![]() More streaming TV: the British crime drama Paranoid: Season 1 with Indira Varma and Robert Glenister, the CW science fiction thriller The 100: Season 3, and the animated kid show Beat Bugs: Season 2 featuring the music of The Beatles. Streaming TV: The British comedy Lovesick: Season 2 is one of the best shows you’ve never heard of, in part because it used to be called Scrotal Recall, a terrible title for a show with such a tender heart. Also from France is the romantic drama Summertime (2015) and from Denmark comes a trilogy of “Department Q” murder mystery thrillers: Keeper of Lost Causes (2013), The Absent One (2014), and A Conspiracy of Faith (2016). More foreign arrivals: Cosmos (2015), a mix of intellectual banter and Marx Brothers madness from France, is the final film from Andrzej Zulawski. exclusively on Netflix (not rated, subtitled) Reviewed on Stream On Demand here.įoreign affairs: the French drama Divines (2016), a buddy film of two teenage girls navigating the criminal economy in the slums of Paris, won the Camera d’Or (for best first feature) at Cannes. The Coen Bros.’ Burn After Reading (2008) is an espionage farce starring George Clooney as a philandering Federal Marshall, John Malkovich as an incompetent CIA analyst, and Frances McDormand as a very determined fitness instructor (R). The cuddly bear is brought to life with CGI but otherwise a live action comedy with Nicole Kidman doing villain duty and a whimsical humor and a sweet disposition keeping it gently PG for mild toilet humor (Paddington has some trouble managing indoor plumbing). Paddington (2014), based on the British storybooks of a gentle talking bear with a taste for marmalade, was a modest hit in the U.S. Reviewed on Stream On Demand here.Īlso new: the action comedy Army Of One with Nicolas Cage and Russell Brand (R), the indie drama Cents about a middle-school math prodigy (not rated), and the award-winning French drama My King with Emanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel (not rated).Īvailable same day as select theaters nationwide are the action thrillers The Take with Idris Elba and Richard Madden (R) and Life on the Line with John Travolta and Kate Bosworth (R). This Amazon Original follows the old TV model: the series debuts today and a new episode arrives every Friday for the next couple of months.įinding Dory sends Marlin and Nemo on a new adventure to help the memory-challenged Dory find her parents (PG). ![]() Then at exactly the 20 minute mark, James May pulls up in a tractor trailer and gives us exactly what we’ve been waiting for: A comparison test of the three most exciting cars on earth.” Yes, the rest of the segment is a bit like that, with our hosts trying more than a bit too hard to be clever and self-deprecating…. Airport, and ends with a cast of thousands in the desert in an impromptu “Burning Van” festival. “The opening segment of the first segment looks like it cost the GDP of a small country,” writes Allen St. This new gearhead series sends the trio around the world in search of cars, speed, and automotive adventures with a much bigger budget, which they spend on lavish sequences. The Grand Tour: Season 1 – “ Top Gear on steroids” is how critics are describing the first episode of the Amazon Original series starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, the former stars of the British series Top Gear.
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