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Falling somewhere between a filmed play and a movie, Denzel Washington is the producer behind this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel Jackson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, it’s the sto  …

Set in England during WWII, a London mother (Saoirse Ronan) sends her 9-year-old son away to save him from the German blitzkrieg  in the English countryside, but the boy becomes determined to find his way back home in what becomes a treacherous journey that sheds light on rarely seen perspectives fr  …

For decades, you had to have bucks and venture far to see this musical origin story of the two witches of Oz. Today, the beloved Broadway hit finally arrives in movie theaters in all its larger than Broadway CGI glory, with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo taking the lead as the Good Witch and the Wi  …

Ted Danson stars in this deeper-than-a-sitcom mystery comedy about a widower who goes undercover as a spy in a senior home to investigate some missing heirlooms, which opens a whole new chapter in his life.  It comes from The Good Place creator, Mike Schur and its based on the Oscar-nominated docume  …

Set at a fancy Washington D.C.-area college, the kind of place where the country’s VP sends their kids, two rivalrous step siblings vie for social power in the Greek system in this soapy, sexed-up, modern-day adaptation of the 1999 film.  Critics are not on board, but one of the original actors is –  …

The breakout college-set comedy from Mindy Kaling returns for a third season — taking us into the four roommates’ sophomore year after leaving off on a Season 2 cliffhanger.  You should probably watch the final episode of S2 at least before jumping into S3.  This one is aiming to be a Thanksgiving  …

Silicon Valley star Jimmy O. Yang plays a background actor on a cop show who stumbles into a real-life criminal conspiracy involving his family’s secret history in this heightened reality comedy-drama, which was adapted from the best-seller of the same name by Charles Yu.  From Adrian Horton at The  …

The series prequel to the recent big-screen Dune movies is set 10,000 years before their events, and follows two sisters up against forces that threaten the future of humankind — leading to the creation of the influential religious and political sect known as the Bene Gesserit. (For some context on  …

Just in time for the wind down of Yellowstone, its maestro Taylor Sheridan co-created this new slow-burn series about Texas oilmen and the fixers, rig-workers, billionaires, and Mexican drug cartels that intersect their world, with an undercurrent about their larger cost to the bigger world.  Billy  …

A critics’ favorite about an apocalyptic future returns for a second season, following Earthy’s surviving 10,000 people who as they live underground due to the toxic state of the planet.  Rebecca Ferguson returns as Juliette, who visits a neighboring underground silo where a revolution took place an  …

Based on the award-winning nonfiction best-seller by Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing weaves together four different decades and timelines of the history of Ireland’s IRA resistance movement, from hunger strikes to the abduction of a 38-year-old mother to the spillover into US politics. Expect to h  …

Eddie Redmayne plays a killer for hire who ends up on the radar of a British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch), who must pursue him across Europe in this tense thriller based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel (previously adapted into two feature films). The 10-episode series drops with five episodes t  …

France’s official submission to next year’s Academy Awards is this bold, chaotic musical drama about a lawyer (Zoe Saldana) who helps a cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) leave the business and his wife (Selena Gomez) and kids to become the woman he has always imagined himself to be. One of the buzz  …

“There’s something bigger afoot” in the long-awaited Season 2 of this twisty murder mystery farce set in Ireland. Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) stars as the matriarch of five sisters bound by the premature deaths of their parents — and now under suspicion by life insurance investigators after the dea  …

It was one of the most notorious and eye-opening social psychology studies — 24 top male college students randomly assigned to become prisoners or guards — and for the first time, the former participants are speaking out and asking bigger questions about the nature of the experiments, the man who  …

If you’ve finished The Diplomat and need a comedic antidote, this horror satire about a group of G-7 leaders arrives to streaming just in time. Cate Blanchett leads as the German Prime Minister hosting her fellow world leads at a summit to address a climate-related crisis, which devolves into gossip  …

When his wife heads to rehab, Andy Goodrich (Michael Keaton) has to take on his nine-year-old twins alone, and ends up leaning on his grow-up daughter from his first marriage (Mila Kunis) in this smart and ultimately feel-good comedy-drama about a man’s parental reckoning. “Watching Goodrich isn’t l  …

The Watercooler’s pick from Sundance is finally available to stream, a clever comedy about a free-spirited 18-year-old Elliott (Maisy Stella) who drinks a hallucinogenic mushroom tea and comes face-to-face with her older, wiser 38-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). Elliott’s “old ass” serves up just the  …

Inspired by the history of the Magdalene laundries in Ireland and adapted from the bestselling book by Claire Keegan, Cillian Murphy’s critically-praised new indie drama follows a father’s discovery of disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and how they’re connected to his own life.  From the  …

Spanning two decades and told in four chapters, the intimate indie drama follows two sisters from adolescence to adulthood as they visit their volatile yet vulnerable father in New Mexico, and learn to process all of the complexities of the man and the places they call home. From the Los Angeles Tim  …