A.W.īill Simmons’s Music Box doc series turns to smooth-jazz saxophonist Kenny G, his unlikely rise to fame, and his unprecedented success as a recording artist in the ’80s and ’90s.
A great ensemble cast (Beanie Feldstein, Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell, Amy Schumer, June Squibb, Steven Yeun) gathers to mull uncertainties about a future in which nothing can be taken for granted. Stephen Karam’s adaptation of his own Tony-winning play is a Thanksgiving drama as existential horror movie. The animation serves to hide his identity and to re-create some of the drama of his life - but allows an aesthetic distance that, whenever it purposefully collapses, hits like an emotional sledgehammer. Verhoeven’s upcoming Benedetta, about a 17th-century nun who scandalizes the Catholic Church with her lesbian affair and religious visions, has already lead to protest, so what better time to revisit his boundary-pushing filmography? This series kicks off with dystopian classics Total Recall and RoboCop before shifting gears to Showgirls, Rutger Hauer in Flesh+Blood, and the incredible Isabelle Huppert showcase Elle. - A.W.ĭanish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s film tells the tale of a young gay Afghan boy’s harrowing journey as a refugee. Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi won Best Screenplay at Cannes for this moving tale of a recently widowed actor and theater director who winds up casting his dead wife’s young lover in an avant-garde production of Uncle Vanya. It’s based on a Murakami short story and the best such adaptation to date. At its heart is Lady Gaga, who gives us the perfect amount of camp as Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider who married into the Gucci family and somehow manages to both help destroy it and push its brand toward the future. Ridley Scott’s fashion saga offers a tremendously good time, with many interpretations of what an Italian accent sounds like as well as an enormous amount of acting, some of it (Adam Driver) very good and some of it (Jared Leto) just very big. You can huddle up to your TV, mug of hot coffee in hand, and see inflatable Snoopy or Grogu from The Mandalorian, along with performances by all-female K-pop group Aespa and all-female group Girls5eva, the fictional band that will showcase real music on the Peacock float. Frustratingly, very little of this series has to do with landscaping in spite of a premise primed for jokes about soil quality. J.C.Ī four-part true-crime series starring David Thewlis and the inimitable Olivia Colman, inspired by a real story about an unassuming couple who somehow end up killing two people and burying them in their backyard. Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before ChristmasĪardman Animations presents this holiday special in which an attempt to procure bigger stockings for Shaun & flock goes awry.
There’s nothing else like it on TV. -Kathryn VanArendonk It is also stuffed to the gills with loving, idiosyncratic imagery of city street life and everyday surrealism. This very weird show is kind of a documentary as well as a comedy, a memoir, an essay, a series of profiles, and a scrapbook. It takes place during the holiday season, so look forward to watching arrows shoot from bows as Christmas lights twinkle in the background. Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye joins forces with his potential protégée Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld, hopping from Dickinson to the MCU) to keep some dark forces at bay.