A new four-part crime thriller is receiving rave reviews and topping streaming charts globally. Netflix has seen a lot of success with crime thrillers recently, including the action movie State of Fear and the intense miniseries Salvador. Throughout February, the streaming service has consistently delivered fast-paced, exciting thrillers.
The new Spider-Man movie, officially titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day (and sometimes referred to as Spider-Man 4), is coming to US theaters this summer. Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is directing, and Tom Holland will be back as Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man.
Mike Weiss, the creator of the show CIA, says it will stand out from typical crime dramas. The series centers on Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss), a by-the-book FBI agent, who joins a special task force with the CIA. He’s paired with Agent Colin Glass (Tom Ellis), who prefers to bend the rules, and together they investigate different cases each week.
Two potential sequels generating buzz are The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a continuation of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood focusing on Brad Pitt’s character, and The Social Reckoning, a follow-up to David Fincher’s The Social Network.
We often remember him as the character who always showed up at Joey’s window, but Van Der Beek was a talented actor with a lot of other great roles in film and television too.
The TV show Rings of Power illustrates this point well. It wasn’t necessarily a bad show, but its extremely high production cost meant it needed a large audience to be successful. Before season one even premiered, Prime Video heavily emphasized the show’s massive budget, hoping the spectacle alone would attract viewers. However, the series quickly faced considerable criticism.
Forbidden Fruits tells the story of Apple, a worker at the Free Eden store, who leads a secret, all-female cult in the mall basement after closing. She’s joined by her friends Cherry and Fig. Their carefully constructed sisterhood is threatened when a new employee, Pumpkin, arrives and forces them to confront their hidden flaws, or risk facing a dangerous outcome.
Following his work on Lost, Lindelof created The Leftovers and then Watchmen, both highly original series that stand in a class of their own. His most recent show, Mrs. Davis, is his strangest and perhaps most overlooked, so it’s worth watching if you haven’t seen it.
Although it didn’t become popular right away, the movie Flipped gradually gained a following, and now younger viewers are even asking for a sequel. While it’s likely to stay a beloved, one-time film, its recent addition to Netflix could help it find a whole new audience, 16 years after it first came out.
While some Western remakes, like the 2016 film The Magnificent Seven, struggle to gain wide appeal, shows such as Yellowstone, its prequels 1883 and 1923, and newer Westerns like Landman and The Madison demonstrate that the genre is experiencing a resurgence on television. Series like Netflix’s American Primeval and The Abandons confirm this trend.