Robert Downey Jr as CIA spy

The Sympathizer

Adapted from the Pulitzer-winning novel by the celebrated filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Decision to Leave), the much-anticipated seven-part series follows a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist spy known as “The Captain” (Cowboy Bebop‘s Hoa Xuande) in the closing days of the Vietnam War and his later exile in the U.S. and his work in Hollywood. Robert

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A romance about music and love and memory and grief.

The Greatest Hits

A stirring if familiar film about how music can transport us to our past – in this case literally and figuratively – and how the powerful memories that songs invoke can sometimes lock us in and interfere with our present. The Searchlight romance stars Lucy Boynton, Nelly Furtado, Bryan Ferry, Retta, and Justin H. Min.

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Good Times reboot

Good Times

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 JB Smoove, among others.

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Franklin

Michael Douglas stars in this lavish historical drama about a lesser known chapter of the American Revolution: Ben Franklin’s clandestine trip to France as the first diplomat. Surrounded by spies, enticing married women, hostile colleagues, and his frisky grandson (Noah Jupe), with the war at home on the brink of failure, the series reveals how

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Curb your enthusiasm british comedy

Hapless

Arriving just in time for the wake of Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s conclusion, this British cringe comedy follows the misfires and misadventures of a freelance journalist (Tim Downie) who works for “the fourth largest Jewish newspaper in the UK.”  Culture clashes, social gaffes, identity politics are all tackled through very British dark comedy.  Season 1 and

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Video game franchise turned Amazon tv series Fallout

Fallout

Set in a future Los Angeles in the aftermath of a nuclear war, Fallout is the live action adaptation of the hit video game franchise, telling an original story about the hyper-violent society of armageddon survivors and their lives in 1950s-built underground bunkers. Created by the team behind Westworld, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the

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British high school romcom how to date Billie Walsh

How to Date Billy Walsh

After keeping his love for his best friend Amelia under wraps, Archie is finally ready to admit his feelings when she falls for the new transfer student in this predictable high school romcom set at an elite British boarding school.

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Royal scandal Prince Andrew story SCOOP on Netflix

Scoop

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, and viewers missing The Crown will love it. Starring

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Colin Farrell Private Detective in Sugar

Sugar

A hotly anticipated “modern noir,” Colin Farrell stars as softer-boiled LA private investigator John Sugar, who is hired to find the missing granddaughter of a legendary film producer in a twisty mystery that both upends and pays tribute to the history of film-noir.  Amy Ryan, James Cromwell, Anna Gunn, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Nate Corddry, and Dennis

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Mary & George

The scandalous true story of a widow from humble beginnings, Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore), who plots a new path to fortune and power by encouraging her charismatic young son (Nicholas Galitzine) to seduce the newly crowned King James I, the son of Mary Queen of Scots. From the Watercooler’s Samantha James: “A clever, dark and

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