Becoming MLK Jr
Becoming King

How do you prepare for the role of a lifetime, one that could catapult you into history…or earn you ire for misrepresenting a historic icon? David Oyelowo was born in England to Nigerian parents, and his first big role was becoming Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s Oscar nominated Selma. His wife captures the emotional moments, the dedication, and the hints of destiny, as well as interviews with Lee Daniels, George Lucas and Oprah Winfrey.

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October 24, 2024
Available on: Prime Video More Prime
Amazon Prime offers up a female-led spy thriller as a response to its more testosterone-led Tom Clancy and Reacher series. The new series stars Kate Beckinsale as a CIA agent who has to infiltrate a secret terrorist cell to rescue her kidnapped husband (Rupert Friend), and she’s up against “digital  …
October 24, 2024
  Season 1
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
An Aussie version of Yellowstone with a twist of Succession, Territory follows the drama around the world’s largest fictional cattle station in Northern Australia in the wake of the heir apparent’s shocking death. If it sounds a little too cow pasture for your tastes, there are billionaire miners, c  …
October 23, 2024
Available on: YouTube
A surreal comedy about the iconic, surreal Salvador Dalí, the film follows a French journalist as she attempts to interview “Dalí” — who is portrayed by multiple actors in various over the top incarnations. There are dream sequences and tributes to the man’s work, and inventive sequences that defy  …
October 18, 2024
  Season 1
Available on: HBO Max More HBO Max
HBO’s new six-episode comedy series marries real-life Floridians sharing their crazy stories about the Sunshine State with reenactment by an eclectic rotation of actors — like Randall Park, Sam Richardson, Anna Faris, Ego Nwodim, Jake Johnson, and Juliette Lewis. From the New York Times’ Margaret L  …
October 18, 2024
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
The dramatized true story about an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who becomes a contestant on The Dating Game — paired up with a man who turns out to be a serial killer. Directed by and starring Anna Kendrick, it’s an original take on a chilling story told in a taut and captivating way, and  …
October 18, 2024
Available on: AppleTV More AppleTV+
A long-awaited biopic starring Kate Winslet as the unlikely WWII photographer Lee Miller, who shot some of the first images of the Blitz and concentration camps before being told women were not allowed to accompany troopers. She was left to capture the powerful, lesser known images and stories from  …
October 18, 2024
  Season 1
Available on: Hulu More Hulu
If you feel you missed out on the debauchery of the 80s — British society style — this eight-episode sex farce will be your weekend’s delight. The trailer alone is like aristocratic English version of Porkys, with hints of naked tennis and orgies, lavish estates and hunky horseback riders — all p  …
October 11, 2024
  Season 1
Available on: AppleTV More AppleTV+
Cate Blanchett plays a celebrated TV journalist who receives a new novel in the mail, one that appears to feature her as the main character—ultimately  disclosing a dark chapter from her past. The seven-episode psychological thriller, written and directed by Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Roma  …
October 11, 2024
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
Laura Dern plays a newly single novelist struck with writer’s block who heads to a retreat in Morocco hoping for a cure, and as you can guess, she finds one in the handsome young stranger (Liam Hemsworth) who throws her for a few loops in this Netflix romance that has all the ingredients of a date n  …
October 11, 2024
  Season 1
Available on: Starz
You can count on Starz to bring the edge that might be missing from your endless Netflix scrolls. Their new dark British dramedy is about a young outcast (Ella Purnell) who, while being dismissed by her peers, embraces her inner savage and secret new role as a killer.  More original than its plot wo  …
October 11, 2024
Available in Theatres
A stirring, intimate documentary that reveals the lesser known story about one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story brought our writer to tears.  As Felipe Patterson describes it, it’s a story that manages to be inspiring and heartbreaking, and “a testament to t  …
October 9, 2024
  Season 4
Available on: Hulu More Hulu
The Emmy-winning sitcom that brought back must-see TV broadcast (and Hulu) is returning with a much-anticipated new season, and creator and star Quinta Brunson has teased a new romance, a big Ava story, a “Will Smith-inspired dance” … and an It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia cross-over. Also some  …



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