New Releases

With Oscars a few days away and Timothy Chalamet just capturing the SAG Award for his role as Bob Dylan, the Best Picture contender arrives on premium streaming platforms.  It is the quasi-authorized biopic about the most enigmatic musician of the late 20th century, and it zeroes in on Dylan’s early  …

Putting the civil rights movement into today’s context, HBO’s new six-part anthology docuseries anthology is an essential watch that follows in the footsteps of the powerful Eyes on the Prize series that first aired on PBS in 1987 and 1990, fundamentally shifting our collective understanding of civi  …

A pair of British community police officers go undercover to infiltrate a police gang in this fresh BBC comedy that has some fun with all the murder, corruption, and systemic racism that underscores their new jobs.  The comedy is broad but consistently entertains, and American audiences will find it  …

Nominated for an Academy Award, the National Geographic documentary is an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada, which provoked a reckoning at the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. From the New York Time’s Alissa Wilkinson: “…it’s immersive and incredibly  …

The biggest voting body across both film and TV awards categories are the actors, so the SAG Awards are often a turning point in the awards race – and more fun than a lot of other ceremonies. Kristen Bell hosts the live show – and expect the mashup of film and TV stars from the year’s best. Jane Fon  …

Thanks to the original drumming up a new fanbase on Netflix in 2023, Meghan Markle’s legal drama gets this spinoff set in an LA entertainment law firm that returns one of the stars from the original — Gabriel Macht — to his role as the witty and cocky closer. No plans for Meghan in this one, but S  …

Murder and misadventure, cheating PTA parents and dog killers drive the plot of this light suburban-set drama that’s a mix of Desperate Housewives and Big Little Lies. Scheduled to follow Suits LA on NBC’s new Sunday night end-of-winter lineup, it’s also streaming on Peacock the next day. The NBC sh  …

The second Yellowstone prequel brought Harrison Ford to the small screen for the first time and pairs him up with fellow legend Helen Mirren, who plays Irish immigrant Cara to his Jacob Dutton, a couple who, together, have to out-shoot and out-kill their way through the Western expanse against the b  …

From the Peaky Blinders creator comes this compelling new Victorian London-set historical drama based on actual figures. It’s the story of two best friends from Jamaica who arrive in England for a fresh start, but get recruited to box their way to survival as they come up against a legendary all-fem  …

After Sophie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) suffers memory loss from a traumatic brain injury, she sets out to piece together her previous life and begins to question what hidden identity she kept in this psychological thriller. In Season 2, Sophie heads to high-end London to unravel the mystery and crimes surro  …

For anyone who has lost a parent and wishes they could speak to them again, this cult favorite animated series arrives on Netflix – and with a long-awaited Season 2.  It follows a bullied teen who starts to get messages from her deceased father, and discovers that his consciousness was uploaded to t  …

Part revenge thriller, part action drama, Amazon’s popcorn hunk series follows retired military police officer Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) after he’s arrested for murder soon after landing in a small Georgia town. The adrenaline-fueled third season sees Reacher get another new love interest as he g  …

You will be hearing about this one, if you haven’t already. Robert DeNiro stars as a former US president who comes out of retirement after a deadly cyberattack — on a mission to “search for the truth in a world where facts have become subjective.”  This one also doubles as crisis preparedness in th  …

With a satirical nod to true crime docs, Memes & Nightmares follows two of the NBA’s biggest social media personalities as they set out to investigate why one of the most popular memes — the J.R. Smith Squinting Meme — disappeared completely from the internet. It’s a crash course in digital fa  …

Rare is the film that will reward both the kids and grandparents for making a night of it at the movies, but Mufasa delivers the kind of awe and majesty that will make the younger generations understand why the older ones are so nostalgic about movie theaters. Told with stunning, photorealistic anim  …

The ideal watch for Inside Out 2 fans, Pixar’s first-ever animated series follows the lives of a co-ed middle school softball teams as they gear up for the championship game, with each episode dropping us into the details of a different life — from players to parents to the umpire. Parents magazine  …

The list of names is too long to fit in any box, but just a few who will appear tonight to pay tribute to the cultural touchstone that has outlasted all others: Eddie Murphy, Tom Hanks, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Robert DeNiro, Cher, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steve Martin, Adam Driver, Da  …

Streaming live on Peacock from Radio City on the eve of SNL’s 50th Anniversary Special, Jimmy Fallon hosts 20 musical acts who’ve made a splash on the show over the years, from David Byrne, the B-52s, Devo, Eddie Vedder, and the Backstreet Boys to Miley Cyrus, Arcade Fire, Jack White, Bad Bunny, Lad  …

A very British version of a Valentine’s day comedy about a woman who gets thrown back in time to experience romantic mishaps across history — all in an attempt to break her cycle of falling for the wrong guy. Its bloody and subversive,  skewering the typical romantic cliches.

For viewers who like their romance wrapped in twisty action with an edge of horror, The Gorge stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller as two operatives guarding opposite sides of a giant “classified” gorge with a mysterious threat lurking within it.  Review are mixed, but the original premise, the su  …