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Apple TV’s Mayday sends Ryan Reynolds behind enemy lines, but the Cold War adventure was assembled far from the Soviet Union. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the 1987-set action comedy stars Reynolds as U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly, whose secret mission over Russian territory goes wrong. His unlikely lifeline is…
The old streets, grand churches and seemingly untouched houses in Netflix’s Lovesick are not the product of one enormous studio backlot. The Mexican period drama, released under its original title Mal de amores in Spanish-speaking markets, was filmed extensively across Puebla and San Luis Potosí, with additional work in Mexico City and several smaller communities…
Amazon MGM Studios’ The Runner turns London into more than a backdrop. The British capital effectively becomes part of the thriller’s ticking clock as Maia Marten, played by Gal Gadot, races through the city after learning that her son has been abducted. A mysterious caller dictates her movements, forcing the high-powered lawyer to keep running…
Nearly three decades after Sally and Gillian Owens first brought the Owens family’s peculiar brand of witchcraft to the screen, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return in Practical Magic 2. Susanne Bier directs the sequel, which also brings back Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing while introducing a younger Owens generation played by Joey King and…
Hallmark’s “Much About Love” gives Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” a present-day romantic makeover. Bea Bishop is a successful television director who returns to her hometown and the theater community where she started her career. Her homecoming puts her back in the path of Benny Gersten, an old flame and former stage partner, just as…
“The Copycat Killer” puts Dr. Eleanor “Ellie” Douglas back inside the kind of investigation she had tried to leave behind. The criminal profiler became famous for helping capture the Sigil Slayer, but the case also left her deeply traumatized and increasingly withdrawn from public life. Her reluctant appearance at a true crime conference goes badly…
Casper Kelly’s “Buddy” takes the cheery language of a 1990s children’s television program and pushes it into increasingly nasty territory. At the center is “It’s Buddy!,” a colorful show hosted by Buddy, a bright-orange talking unicorn who sings, plays and teaches lessons to a group of children. That carefully manufactured happiness begins to fracture when…
Netflix’s adaptation of Lynn Painter’s bestselling YA romance Better Than the Movies is moving closer to production, with filming expected to take place in Chicago. Beatrice Kitsos and David Iacono have already been cast as Liz Buxbaum and Wes Bennett, the two central characters from Painter’s popular novel. Current production information points to filming beginning…
“The Whisper Man” begins with a place that looks ordinary enough to offer a grieving family a fresh start. Tom Kennedy, a widowed crime writer, moves with his young son Jake after the death of his wife, hoping that a quieter life might help them recover. Instead, Jake disappears, and Tom is forced back into…
Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars” imagines Colorado after civilization has largely disappeared. A devastating pandemic has killed most of the population, leaving pilot Hig, his dog Jasper and the heavily armed Bangley to protect an isolated airfield from anyone who gets too close. Hig still takes his aging Cessna into the sky, partly to scout…
Netflix’s “The Secret Woman” begins with the kind of life its heroine would have little reason to question. Louise Andersen lives with her partner Joachim on the Norwegian island of Hidra, where she runs a small cafe and appears to have found a quiet corner of the world for herself. Then a stranger tells her…
Lifetime’s “The Wrong Housemaid” turns an ordinary family home into the most dangerous place Mona could possibly be. Ten years after escaping a violent husband, the single mother has built a quieter life for herself and her teenage daughter, Denise, using new identities to stay hidden. That security begins to collapse when a woman enters…
