Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal

La Máquina

Twenty-three years after Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna teamed up for their cult classic Y tu mamá también, the duo are back on screen together in this six-part comedy-drama they cooked up about an aging boxer (Bernal) and the showboat manager (Luna) trying to reboot his career – just as his ex-wife (Eiza Gonzalez)

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Solar Opposites Halloween

Solar Opposites Halloween Special Part 2

Kicking off the month-long Huluween, the streamer’s adult animated comedy about aliens who crash landed in suburban America gets back into the spirit with its second Halloween Special (“The Hunt for Brown October”).  They’re still trying to decide whether Planet Earth is “awful or awesome,” but now that two of them are married — and

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The Franchise

It’s been a while since Entourage skewered Hollywood’s sausage-making egos and idiosyncracies, but HBO’s latest workplace comedy (from Veep creator Armando Iannucci) arrives perfectly-timed to take on the behind-the-scenes world of a superhero franchise movie. The wackadoodle of the characters and their costumes, the chaos, the clueless arrogance of production newbies are all captured with

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It’s What’s Inside

If you like your horror more on the clever high-concept side with some social media satire thrown in, add this Netflix bundle of surprises to your watchlist. It’s about a group of old college friends who reunite at a party at an estate before one of them gets married, and end up playing a body-swapping

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Strange Darling

Thought it revolves around a serial killer and a one-night-stand and pays tribute to grisly 35mm horror-thrillers, Strange Darling has received high praise from a few top critics for its ingenious storytelling. If you’re up for this kind of thing, all advice is to go in blind. And avoid this one for date night!  But

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Wheres Wanda surveillance caper

Where’s Wanda?

Part farcical comedy, part dark-crime caper, this German series (dubbed in English) tells the story of a couple so desperate to find their missing 17-year-old daughter, they disguise themselves as employees of an electrical company and they bug their neighbors homes, only to discover that none of them are who they’re pretending to be.

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Last Days of the Space Age

Set in Perth, Australia in 1979, just as the city plays hosts the Miss Universe Pageant and NASA’s space station is about to crash nearby, everything is on the brink of upheaval in this comedy-drama about three families whose lives are mirroring the big social-political changes swirling all around them. Fans of Australian tales, 70s

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Dust Bowl Horror sarah paulson

Hold Your Breath

Set in the 1930s Oklahoma dust bowl, a housewife grieving the loss of a child becomes convinced of a sinister presence in this psychological thriller starring Sarah Paulson, who departs from her American Horror Story character in a more grounded historical drama. From Nick Schrager at the Daily Beast:  “In a genre overly taken as

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Heartstopper season three

Heartstopper S3

Both praised and criticized for creating an idealized story about gay teen romance, the hit TV-14 high school drama returns to take the story a level deeper as its leads face their feelings, while still delivering the warmth, sentimentality, and star cameos it’s known for. This season, Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey, Hayley Atwell, and Stephen Fry

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The Wild Robot family movie in theaters

The Wild Robot

Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot is a transfixing new DreamWorks film about a shipwrecked robot who has to make friends with the locals (animals) and adopt an orphan (gosling).  An all-star voice ensemble (Mark Hamill, Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal ++), a dazzling world, a stirring score and a story about

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