Category Archives: Previews

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Aug

Streaming Picks: August 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Informant! – Netflix 8/1 mother! – Amazon and Hulu 8/26 This exclamation point-heavy selection includes two of the most underrated movies of the last decade. The former includes Matt Damon’s best performance (you heard me) as … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 100, afflicted, agatha christie, all about the washingtons, all at once, ask the storybots, bert kreischer, borg vs mcenroe, brij mohan amar rahe, cage fighter, china hustle, cocaine coast, comedy lineup, crime and punishment, dating my mother, deadwind, demetri martin, desolation, dinotrux, disenchantment, disobedience, en otra piel, escape of prisoner 614, eva la trailera, flavors of youth, follow this, ghoul, good place, great news, gringo, guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, hostiles, i am a killer, informant, innocents, insatiable, inside the criminal mind, investigator, ismael's ghost, jack ryan, la casa de las flores, laws of thermodynamics, like father, marching orders, marrowbone, me too, million pound menu, minding the gap, monkey king, mother, motive, mr sunshine, on children, originals, ozark, package, paradise pd, pasion prohibida, perdida, perfect bid, perro amor, pinky malinky, ponysitters club, powerpuff girls, rosa diamante, sharp edges, spirit, splash and bubbles, stan against evil, stay here, stinky and dirty, switched, terminal, tim and eric, to all the boys i've loved before, to the moon and back, trolls, ultimate beastmaster, ultraviolet, undercover law, voltron, woman walks ahead, wraith, young and hungry, zion | Comments Off

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Jul

Streaming Picks: July 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Brothers Bloom – Amazon and Hulu 7/1 Go – Hulu 7/1 Her – Netflix 7/29 You might have heard Rian Johnson’s name in the last six months. As the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 20 weeks, along with the gods, amazing interiors, americans, anne with an e, ballet now, before we vanish, better things, black cop, bleeding edge, blue bloods, bonusfamiljen, borg vs mcenroe, brothers bloom, burn notice, captain underpants, castle rock, casual, closer, closing gambit, comedians in cars getting coffee, comedy lineup, cover versions, cupcake and dino, damages, dark tourist, deep undercover, drag lords, duck duck goose, el chapo, extinction, father of the year, first team, forgiven, fosters, free rein, glass castle, go, good witch, hawaii five-o, heart of nuba, her, home, how it ends, how to talk to girls at parties, iliza shlesinger, inconvenient sequel, inside the world's toughest prisons, jim jefferies, jimmy, joel mchale, last chance u, last ship, le ride, leaning into the wind, legacy of a whitetail deer hunter, librarians, lost wife of robert durst, luna petunia, madam secretary, ncis, nypd blue, orange is the new black, oscar pistorius, queens of comedy, rica famosa latina, roman empire, sacred games, samantha, shameless, sharp edges, sinner, skin of the wolf, sofia the first, somebody feed phil, status update, sugar rush, terrace house, tumble leaf, unreal, very secret service, wanderland, warning, welcome to the family, white fang, winter out west, worst witch, you're the worst, zombie spring breakers | Comments Off

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Jun

Streaming Picks: June 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Age of Innocence – Amazon 6/1 Blue Like Jazz – Amazon and Hulu 6/1 Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Netflix 6/26 Three for you this month, one on each of the major services. The first … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 10 by 10, age of innocence, agents of shield, alex strangelove, ali's wedding, all or nothing, allure, babylon 5, blue like jazz, boots on the ground, brain on fire, braven, busted, churchill's secret agents, club de cuervos, cooking on high, derren brown, eurotrump, fate extra, gintama, glow, goliath, grey's anatomy, hannah gadsby, harvey street kids, heavy rescue, hollow, hotel transylvania, house october built, huntsville, hyori's bed and breakfast, if you give a mouse a cookie, la foret, lady bird, lost in oz, luke cage, lust stories, maktub, marcella, marlon, max, michelle wolf, nailed it, night shift, nostalgia, november 13, other guy, paquita salas, portlandia, precious, ranch, recovery boys, rescue me, rick and morty, secret city, sense8, set it up, staircase, star wars, suits, sunday's illness, tau, thor, to each her own, transformers, treehouse detectives, true, us and them, very english scandal, voltron, w kamau bell, waltons, we blew it, where the skin lies, wonder wheel, wynonna earp | Comments Off

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May

Streaming Picks: May 2018

FILMS Top Picks Thief – Hulu and Amazon 5/1 Coco – Netflix 5/29 (Academy Award winner) I, Tonya – Hulu 5/31 (Academy Award winner) Thief is Michael Mann’s searing debut, featuring one of the all-time great villain performances, and impressive … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 12 monkeys, ali wong, all night, american folk, anon, baywatch, beatriz at dinner, bill nye saves the world, blame, bombshell, break, busted, cargo, carol burnett, catching feelings, claws, coco, curvature, dear white people, diablo guardian, dino dana, drunk history, end game, evil genius, explained, faces places, fauda, forgive us our debts, frank serpico, girlfriends guide to divorce, goat, half magic, hari kondabolu, hollywood game night, holy air, how to be a latin lover, howards end, i tonya, ibiza, in the fade, inspector gadget, jane, john mulaney, just getting started, king of the apes, kissing booth, knights of the damned, kong, last flag flying, mad to be normal, manhunt, martin short, michelle wolf, mob psycho 100, mobile suit gundam, my next guest needs no introduction, neat, orphan black, picnic at hanging rock, please stand by, psychopaths, queens of comedy, rain, rocky and bullwinkle, sara's notebook, saturday church, scandal, señora acero, shooter, simon, small town crime, somtimes, spirit, star vs the forces of evil, steve martin, strain, strange ones, take every wave, terrace house, thief, thirst street, tig notaro, tonight she comes, toys that made us, trollhunters, unbreakable kimmy schmidt, wedding plan, who was show, you are wanted, yu-gi-oh | Comments Off

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Apr

The Optimist’s Summer Movie Preview 2018

Marvel has thrown down the (Infinity) gauntlet, by moving their big tentpole to kick off the summer movie season back to the end of April. It traditionally started around Memorial Day, and moved up to the first weekend of May … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews | Tagged ant-man, avengers, deadpool, hereditary, incredibles, mission impossible, ocean's 8, sicario, solo, tully | Comments Off

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Apr

Streaming Picks: April 2018

FILMS Top Picks 50/50 – Hulu 4/1 Mystery Team – Amazon 4/1 The Florida Project – Amazon 4/1 (Academy Award nominee) Call me indecisive, but I just couldn’t pick between all these films, which I adore for different reasons. 50/50 … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 3 percent, 4th company, 50/50, 6 balloons, 78/52, aggretsuko, amateur, amo, augie, behind the curtain, bill nye, black sails, bobby kennedy for president, bosch, boss baby, call the midwife, candy jar, carmichael show, chalet, charite, chef's table, come sunday, crossing, dealt, despicable me 3, dina, dope, dude, fary, fastest car, florida project, greg davies, handmaid's tale, hilarity for charity, honeymoon stand-up special, i am not an easy man, into the night, jane the virgin, kevin james, kodachrome, la piloto, letdown, lost in space, loving vincent, lucas lauriente, magic school bus, mercury 13, merlin, missing, money heist, my next guest needs no introduction, mystery team, national treasure, new legends of monkey, orbiter 9, permanent, pickpockets, preacher, psychokinesis, ram dass, red rock, relationtrip, seth rogen, so b it, spy kids, take my nose please, thousand junkies, tiny shoulders, todrick hall, tragedy girls, troy, vikings, wakfu, week of | Comments Off

2
Mar

Oscar Guide 2018

Guys, I just don’t know. With a real lack of consensus around this year’s crop of nominees, there’s no one film you can point to and say: “That’s the one to beat.” So what’s going to happen Sunday night? Sure, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged abacus, all the money in the world, beauty and the beast, big sick, blade runner 2049, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, dunkirk, faces places, fantastic woman, ferdinand, florida project, get out, greatest showman, guardians of the galaxy, i tonya, icarus, insult, kong skull island, lady bird, last men in aleppo, logan, loveless, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, mudbound, on body and soul, phantom thread, post, roman j israel esq, shape of water, square, star wars, strong island, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder | Comments Off

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Mar

Streaming Picks: March 2018

FILMS Top Pick Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Amazon and Hulu 3/1 One of the funniest comedies of the ’80s, with Steve Martin as a low-level American con artist learning the ropes from British sophisticate Michael Caine. But they meet their … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 21 thunder, adel karam, aftermath, aico incarnation, alexa and katie, almost friends, amazing world of gumball, angie tribeca, b the beginning, bad guys, benji, bitter harvest, blade of the immortal, borderliner, brad's status, bridge, closing gambit, collateral, color of magic, crooked house, departure, dinotrux, dirty rotten scoundrels, durrels in corfu, edha, eurotrump, first match, flames, flint town, food wars, gad elmaleh, game over man, ghoul, girl incarcerated, habit, happy anniversary, hard sun, human trafficking, ice mother, imperium, in search of fellini, infinite worlds of hg wells, jessica jones, kc undercover, ladies first, law and order special victims unit, law and order svu, layla m, legacy of a whitetail deer hunter, let there be light, little hours, love, love and saucers, malena pichot, march of the penguins 2, mechanism, miraculous, my next guest needs no introduction, nailed it, natalia valdebenito, nut job 2, odyssey, on my block, outsider, power rangers, project eden, rapture, reboot, remix, requiem, ricky gervais, roxanne roxanne, santa clarita diet, septiembre, series of unfortunate events, sneaky pete, sofia nino de rivera, son, spirit, square, standups, stretch armstrong, suitable girl, swordgai, tabula rasa, terrace house, thirst street, this old house, titan, tommy's honour, trailer park boys, trolls, trump, tunnel, valerian, veni vidi vici, voltron, wild wild country, wolf warrio 2, world's most extraordinary homes | Comments Off

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Feb

Streaming Picks: February 2018

FILMS Top Picks Manhunter – Amazon and Hulu 2/1 Mute – Netflix 2/23 The former is Michael Mann’s excellent adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon (aka the first time we saw Hannibal Lecter onscreen, played indelibly by Brian Cox). It’s easily … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged absentia, altered carbon, archer, atomic puppets, ballad of lefty brown, bates motel, beach rats, broad city, brockmire, cardinal, coach snoop, cougar town, deep undercover, derren brown, detroit, dirt, dragons, el vato, emoji movie, everwood, everything sucks, expanse, fate apocrypha, first team, forgotten, frankenstein chronicles, fred armisen, gary unmarried, good time, grand prix driver, greenhouse academy, human flow, imposters, irreplaceable you, jeepers creepers 3, joel mchale, kavin jay, logan lucky, long road home, looming tower, love per square foot, lucky, luna petunia, manhunter, marlon wayans, marseille, mozart in the jungle, mute, my next guest needs no introduction, nightcap, on body and soul, once upon a time, parenthood, perception, pjs, queer eye, remind, ritual, seeing allred, seven seconds, sin senos si hay paraiso, stinky and dirty, thunderbirds are go, tick, tom of finland, trader, ugly delicious, valor, villainess, when we first met, z nation | Comments Off

19
Jan

Final Oscar Picks 2018

It’s been a crazy year in every regard, but especially in awards season. There’s really been no consensus on the best movie of the year from the critics’ groups or guilds. That’s kind of exciting, but makes this guesswork particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged baby driver, beauty and the beast, beguiled, big sick, blade runner 2049, boss baby, breadwinner, call me by your name, chasing coral, city of ghosts, coco, darkest hour, disaster artist, downsizing, dunkirk, fantastic woman, fifty shades of grey, florida project, foxtrot, get out, greatest showman, i tonya, icarus, in the fade, jane, lady bird, lego batman, loveless, loving vincent, marshall, molly's game, mudbound, murder on the orient express, phantom thread, post, shape of water, star wars, strong island, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, victoria and abdul, war for the planet of the apes, wonder, wound | Comments Off