Amazon Prime offers up a female-led spy thriller as a response to its more testosterone-led Tom Clancy and Reacher series. The new series stars Kate Beckinsale as a CIA agent who has to infiltrate a secret terrorist cell to rescue her kidnapped husband (Rupert Friend), and she’s up against “digital nukes” and big geopolitical stakes.
If you feel you missed out on the debauchery of the 80s — British society style — this eight-episode sex farce will be your weekend’s delight. The trailer alone is like aristocratic English version of Porkys, with hints of naked tennis and orgies, lavish estates and hunky horseback riders — all pivoting around a showdown
A long-awaited biopic starring Kate Winslet as the unlikely WWII photographer Lee Miller, who shot some of the first images of the Blitz and concentration camps before being told women were not allowed to accompany troopers. She was left to capture the powerful, lesser known images and stories from some of the war before staging
The dramatized true story about an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles who becomes a contestant on The Dating Game — paired up with a man who turns out to be a serial killer. Directed by and starring Anna Kendrick, it’s an original take on a chilling story told in a taut and captivating way,
HBO’s new six-episode comedy series marries real-life Floridians sharing their crazy stories about the Sunshine State with reenactment by an eclectic rotation of actors — like Randall Park, Sam Richardson, Anna Faris, Ego Nwodim, Jake Johnson, and Juliette Lewis. From the New York Times’ Margaret Lyons: “…the show’s melody is ‘Get a load of this!’
A stirring, intimate documentary that reveals the lesser known story about one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story brought our writer to tears. As Felipe Patterson describes it, it’s a story that manages to be inspiring and heartbreaking, and “a testament to the human capacity to overcome the insurmountable.” Read his
You can count on Starz to bring the edge that might be missing from your endless Netflix scrolls. Their new dark British dramedy is about a young outcast (Ella Purnell) who, while being dismissed by her peers, embraces her inner savage and secret new role as a killer. More original than its plot would indicate,
Laura Dern plays a newly single novelist struck with writer’s block who heads to a retreat in Morocco hoping for a cure, and as you can guess, she finds one in the handsome young stranger (Liam Hemsworth) who throws her for a few loops in this Netflix romance that has all the ingredients of a
Cate Blanchett plays a celebrated TV journalist who receives a new novel in the mail, one that appears to feature her as the main character—ultimately disclosing a dark chapter from her past. The seven-episode psychological thriller, written and directed by Academy Award-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Gravity), brings together an impressive cast: Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron
After their father dies unexpectedly, his three adult siblings discover that their dad had dementia, that he had recently married, and that he left everything to his new wife, Susan, who was previously married to dad’s best friend. As they each try to unravel the mysteries and process all the news, tensions boil and hard