JUPITER’S LEGACY on NETFLIX - MATT LANTER as GEORGE HUTCHENCE / SKYFOX A new/old crop of superheroes puts an all-new spin on the genre. Jupiter's Legacy, now on Netflix concerns a band of crime fighters united in their mission to save and change the world. They came into being in the 1920s and …
Rafe Spall and Esther Smith Still Trying, Hilariously.
Rafe Spall and Esther Smith in Apple TV+ Trying S2 The seriously charming, challenging, loved-based comedy series Trying is back for a second season. Like a warm hug with a side of sark, Trying follows Nikki and Jason in their quest to become parents, which continues undaunted by false starts and …
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Jean Smart in Hacks on HBO By Anne Brodie Barry Jenkins' long-anticipated 10-part series The Underground Railroad based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead is now on Amazon Prime. It's the story of Cora (South African actor Thuso Mbedu), a young Black slave attempting to …
Mother’s Day, REALLY Lost in Space, Fake Gurus, Competitive Table Setting, True Crime and Bert and Ernie!
By Anne Brodie Most of us were raised on Sesame Street, one of the most inventive, influential and popular children's television programmes, next to Mister Rogers Neighbourhood, in history. Marilyn Agrelo and Michael Davis' documentary Street Gang How We Got to Sesame Street goes back to the …
Radicals on the Run, Mysticism in Daily Life, an Elizabeth Banks Obsession, Michael B. Jordan, and a New Canadian Streaming Service!
About Endlessness By Anne Brodie My pick this week is the Apple TV+' Mosquito Coast, a remake of the Harrison Ford / Helen Mirren / River Phoenix drama of 1986, both based on Paul Theroux's novel about a family on the run. The original was shatteringly intense and it was the first time I …