Plus ‘Moonhaven’ on AMC+, ‘Hello, Goodbye’ on Netflix, ‘Maggie’ on Hulu, ‘The 355’ on Prime Video, ‘Trigger Point’ on Peacock, and ‘The Northman’ on VOD
Category: Based on a nonfiction book
Last chance: Morgan Freeman is Nelson Mandella in ‘Invictus’ on Netflix
Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandella as the newly-elected President of South Africa in Invictus (2009), Clint Eastwood’s reverent tribute to Nelson Mandella’s efforts to unite post-apartheid South Africa. This isn’t a biography of Mandella. Audiences come to the film with the understanding that Nelson Mandella spent 24 years in prison for protesting South Africa’s apartheid […]
What to stream: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ and ‘Mosul’ on Netflix, ‘Uncle Frank’ on Amazon, ‘The Flight Attendant’ on HBO Max
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … “Hillbilly Elegy” (2020, R), based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, stars Gabriel Basso as a Yale law student drawn back to his Northern Kentucky home to deal with his meth-addict mother […]