A teenage street urchin in an alternate reality Paris battles a mysterious organization kidnapping the greatest minds in the world in this playful fantasy fable.
Tag: Paul Giamatti
What to stream: ‘Private Life’ and Monty Python on Netflix, ‘Into the Dark’ and ‘RBG’ on Hulu, ‘Leave No Trace’ on VOD
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn star as a married couple struggling to have kids late in life in Private Life (2018, not rated), a spiky drama with comic edges from director […]
‘Straight Outta Compton’ on VOD and disc
Billed as “The World’s Most Dangerous Group,” N.W.A. was a musical bomb that blew up the hip-hop world with such force that the reverberations were felt all through popular culture. Straight Outta Compton, developed by N.W.A. founding members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre and directed by F. Gary Gray, dramatizes origins and impact of the […]
Ken Burns’s ‘Prohibition’ on Netflix
Prohibition (2011), Ken Burns’ portrait of “the Noble Experiment” turned American disaster, follows Burns’s trademark approach to American history by putting big events into perspective through the personal stories of both significant historical figures and the everyday citizens. That’s particularly effective in the story of prohibition, which traditionally is presented in terms of the activism […]