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Umthetho takes a familiar family conflict and places it inside one of the most unforgiving environments imaginable. Nqobile Nunu Khumalo stars as Mbali Dlamini, an idealistic public prosecutor whose belief in the justice system is challenged when she discovers that her older brother Moses, played by Tony Kgoroge, is alive and running a powerful criminal…
Netflix’s My Brilliant Career returns to Miles Franklin’s celebrated story without trying to recreate Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 film shot for shot. Developed and written by Liz Doran, the six-part series follows Sybylla Melvyn, a fiercely independent young woman living in Australia around the turn of the 20th century. Sybylla wants to become a writer, even…
Olivia Wilde’s The Invite turns an ordinary dinner invitation into an increasingly uncomfortable examination of marriage, sex and the private resentments couples learn to hide. Seth Rogen and Wilde play Joe and Angela, a San Francisco couple whose relationship has settled into near-constant friction, while Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton play their seemingly more adventurous…
Getting a beloved 1990s boy band back together sounds like a strong television stunt. For Kaitlin Thompson, it is also the idea that could finally earn her a promotion. Hallmark’s Absolutely Devoted to You follows the ambitious morning-show producer as she tries to reunite the fictional group Absolutely Yeah! for a summer beach event. Three…
Anthony Bourdain eventually became a chef, writer and traveler who seemed incapable of staying in one place for long, but Tony is interested in the period before all of that. Matt Johnson’s A24 film follows a 19-year-old Bourdain during a formative summer in Provincetown, when he arrives on Cape Cod without much direction and stumbles…
2 Hearts looks, at first, like two separate romances unfolding at different points in time. College freshman Chris meets Sam and begins imagining a future he had not expected, while years earlier, Jorge, a Cuban exile living with a serious lung condition, falls for flight attendant Leslie. Lance Hool’s romantic drama gradually reveals why those…
A marriage that once felt completely secure becomes the most frightening uncertainty in The Him I Knew. The Lifetime psychological thriller follows Melony and Luke Taylor, a married couple whose seemingly settled life is shattered when they survive a violent attack inside their home. The physical danger passes, but something more disturbing takes its place.…
David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street begins with an aggressively ordinary American neighborhood. Greg and Denise Platt are raising their children, Audrey and Brian, in the kind of quiet suburb where garages, driveways and trimmed lawns hardly seem capable of hiding anything extraordinary. Then a mysterious cosmic event tears Oak Street away from…
There is something immediately unsettling about a house refusing to behave like a house. In Netflix’s The Last House, a suburban family’s safest space abruptly becomes a prison. Jason and Ann wake to find every normal route outside useless, the doors will not open, the windows cannot be broken, and the strange rain falling across…
Super Troopers 3 gives Broken Lizard’s highway patrolmen a problem even Farva cannot bluff his way through. Farva is preparing to marry Thorny’s sister, turning a strained family gathering into an extravagant Indian wedding. Thorny wants the relationship stopped, while the troopers become tangled in another drug-smuggling case. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, the comedy reunites…
The Challenge has always understood that scenery is most useful when it can also make the contestants miserable. Season 42, titled The Challenge: Cutthroat, doubles down on that principle. Twenty-four veterans and newcomers are split into three teams, but collective survival comes with an individual temptation: the winning captain controls how the $500,000 prize is…
By the time Jackie Howard returns to Silver Falls in Season 3, the Colorado town no longer feels like the refuge she entered after losing her family. It has become the place where she rebuilt herself, complicated two brothers’ lives and found a community she may not be ready to leave. The season resumes after…
