playing with Fire
Rio
Rio 2
Terminator: Dark Fate

Movies for $3.99 include:
Ford v Ferrari
Jojo Rabbit
Bong Joon Ho Collection (3-film collection includes “Mother,” “The Host” and “Barking Dogs Never Bite”)

Collections for $6.99 include:
Influential Women: a 6-film collection (“RBG,” “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” “Iris,” “Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins”, “Kusama: Infinity” and “Venus and Serena”)

It’s a very different Memorial Day this year, much quieter, with no parades or community picnics. But now more than ever we have reason to show our appreciation for those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Some movies to help us pay our respects:

Black Hawk Down: Elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

Glory: The story of the first black regiment to fight in the Civil War, with an Oscar-winning performance by Denzel Washington.

American Sniper Bradley Cooper plays real-life army sniper Chris Kyle, who found his return home a different kind of challenge.

We Were Soldiers: The earliest US involvement in the Vietnam War has Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) preparing for one of the most violent battles in U.S. history, making a promise to his soldiers and their families: “I will leave no man behind…dead or alive. We will all come home together.”

Red Tails: George Lucas directed this story of the multiple medal-awarded Tuskegee Airmen.

Midway: The story of the first major Allied victory of WWII.

The Longest Day: An all-star cast tells the story of the Normandy landing that changed the course of WWII.

And be sure to watch these documentaries, too.

“They also serve who only stand and wait.” Those lines by Milton are a powerful reminder of the quiet struggles of the families left behind when soldiers go to war. “Military Wives” is based on the real-life story of British women who stood and waited while their spouses were fighting in Afghanistan, and came together to form a choir that inspired audiences and led to the creation of choirs on other military bases.

The choir is as much the result of opposing forces as common interests. Kate (a frosty Kristen Scott Thomas) is the wife of one of the base’s commanding officers. He is about to return to duty for the first time since the death of their only son in action. We get a sense of their different ways of grieving — and the way his death has driven them apart — as they talk about a photograph of their son. Should it be left casually on the refrigerator as it was when he was alive or upgraded to a frame and protected by glass?

Lisa (“Catastrophe’s” Sharon Horgan) seems to have been designed to annoy and be annoyed by Kate. She is earthy, unpretentious, and outspoken and just generally messy. She is, in theory, in charge of organizing the morale-boosting base activities for the spouses. But she is not by nature or inclination an organized person. She has a rebellious teenage daughter she can barely manage. And she considers Kate’s “helpful” suggestions snobbish and unrealistic. How much comfort can worried, lonely wives of soldiers get from a knitting club or a film series to explore the auteur theory?

But Lisa cannot dispute Kate’s point that the women “need something to focus on, something to keep them together.” The idea of singing seems to have some appeal. Lisa tentatively agrees but want to keep it casual. “It’s like a drop-in,” she tells the women. “And then you commit,” says Kate. “A lot of fun,” says Lisa. “And uplifting,” says Kate.

They have different ideas about what to sing and how to rehearse. But just as different notes can make beautiful harmonies, the two women find a way to combine forces and even develop some respect for one another. With some bumps along the way. Kate says “it has to be challenging to give them something else to think about.” But it turns out that the challenge is what helps them think about all of it — worry, grief, fear — better.

“It’s like ‘Sister Act’ without the Mafia hit men!” one character says cheerfully. No Mafia hit men, no nuns, but real war, with real casualties, and real pain. The real turning point is when the women bring the people they miss into their performance. And the real highlight is the glimpses we get of the real choir and the others it inspired over the closing credits.

Families should know that this film includes some strong language, teen misbehavior, and sad offscreen war-related injuries and deaths.

Family discussion: Did your sympathies toward the characters shift over the course of the movie? Why? How did characters find different ways to deal with stress?

If you like this, try: “Young at Heart,” a documentary about a choir of elderly singers