New Releases

The nod to classic sitcoms is back for Season 5, with Mike Epps returning as Bennie Upshaw, the mechanic who lost his garage in the last season.  This time, the Indiana family faces the conservative politics of the state and topics like Critical Race Theory, electric cars and potholes making news.   …

An all-star R-rated animated reboot of groundbreaking 1970s classic, the irreverent tells the story of a new family and weaves in more social commentary with the humor.  It’s voiced by everyone from the late producer Norman Lear to Steph Curry, Jay Pharoah, Seth MacFarlane, Yvette Nicole Brown and J  …

Inspired by Prince Andrew’s infamous 2019 BBC interview about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, Scoop dramatizes the behind the scenes story of to how three women journalists landed the bombshell and what it transpired in its wake. Unfolding as a tense thriller, media buffs, tabloid aficionados,  …

Set in the 1960s, a con artist (played by Fleabag’s Andrew Scott) is hired by a wealthy man to locate his son in Italy and return him to New York in this dark, cinematic psychological thriller adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, which were previously adapted into the 1999 The Talent  …

While this new Netflix documentary might initially remind some of Kate McKinnon’s alien abduction sketches on SNL, even the cynics will sit up at some of the reveals — like the “21 feet that have come ashore” and the commentary from a former high-ranking national intelligence officer.  The eight ep  …

Inspired by the real-world “Homeless World Cup,” Bill Nighy stars as Mal, the manager of an English soccer team comprised of unhoused men, who believes that his talented but troubled new prospect (Micheal Ward) could lead them all the way to the championship. Uplifting and amusing, the dramedy was d  …

Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman elected to Congress—in a biopic that centers on Chisholm’s trailblazing presidential run in 1972, which paved the path for several others — despite what she would endure. From Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave), who  …

The much-anticipated new sci-fi mystery series from the Game of Thrones creators follows mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, connecting the 1960s Chinese Cultural Revolution with the deaths of present day scientists. Adapted from the Hugo-award winning book trilogy from Cixin  …

Part Irish tourism campaign, part predictable romcom, an American 30-something (Lindsay Lohan) has to stifle her feelings when the love of her life gets engaged to her best-friend, and she’s forced to be a bridesmaid at their wedding in Ireland. Days before the pair are set to marry, she makes a spo  …

Moving over to Netflix as it releases its third season, the cult hit musical comedy follows a flash in the pan girl group from the late 90s who reunite for a middle-aged comeback while juggling family life and relationships. Sara Bareilles, Busy Phillips, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and Paula Pell star  …

A sleek, sexy Turkish heist romcom (with English subtitles) follows an Interpol officer who learns that the art thief she’s been hunting down is actually her ex-lover. Critics have ignored this one, but it’s aiming for the Lupin viewers who want a steamy date night film or a vicarious globe trotting  …

In the wake of Oppenheimer winning the Oscar, this timely if alarming docuseries sheds light on the origins of the atomic bomb and its role in starting the Cold War — and how its repercussions have led us to the rise of Vladimir Putin, proxy battles, and a new Cold war with an even more fraught nuc  …

After being lured into marrying a prince, Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown) discovers that her new royal family plans to sacrifice her to a dragon to pay an ancient family debt in this suspenseful dark fantasy drama that could be interpreted as a parable to a certain real life princess story. Angela Basse  …

An army officer (Theo James) learns that he’s inherited his late father’s country estate — despite being the younger brother — and soon discovers that it’s also home to an illegal cannabis empire in this eight-episode comedy from from Guy Ritchie’s 2019 film of the same title. From Paste’s Shane R  …

In a rare dramatic turn, Adam Sandler plays a lonely astronaut on a research mission who discovers a spiderlike alien (voiced by Paul Dano) inside his spacecraft, and with his help…begins to understand his failing marriage. Carey Mulligan, Kunal Nayyar, Isabella Rossellini, and Lena Olin also star  …

For fans of Arrow, Upload, and dystopian sci-fi thrillers, tee up this 90 minute feature for something new. You don’t need to watch the Part I.  But brace yourself for tropes. It’s set in the near future, where a subgroup of people with superhuman talents face off against an authoritarian police for  …

A live-action remake of the widely popular Nickelodeon animated series of the same name, it’s the story of a happy go lucky 12-year-old named Aang who is on his path to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar — the master of all four “bending” varieties (fire, water, earth, air). He’s kind of like the Da  …

At 54, Albert Einstein was a wanted man in Nazi Germany and one of the most recognizable scientists in the world. As we learn in this riveting docudrama, pamphlets were distributed claiming that ‘Jews Are Watching You,’ and accusing Einstein of producing “lying atrocity propaganda against Adolf Hitl  …

An absurdly funny and brutally frank scripted comedy from Long Beach, California rapper Vince Staples, who plays a version of himself in this story of his life that’s depicted from his childhood to today.  black-ish producer Kenya Barris and the producers behind Kid Cudi’s Netflix series Entergalact  …

The second season of the Jordan-set high series centered around Miriam, who gathers her friends and creates a plan to take down the mean girls in this fresh take on the teen drama set in Jordan. The Watercooler’s Sarah Mina Osman found it “fun and addictive – and worth sticking around for the ending  …