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The Lesson

A young aspiring author takes on a tutoring position at the estate of a legendary writer (Richard E. Grant), and begins investigating the circumstances behind a strange death that occurred there in this wry British literary thriller  Co-starring Julie Delpy and directed by Alice Troughton (A Discovery of Witches), the film “walks the fine line between pretentious and provocative.” (UK’s Independent)

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November 17, 2024
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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  …
November 17, 2024
  Season 1
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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  …
November 15, 2024
  Season 2
Available on: AppleTV More AppleTV+
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  …
November 15, 2024
  Season 1
Available on: Hulu More Hulu
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  …
November 15, 2024
  Season 1
Available on: Peacock
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  …
November 13, 2024
Available on: Netflix More Netflix
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  …
November 13, 2024
  Season 2
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“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  …
November 13, 2024
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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  …
November 13, 2024
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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  …
November 12, 2024
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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  …
November 8, 2024
Available on: Prime Video More Prime
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  …
November 8, 2024
Available in Theatres
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  …



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