Apple TV has recently produced some compelling films. I am impressed with this documentary, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial.
To think a psychiatrist cannot brainwash or hypnotize someone into killing another person is not valid. This documentary covers that aspect with hard evidence.
For the first time, key figures from John Lennon’s life and death — including friends, doctors and investigators — share personal memories and reveal what happened on the night of his killing.
Thomas Vincent directed Role Play, a comedy that features an all-star cast including Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen and Bill Nighy.
The screenplay, co-written by Andrew Baldwin and Seth W. Owen, depicts a young couple, played by Cuoco and Oyelowo, whose lives take a dramatic turn when they uncover each other’s secrets from the past.
Simon Cellan Jones directed Arthur the King based on an incredible true story.
Over ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light, played by Mark Wahlberg, and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur.
The film follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes, played by Simu Liu, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Ali Suliman, for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic.
As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty, and friendship genuinely mean.
Kelsey Mann makes his feature directorial debut with Inside Out 2, an upcoming American animated film from Pixar and Disney.
Airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb group, a brotherhood forged by loss, courage and triumph.
Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name and scripted by John Orloff, “Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, Masters of the Air follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group, known as “Bloody Hundredth.” The men conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air.
Masters of the Air portrays the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich.
Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.
Tina Fey brings a fresh take on Mean Girls, the modern classic.
Co-directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., the story follows new student Cady Heron, who is welcomed into the top social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics.”
The conniving queen bee, Regina George, rules the group. She uses her minions, Gretchen and Karen, to help deliver dirty deeds. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs.
As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.
Catriona McKenzie and Sydney Freeland co-direct only streaming Echo on Disney. The Marvel story revisits Maya Lopez, whose ruthless behavior in NYC catches up with her in her hometown.
She must face her past and reconnect with her native roots, embracing the meaning of community and family. So she can, hopefully, move forward.
Wes Ball directs the latest Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes. Many generations passed after Caesar’s reign, and that’s when the story begins. The apes are the dominant species, hoping to live harmoniously. The humans are now reduced to living in the shadows.
Inspired by the 1980s hit TV series, real stuntman and director David Leitch helms an all-star cast in The Fall Guy. We follow a stuntman, played by Ryan Gosling, who, like everyone in the stunt community, gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment.
And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life, played by Emily Blunt, while still doing his day job.
Leitch is the blockbuster director of Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and the producer of John Wick, Nobody and Violent Night. The Fall Guy is his most personal film because he’s an original stuntman. It’s his love letter to the under-appreciated crew in this supposedly hilarious, hard-driving, apex-action thriller.
Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on his physical and mental health. He is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie directed by his ex, Jody Moreno, played by Blunt, goes missing.
While the film’s ruthless producer, played by Hannah Waddingham, maneuvers to keep the disappearance of star Tom Ryder, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, a secret from the studio and the media, Colt performs the film’s most outrageous stunts while futilely trying to charm his way back into Jody’s good graces.
But as the mystery around the missing star deepens, Colt becomes entangled in a sinister, criminal plot that will push him to the edge of a fall more dangerous than any stunt.
The Fall Guy also stars Winston Duke and Stephanie Hsu.