New Releases

Ridley Scott is behind Apple’s new eight-episode spy thriller about a mathematician on the verge of a major breakthrough that would kill encryption — throwing him into the crosshairs of a mysterious enemy, the kind that requires him to go on the run with the protection of an NSA agent. A notch more  …

For those who like their history with a grain of satire and Swedes, Hulu’s first Swedish series (with English subtitles) is inspired by the events of the 11-day standoff in 1981 between the USSR and Sweden, when a Soviet ‘Whiskey’-class submarine ran aground on rocks deep inside Swedish territorial  …

The antidote to some of the hard-to-believe-what-we-are-seeing daily news coverage as Trump 2 sets in, The Daily Show is back and surging in viewers and reach.  The show’s segments tend to go viral and make headlines when Jon Stewart returns on Monday evenings, but the rest of the hosts and reporter  …

Richard Gere stars as a declining documentary filmmaker determined to tell his own unvarnished life story to his former student (Michael Imperioli), with his wife and collaborator (Uma Thurman) bearing full witness. As his secrets are revealed and his 60s youth reenacted (by Jacob Elordi), it become  …

After ending on a cliffhanger, Apple’s breakout hit from 2022 finally returns January 17th, and you will want to play catch-up with Season 1.  The plot follows Mark (Adam Scott), a recent widower who leads a team of corporate employees whose memories have been surgically divided between their work a  …

After a conservative young couple move in next door to a pair of swingers — with a husband played by Outlander hunk Sam Heughan — a world of “possiblities” and havoc opens up in this six episode thriller from the UK’s Channel 4.  From The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan:  “What happens when feelings start  …

Another slick, round-the-world spy action-comedy, this one aiming for broad, PG-13, Family Movie Night appeal for fans of its all-star cast. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz take the lead as two married former CIA agents who get pulled back in after their cover is blown.  Andrew Scott, Kyle Chandler, Gle  …

Finally, the songwriter gets her due in this awe-inspiring documentary about the 15-time Oscar nominated Diane Warren, the woman behind the hits songs and 450 musicians including some of biggest legends of the past 50 years — from Aerosmith to Taylor Swift, Beyoncé to Celine Dion, Lady Gaga to Brit  …

A cross-generation mystery watch that will appeal to tweens, teens and their parents, the Vanishing is its own standalone season in Disney anthology adapted from the bestselling 90s kids book series by R.L. Stine.  It follows a group of high school students unraveling the supernatural events swirlin  …

Arriving in the midst of what feels like an apocalypse in Los Angeles, the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker behind The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, is behind this “Hollywood musical” unlike any other about the last surviving family of an apocalypse living in a high-end converted salt min  …

An HBO version of ER set against the real-time clock of 24, The Pitt stars Noah Wylie as frazzled emergency room doc in a Pittsburgh trauma hospital — with each episode capturing one hour in a 12 –hour shift.  It will feel fresh to those who never saw (or don’t remember) ER, and it delivers enough  …

Set in the 1850s American West, a clash of Mormons, indigenous communities, a burgeoning military and fur trappers battle each other as they try and survive the harsh conditions of the frontier in this high octane six-episode miniseries written by The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter B  …

The new police procedural drama set in Long Beach, California comes from the master, Dick Wolf, and departs from his other shows in its cinema verité approach — using body cams, dash cams, and cell phones to create a more urgent docuseries feel.  Eric La Salle and Lori Loughlin take the lead as vet  …

In the wake of Wicked, Season 2 of this racy adaptation of the Anne Rice trilogy arrives to take things up several notches. The Story: A neurosurgeon discovers she is heir to a family of witches and must confront a demon curse that has haunted her family for generations, and the twisty plot weaves g  …

Tom Brady roaster Nikki Glaser hosts this year’s annual awards — with a promise to be kinder and gentler — kicking off the season of film and TV celebrations. Count on Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Angelina Jolie, Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, Daniel Craig, Cynthia Errivo and 100+ others, with specia  …

Homer’s classic poem Odysseus gets a retelling that begins from the tale end of the journey, as the King (played by Ralph Fiennes) finally washes ashore in Ithaca after his epic 20 year quest — only to be confused with a beggar as his wife (Juliette Binoche) and son (Charlie Plummer) are held capti  …

The long-awaited follow-up to the The Wrong Trousers, the endearing British franchise returns with its eccentric inventor Wallace introducing his latest tech invention — a gnome-like robot — to the skepticism of his loyal pooch Gromit.  Clever-fun, fast-paced, and warmhearted, it’s a rare all-ages  …

Denis Leary plays an outspoken U.S. Army Colonel who, after an off-the-rails rant, is reassigned to the least important army base in the world – the Netherlands — where he has to work with his estranged daughter. It’s a classic broadcast sitcom with an off-beat sense of humor, and a Dad Watch that  …

British mockumentarian Philomena Cunk is back with a one-off hour-long follow-up to her tongue-in-cheek Cunk on Earth Netflix series, this time on a quest to get the meaning of life. Ish.  AI, art, the big bang, death, and morality all come up in variously absurd ways.

The first of two dramas about the aftermath of the worst terror attack in the UK’s history, the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Scotland, this one stars Colin Firth as Jim Swire, the controversial representative of the families who has spent decades pursuing the truth behind the tragedy — conv  …