Oscar winner Cillian Murphy leads this intense drama about a chaotic day in the life of a British reform school on the brink of closure and the headmaster who attempts to protect his students as he battles his own addiction and emotional breakdown. From The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw: “A drama suffused with gonzo energy and
A white-knuckle true story about the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California — still the deadliest wildfire in US history — The Lost Bus follows a school teacher (America Ferrera) and bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) as they team up and risk everything to save 22 children from the flames, facing their own flaws and
Dovetailing with the release of Swift’s much ballyhooed new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” this first-of-its-kind theatrical event managed to shutdown AMC’s app and site for a time the day it was announced. Unlike Swift’s Eras concert film, which broke box office records, The Official Release Party is more of a preamble, combining a
Mark Wahlberg’s darkly comedic mob thriller follows a professional thief whose horse track heist goes off the rails, forcing him to find a new crew and plot a higher stakes score to avenge the traitors who set him up. A slick ensemble co-starring Tony Shalhoub, Keegan-Michael Key, LaKeith Stanfield, Gretchen Mol, and Rosa Salazar, it’s
A crash course in modern marketing, Jimmy Fallon hosts this new business-themed competition series that lines up contestants to compete to create the best campaigns for major brands. With everyone worried about their jobs these days, it taps into the tension of Shark Tank and the lessons and how to of Project Runway — with
The third and final film in the franchise that began with cross-generational appointment television in the UK in 2010, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale takes us up to the 1930s and follows Lady Mary as she lands in a public scandal and the larger Crawley family as they face financial strain and succession questions. Ideally,
An intimate, sympathetic portrait of the life of New Zealand’s former Prime Minister Jacinda Ahearn, who made history in 2017 when she catapulted into the country’s power seat at 37 against the odds and gave birth not long after. rom Robert Abele at the Los Angeles Times: “In the fleet, pacey manner of the editing,
After being kicked off his college football team for his bad behavior, a quarterback uses a disguise to try and undercover his way onto a different school’s team in this much-hyped series starring (and co-created by) Glen Powell. It was inspired by Eli Manning’s 2022 comedy short for ESPN, and it co-stars Steve Zahn, Toby
FX’s critically-adored sitcom returns with a new school year, as English teacher Evan is once again dropped headfirst into the latest high-school culture wars—from climate-change protests and a student-written COVID-era play to thorny debates over military recruitment and phone bans—while trying to balance his own public crusades with an increasingly fraught romance. This season expands
A psychological thriller about a young police officer (Mae Martin) who gets drawn into the dark secrets of Tall Pines Academy, a cultish Vermont boarding school for “troubled teens” that’s led by an authoritarian headmaster (Toni Collette). The six-episode drama was created by and stars Martin, who has a personal connection to the material, and