Good One

An emotionally resonant indie about a 17-year-old who heads out a weekend camping trip to the Catskill Mountains with her father and her oldest friend and is forced to quietly come to terms with her own simmering conflicts.  One of those movies that the less said, the better, but critics and Sundance audiences love this

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The Sticky

The wild true story of Quebec’s “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist” is dramatized with comedic flare in a quick six-episode series led by Margo Martindale (best known for The Americans).  From Daily Beast’s Nick Schrager: “A quirky and spirited lark that maintains a requisite degree of suspense and silliness throughout its brief maiden season.” (Read

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Paris Has Fallen

Just in time for the real-life upheavals in France comes this brisk political thriller series that jumps off the Gerard Butler film to take you a high-adrenaline ride through a France filled with mercenaries, snipers, politicos as a French protection officer  (Tewfik Jallab) teams up with MI6 operative (Ritu Arya) to catch a double agent

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Best legal thriller is Juror number 2 streaming on apple prime google

Juror #2

Nicholas Hoult stars as a magazine writer and recovering alcoholic who ends up on the jury of a murder trial, only to realize he might have more overlaps with the accused than he should admit in this nail-biting legal thriller directed by Clint Eastwood.  Kiefer Sutherland, JK Simmons and Zoey Deutsch co-star in the PG-13

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White Lies South AFrican mystery thriller

White Lies

Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer stars as an investigative journalist in Cape Town, South Africa who finds herself deep into the intersection of wealth and corruption when she starts to dig into her estranged brother’s murder and discovers his teenage kids are chief suspects.  A taut and twisty eight-episode mystery that drops you into

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Black Doves Keira Knightley spy thriller london

Black Doves

A surefire holiday streaming hit that combines the twinkly London Christmas backdrop and star of Love Actually (Keira Knightley) with a bloody spy thriller, woven together with quick-witted dialogue and heapings of dark humor.  Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire co-star in the story from Joe Barton (Giri/Haji). Six episodes stream today, and a second season

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Creature Commandos

For the teens and grown-up fans of James Gunn and Suicide Squad, a raunchy and profusely violent DC Comics series about a WWII G.I. Robot, a child slayer, a fish-woman (Zoë Chao), Frankenstein (David Harbour), his Bride (Indira Varma), and a Doctor Phosphorous (Alan Tudyk) sent on geopolitical missions by their handler (Viola Davis).  If

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Nutcrackers ben stiller comedy foster family

Nutcrackers

Ben Stiller stars as an uptight, single Chicagoan who is suddenly charged with taking care of his sister’s four sons until they can find a foster home in this charming and light holiday comedy co-starring Linda Cardellini, Tim Heidecker, Edi Patterson, and Toby Huss. Inspired by the life of the real-life siblings who play themselves

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Beatles documentary on Disney Plus for family watch history lesson

Beatles ’64

Sixty years after their British Invasion began, Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi tell the story of The Beatles first trip to the U.S. in a documentary aimed not just at fans of the most iconic band in history, but at younger generations who may not grasp their significance. Weaving in newly restored footage originally

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best new spy thriller is The Agency fassbender

The Agency

Michael Fassbender stars as an undercover CIA agent who is recalled to London for a major new mission—which requires he abandon his secret identity. His new role gets complicated when a romantic interest from his previous life resurfaces in this gripping, sharply-written 10-episode English language adaptation of the hit French series The Bureau. An all-star

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