Queen of ChessWhat’s it rated? TV-14 When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Netflix Hungarian chess prodigy Judit Polgár was raised to be a champion, and that’s exactly what she became. Alongside her sisters and under the controlling hand of her father, the Polgár family forwent formal education, instead focusing on a singular task—mastering chess. Judit especially […]
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The Wrecking Crew is a well-cast mismatched buddy action comedy
Angel Manuel Soto (Blue Beetle) directs Jonathan Tropper’s (The Adam Project) script about estranged half-brothers—reckless Oklahoma reservation cop Jonny (Jason Momoa) and disciplined former Navy SEAL turned drill instructor James Hale (Dave Bautista)—who reunite in Honolulu after their shady private eye father, Walter (Brian L. Keaulana), dies in a hit-and-run. Was it murder? As they […]
Kidnapped reveals new insights into the Elizabeth Smart abduction
Kidnapped: Elizabeth SmartWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Netflix It’s a familiar story for anyone who was around in the early 2000s. At 14, she was abducted from her Utah home while her family slept, except her little sister Mary Katherine, who witnessed the kidnapping. The media storm that followed was deafening, […]
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials is a throwback whodunit with old-school charm
Agatha Christie’s Seven DialsWhat’s it rated? TV-14 What’s it worth, Anna? Full price What’s it worth, Glen? Full price Where’s it showing? Netflix Created by Chris Chibnall (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and directed by Chris Sweeney (Back to Life, The Tourist, Apples Never Fall), this British three-part miniseries is based on Christie’s 1929 novel The Mystery […]
His & Hers is a hardboiled whodunit pitting a journalist against her estranged detective husband
His & HersWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Netflix Small town Dahlonega, Georgia, has plenty of secrets to hide. Anna (Tessa Thompson) grew up there but has moved on to Atlanta where she works as a news anchor. When she catches wind that her hometown is the scene of a murder, she’s […]
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is good but gory
Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels) directs this fourth installment of the 28 Days Later franchise, the second film in what’s being billed as the 28 Years Later trilogy. Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Ex Machina, Civil War) returns as screenwriter. Taking up where 28 Years Later (2025) left off, the story follows young Spike (Alfie […]
People We Meet on Vacation presses familiar rom-com buttons
People We Meet on VacationWhat’s it rated? PG-13 When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Netflix Quite literally pulled from the storyline of one of the greatest rom coms ever made, this very When Harry Met Sally flick presents us with two opposites who end up being magnets. Both Boston College students, both from Nowheresville, Ohio—that seems […]
Is This Thing On? explores a dissolving marriage
Director Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born, Maestro) helms this dramedy he co-wrote with leading man Will Arnett and Mark Chappell about Alex (Arnett), who turns to stand-up comedy as a way to cope with his dissolving marriage to Tess (Laura Dern). The story is loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John Bishop. […]
Run Away follows a father’s desperate search for his runaway daughter
Run AwayWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Where’s it showing? Netflix When Simon Greene (James Nesbitt) gets a tip that his estranged daughter, Paige (Ellie de Lange), is busking at a local park, he rushes over to find the young, troubled girl. When Paige met her boyfriend, Aaron Corval (Thomas Flynn), she adopted his bad […]
The Life of Chuck is a poetic rumination on life, consciousness, and death
Writer-director Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep) brings Stephen King’s 2020 novella of the same name to the big screen in this story about an ordinary man, Charles “Chuck” Krantz (Tom Hiddleston), and his largely unremarkable life. (111 min.) The Life of ChuckWhat’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Anna? Full price […]
Pluribus follows a body snatcher-style alien invasion that’s affected all but a handful of humans
PluribusWhat’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2025 Where’s it showing? Apple TV+ Successful but disillusioned romantasy novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) gives readings attended by gaggles of middle-aged women lusting after her strapping leading man. Her manager, Helen (Miriam Shor), is also her romantic partner, and when they return to Albuquerque following a successful tour, a […]
Goodbye June is somewhat cloying but tender family drama
In her directorial debut, Kate Winslet brings her son Joe Andres’ story to life about four semi-estranged siblings reuniting over their mother’s illness over the Christmas holiday. Failure-to-launcher Connor (Johnny Flynn) lives at home with his mum and dad, June (Helen Mirren) and Bernie (Timothy Spall), and a couple of weeks before Christmas, June takes […]

