Natalie Portman mystery series on Apple TV+ 60s

Lady in the Lake

Set in 1960s Baltimore, where a housewife turned journalist (Natalie Portman) investigates an unsolved murder of a young Black woman in this startling character study adapted from the best-selling Laura Lippman novel — but with a major twist not in the book.  Noah Jupe, Moses Ingram, Y’Lan Noel, Brett Gelman, and Mikey Madison also star

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Thelma senior scam comedy

Thelma

After a 93-year-old grandmother loses $10,000 to a con artist impersonating her grandson, with help from a friend and his motorized scooter, lights out across Los Angeles to get her money back.  Oscar nominee June Squibb stars in the Sundance darling with Clark Gregg and Parker Posey.  From The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney: “The film

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My Spy summer action comedy for families on Prime Video

My Spy: Eternal City

A sequel to the 2020 hit, the PG-13 action comedy takes us on a summer romp through Italy as it follows CIA operative JJ (Dave Bautista) and his now 14-year-old stepdaughter / protégé (Chloe Coleman) — who reunite to stop a nuclear plot targeting the Vatican in the middle of a high school tour. Ken

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DC Comics Kiteman hell yeah spinoff

Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

A spinoff parody of the Harley Quinn world, the animated adult comedy Kite Man: Hell Year sees the supervillain team up with Golden Glider to open a bar to service all the rogues in the shadow of Lex Luthor`s Legion of Doom.  (Worth noting: Kite Man was inspired by Peanuts protag Charlie Brown, who often

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Cobra Kai senseis return for season six on netflix today

Cobra Kai S6

It’s a war of the dojos in Season 5 of the cross-generational hit show, as Daniel (Ralph Macchio) must resort to reaching out to his frenemy Chozen in order to take on the growing threat of Cobra Kai as it spreads throughout the Valley.

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Roman gladiator series on Peacock july 2024

Those About to Die

A bloody, sprawling epic about Ancient Rome’s underbelly, the new Peacock series is for fans of Game of Thrones as much as it is for ancient history buffs. Adapted from the 1958 nonfiction book that inspired the first Gladiator film, the series stars Thrones‘ Iwan Rheon as the scheming owner of Circus Maximus – the

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Emperor of Ocean Park

After a conservative Black judge and former Supreme Court nominee (Forest Whitaker) dies of an apparent heart attack, his grown kids become suspicious in this MGM+ adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel by Stephen L.  Carter, a combined murder mystery and political thriller that raises big questions about the generational and ideological divides.

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Descendants Rise of the Red sequels streams on Disney plus for 7 year olds and older

Descendants: Rise of the Red

The new Disney+ movie, timed for summer vacations and family movie night, continues the fairytale themed musical franchise with a story that follows former villain kid Uma when she becomes principal of Auradon Prep, and invites the rebellious Red to study there. Her mom, the controlling Queen of Hearts (Rita Ora) allows it, but has

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Exploding Kittens netflix series

Exploding Kittens

Loosely adapted from the hit card game by two comedy legends (Beavis and Butt-head and Silicon Valley creator Mike Judge and The Office U.S. creator Greg Daniels), the story follows God after he gets fired from his job and returns to Earth as a housecat, and lives with a dysfunctional family next door to the

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Fly Me to the Moon

A thought-provoking romantic dramedy that blurs the line between history and alternate history, Fly Me to the Moon‘s premise is that President Nixon needed help turning around NASA’s public image to win the space race against the Soviets. Scarlett Johansson takes the lead as a New York City marketing exec who’s tapped to promote NASA,

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