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The Shards arrives dressed like a glossy 1980s teen drama, but the polished convertibles, expensive houses and private-school uniforms conceal a much nastier story. Adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’ semi-autobiographical 2023 novel, the FX series follows a fictionalized teenage Bret during his final year at an elite Los Angeles school. His controlled social circle begins…
One Night Only takes the familiar “two strangers, one impossible night” rom-com setup and gives it a mischievous dystopian rule. In Will Gluck’s movie, premarital sex is illegal except during a single annual window, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monica Barbaro plays hopeful romantic Allie, while Callum Turner is Owen, a recently dumped man…
“Soulm8te” places an intimate crisis inside a world of immaculate technology. David’s home is calm enough to pass for a showroom, ULTIMA Robotix sells connection in the language of product design, and Sara moves through every room as though she was engineered to belong there. The surprise is that this sleek, American-looking nightmare was built…
Hanna Bergholm’s “Nightborn” takes a familiar dream and slowly turns it feral. Saga, a Finnish woman, returns with her British husband Jon to the isolated house where she grew up, hoping the move will give them enough space to start a family. After she gives birth, however, Saga becomes convinced that something is wrong with…
The Little Girl Who Didn’t Exist turns a child’s new friendship into a disturbing mystery. Mel Brodsky is curious about Sara, the playmate who has become close to her daughter, until every adult she approaches insists that Sara is imaginary. Mel begins finding signs that the girl is real, leading her toward a far darker…
Some Hallmark romances use Europe as a postcard. Toast to Italy makes the journey part of the courtship. Jenny, an American doctor with Italian roots, travels overseas before her sister’s wedding to recover the final bottle of her family’s “Love Wine,” an heirloom associated with good fortune for newlyweds. The mission becomes a race when…
The Becky films have never been interested in giving their heroine a quiet recovery. In The Last Temptation of Becky, the franchise sends Lulu Wilson’s teenage avenger beyond the cabins and small-town extremists of the first two movies. Becky is now a CIA field agent living in New York, and her latest assignment takes her…
Love in Slow Motion knows the oldest romantic-comedy trick in the book: the person you overlook becomes impossible to ignore the moment someone else claims them. Released in Arabic as Ahebak Min Zaman, the film follows Haya, a chronically single woman who has always regarded Jawad as her dependable best friend. When he announces his…
Few television dramas arrive carrying a heavier responsibility than The Bombing of Pan Am 103. The six-part factual series revisits the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, but its focus extends far beyond the night of the attack. It follows the painstaking search for evidence, the sometimes uneasy partnership…
Hasta el fin del mundo begins where most love stories would ordinarily conclude: with two people who have already lost each other. Manuel and Esmeralda meet aboard a train in Spain in 1975, only for an accident to throw them into an intense romance. Their time together is cut short by the violence and political…
Ancestral Beasts begins with a retreat that goes badly wrong. Elyse, a Red River Métis woman whose work and family life are unravelling, leaves the city for her aunt’s isolated home, hoping distance will bring some peace. Instead, she discovers a presence beneath the house, one that grows more threatening as her conflict with her…
Set in 1862, No Rest for the Wicked begins as a forbidden romance before drifting into darker, supernatural territory. Baldur, a young fisherman living in an isolated Faroese community, has his life unsettled by Helge, a rugged Danish whaler who awakens feelings neither man can safely acknowledge. When tragedy tears them apart, their love returns…
