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“Some time ago… there was an Ojibwe man who got a little sick and wandered West.” So begins Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.’s bleak and disquietingly self-loathing “Wild Indian,” which adapts that folkloric tone into the airless language of a contemporary serial-killer drama. We learn that the Ojibwe man was a little sicker than his legend suggested. When we meet Makwa, he’s as a troubled pre-teen in the 1980s, when he lives in an oppressively gray stretch of middle American nowhere with abusive parents....

Fans of Instagram and Showtime sensation Ziwe — and of “Succession” — were gifted a surprise treat on Halloween when she appeared as a somewhat-adjacent version of herself named Sophie Iwobi, who roasts Jeremy Strong’s Kendall Roy and his “caucasian rich brain.” The Sophie we see on “Succession” is not unlike the persona seen on her Showtime series “Ziwe,” in which the comedian skewers white privilege with various comedy-celebrity guests, and according to a new interview with her in Variety, the role was specifically tailored to her....

Anthony begins with a striking visual metaphor, reveling in the blind spot of the optic nerve, and setting the stage for an investigation into how little we see about the way the world looks back at us. The ensuing chapter-based saga careens from a warehouse that develops tasers and police body cameras, to training sessions for officers who wear the devices, the machinations of a spy plane entrepreneur, and the history of camera pigeons in WWI....

Deadline reported on Friday that the “Atlanta” team will travel to Europe on March 23, where both upcoming seasons will be shot. Production is expected to begin April 5 in London before continuing in Amsterdam and then Paris, according to the publication. The “Atlanta” production news is the first major kernel of information about the show since FX Networks and FX Productions chairman John Landgraf told the press in September 2020 that production was expected to resume in early 2021....

If there’s one thing that stands out from the totality of “Barry” Season 3, it’s the idea that messiness is somehow more jarring and unsettling when it’s presented with complete control. As the life of Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) becomes an increasingly damp sand castle losing a new turret week by week, the HBO show has been laser-focused on it crumbling in his hands. That idea crested in the Season 3 finale “starting now,” which finds each person in Barry’s inner circle lose their grip on a major part of their life....

“Bel-Air” is the brainchild of Morgan Cooper, whose viral fan film imagined the multi-camera comedy as a contemporary drama that digs into the racial and class-based issues that would inevitably arise from a character moving from West Philadelphia to the ultra-wealthy Los Angeles suburb. The three-minute film prompted Universal Television to move forward with a full series, with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith serving as executive producers on the project....

“The Boys in the Band,” thankfully, doesn’t have to do that anymore. And it doesn’t have to feel terrifying. It’s 1968, and while gay men are largely regarded as an aberration by polite society, the LGBTQ population remains unaware of the horrors to come, allowing “Boys in the Band” to operate on a kind of antediluvian, hedonistic trajectory that celebrates, rather than condemns, gay men. Director Joe Mantello, who first revamped the play on Broadway three years ago with an all-star cast of out-gay male actors, brings that exact same troupe, and sensibility, to the not-quite-big-screen with his new film adaptation produced by Ryan Murphy for Netflix....

“Bridgerton” was watched by 82 million households out of the total 200 million Netflix subscriber base the company announced at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020 subscribers. The “Bridgerton” number is 41 percent of the total Netflix subscriber number. Other big recent Netflix hits include “Lupin” (70M) and “The Queen’s Gambit” (62M). As Deadline notes: “The Witcher” scored 76M households when Netflix’s subscriber base was 167M a year ago....

With Vicky Krieps in a commanding performance as the rebellious Empress — known to Austrians as “Sisi”— Kreutzer paints a naturalistic picture of the rotting grandeur of Habsburg life. Delectably upending preconceived notions at every turn, Kreutzer leans into the decaying beauty of Austro-Hungarian excess: Drafty castles with half-peeling paint jobs, restrictive undergarments that give the film its beguiling title, and elaborate and laborious hair regimens paint a naturalistic portrait of Sisi’s more than likely grim daily reality....

That it’s a “Lost Session” means that this is indeed a standalone episode, even if running just a cool two minutes, 40 seconds. Directed by Greg Jardin, this is not, in fact, footage from forthcoming episodes set to be released November 19, but its own little story that gives you a tease of the style and tone and humor of the series to come. Cho plays Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter of the late 21st century who tracks down riffraff all around the solar system from his spaceship, The Bebop....

The high audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which currently stands at 97 percent, and the stellar CinemaScore for the feature might have swayed things. “Cruella” was initially slated for a theatrical release before the pandemic caused it to play both theaters and on Disney+. It’ll be interesting to see if a sequel is exclusive to one or the other. “Cruella” is just one in a litany of live-action remakes of Disney’s original animated features and the latest in a continued push to show the backstories of its famous villains....

Set 15 years after the events of the first film, “Disenchanted” sees six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams reprise her role as Giselle: a sing-songy, whimsical, animal-loving princess who gives up her fantastical life to marry a cynical New York divorce attorney named Robert, played by the ever-dashing Patrick Dempsey. James Marsden, who plays Giselle’s former prince charming Edward, and Idina Menzel, who plays Robert’s ex-turned-fairy princess Nancy, also reprise their roles....

The “Evil Dead” and “Spider-Man” director explained during the commentary track of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” that he had to convince Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to include a particularly quirky sequence involving Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Baron Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor). The adversaries have a staredown, with close-ups of their eyes darting back and forth, á la Raimi’s “The Quick and the Dead,” but Feige was skeptical over the silliness of the sequence....

Once again employing the reverse home invasion tale, one in which the invaders hardly live long enough to wholly regret their choices, “Don’t Breathe 2” is another satisfyingly suspenseful riff on the classic trope. The movie’s grotesque twists may illicit more groans than gasps, but its slight sense of humor betrays a winking self-awareness. Alvarez, along with co-writer and director Rodo Sayagues, proves once again they know what genre lovers want — at least, a certain type of genre lover....

The brainchild of producer/writer Darren Star (“Sex and The City,” “Younger”), “Emily in Paris” chronicles the professional and personal misadventures of Emily Cooper, an ambitious marketing executive on the rise who is dispatched to Savoir, a small but prestigious French agency, when Emily’s boss, Madeline Wheeler (Kate Walsh) bows out due to a surprise pregnancy. The folks at Savoir are none too pleased to have Emily in their midst, especially her new boss, Sylvie Grateau (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu) who quickly picks up on Emily’s “fake it ‘til you make it” approach to her position, like the fact that Emily doesn’t speak or write French....

Here’s the synopsis from Netflix: “England, 1884 — a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. After a free-spirited childhood, Enola suddenly finds herself under the care of her brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), both set on sending her away to a finishing school for ‘proper’ young ladies....

“Eternals,” starring Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, and Kit Harrington, soared into theaters November 5. And based on fan reviews across social media, the Chloe Zhao–directed film makes for a solid addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whether you’re seeing the superhero flick on the big screen this weekend, or already managed to make it to a screening, celebrate the release by purchasing some of the awesome “Eternals” merchandise floating around the web....

The conversation began after New York Magazine podcaster Hannah Rosin tweeted, “So Fire Island gets an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way,” citing the lack of female characters in the queer AAPI reimagining of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice,” aside from Margaret Cho’s mother hen onscreen persona. The Bechdel Test is formally “a set of criteria used as a test to evaluate a work of fiction, such as a film, on the basis of its inclusion and representation of female characters....

The Oscar winner returns to the small screen with the upcoming AppleTV+ series “Franklin,” based on the life of founding father Benjamin Franklin. Douglas takes on the titular role, with the series adapted from Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff’s book, “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.” The eight-episode drama series delves into how, at age 70 and without diplomat training, Franklin convinced the French monarchy to financially support American independence....

Monday happens to be the 16th anniversary of the launch of the “Gears of War” games back in 2006, and Netflix has partnered with the game’s developer, The Coalition, in adapting the property for film and TV. And they’re even teasing that beyond the initial film and animated series that more stories could follow. No filmmakers or talent are currently attached to either “Gears of War” project. The “Gears of War” titles as created by Epic Games have sold 40 million copies worldwide for Xbox consoles....