Keep your mind occupied during the lock down: A special issue of Your Wealth

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The Beginning

Your Wealth is a custom Enterprise briefing for people just like you: Executives, entrepreneurs and builders who know that time isn’t money, but that time and money are feedstock for the one thing that matters most in life: Your family, however you define it.

Once a month, in partnership with our friends at CIB Wealth, we’ll bring you a hand-picked selection of ideas, tips and inspirational stories that will help you make the most of your time, enhance our wealth, and build a better life with the people you love.

THIS IS A SPECIAL ISSUE that we hope will help you keep your mind off of covid-19 while we all settle in to work, study, play, etc. from home. The issue will feature some choice media to consume during this semi-lockdown.

This is the second issue to drop in March after our podcast-themed issue on 6 March, which itself will be a big help to keep your mind engaged during house arrest.

Also worth perusing is our summer reading issue, to get an idea of the books we’re likely still reading because we’ve just been too busy to finish them. Maybe now we’ll get to.

We will resume our regular Your Wealth publication schedule from Friday, 3 April.

As always, we love hearing from readers. Send us story ideas, hints, tips or interview suggestions to editorial@enterprise.press.

The streaming wars

Streaming wars could reach Stalingrad-levels during social distancing: One industry that seems better poised to benefit from social distancing is the media. And when it comes to being stuck at home, never has the time for binge watching been more essential. The covid-19 crisis hit just a few months after the so-called streaming wars reached a crescendo, with Disney releasing its streaming platform on 12 November.

Read this to save hours on decision time: With so many streaming options available now competing heavily for our eyeballs, you might feel lucky that some of our writers are already used to going days on end working from home. We’ll take a dive into the streaming platforms out there, give them a review, with our recommendations for what’s on their menus. It’s worth noting, however, that there is no better way to kill time than spending more minutes deciding what to watch than actually watching. If you’re into that thrill, please skip this section.

We’re only recommending original programming: A significant portion of the content on these services is licenced from other channels and is syndicated, including Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Rick and Morty, and Mad Men. We are hence, only noting original programming by these streaming services.

Also, there’s also a good bet your favorite TV show or movie is on Youtube and its copyright holders have still not gotten it taken off. In these tough times, I think we can be forgiven for saying that these are fair game (though not fair use).

This could be the time to invest in a good VPN, as unfortunately many of these services are unavailable in Egypt. To unlock a lot of these streaming websites, friends of ours have recommended ExpressVPN, and SurfSHark. All of them have a free trial period.

The Enterprise guide to watching movies during the lockdown

The Enterprise guide to watching movies during the lockdown: With all these streaming services, deciding on which movies to watch is a chore unto itself. Things get easy when you have a favorite genre. And even if you don’t, chances are you have a favorite film for each genre. We have an internal strategy for how to consume movies when we’ve exhausted our genre-based selections.

Franchises: When you are stuck for a potentially long time, you have to think in terms of sagas, and story lines that play out over the course of at least six hours. As Hollywood’s bread and butter, these usually try to grab audiences of all ages, so you will generally find plenty of franchise movies to watch as a family. Here’s our selection of franchises to watch, while stuck at home:

The Godfather series
The Lord of the Rings (DO NOT waste time on the Hobbit)
The Marvel Cinematic Universe(Your kids will thank you, your eardrums will not)
The Planet of Apes series (with the reboots, that’s a good 10 movies)
Star Wars
Jurassic Park
Die Hard
The Dark Knight Trilogy
Harry Potter

Directors: A marathon of your favorite directors is probably the best kind of marathon there is. The strategy almost always lands you hours deep into movies you will love. Here’s a lineup of some of our favorite directors and the movies they’ve done that we’d recommend.

Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now, the Rainmaker
David Lean: Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia
Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, the Shining,
Youssef Shahin: Iskanderia… Leh?, Al Yawm Al Sadis (poignant for the time), Al Massir, El Naser Salah El Din
Darren Arenofsky: Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, the Wrestler,
Quentin Tarrentino (really, anything he’s done but Once Upon A Time in Hollywood): Django Unchained, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
Martin Scorcesce: Casino, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, the Departed,
Werner Herzog: FitzCarraldo, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Cobra Verde,
David Lynch: Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway,
Coen Brothers: The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Barton Fink, The LadyKillers.

Nostalgia: Then there are times when you just want to be reminded of the good old days. The movies of your childhood or adolescence, that come with a particular memory attached. Or maybe you’re just a hipster, who prefers the styles and sensibilities of times that were before you. Either way, here are recommendations for films from ‘70s, ‘80s, and 90’s that were considered classics of their times:

1970s films:

1980s films:

1990s films:

Awards: If you choose to buy into the illusion that awards matter and aren’t political, then this is the list for you. Don’t get us wrong. We may not buy into that notion, but many times, they do give out Oscars to films that deserve it. Our top 5 Academy Award winners for Best Film (who haven’t been named in any previous list in this issue) are:

Documentaries

Now that we’ve sufficiently zapped plenty of your brain cells to death (and may slightly have reduced productivity time during work hours) with entertainment, we feel its only responsible for us to counteract that with some knowledge. Time at home could be a chance for you to brush up on some skills, or learn a few more, or simply to build up your knowledge of useless trivia to impress people.

Documentaries: It’s not a secret that we at Enterprise love a good documentary. We featured one weekly back when we had a weekend edition. So, where did we find this repository of great documentaries? Well, you’re in luck, we break down our favorite haunts for finding good documentaries on the interwebs.

Top Documentary Films: This is probably our favorite online portal for documentaries. The site scours all the documentaries floating out there on various free streaming and video sites such as Youtube and Dailymotion and has these categorized by genre. Pick any topic, chances are you’ll find a documentary there.
Internet Archive: This is a phenomenal collection of free public domain movies, films, videos and television clips. Not only can you watch the documentaries online, you can download the clips and use them as well.
Snag Films: Snag Films is an online platform that allows independent filmmakers to upload their films as well providing resources for viewers who want to get involved in the causes portrayed in those films. The site also encourages visitors to “snag” the free films and embed them on their own sites.
PBS (Frontline and American Experience): Probably the best production house for documentaries. We have featured them several times in our documentary of the week feature and will likely continue to do so. The downside? The lack of access to their archives from Egypt. You’ll have to resort to any of the other ones we’ve listed here.
Streaming services: All the streaming services we noted above have documentaries and docu-series that are worth checking out. Netflix in particular has been much better at their documentaries than their other original content recently.
Youtube: If you’ve ever thought of something, chances are someone has already thought of it first, and uploaded something to Youtube on it. Despite being the home of some of the internet’s worst (namely, cat videos, memes and clips), Youtube doesn’t often get the credit it deserves for being educational.

Here are some of our recommendations:

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Video Games

We can’t remember a time when gaming seemed more crucial to our mental health. So that’s why we took it upon ourselves to draw up a list of our favorite games while we sit here. We advocate a mix of open world and multiplayer games for console and hardcore strategy for PC. Bear in mind that plenty of the old games we used to love are now available for free online.

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PC games:

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