Plus ‘The Velvet Underground’ on Hulu, ‘The Trip’ on Netflix, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ series on Amazon, ‘Free Guy’ and ‘The Green Knight’ on VOD and more…
Category: drama
‘Waitress’ with Keri Russell on Hulu
Before it was a Broadway musical, ‘Waitress’ was a sweet romantic drama from filmmaker Adrienne Shelly, costarring Nathan Fillion.
Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Handmaiden’ on Amazon Prime
The director of ‘Oldboy’ delivers a sexy, savage, utterly compelling con thriller tangled up in national and sexual politics in 1930s Korea.
George Clooney is ‘Up in the Air’ on HBO Max
The Oscar-nominated drama from Jason Reitman taps into the anxieties of our precarious times and gives a voice to the victims of downsizing and those who have kept afloat be remaining completely untethered.
‘Our Brand Is Crisis’ – politics as PR on Netflix
Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton star as American political consultants running rival political campaigns in Bolivia in this satire inspired by real events.
Al Pacino is ‘Danny Collins’ on HBO Max and Kanopy
Pacino plays a former rock star on a redemption tour in this low-key comic drama that gives the actor an opportunity to both play off and play down his knack for big, showy performances.
‘Beat Girl’ – British teen rebellion on Criterion Channel
This 1960 rock and roll rebellion melodrama is a British teen exploitation picture set in the seedy underbelly of Soho and set to a growling score.
What to stream: ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ on HBO Max, ‘The Guilty’ and ‘Maid’ on Netflix, Jon Stewart on Apple TV+
Plus ‘Queenpins’ on Paramount+, Britney Spears documentaries on Netflix and Hulu, ‘Diana: The Musical’ on Netflix, ‘Pauli Murray’ on Amazon, ‘The Perfect Candidate’ on Criterion Channel, and more.
‘Friday Night Lights: Complete Series’ on Netflix, Hulu, and Peacock
The acclaimed drama set in a high school in a small Texas town is not so much a sports drama as a drama about people whose lives were—for better and for worse—defined by sports.
‘Freedom Writers’ on Netflix
Hillary Swank stars as the real-life teacher who inspired her students to write their stories as way of imagining a better future.