Inspired by the award-winning documentary of the same name, “Midnight Family” follows Marigaby Tamayo, an ambitious and gifted medical student by day.
She spends her nights saving lives aboard her family’s privately owned ambulance in sprawling, contrasted, and fascinating Mexico City.
Along with her father, Ramón, and her siblings, Marcus and Julito, Marigaby serves a population of millions by tackling extreme medical emergencies to make a living.
Directed by Kerry Bellesa and co-written by Bellesa and Joshua Oram, Amber Alert follows a rideshare driver and a kidnapper as they play cat and mouse.
It appears to be an ordinary ride share, but quickly becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse when Jaq, played by Hayden Panettiere, and Shane, played by Tyler James Williams, receive an alert about a child abduction on their phones.
Realizing they are behind a car that matches the description of the kidnappers, Jaq and Shane desperately race against time to save the child’s life. Kevin Dunn plays the cop who looks angsty when Jaq and Shane take matters into their own hands.
Bellessa cut his teeth working on the TV series Yo Gabba Gabba!
Slow Horses is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known unaffectionately as Slough House. Season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House.
Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies. The spies end up at Slough House due to career-ending mistakes, frequently blundering through the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.
The returning ensemble cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan, and Jonathan Pryce.
Marc Webb directed Snow White from a screenplay by Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson. The American musical follows Snow White, played by Rachel Zegler, and she confronts the evil Queen, played by Gal Gadot.
“Mirror, Mirror on the wall…” The seven dwarfs arrived, finding the beloved Snow White in their home.
The live-action film is a remake of the Walt Disney classic, the first animated, full-length motion picture.
Other films by Marc Webb:
500 Days of Summer
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Gifted
Disney calls the new Star Wars episode a coming-of-age and science fiction story. Skeleton Crew stars Jude Law with four other kid actors. The kids play ordinary children with special features. After getting lost in the Star Wars galaxy, they search for their home planet.
Disclaimer is a gripping psychological thriller with seven chapters starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.
Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, it is based on Renée Knight’s bestselling novel of the same name. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft, played by Blanchett, built her reputation by revealing others’ misdeeds and transgressions. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys her life and her relationships with her husband Robert, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, and their son Nicholas, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee.
The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George and Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.
Other films directed by Cuaron:
Gravity
Children of Men
And Your Mother Too
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Bagman is a dark horror film written by John Hulme and directed by Colm McCarthy. The story follows a family trapped in a nightmare as an evil, mythical creature hunts them.
The horror film derives from the centuries-old story, and across cultures, parents have warned their children of the legendary Bagman, who snatches innocent children and stuffs them into his vile, rotting bag—never to be seen again.
Patrick McKee, played by Sam Claflin, narrowly escaped such an encounter as a boy, leaving him with lasting scars throughout adulthood. Patrick’s childhood tormentor has returned, threatening the safety of his wife, Karina, played by Antonia Thomas, and son, Jake, played by Caréll Vincent Rhoden.
The supporting cast includes Sharon D Clarke, Steven Cree, William Hope, Adelle Leonce, Peter McDonald, Henry Pettigrew, and Will Davis.
Interestingly, McCarthy is a self-taught filmmaker.
Based on Carl Hiaasen’s New York Times bestselling novel and enduring favorite, Bad Monkey, the series makes its global debut on Apple TV+. In the series, Vince Vaughn portrays Andrew Yancy, a character who got bounced from the Miami Police Department and now works as a Keys health inspector.
But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists, he realizes that if he can prove murder, he’ll be back in the police force. He must get past a trove of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey.
James Mangold directs A Complete Unknown, a biographical drama based on Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! Mangold and Jay Cooks wrote the script.
Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 1960s, the film follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan, played by Timothée Chalamet. His meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts—his songs and charisma becoming a worldwide sensation—culminated in his groundbreaking electric performance in 1965.
Ellen Fanning plays Dylan’s girlfriend, Monica Barbaro plays Joan Baez, and Ed Norton plays folk legend Pete Seeger.
Other movies directed by James Mangold:
Walk The Line
Cowboy Cartel is a four-part documentary series featuring the remarkable story of a rookie FBI agent. Scott Lawson cracked the case of one of Mexico’s most ruthless cartels, Los Zetas and the multimillion-dollar money laundering operation they ran through the heart of the American Quarter Horse racing industry.
The documentary is an unbelievable true story of an unlikely hero from rural Tennessee. Lawson’s investigation took down the Treviño brothers, the leaders of Los Zetas, one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico. While the Treviños terrorized thousands in their pursuit of power, money and influence, Lawson risked his life on a hunch.
He tracked the brother’s racehorse transactions in the United States, infiltrating the deadly cartel and uncovering their international money laundering operations.
Cowboy Cartel features first-time interviews with FBI agent Scott Lawson, who broke the case; IRS agent Steve Pennington; Irving police officers Steve Junker, Brian Schutt and Kim Williams; Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner; Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Ginger Thompson; and Joe Tone, the author of “Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream,” among many others.
Clearly, Apple TV continues to expand its nonfiction programming, adding Cowboy Cartel to the list, which includes The Dynasty New England Patriots, Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend and Stephen Curry: Underrated.