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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Musica romantic comedy about brazilian synesthesia

Música

An inventive new coming-of-age musical and romantic comedy about a Brazilian man with synesthesia trying to become a creator as he falls in love and wrestles with his family and culture in New Jersey. From the New York Times: “..a comic trip inside a mind that’s forever feverishly creating — even against his will.” Read

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Andrew Scott as Ripley

Ripley

Set in the 1960s, a con artist (played by Fleabag‘s Andrew Scott) is hired by a wealthy man to locate his son in Italy and return him to New York in this dark, cinematic psychological thriller adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, which were previously adapted into the 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley. Dakota

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Netflix alient abductions docuseries

Files of the Unexplained

While this new Netflix documentary might initially remind some of Kate McKinnon’s alien abduction sketches on SNL, even the cynics will sit up at some of the reveals — like the “21 feet that have come ashore” and the commentary from a former high-ranking national intelligence officer.  The eight episodes cover everything from hauntings to

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LOOT comedy on Apple TV returns

Loot S2

In what feels like a ripped-from-the-headlines comedy about the life of Mackenzie Scott (formerly Bezos), the workplace sitcom follows Molly (Maya Rudolph) as she gives away her fortune, becomes an increasingly public figure, and attempts to find love again …while resorting to a backslide with her ex. The new season is as escapist as the

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American Horror Story: Delicate Part Two

The “final episodes” of the FX horror anthology about an actress (Emma Roberts) struggling to get pregnant while her career takes off…as something disturbing starts to target and her pursuit of motherhood. Prepare for more creepy, culturally commentative shock in the signature style of AHS — only with Kim Kardashian in a major role, along

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Snack Shack movie

Snack Shack

A Fast Times at Ridgemont High for the early 90s midwestern kids, it follows two hustling teenage best friends who decide to get rich off the forgotten snack hut at their local pool, only to find their summer — and their friendship — upended by the arrival of the hot new female lifeguard in this

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David ALan Grier and Justin Smith in American SOciety Magical Negroes.

The American Society of Magical Negroes

A satirical riff on Spike Lee’s reference to the “magical negro” stereotype in movies, the story follows a young artist named Aren who finds himself swept away to a top-secret society of Black people. Their role, for centuries, has been to placate uncomfortable white people by making their lives easier, and back in the modern

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