New Releases

You might confuse this one with Sex Lives of College Girls, but it has a twist.  It follows two college freshmen (Kiernan Shipka and Nico Hiraga) who break up with their high school sweethearts over “Drunksgiving” (also known as a “Turkey Dump” the night before Thanksgiving), but it casts their plat  …

A spinoff parody of the Harley Quinn world, the animated adult comedy Kite Man: Hell Year sees the supervillain team up with Golden Glider to open a bar to service all the rogues in the shadow of Lex Luthor`s Legion of Doom.  (Worth noting: Kite Man was inspired by Peanuts protag Charlie Brown, who  …

The Emmy-winning comedy about a boomer comedian in Vegas and her young assistant returns for its third season and ups the stakes –  and earns some of its highest critical praise to date.  Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder returns after a long break with Succession’s J. Smith-Cameron in a recurring rol  …

Kate Winslet stars as a paranoid and delusional chancellor of a Central European dictatorship that’s falling apart in this satire that weaves palace intrigue and political drama for Veep and Succession fans.  The premise and pedigree of this six episode HBO series will ensure it gets sampled by memb  …

The CNN anchor leads this limited series that excavates the key figures from past political scandals to “unpack what really happened” and probe their motivations in hindsight. Interviews include Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, actress Rielle Hunter, former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, and former CI  …

Back for its 11th season weeks after earning its eighth Emmy, John Oliver’s news-making show returns to HBO and Max Sunday (10 EST/PST). As he shared with USA Today, he plans to go deeper in some segments, and while trying to avoid the horse race aspects of the campaign, “some of the big stories tha  …

The return of the critically praised series based on the memoir by real life journalist Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice follows an expat (Ansel Elgort) at a Tokyo newspaper who investigates corrupt politicians and organized crime — teaming up with a policeman (Ken Watanabe) who is walks the line with th  …

An addictive true crime documentary that peels back the layers of the well publicized mystery of a hiker whose body was found in a tent by a Florida highway with no identification.  A far flung community of internet sleuths and fellow hikers – many who had met him – band together to figure out why h  …

A revival of the hit 2002 adult animated series from the Oscar winning Spider-Verse team (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller) is about a bunch of historical figures – from JFK and to Joan or Arc — who have been cloned and dropped into a high school as part of a military experiment. This season brings  …

HBO’s award-winning anthology returns after four years with the Alaska-set mystery involving two detectives (Jodie Foster and Kali Reis) investigating the sudden disappearance of all eight scientists working at an Arctic research facility. The new incarnation comes from writer-director Issa Lopez (T  …

Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for US documentaries in ’22, this inspiring quilt of a narrative stitches together moments in history with visions of space, and the readings and interviews with the influential poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni, who ultimately asks us to envision a  …