Matthew Singer

Cuando miramos hacia el cine de 2025, tenemos muchos motivos para emocionarnos. Solo en enero, el calendario incluye un nuevo título épico americano, una biografía muy esperada de uno de los grandes artistas del siglo XX, una nueva versión del hombre lobo y Nicole Kidman bebiendo leche de manera apasionada. Además, hay secuelas de sagas importantes, remakes, spin-offs de grandes éxitos, proyectos muy esperados de grandes autores y, hacia el final, 'Wicked: For good' y la tercera película de 'Avatar'. ¿Cuál de ellas terminará definiendo el año? ¿Quién lo sabe ahora? En cualquier caso, lo veremos en pantalla grande. 🎥 Las mejores 51 películas para ver en familia📺 Las mejores series para ver este mes🔥 Las mejores películas de 2024  

Mirant el cinema que ens arriba aquest 2025, tenim molts motius per emocionar-nos. Ja al gener, el calendari inclou un nou títol èpic americà, una biografia molt esperada d'un dels grans artistes del segle XX, una nova versió de l'home llop i Nicole Kidman bevent llet de manera apassionada. A més a més, hi ha seqüeles de llegendes importants, remakes, spin-offs de grans èxits, projectes molt esperats de grans autors i, ja cap al final, 'Wicked: For good' i la tercera pel·lícula d'’Avatar’. Quina d'elles acabarà definint l'any? Qui pot saber-ho, ara? En tot cas, ho veurem en pantalla gran.  🎥 Les millors pel·lícules per veure en família📺 Les millors sèries per veure aquest mes🔥 Les millors pel·lícules del 2024 

It was the best of times and worst of times for Hollywood in 2024. The first half of the year was marked by a string of box office disappointments, followed by blockbusters no one saw coming – if you claim to have known Inside Out 2 would become the highest-grossing animated film of all-time, show us the receipts, please. The lesson is that it’s always hard to predict what the year in movies will look like, financially, thematically and otherwise. And so, as we look forward to the cinema of 2025, we won’t try to concoct some grand narrative about what it all means. We’ll simply say, there are many reasons to be excited. In January alone, the docket includes a new American epic, a long-​awaited biopic of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, a fresh take on the wolfman and Nicole Kidman lustily drinking milk. Elsewhere, there are major legacy sequels, remakes, blockbuster spinoffs, long-awaited projects from big-name auteurs – and waiting for us at the end, Wicked: For Good and the third Avatar movie. Which of them will come to define the year? Who knows? But as always, we’ll be watching. RECOMMENDED:  🎥 The biggest family movies coming out in 2025📺 The best TV shows of 2024 you need to stream🔥 The 50 best movies of 2024

Christmas movies have become as disposable as a month-old wreath. Over the last decade, streamers like Netflix have made a tradition of churning out corny, cheaply-made, badly acted holiday romcoms that vanish from memory as soon as the season ends, only to crank out a dozen more the very next year. Sure, a dose of forgettable cheese can make for a fun irony watch, but the cottage industry surrounding them has come to overshadow the truly great Christmas movies that exist – the ones we used to watch every December to signal that the most wonderful time of the year is finally upon us. Sorry if this makes us sound a bit Scrooge-y. To offset that Grinchitude, then, how about we celebrate the yuletide classics that really get us in the wintry mood? Everyone has their own personal favourite, whether it’s a generational touchstone like It’s a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Story, something goofy like Elf or crude and rude like Bad Santa. Whatever lights the yule log in your heart, you’ll find it under the tree in our list of the best Christmas movies ever. RECOMMENDED: 🎅 The best kids Christmas movies to watch this year🎶 The 50 best Christmas songs to listen to this month🎄 The best animated Christmas movies for the whole family🧝 The best Christmas movies on Netflix in the UK

Si 2022 fue el año de Tom Cruise, gracias al éxito de taquilla que supuso 'Top Gun: Maverick', 2023 se perfila como el año de... bien, Tom Cruise otra vez. La llegada de la primera parte de 'Misión: Imposible: Sentencia de muerte' tendría que hacer que las taquillas de los cines vuelvan a llenarse. También hay una segunda entrega que nos entusiasmará: el retorno de Denis Villeneuve a Arrakis con 'Dune: Parte Dos'. Y si nos ceñimos a los números, Ant-Man y los entrañables Guardianes de la Galaxia tendrán una tercera entrega, puesto que la cuarta fase del MCU se convierte en multiversal.En el ámbito más pequeño y artístico, también hay mucho por el cual entusiasmarse. Sundance y Cannes llevarán a nuestras listas de imprescindibles películas desconocidas hasta ahora. Y antes de esto, llegarán a la gran pantalla las nuevas películas de Sarah Polley ('Ellas hablan), Hirokazu Koreeda ('Broker') y Cristian Mungiu ('R.M.N.'). Una cosa es segura: 2023 no será ningún paseo. NO TE LO PIERDAS: Los mejores conciertos de Barcelona en 2023

In 2024, family movies saved Hollywood. Coming off 2023 and the #Barbenheimer phenomenon, the first half of the year was filled with unexpected flops that left studios scratching their heads. Then came Pixar’s Inside Out 2, which exceeded all expectations to become not just the top box-office draw of the year but the highest-grossing animated movie ever made. Then Despicable Me 4. Then Moana 2. Three of the five biggest movies of the year were aimed at kids – and don’t forget the pan-generational appeal of Wicked, either. Will the story continue in 2025? Hard to say. Other than the second half of the aforementioned Wizard of Oz prequel, there aren’t many obvious blockbusters on the immediate horizon. But again, who saw Inside Out 2 or Despicable Me 4 coming? There is, however, plenty to get excited about, from live-action remakes to a brand new Pixar adventure to Spongebob Squarepants. Here are the eight family films your children will be begging to see this year. RECOMMENDED: 🎥 The biggest movies to see in 2025📺 The best streaming shows of 2024🔥 The 50 best movies of 2024

With Hollywood still regaining its footing after a 2020s it’d probably describe as a personal low, the field has been open for streaming shows to monopolise the cultural conversation. And this year it’s been well-established thoroughbreads that have been dominating our social feeds (Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Bear, Industry, Bridgerton, Slow Horses), as well as some unexpected bolters (Baby Reindeer, Rivals, Fallout). And with a second run of Squid Game about to end the year with a big pile of bodies, the pressure to cram in eight or ten episodes’ worth of must-see TV is not relenting anytime soon. Our advice? Shake off the pressure to ‘see everything’ – it’s impossible, short of ripping a hole in the fabric of time – and find the shows that really hit your sweet spot. To help with this, we’ve taken a backwards glance over the best and most all-round enjoyable new binges, curating our definitive list of 2024 favourites. And as any fan of ace Aussie comedy Colin From Accounts will tell you: it’s not always about the number of Emmys on the shelf, as the sheer joy on screen that makes something worth your precious time. Here’s where to start. RECOMMENDED: 🎥 The 50 best movies of 2024🔥 The best TV and streaming shows of 2023📺 The 100 greatest ever TV shows you need to binge

Comedies are the omelettes of the movie world: they seem easy to do, so you get very little credit when they come off – and definitely no awards – but people sure as heck notice when they’re a sticky, shell-filled mess. But we’re giving that misconception a slapstick boot to the backside, because nothing could be further from the truth. A good comedy – and definitely a great one – is a work of alchemy dependent on perfect comic timing, performances, storytelling and, obviously, a LOL-filled script all have to come together to produce gold. And a comedy that endures and appeals across different language and cultural barriers? That’s called a miracle.This may be why you’d have to be all funny bone to call this a vintage year for big-screen comedy. But things are ramping up, with Hit Man, The Fall Guy and the more PG-funny IF all delivering mid-year mirth, and the anarchic Deadpool & Wolverine and Hundreds of Beavers topping up the feelgood vibes later in 2024. Here’s where to find the uplift, silliness and pratfalls amid all the worthy Oscars fare and grown-up dramas. RECOMMENDED:  The 50 best movies of 2024The 100 best comedy movies of all timeThe greatest romantic comedies of all time

It’s been a banner year for horror movies. In fact, it seems like all the buzziest films to come out so far aim to terrify. What’s truly great about the current horror bumper crop is that none of the standouts really resemble one another.  Cannes hit The Substance icked its way into the awards conversation on the back of Demi Moore’s staggeringly strong lead turn, Osgood Perkins’ hit Longlegs mixed ’90s serial killer procedurals with the Satanic panic of the previous decade, while I Saw the TV Glow was David Lynch directing Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Late Night with the Devil made found-footage fun again, while In a Violent Nature invented a new subgenre that people called ‘ambient slasher’. And that’s to name just a few. Below, you’ll find our best and scariest movies of 2024. 🎃 The 100 best horror films ever made 😱 The scariest movies based on a true story 🔥 The best films of 2024 (so far)

When you think of Christmas movies set in major American cities, most minds instantly flash to New York. You probably even have a specific scene in mind, maybe something around or on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center. Hey, you can’t beat the Big Apple. But have you ever considered Chicago? It’s also big, twinkly and romantic, with iconic landmarks of its own that look great covered in snow. Indeed, the Second City also has several great Christmas flicks to its name – and a few which, if not exactly classic, at least make a convincing case for spending the holidays spending the holiday in the Windy City. They may not top many critics polls, but when the weather gets crisp and peppermint wafts through the air, they’re guaranteed to warm your heart like an Italian beef sando for the soul. Recommended: 🎄 The 50 best Christmas movies of all-time🐻 The 27 best Chicago movies🎅 The best Christmas movies for kids to watch this year

Sure, the holidays are a time of joy, good cheer and family togetherness. But that doesn’t mean every Christmas movie needs to be full of mirth, merriment and Lindsay Lohan. After all, everyone celebrates the season differently. Some of us enjoy snuggling up on the couch in a cosy sweater and a cup of hot cocoa and watching two strangers fall in love as lights twinkle in the background and snow falls around them. Others just want to see a psychopath in a Santa suit chainsaw some horny teenagers in half. In our eyes, both are valid, even if one type of holiday film is far more bountiful than the other. The subgenre of Christmas-themed horror movies isn’t exactly broad, but if you search deep enough, you’ll find enough peppermint-scented scares to break up all the holly-jolliness. Prepare for homicidal Santas, possessed gingerbread men, evil snowmen and clowns from Hell – these 20 scary Christmas movies are a gift for the blood-lusting Scrooge in all of us. Recommended: 😱 The 100 best horror movies of all-time🎅 The 50 best Christmas movies🎄 The best Christmas specials of all time💩 The 40 best bad movies ever made

Parents hear all about the difficulties of raising a teenager, but the tween years aren’t much better. Sure, they may not yet be a hormonal know-it-all insisting upon their independence, but now they suddenly have ‘opinions’ and ‘feelings about things’, and they expect you to respect them. That includes movie nights. Where your happy little butterball could once be pleased with anything loud and fast-moving, now they’re getting more discerning. At the same time, they’re not so desperate to prove their maturity that they’re demanding a legal thriller or a Merchant Ivory costume drama. So how do you choose the right flick to please all audiences? To help you through this short-lived but awkward time, we’ve rounded up 36 movies guaranteed to excite and entertain anyone between the ages of ten and 12. And the good news is that much of what works for that demographic is the same stuff you loved at the age, from ’80s blockbusters to silly comedies to adventure flicks to movies about young love and the struggle of growing up. Stream one of these and hold off on the headaches for at least another day. Recommended: 🎒 The 100 best teen movies of all-time👪 The 50 best family films to stream on movie night🤣 The 35 best family comedy movies

New year, new Netflix. Sure, the streamer is constantly switching up its catalogue, moving titles on and off, but arguably the biggest change to the platform at the start of 2025 is its movement into live sports. Or, in this case, ‘sports’, as World Wrestling Entertainment flagship program, Raw, debuts as a streaming entity. Have the Netflix servers buffed up enough to welcome millions of fans each week without issues? We’ll see!  Elsewhere in January, there’s an action-comedy heralding the return to acting of two big-name stars, a new stop-motion romp from the weirdo geniuses at Aardman, a gritty western miniseries, the second seasons from a pair of shows you may or may not have even heard of, and a documentary about a ’90s talk show that featured almost as many fake fights as WWE: The Jerry Springer Show.   Recommended: 💻 The 44 best Netflix original series to binge🦚 The best movies to watch on Peacock right now📺 The best TV shows of 2024 Image: Netflix"Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever" Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever Most guys react to a midlife crisis by buying a sports car or getting really into pickleball. Tech bro Bryan Johnson has instead spent millions on procedures to reverse the aging process, and so far succeeded in making himself look like an android with human skin stretched around its exoskeleton. Filmmaker Chris Smith, director of Netflix’s Fyre Festival doc, asks the pertinent question: what is this dude’s deal? Premieres Jan 1 C

Well, here we are. America has arrived at the moment of truth – the most important presidential election in our lifetime. Sure, they seem to say that about every election, but in this case, it’s probably true, given that democracy itself is seemingly hanging in the balance. Whether or not the results actually end up confirming the country’s slide into totalitarianism, it’s a big deal regardless.   Need to prepare yourself? These movies should help put things in perspective. Not all of them are about presidential politics per se, but they are focused on the democratic process and the machinations and maneuverings that accompany it. We’d like to say they’ll calm your inevitably frazzled nerves, but the truth is, if you’re making a movie about an election in the United States, it’s probably lined with a good bit of cynicism. But as you’ll see, cynicism can be a good thing, especially if you’re hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. Recommended: 🔥 The 100 best movies of all-time😬 The best thriller movies of all-time🤔 The 24 best movies based on true stories Photograph: Warner Bros. 1. All the President’s Men (1976) Ah, the days when committing crimes could actually bring down a presidency. Watergate was barely out of the headlines when Alan Pakula turned the most famous act of reportage in American political history into the greatest journalism procedural ever made. Embellishing little, Pakula sticks to the facts – and to the newsroom of The Washington Post – and

Horror, fittingly, is the unkillable genre. Just when you think it’s peaked – the exploitation-heavy ’70s, the slasher ’80s, the post-ironic ’90s – it gets a new leash of life and lurches back at you, claw hammer in hand. Like the transmogrifying alien in The Thing, there’s something in its bloodstream that keeps its scares relevant, keeps them reflecting our fears back at us in ways that are too damn frightening to resist. Halloween, however, requires a very specific kind of horror film: it’s a time when spooks and scares, ghosts and ghouls take precedence over subtext and smarts. With that, and the genre’s recent purple patch in mind, here’s a few films from the last year or two that will scare you witless this week and enhance that gothic vibe. (If you’ve got younger viewers in the house, give this more family-friendly list a go instead.) Our pick of the top Halloween movies for 2024 Photograph: A24 1. Heretic Hands up: who had Hugh Grant down as this year’s answer to the Jigsaw Killer? The erstwhile romcom softboi shows new, darker shades in a fiendishly clever horror-thriller with big ideas and even bigger shocks. It’s not Grant’s first villainous turn – hello, Daniel Cleaver and that cannibal in Cloud Atlas – but when his seemingly hospitable would-be convert lulls a pair of guileless Mormon missionaries into a hellish labyrinthine, it’s a ride you really don’t want to miss. In theaters now Photograph: Signature Entertainment 2. Terrifier 3 Who knew there was such

You’ve carved a pumpkin – looks great, top work – you’ve stocked up on candy and decked out the front porch like it’s the set of a Tim Burton movie. But there may be one variable still lingering over your Halloween: what to watch with the little ones? What’s needed is something that offers kids a frisson of spookiness and some gentle scares, but nothing that’s going to freak them out and require you to spend three hours sitting by their bedside reassuring them that Pazuzu isn’t real. Oh, and something that’s genuinely fun for grown-ups too. Here’s our pick of ten Halloween faves that hit that ghoulish sweet spot. (Oh, and grown-ups should head for this more R-rated list.) The top Halloween movies for kids Photograph: Disney 1. Coco (Disney+) Give your Halloween a celebratory vibe with an effervescent Pixar animation that sends its young musical hero into the afterlife for a race-against-the-clock adventure featuring skeletons as far as the eyeball can see. No culture does death with as much vibrancy and joy as Mexico, and this riff on the Day of the Dead celebrations is a suitably kaleidoscopic treatment of the great beyond. The actual Día de Muerto falls on Saturday, November 2, so what better time to cue it up? Photograph: Disney+Frankenweenie 2. Frankenweenie (Disney+) Nothing’s worse than the loss of a beloved family pet. Enter Tim Burton’s stop motion animation to raise the spooky possibility of reincarnating the little guy with the help of a massive electrical cha

On Netflix, movies and TV shows come and go almost daily. Sometimes, you may not even know something is there to stream before it’s too late. In other cases, you might be halfway through a series, or planning to watch a movie at the end of the week, and then poof: gone. Don’t get caught unaware. Below, you’ll find a full list of everything leaving Netflix in November 2024, with our six picks for the flicks you must watch before they cycle off, including Tom Hanks as a grumpy old man, Tom Cruise as a live-action video game character, Ryan Gosling as a real American hero, and Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah. Get watching, and live without regret. Recommended: 🎬 The 35 best movies on Netflix right now🇳 The 44 best Netflix original series to binge🦚 The 20 best movies to watch on Peacock right now🎥 The 25 best movies on HBO and Max right now Photograph: Dennis Mong/Sony Pictures A Man Called Otto Tom Hanks plays against type as a gravelly-voiced old grouch who just wants to be left alone long enough to hang himself and join his wife in the afterlife. Of course, his meddling neighbours won’t allow that to happen, and the movie becomes just the sort of hard-to-resist heartstring-tugger you expect to see Tom Hanks in.  Leaves Nov 5   Photograph: Warner Bros."Edge of Tomorrow" Edge of Tomorrow ‘Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day’ is the easiest pitch for this entertaining sci-fi blockbuster. Tom Cruise is a post-apocalyptic bureaucrat conscripted to fight against the alien hord

Sports are the pinnacle of human drama, and the Olympics are the peak of sporting events. Logically, then, movies about the Olympics are some of the most stirring, thrilling and plainly inspirational you’ll find. We’re not saying they’re the best sports movies necessarily – we’ve got a whole other list for that – but when it comes to whipping viewers into a patriotic froth, the best films about the global games do it better than almost anything else. Of course, there is a dark side to the Olympics, both socially and historically, as reflected in top-shelf movies like Munich and Foxcatcher. But for the sake of this list, and stoking excitement for the upcoming Paris games, we’re sticking with the thrilling, the soul-stirring and the inspirational movies to tackle the Olympics – in both their summer and snowier guises. Here are nine of our favourites. Recommended: ⚾ The 50 best sports movies of all-time🥊 The 10 best boxing movies of all-time📹 The 66 best documentaries of all-time Zátopek (2021) Every country has its Olympics heroes. In the Czech Republic it’s Emil Zátopek, a long-distance runner who defied the odds to win triple gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. As charted in this stirring and colourful biopic, Zátopek (Václav Neužil) had the kind of mischievous eccentricity and drive you probably need to run endlessly in giant loops – and a romantic spirit that manifests in a touching romance with Dana, a champion javelin thrower. Well worth, ahem, tracking do

Gentlemen, rev your Aston Martins and start shaking those martinis, because a new James Bond is on the horizon. Menthol smoke has not yet started billowing out of MGM Studios – the traditional indication that the next 007 has been chosen – but the chatter suggests Daniel Craig’s replacement has been selected and a confirmation is imminent. What does this mean for the future of the iconic British spy series and its upcoming 26th instalment? Information is limited, but here’s what we know so far.  When will the next James Bond be announced? With Bond 26 not expected on our cinema screens until 2025 at the earliest, the film remains firmly in the pre-pre-production phase. ‘We’re working out where to go with him, we’re talking that through,’ said EON producer Barbara Broccoli in June 2022. ‘There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at least two years away.’Co-producer Michael G Wilson has also stressed that Bond 26 will be a hard reset for the franchise and for Bond himself. Don’t expect any youngsters in the running was the gist of his comments in 2022.‘We’ve tried looking at younger people in the past,’ he told Deadline. ‘But trying to visualise it doesn’t work. Remember, Bond’s already a veteran. He’s had some experience. He’s a person who has been through the wars, so to speak. He’s probably be

Rejoice, film fans – August is over! The end of summer is famously regarded as an end-of-summer dumping ground for major studios, and this year seemed particularly dismal. But with September comes slightly cooler temperatures and definitively movies as award season begins in earnest. This month’s slate is light on blockbusters or marquee releases but contains several smaller affairs you may end up hearing about come Oscar time, including Celine Song’s quietly heartbreaking modern romance ‘Past Lives’, the intensely intimate ‘Passages’ and Pedro Almodovar’s Pedro Pascal-and-Ethan Hawke-starring ‘queer Western’, Strange ‘Way of Life’. And hey, if you just want to see Denzel Washington shoot some bad guys, there’s always ‘The Equalizer 3’!     Photograph: MUBI Passages A long-tenured French couple (Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw) have their relationship thrown into chaos when the former has an affair with a younger woman (Adèle Exarchopoulos) in this typically small-yet-intense drama from director Ira Sachs. Having previously set his films in New York, Sachs utilises the Parisian backdrop to such a degree it becomes a character unto itself.  In cinemas Sep 1  Foto: Cortesía Konnichiwa Festival The First Slam Dunk Basketball anime style, Takehiko Inoue’s adaptation of his own mega-selling manga series ‘Slam Dunk’ is 20 years in the making and currently smashing box-office records in Japan and South Korea. It arrives on these shores as the fifth highest grossing anime e

Already a smash hit in the US, all eight episodes of ‘The Bear’ have finally arrived on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland. The FX dramedy, set in the kitchen of a blue-collar Chicago sandwich shop and starring the about-to-be-huge Jeremy Allen White, has generated a tonne of buzz since its first dropped on Hulu across the Pond.Created by Christopher Storer, it centres on an up-and-coming chef who inherits his family’s struggling greasy spoon following the sudden death of his brother. It’s earned critical raves for its breakout cast and sharply observed writing, which manages to convey a lot about grief and masculinity despite dealing with some not particularly articulate characters. And it’s already been renewed for a second season. So if you want to keep up with the zeitgeist, you’ll probably want to jump in as soon as it lands on the streamer. And if you’re wondering if it’s worth the four-hour investment, here are the five best reasons to watch. Photograph: Matt Dinerstein/FXWhite with Liza Colon-Zayas as Tina 1. Jeremy Allen White is basically a young Nicolas Cage First and foremost, ‘The Bear’ heralds the arrival of Jeremy Allen White. Okay, perhaps that’s a weird thing to say, given that he just wrapped up a ten-year stint as a lead on the US version of Shameless. But in his first true star vehicle, White shines as Carmen ‘Carmy’ Bezatto, aka Bear, a hot-shit young chef with hypnotic eyes and a wounded demeanour. White spent two weeks in culinary school to prepare for the

Damien Chazelle is returning to La La Land… But the director’s new movie is about a much different Los Angeles than that of his 2016 musical. In his upcoming Babylon, the 37-year-old filmmaker travels back to the Golden Age of Hollywood, a particularly grand and debauched time in the entertainment industry. It’s Chazelle’s first movie since 2018’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man and the first he’s written since La La Land made him the youngest Best Director winner in Oscar history. And according to Chazelle, it’s his most ambitious project yet. ‘It was definitely the hardest thing I’ve done,’ he tells Vanity Fair. ‘Just the logistics of it, the number of characters, the scale of the set pieces, the span of time that the movie charts – it all conspired to make it particularly challenging, but it was a challenge that was pretty exciting to take on.’ Chazelle says he’s had the idea for Babylon in his head since even before his breakthrough film, 2014’s Whiplash, but didn’t yet have the clout to do something so ‘massive’. He finally started working on the script in 2018, but then the pandemic stalled production. After screening teaser footage for a convention audience earlier this year, Babylon is finally nearing release – and it looks like another Oscar contender. Here’s everything we know about Babylon.   Photo Credit: Scott Garfield| Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in Babylon from Paramount Pictures. When does Babylon come out? It hits theatres in select US cities on Decemb

It’s the kind of true crime story episodes of Dateline are made of: a mild-mannered dentist in upstate New York is accused of killing the husband of the woman he’d been having an affair with. The murder weapon? A poison highly specific to his profession.  But that’s truly just the beginning of the bizarre twists and high drama of My Dentist’s Murder Trial, an upcoming limited series from HBO based on a 2017 New Yorker article. Written by a journalist who was also one of the dentist in question’s longtime patients, the piece adds a level of meta-narrative that lifts the tale above its sordid, soap-operatic details and made it the sort of story worthy of HBO – and some top-class actors – rather than, say, the Lifetime channel.     Here’s what we know about the series so far: When is My Dentist’s Murder Trial on HBO? According to Variety, the show is in early development as of July 2022, and no release date has been set – and given the recent tumult at the ol’ Home Box Office, let’s just hope it gets released at all. Who is starring in My Dentist’s Murder Trial? So far, only two names are confirmed to be involved in the project. One is Pedro Pascal, the Chilean-born actor best known for his starring role in The Mandalorian and who’s also turned up in Game of Thrones, Narcos and HBO’s highly anticipated upcoming video-game adaptation The Last of Us. He’s slated to play the dentist of the title, Dr Gilberto Nunez, who in 2017 was accused of killing his friend. The other name is Da

David O Russell is back, and that’s something of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, the Silver Linings Playbook director’s new movie, Amsterdam, looks like one of the year’s first true award contenders, a high-energy 1930s period piece with an absolutely loaded cast. Like, everyone is in it. Everyone.  The problem is Russell himself. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker has long been known as an on-set tyrant, and the release of the Amsterdam’s trailer has dredged up an even more disturbing accusation of sexual assault, levied against him by his own niece in 2011.  How might those resurfaced allegations affect the critical and audience response to the film? It’s hard to predict at this point. But here’s everything we do know about Amsterdam – and about Russell’s past misdeeds.  Photograph: Courtesy of 20th Century StudiosZoe Saldana as Irma When does Amsterdam come out? It’s scheduled to hit theatres – no streaming, for now – on November 4, 2022. Is there a trailer for Amsterdam? There is and you can watch it below. What’s Amsterdam about? While the trailer gives an overview of the tone (comedic and caper-y), the time period (1930s) and the massive cast (see below), it doesn’t reveal much about the actual plot. The official synopsis describes it as ‘an original crime epic about three close friends who find themselves at the centre of one of the most shocking secret plots in American history.’ And the trailer plays up that the film is loosely b