https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoyn5BCm37o The medical researchers behind IVF are the focus of Netflix's Joy A commonly cited quotation from science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke — “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” — often follows news of monumental scientific discovery. That certainly applies to Joy, a new Netflix movie dramatizing the remarkable work of three…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZwykQK9aZo Saorise Ronan stars as a mother desperately searching for her lost son during the Nazi bombardment of London The Second World War is well-trodden ground both in film and television, but for 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen there were still aspects of these horrors that had gone untold. In his new film,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eixYGYmuu0g Back for an unexpected second season, Bad Sisters pushes the Garvey girls to the brink as another murder threatens to expose their crime When it premiered in 2022, Bad Sisters was seemingly a one-and-done thriller, based on a Belgian miniseries with a finite ending. When actor-writer Sharon Horgan — who’d adapted and starred in…
From Eddie Redmayne as an assassin in The Day of the Jackal to a Harry Potter-themed baking competition, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
1. 2024 MTV EMAs – Sunday, November 10, Pluto TV
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Airing live from Manchester’s Co-op Live, the 30th annual MTV European Music Awards is being broadcast…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NkZGmN1Eg New mockumentary hospital comedy St. Denis Medical channels The Office and Parks and Rec St. Denis Medical is about to open for patients — and for viewers. Once the home of the hit series Scrubs, NBC gets back into the business of hospital comedies. Using a cinéma vérité style, St. Denis Medical takes the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRq7niwEgSM Pedro Páramo is a Mexican movie on an epic scale Anyone who has ever visited Mexico (or watched a travel show set in the country) already knows that it is an ancient and dynamic land teeming with good food, colourful tapestries and a rich culture devoted to honouring the dead. Mexico also has its…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2yv6LYktKc A teenage heavy metal band brings “satanic panic” to the suburbs in ’80s-set miniseries Hysteria! “Satanic panic” may sound like a rock band from the early aughts, but it is a phenomenon that was actually rife in the 1980s, when a fear of ritualistic abuse spread through North America fueled by horror movies, the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCe90hVXh5Q The doomed marriage of Young Sheldon’s big bro unfolds in Chuck Lorre’s latest sitcom spinoff Legendary sitcom producer Chuck Lorre still recalls the day he presented The Big Bang Theory to the television critics of North America. “I was in this room trying to convince you to be enthusiastic about The Big Bang Theory.…
From the season finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon to an SNL election special, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week 1. Invincible Fight Girl – Saturday, November 2, Adult Swim | Series Premiere Adult SwimA quirky cartoon about chasing your dreams and finding a family in the least likely…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfJG6IiA_s8 Comic fans get a bird’s-eye view of Gotham, as an utterly transformed Colin Farrell shows us the bloody rise of one of Batman’s most iconic foes When Matt Reeves was in the process of directing 2022’s The Batman, he had the idea to continue expanding the world of Gotham via an origin story, but…