From the directing team, Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, Platonic is a comedy that follows a platonic pair of former best friends, played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne.
Approaching midlife, they reconnect after a long rift.
The friendship becomes all-consuming—and hilariously destabilizes their lives.
The ensemble cast also stars Luke Macfarlane, Tre Hale, Carla Gallo and Andrew Lopez.
Mission Impossible actress Rebecca Ferguson stars with a fine cast in the Apple TV series Silo, based on the book series of the same name by Hugh Howey.
In a science-fiction, dystopia storyline, we follow Juliette, played by Ferguson, in a ruined and toxic future. Here, a giant underground silo community plunged hundreds of stories deep.
People live in a society full of regulations that they believe protect them.
Also starring in the series are Tim Robbins, Rashida Jones, Harriet Walter and Ferdinand Kingsley.
Extrapolations, an Apple TV series, dwells on the near future. Climate change has become embedded into everyday life.
Created by Scott Z. Burns, eight interwoven stories explore the life-changing, intimate stories based on Burns’s viewpoint on climate change in the future.
Each scene in the trailer focuses on the choices made when the planet changes faster than the population. It’s dystopia, science-fiction and drama.
An impressive cast includes Meryl Streep, Ed Norton, Sienna Miller, Tobey Maguire and Marion Cotillard.
Jesse Peretz directed City on Fire about someone shooting an NYU college student in Central Park on July 4, 2003. Based on the book of the same name by Garth Risk Hallberg, Apple TV has turned the story into an episodic series.
The investigation connects her to mysterious citywide fires and the downtown music scene.
A wealthy uptown real estate family enters the fray under the strain of the many secrets they keep.
J. J. Johnson wrote, produced and directed Jane, a kids and family movie.
Ava Louise Murchison stars as Jane Garcia, a 9-year-old budding environmentalist on a quest to save endangered animals.
Using her powerful imagination, Jane takes her best friends David, played by Mason Blomberg, and Greybeard, the chimpanzee, on epic adventures to help protect wild animals all around the world. Her reasoning is, according to her idol Dr. Jane Goodall: “Only if we understand will we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help can they be saved.”
Other cast members include Tamara Almeida and Dan Abramovich.
Jesse Peretz directs The Last Thing He Told Me, starring Jennifer Garner. Based on Laura Dave’s novel, the movie follows Hannah Hall, played by Garner, whose husband Owen disappears without a trace.
He leaves a note with three words, “Protect Her. HH,” referring to her stepdaughter, Bailey.
Hannah soon discovers dark secrets that place both of their lives in danger.
Dave’s novel was a page-turner until the end, like a bullet hitting the water, disappointing. It’ll be interesting to see how Peretz ends the movie.