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Steven Spielberg’s ‘Catch Me If You Can’ on HBO Max

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FBI agent Tom Hanks chases check forger Leonardo DiCaprio in Spielberg’s lively take on the true story of a con man who successfully posed as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor, and passed millions in forged checks, all before his 21st birthday.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson star in the Oscar-winning gangster film

Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winner ‘The Departed’ on HBO Max and Hulu

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson star in Scorsese’s 2006 return to American urban crime cinema, which became the biggest hit of his career and earned him his first Academy Award for Best Director.

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ – Andrew Garfield becomes the webhead on Netflix

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Director Marc Webb rebooted the superhero series with a new cast, a new love interest (Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy), and a new villain.

‘O’ – high school Othello on Paramount+

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Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, and Josh Hartnett star in Tim Blake Nelson’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ in an elite private high school.

Get your kicks on ‘Route 66: Complete Series’ on IMDbTV and Hoopla

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Martin Milner and George Maharis star in the original TV road show, traveling the country in a Corvette convertible and getting caught up in other people’s stories.

‘Apocalypse Now: Redux’ – Francis Ford Coppola’s trippy war epic on Netflix

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Coppola turns Vietnam into a war movie as drug-addled theme park ride with real tigers, exploding sets, and Marlon Brando as a mad guru warrior.

‘Naked City’ – the complete classic cop drama free on IMDbTV

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“There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.” The acclaimed cop show Naked City: Complete Series (1958-1959), set and shot on the streets of New York City, is ostensibly inspired by the influential 1948 film of the same name, a film noir with documentary immediacy. But it plays […]

What to watch the week of Friday, May 8

Netflix, Streaming TV, VOD 05/08/2015 Sean Axmaker

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin reunite for the first time since “9 to 5” for the new Netflix original series “Grace & Frankie.” They play old friends who turn to each other for support when their husbands (Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen) reveal their secret love affair and announce that they are getting married. It’s […]