Feud: Capote vs The Swans

The latest lush melodrama in Ryan Murphy’s “Feud” franchise focuses on “the original housewives,” as the FX network bills them, and the story of the legendary journalist Truman Capote (played by Tom Holland), who was at the “center of the center” of New York society until he exposed the secrets of the matriarchs who confided

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Love Island All Stars

If you’re “all star” in the dating reality game, does that mean you’re actually looking for love?  Nevermind, the hit U.K. reality series has a new spinoff that mixes and matches previous Love Island cast offs…with the goal of crowning one pair “the winners.” What’s the criteria? That’s unclear. Three episodes drop today.

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The Greatest Night in Pop

After it debuted at Sundance, this feature length doc chronicles the night in 1985 when 40 top musicians gathered in a studio for the top secret mission to record “We Are the World,” which became one of the biggest hits of all time.   Capturing interviews as well as footage from behind the scenes, it

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Hightown S3

The contrast between Cape Cod charm and the darker underbelly of its drug trade fuel this tense, cult hit crime drama that counts Jerry Bruckheimer as a producer. In its third season, State cop Jackie is back to her wild partying as a new drug dealer takes over the Provincetown-esque village just as a young

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Underdoggs

A former pro football star (Snoop Dogg) gets sentenced to community service coaching a foul mouthed pee-wee football team (the Underdoggs) in his hometown of Long Beach, California, where he connects with an old flame and forgotten friends and realizes he can rehab his image and his life.  The familiar plot is made fresh with

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American Star

An assassin (Ian McShane) is sent to a remote island to kill a person he has never met, but finds himself drawn to the island, people and an eerie shipwreck in this slow burn and violent thriller.  “…an unusually intelligent and purposeful movie that doesn’t say much, but is full of feeling.” -RogerEbert’s Matt Zoller

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Masters of the Air

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are behind this riveting blockbuster-caliber series that embeds deep into a bomber group flying dangerous missions over Nazi Germany, capturing the horror and humanity and responsibility they had for each other’s survival.  Its delivered with an all-star cast that includes Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Nate Mann, Callum Turner, Ncuti Gatwa,

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Expats

Set in Hong Kong in 2014, a group of foreigners lives intersect after a tragedy in this nuanced series about trauma and connection that TIME Magazine calls “the first must-see show of 2024.”   Starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Jack Huston, and Brian Tee, Lulu Wang (The Farewell) writes (alongside Alice Bell), directs,

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Griselda

Based-on-a-true-story, Sofia Vergara plays Colombian drug kingpin Griselda Blanco, who rose up from being the woman behind her drug lord husband in Medellin to becoming “the Godmother of Cocaine” in 1980s Miami.  The quick six episodes are slick and engrossing — as is Vergara’s performance.

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Sexy Beast

A prequel to the 2000 cult favorite film that starred Ben Kingsley, this Sexy Beast is set in 1990s East London and centers on the early relationship between friends and thieves and future criminal enterprise Gal and Don.  “It is sexy as hell,” according the Daily Beast. “This is a deeply unsexy beast,” according to

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