Murphy brings this complex figure to life with an alternately hilarious and affecting turn. Dan Stevens is a naive outsider who, in 1905, travels to a remote Welsh island hoping to locate his vanished sister. It was definitely really helpful. In Private Life, a bohemian middle-aged couple struggle to have a child. The two leads were nominated for Oscars, as was screenwriter Anthony McCarten, adapting his 2019 play of the same name. Mudbound is an unflinching survey of race and politics in the Southern United States immediately before and after the Second World War. Season five has just arrived and journeys even deeper into the Breaking Bad expanded universe. Straight-to-video production values don’t do it any favours, but this biopic about the founder of American satirical magazine National Lampoon, Douglas Kenney (Will Forte), has its heart in the right place. Don’t try this at a home – or anyone else for that matter – kids. Ruth Wilder (Brie) is a down-on-her luck actor who, out of desperation, signs up a wrestling competition willed into being by Sam Sylvia (podcast king Marc Maron). Paul Rudd takes a break from Ant-Man to play the carer of teenager Trevor (Craig Roberts), who has muscular dystrophy, in The Fundamentals of Caring. Rudd’s likability is dialled all the way up in a feel-good weepie sure to shred the heartstrings. But that didn’t stop Drake from persuading it to revive the Channel 4 drama about rival drug dealers in a fictional south London neighbourhood. It’s a nightmarish tale of child soldiers dehumanised by conflict, with Idris Elba chilling as the adult commander of the boy combatants. For the objectified lesbian, “American Pie 2 (2001)” set the tone. Mudbound was expected to receive a clean sweep of Oscar nominations in 2017. Every genre imaginable is parodied with the manic energy and zinging dialogue we have come to expect from Harmon. Deadpan animated satire about an idiot super spy with shaken and stirred mother issues. Netflix has been binning shows as if it is going out of fashion. I had the coolest moment ever on the press tour for Booksmart when a young queer woman thanked me for playing Amy. Genres. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. ‘Booksmart’ and How Hollywood Stopped Fearing Lesbian Teens, Clockwise from top left, scenes from “Mean Girls,” “Hearts Beat Loud,” “Booksmart” and “Blockers.”, Clockwise from top left, Paramount Pictures, via Everett Collection, GunPowder & Sky, Francois Duhamel/Annapurna Pictures and Quantrell D. Colbert/Universal Pictures; Photo-Illustration by Jennifer Ledbury. Bonkers on a swizzle stick, this series from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij makes Twin Peaks look like an Only Fools and Horses repeat. So far, so cliche. What I love about Booksmart is that it has a lot of representation in it. Dan Stevens is a naive outsider who, in 1905, travels to a remote Welsh island hoping to locate his vanished sister. JOIN NOW SIGN IN. “Booksmart,” a thoroughly Gen Z comedy that balances ... female and queer — in a way that does not feel exploitative. David Attenborough's Our Planet has hoovered up all the attention. In the end it received just four, in relatively minor categories. The winner will be announced at the EE Baftas on 2 February. The conventional high school comedy is not the only place you can now see nuanced stories of lesbian teens on the big screen: “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” a wrenching movie about a gay conversion camp, “Hearts Beat Loud,” an earnest indie about a Brooklyn teen and her dad, and “Princess Cyd,” a coming-of-age movie, were all released in the last few years. It’s a by turns poignant and hilarious accent of Forte’s rise, his descent into drugs and infidelity – and his strained relationship with Lampoon co-founder Henry Beard (an unrecognisable Domhnall Gleeson). Romance, of a sort, blossoms – but Love’s triumph is to acknowledge the complications of real life and to disabuse its characters of the idea that there’s such a thing as a straightforward happy ending. The winner walks away with $60,000 and a residency at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. New Movies on Netflix. Apostle, a Wicker Man updating by Raid director Gareth Evans, features the standard feral yokels, to which he brings his own innovation via oceans of gore. Sandra Bullock in a blindfold whispering to two terrified children might not sound like the stuff of blockbuster gold. Cary Joji Fukunaga will shortly make his Bond debut with No Time To Die. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night. On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) is betrothed to a wealthy man but then falls in love with construction worker Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré). Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. King of motion capture Andy Serkis ropes in some famous pals – Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett. [Olivia Wilde talks about her directorial debut, “Booksmart.”]. You can almost smell the shoddy sanitation and horse-manure in this lavish murder-mystery set in 19th New York. With both Amy in Booksmart and Marie in Unbelievable, I really hoped people would be able to see themselves on screen. He’s a perfect fit for the part too, delving into the inner turmoil of a character who accumulates a multitude of ghosts across his endless lifespan. Neil Patrick Harris gobbles up the scenery as the vain and wicked Count Olaf, desperate to separate the Baudelaire orphans from their considerable inheritance. And then the grand endeavour closes with Imelda Staunton as Elizabeth in her twilight years. This rickety-looking science fiction thriller delivers where it counts with a twisting, turning plot and several genuine surprises. It’s clearly pitched at a YA audience and is a bit overwrought in places. Annihilation is mind-bending body horror, with echoes of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are also parts for Peter Bogdanovich and Dennis Hopper. The wry and bleak Lemony Snickett children novels finally get the ghastly adaptation they deserve (let’s all pretend the dreadful 2004 Jim Carrey movie never happened). To help you make sense of the service’s mind-boggling viewing options here’s a countdown of the best original movies available to stream on Netflix UK. What Marie was going through is unimaginable. When the women discover the boys have broken in, they kiss and touch each other for the enjoyment of their intruders. Imagine Bake Off with glass-blowing instead of marzipan manipulation and YouTube star Nick Uhas in for Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig. The show excels in showing how trauma that begins with an assault is compounded by the procedures and prejudices which follow. Kaitlyn Dever is an actor beloved by A-listers, awards panels and the queer community. It’s a great sports film and also a commentary on the racial and social schisms that divide America. I just felt so bad and so heartbroken by the story. Screwball antics ensue as their paths cross again. She recruits a group of high school students, teaching them the “movements” that permit travel across time and space. He discovers a cult headed by Michael Sheen’s crazed preacherman, a whole lot of trouble and something terrible hiding in the dark. A heart-warming road movie ensues as they somehow end up crossing America in the company of flinty hitchhiker Dot (Selena Gomez). But they are perfectly able and I’ve been seeing more and more women in every department, and also female friends joining forces to make movies. Britrock singer Kate Nash is one of her her fellow troupe members: the larger than life Rhonda “Britannica” Richardson. Jokes about masturbation, crushing on a cool girl from afar, messy first sexual experiences, bodily fluids in places they shouldn’t be, porn in places it shouldn’t be. And the 209-minute running time left many viewers suffering numb bum.