Captain Marvel is your best streaming movie bargain of the week
Head back to the 1990s for just $3.99.
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CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.
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Brie Larson stars as Captain Marvel.
Amazon Prime customers can watch Captain Marvel at home this weekend for about the cost of a Starbucks Frappuccino.
Prime members can rent the 2019 Brie Larson hit for $3.99 in HD, $2 off the regular price. Once rented, you have 30 days to start watching.
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Captain Marvel , set in the 1990s when the hero first meets up with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), nicely sets up Avengers: Endgame. In April, Captain Marvel blasted into the billion-dollar earnings club, the seventh Marvel film to do so.
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