“Alice & Jack” expects you to cry over the tortured romance between two people you can’t stand.
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Featuring interviews with Drake Bell and more Nick alums, the docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” exposes alleged on-set abuse and discrimination.
A new up-close-and-personal documentary frames the former porn star as an accidental crusader against the powerful man whom she will forever regret sleeping with.
Maybe the first sign that “Imaginary” wasn’t going to pack the chills and frights you want is the fact that the teddy bear/imaginary friend is named…Chauncey.
The “Stranger Things” star is a scrappy, formidable princess in Netflix’s otherwise paint-by-numbers, woefully predictable fairy-tale adventure film.
There’s going to be *a lot* of attention paid to the sheer volume of explicit sex and nudity in the new series. But its storytelling value exceeds the graphic titillation.
The “Peacemaker” star goes for broke in the should-be wacky Peter Farrelly comedy. If only the material itself deserved his herculean humor efforts.
A bloated and mostly ridiculous spinoff of his not-exactly-beloved 2019 film, the new Netflix series sends a blaring message that the British auteur needs to let go of the past.
In Neflix’s new docuseries “The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping,” former students paint a shocking portrait of a torturous sham.
Like…really sad. Can someone cheer up this spaceman?