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“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” takes Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology back to 1892 and one of America’s most enduring murder mysteries. Ella Beatty plays Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of killing her father Andrew and stepmother Abby in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Charlie Hunnam portrays Andrew, Rebecca Hall plays…
“The Caretaker Next Door” gives its heroine what appears to be the ideal hiding place and then steadily turns it against her. Eve Mauro stars as Willow Stevenson, a prosecutor whose role in putting a dangerous criminal behind bars leaves her worried about retaliation. Rather than remain in the city, Willow retreats to the farmhouse…
“Facing El Chapo” approaches one of Mexico’s most notorious criminal cases from an unusual angle. Rather than building another biography around Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, director Chava Cartas concentrates on two federal officers whose routine patrol becomes anything but routine after they encounter the fugitive cartel boss. Alfonso Herrera plays Carmona opposite Noe Hernandez as…
Netflix’s “Blood Sacrifice” takes the familiar darkness of Scandinavian crime fiction and drops it into a season when Stockholm barely gets dark at all. Jakob Oftebro stars as Thomas Berg, a respected investigator hunting a serial killer who appears to be deliberately targeting police officers. The case eventually forces Thomas to seek help from Alfred,…
“Average Joe” spent its first season turning an ordinary Pittsburgh plumber’s life into an increasingly absurd crime nightmare. Season 2 decides Pittsburgh is no longer big enough for Joe Washington’s problems. After another threat connected to his father’s criminal past puts his family in danger, Joe, Leon, Cathy and Touch follow the trail all the…
“Mutiny” gives Jason Statham another man-against-everyone assignment, but this time the geography steadily closes around him. Statham plays Cole Reed, a former Special Forces operative who witnesses the murder of his billionaire employer and is then framed for the crime. His attempt to uncover who ordered the killing eventually takes him aboard a cargo ship,…
“The Dating App Killer: The Monica White Story” begins with an everyday decision that gradually becomes terrifying. Monica White, a recently divorced mother played by Lela Rochon, decides she is ready to date again after her son leaves for military school. She meets Anthony Robinson online and initially believes she may have found someone worth…
“Busboys” takes two men with almost no career momentum and gives them a goal they regard with ridiculous seriousness: becoming waiters. David Spade plays Markie Montgomery opposite Theo Von as Steefen “Steef” Barn, longtime friends stuck cleaning septic systems until they decide the restaurant business offers a path to money, respect and, apparently, a better…
“The Guest Who Never Left” turns the idea of a smart home into something considerably less reassuring. Felisha Terrell plays Anna Stone, the editor-in-chief of a successful news magazine who is expecting her first child with husband Daniel, played by Jason MacDonald. Daniel happens to run an AI-focused home security company, and the couple’s impressive…
Nearly two decades after Mitchie Torres first arrived at Camp Rock, Disney returns to the music camp with a noticeably different landscape. “Camp Rock 3” brings Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas back as Connect 3, whose reunion tour hits a problem when their opening act drops out. Their solution is to return to Camp Rock…
“Aussie at Heart” gives its second-chance romance a setting built around the water. Rhiannon Fish stars as Samara Hart, a former attorney who has reinvented herself as an event planner after a professional disaster derailed her legal career. Her newest assignment sounds like exactly the sort of opportunity that could restore her confidence: organize a…
Rather than rebuilding one of the Cold War’s most famous diplomatic meetings on a Hollywood soundstage, “The Brink of War” puts its actors inside the room where history actually happened. Michael Russell Gunn’s political drama revisits the tense 1986 Reykjavik Summit, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Iceland to…
