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One of HBO’s former hot properties returns in a big way this January, as True Detective season four finally arrives on the service. Will this be a return to form for the gritty show? Well, that remains unclear, but this time around the anthology series will follow detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) as the long winter darkness in Alaska. When eight people at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace, these detectives need to get on the case quickly.

Also hitting Max this month is the final season of Sort Of. Season three finds Sabi (Bilal Baig) dealing with the unexpected death of their father, and making some big life choices as a result.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO and Max this month…

HBO and Max New Releases – January 2024

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A New Year means lots of removals from Netflix and January 1st is looking busy, with over 100 movies set to leave the service already. Below, we’ll be keeping track of all the Netflix departures for the first month of 2024.

First, a few housekeeping notes as to how Netflix removals work before we dive in. Due to licensing agreements, shows and movies added to Netflix aren’t added forever. Instead, they’re essentially rented for a fixed period. All the shows below have their current window on Netflix ending and will likely be bound for a rival streaming service.

We list titles slightly differently from other outlets, with our listings being the actual day of removal. If you want to watch any titles scheduled to expire on January 1st, for example, you’ll need to watch by the end of December 31st.

Max’s January 2024 lineup includes season four of True Detective, led by Oscar-winner Jodie Foster, as well as the third and final season of Sort Of with Bilal Baig. Max is also kicking off the new year with the debut of On The Roam, an eight-part documentary series featuring Aquaman star Jason Momoa.

The streaming service’s January 2024 roster includes the return of Real Time with Bill Maher for season 22, along with the seventh season of Rick and Morty. The critically acclaimed documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project arrives on January 8.

Series & Films Arriving On Max In January 2024:

January 1

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The A-Team (2010)

After Earth (2013)

Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

Aniara (2019)

Austenland (2013)

Bachelorette (2012)

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013)

Body at Brighton Rock (2019)

Booty Call (1997)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

The Brothers (2001)

Cabin Fever (2003)

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever...

A sci-fi series based on Martha Wells novels, “The Murderbot Diaries,” has landed at Apple TV+.

Hailing from “About a Boy” creators Chris and Paul Weitz, “Murderbots” follows a self-hacking security android who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.” Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe. Alexander Skarsgård will lead the series and will serve as executive producer.

The Weitz brothers will write, direct, and produce under their Depth of Field banner. Andrew Miano also executive produces alongside for Depth of Field. David S. Goyer executive produces alongside Keith Levine for Phantom Four. Martha Wells will serve as consulting producer. Paramount Television Studios produces the series.

The project marks the second collaboration between Apple TV+ and Goyer, who...

From November to December, it's time for what's next at Plex! Prepare for your "Killers of the Flower Moon" screening by catching one of Martin Scorcese and Leonardo DiCaprio's collaborations, "The Aviator," taking flight on the free streamer on Dec. 1.

The platform will also add romantic dramas and thrillers such as “Two Lovers” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow and double the dosage for A24 heads with “It Comes At Night” and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.”

Check out The Streamable’s top picks for Plex’s December additions and see everything getting added to the library throughout the month!

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“Parasite” filmmaker and Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho makes his directorial debut with the 2000 black comedy that follows Yun-ju (played by Lee Sung-jae), a part-time...

The 2019 movie The Kill Team is a fictionalization of the real 2010 Maywand District murders, but it changes some details, as shown in the 2013 documentary of the same name. The fictional characters in The Kill Team are based on the real soldiers involved in the murders, but their names have been changed. The movie heavily implies that Sergeant Wallace dies from an Ied attack, but in reality, he survived and lost his left leg.

Content warning: This article contains mentions of suicide and violence.

The 2019 movie The Kill Team is based on the real story of the 2010 Maywand District murders in Afghanistan, but the drama changes plenty of things from what actually happened. Directed by Dan Krauss, The Kill Team is a fictionalization of his 2013 documentary of the same name, where personal videos from 2010 taken by the soldiers overseas and interviews with some of the real soldiers accused of the murders are part of the footage.

In 2013, writer-director Dan Krauss decided to make a documentary about the Maywand district murders during the war in Afghanistan. The atrocity had taken place during the early months of 2010, wherein a group of U.S. Army soldiers — who called themselves The Kill Team — murdered three Afghan civilians in cold blood and claimed the mutilated body parts as trophies. Krauss' documentary, titled "The Kill Team," dives into the psychological makeup of soldiers at war, the specific socio-cultural factors that contribute to callous aggression and violence, and how this brand of sociopathy culminates in tragedies like Mayward.

The documentary is, first and foremost, an exposé of the rot that grips young military men, who often delude themselves into feeling invulnerable while committing heinous crimes. However, not everyone in the platoon responsible for the Maywand murders was willing to cover up the crimes, including 21-year-old Adam Winfield, who informed his father of the first murder,...

The true story behind "The Kill Team" involves Sergeant Deeks and the Maywand District murders, raising questions about what happened to the real-life soldiers involved. The film leaves the fate of the characters ambiguous, but the ending credits mention that Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs received a life sentence in 2011 for his crimes and is currently serving prison time at Usdb Fort Leavenworth. Despite Gibbs' legal efforts to overturn his charges, there have been no recent updates on his case, and he remains imprisoned as of 2023.

Given how The Kill Team is based on the true story of the Maywand District murders, it is hard not to wonder what happened to the real-life Sergeant Deeks, Calvin Gibbs. Unfolding from the perspective of a young army recruit, Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff), director Dan Krauss' The Kill Team explores the moral dilemmas he faces when he finds his platoon, under Sergeant Deeks' (played by Alexander Skarsgård) command,...

Netflix’s “One Piece” has a colorful, vibrant cast filled newcomers like Iñaki Godoy, who plays as Monkey D. Luffy, and some more seasoned actors like Vincent Regan, who plays Vice Admiral Garp. Netflix put in the work (seven years to be exact) to craft its live adaption of the bestselling manga series.

When “One Piece” creator Eiichiro Oda first saw Godoy, he knew that was his Luffy. Each of the cast members have created their own connection to their characters, and some loved and grew up watching them on screen as children.

Longtime anime fan Emily Rudd, who plays Nami, described her character as a member of the Staw Hats who sevves “like an older sister surrounded by a group of young brothers.” Mackenyu, who is Japanese, grew up idolizing his character Roronoa Zoro. He was so committed to his character that he even pierced his ears for the show,...

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Nat Wolff is set to star opposite Lucy Hale in upcoming romantic comedy Which Brings Me to You.

The feature will reunite the Palo Alto, Paper Towns and The Kill Team actor with filmmaker Peter Hutchings (Can You Keep a Secret?, Then Came You), who directed their recent hit The Hating Game. Production is due to start in New York City and New Jersey on September 19th.

From a screenplay by Keith Bunin (Onward, Horns) adapted from the novel by Julianna Baggot and Steve Almond, Which Brings Me to You follows Jane (Hale), a freelance journalist, and Will (Wolf)), a photographer, who are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After the pair sneak off to hook up in the coat room, all signs point to an empty one-night stand. Instead, over the next 24 hours, they share stories of their most embarrassing sexual encounters,...

Exclusive: The White Lotus standout Brittany O’Grady and Nat Wolff (The Fault In Our Stars) are set to star opposite Christoph Waltz in Prime Video’s dark comedy workplace thriller series The Consultant, from Servant creator Tony Basgallop, WandaVision executive producer Matt Shakman, MGM Television and Amazon Studios.

The Consultant explores the sinister relationship between boss and employee, asking how far we will go to get ahead, and to survive. It is inspired by Bentley Little’s 2015 novel, a satire centered on Mr. Patoff, a bow-tie-wearing consultant who comes to the rescue of CompWare after a prominent merger falls through and soon seemingly starts running the company.

Wolff will play Craig, a disillusioned but talented mobile app developer, working for a games studio in Los Angeles. O’Grady plays Elaine, an ambitious assistant to the CEO, who, in the wake of a tragedy, sees an opportunity to accelerate her career.

Exclusive: Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director, producer Rob Morrow has signed with More/Medavoy Management.

Morrow is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Joe Fleishman on the critically acclaimed, long-running series Northern Exposure, as well as his role as Don Eppes on Numb3rs.

Morrow is currently shooting a recurring role in Super Pumped for Showtime and can be seen in a continuation of his multi-season recurring role as Adam Dequillio opposite Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis in Billions. He also will recur in Starz’s series Shining Vale, starring Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear, and appears in an upcoming episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Behind the camera, Morrow has served as Executive Producer and director of nine out of ten episodes of the second season of the BET series, Games People Play. His past directing credits include The Fosters, Necessary Roughness, NCIS: New Orleans, HBO’s Oz, and...

Nat Wolff is set for a lead role opposite Kate McKinnon’s Carole Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell’s Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

Wolff will play Travis Maldonado, one of Joe’s husbands.

The limited series centers on Carole Baskin (McKinnon), a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel (Mitchell) is breeding and using his big cats for profit. She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.

Ethan Frankel writes and executive produces under his overall deal with UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group. McKinnon also executive produces along with Wondery’s Hernan Lopez,...

The “Joe Exotic” series at Peacock continues to build out its cast with the addition of Nat Wolff as Travis Maldonado.

Wolff joins previously announced series leads Kate McKinnon, who will play Carole Baskin, and John Cameron Mitchell, who will play Joe Exotic. It was also recently announced that Brian Van Holt would play John Reinke. Maldonado was one of Joe Exotic’s husbands and was prominently featured in the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.”

Wolff most recently starred in the CBS All Access (now Paramount Plus) limited series adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand.” He is also known for his roles in films such as “Palo Alto,” “Paper Towns,” “The Fault in Our Stars,” and “The Kill Team” as well as for starring in the Nickelodeon series “The Naked Brothers Band.” Wolff is also an accomplished stage actor and musician. Onstage, he previously starred in the revival of Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child.

Exclusive: Osy Ikhile (The Kill Team) and Caoilinn Springall (The Midnight Sky) are set as series regulars opposite Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Citadel, Agbo’s upcoming global thriller multi-series for Amazon Studios. Additionally, Stanley Tucci, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Susan Lynch, Sara Martins, Leo Woodall, Gráinne Good and Leo Ashizawa will recur in the series, a co-production with Midnight Radio.

The epic Citadel is described as action-packed spy series with a compelling emotional center.

Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio serve as writers and executive producers. Patrick Moran, Mike Larocca, and Joe and Anthony Russo serve as executive producers. The Italian series will be co-produced with Amazon Studios and Cattleya (Gomorrah), part of ITV Studios, and the Indian series will be developed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. (The Family Man) and produced with Amazon Studios.

Ikhile’s recent credits include Donmar Warehouse’s Olivier-nominated production of Sweat,...

Dive into a thrilling tale when Mortal arrives on Digital and On Demand November 6th, and on Blu-ray (plus Digital) and DVD November 10th from Lionsgate. Check out the trailer:

Dive into a thrilling tale when Mortal arrives on Digital and On Demand November 6th, and on Blu-ray (plus Digital) and DVD November 10th from Lionsgate. From critically acclaimed director André Øvredal (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Trollhunter), executive produced by Academy Award® nominee Fred Berger, the film stars Nat Wolff, Priyanka Bose, and Iben Akerlie. Mortal will be available on Blu-ray and DVD for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.

In this spellbinding thriller, a sleepy Norwegian town erupts after an American backpacker is arrested. Witnesses claim a teen died after touching the stranger, and that he inexplicably started a fire that engulfed a farm. He warns a psychologist, Christine, that he has supernatural powers, and...

Five-day showcase runs in New York and online from October 15-20.

A drive-in screening of Ari Aster’s horror film Midsommar starring Florence Pugh will kick off the 6th annual Nordic International Film Festival, the largest Nordic film festival outside Europe.

The screening of the out of competition film on October 15 at Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York is followed a day later by a drive-in presentation of Dan Krauss’s war thriller The Kill Team starring Alexander Skarsgård.

The five-day showcase of Nordic cinema including the Faroe Islands runs October 15-20 and is in partnership with A24 and Rooftop Films.

The Nordic Film Festival, the largest Scandinavian film showcase outside Europe, has unveiled the lineup for its mostly virtual 6th edition from Oct. 15-20 in New York.

The A24 horror film Midsommar, director Ari Aster’s sophomore feature that stars Florence Pugh, is set to open the Nordic Film Festival with a drive-in screening on Oct. 15. Also getting drive-in play at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York on Oct. 16 will be A24’s The Kill Team, starring Alexander Skarsgard as it portrays a young soldier during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan who witnesses war atrocities.

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The Nordic Film Festival, the largest Scandinavian film showcase outside Europe, has unveiled the lineup for its mostly virtual 6th edition from Oct. 15-20 in New York.

The A24 horror film Midsommar, director Ari Aster’s sophomore feature that stars Florence Pugh, is set to open the Nordic Film Festival with a drive-in screening on Oct. 15. Also getting drive-in play at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York on Oct. 16 will be A24’s The Kill Team, starring Alexander Skarsgard as it portrays a young soldier during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan who witnesses war atrocities.

The Nff, set to ...

Exclusive: The Real O’Neals and Dear Evan Hansen star Noah Galvin, newcomer Summer Brown, Bria Samoné Henderson (Mrs. America) and Brian Marc (The Kill Team) are set for recurring roles in the upcoming fourth season of The Good Doctor, as part of major storyline that will span the entire season of the ABC medical drama.

Introduced in Episode 403 of the series, from developer/executive producer David Shore and Sony Pictures TV, the four will play first-year residents who will be vying for one or more resident positions at St. Bonaventure Hospital. The quartet will be supervised by the hospital’s fourth-year residents, Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore), Dr. Claire Brown (Antonia Thomas) and Dr. Alex Park (Will Yun Lee). While Park indicated in the season finale that he would be moving back to Arizona, he is expected to remain at St Bonaventure.

The plot is reminiscent of one of the...

A little more than an hour into Rod Lurie’s “The Outpost,” an American soldier wakes up in a remote camp in the hills of northern Afghanistan and grumbles, “Just another f—ing day in Afghanistan.”

But the day in question is Oct. 3, 2009 — and as “The Outpost” makes unforgettably clear, it was anything but just another day.

A riveting combat movie that aims to put viewers alongside American soldiers in the midst of one of the bloodiest battles in the long-running war, “The Outpost” takes the measure of what a few dozen men endured and finds heroism not in enemies killed but in compadres saved.

In telling the story of an attack by hundreds of Taliban fighters on 53 U.S. soldiers, the film delivers one of the most harrowing combat sequences in recent memory; the sustained assault, which nearly destroyed the outpost, occupies most of the film’s final hour...

Nuria Valls

Valls already has 14 producer or exec-producer credits, including Eugenio Mira’s “Grand Piano,” Fernando González Molina’s Spanish blockbuster “Palm Trees in the Snow,” and Dan Krauss’ “The Kill Team;” all alongside her partner Adrián Guerra at Nostromo. Her latest productions include Alex and David Pastor’s “The Occupant” and Molina’s “Offering to the Storm,” both acquired by Netflix. Valls will shortly resume shooting on “Los favoritos de Midas,” created by Mateo Gil, her first TV series. “I’d like to do exactly what we’ve done so far: Making all kinds of movies we’d like to watch, not only genre.”

Oriol MAYMÓ

Maymó participated in the production of Rodrigo Cortés’ “Buried,” Marcel Barrena’s “Little World” and Pau Freixas’ TV-series “The Red Band Society” among many other titles. Now based out of Corte y Confección, he has produced Leticia Dolera’s Canneseries winner “A Perfect...

Mary J. Blige and Nat Wolff star in the intense action thriller Body Cam, available to purchase on Digital May 19, 2020 and for rent On Demand June 2 from Paramount Home Entertainment. The film will arrive on DVD July 14.

When a routine traffic stop results in the unexplained, grisly death of her colleague, a cop (Mary J. Blige) realizes footage of the incident will play for her eyes only. As the attacks mount, she races to understand the supernatural force behind them.

Blige starred as Florence Jackson in the 2017 Netflix breakout film Mudbound, for which she received critical acclaim including two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song. She starred in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, which premiered on the platform in February 2019. On the producing side, Blige launched her own production company, Blue Butterfly, and signed a first-look TV deal with Lionsgate.

Most recently, Blige voiced...

Director Greg Barker doesn’t quite have the track record or the mystique of Werner Herzog, but he enters Herzogian territory with “Sergio,” his drama about United Nations diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello that premieres on Netflix on Friday.

Barker’s new “Sergio,” which stars “Narcos” star Wagner Moura as the celebrated Brazilian who worked for peace around the world for more than 30 years, is the second “Sergio” that the director has made, the first being his 2009 documentary. That puts Barker in the company of a small group of directors who’ve made a documentary about a subject, and then later adapted the same story into a narrative feature – among them Herzog with his 1997 documentary “Little Dieter Needs to Fly,” about Vietnam War Pow Dieter Dengler, and his 2006 feature “Rescue Dawn, which starred Christian Bale as Dengler; Dan Krauss with the 2013 doc and 2019 narrative features “The Kill Team”; and Fenton Bailey...

Actor Stephen Graham’s first project under his newly launched production banner, “Boiling Point,” has rounded out its cast with “Military Wives” actor Jason Flemyng and a host of others.

The actor, whose credits include film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and Sky Atlantic series “Save Me,” will be joined by Taz Skylar, Ray Panthaki and Malachi Kirby.

They joined previously announced cast members, including Graham and Vinette Robinson.

As revealed by Variety, “Boiling Point” will see Graham playing a head chef navigating the relentless pressure of his kitchen. Production began on the film this week.

The “Irishman” actor formed Matriarch with his partner, actor Hannah Walters, with a remit of providing a platform to underrepresented voices and stories out of the U.K.

“Boiling Point” is a feature-length version of the eponymous short film starring Graham, which was nominated for Best British Short at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards.

Welcome to the last day of the decade. As we move from 2019 to 2020, it’s time for my annual look at year’s best and brightest. Yes, today I’ll be giving out some personal awards, revealing my top ten list, and basically just putting a final bow on the year. 2019 is about to end, so why don’t we go out with a bang? Let’s get started with the end of the year rundown folks! As always, below you will be able to see both my picks for the very best movies of 2019 as well as the best performances of the year. In terms of the films, I’ll be doing a top 30 list again, with a dozen honorable mentions, just because (I like including as much as possible on these lists…we know this by now). The same will go for the performances I’m keenest on,...

Be prepared to join the frontlines in this thrilling true story, The Kill Team, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), and DVD on December 24 from Lionsgate.

Alexander Skarsgard in the film “The Kill Team.”

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A thrilling film, based on a true story, comes home when The Kill Team arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital) and DVD December 24 from Lionsgate. The film is available on Digital and On Demand from A24 now. Boasting an all-star cast, The Kill Team stars Golden Globe® and Primetime Emmy® winner Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff, Adam Long, Jonathan Whitesell, and Golden Globe® and Primetime Emmy® nominee Rob Morrow. Directed, executive produced, and written by Academy Award® nominee Dan Krauss, The Kill Team will be available on Blu-ray and DVD for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.

Alexander Skarsgard in the film “The Kill Team.”

Based on a true story, The Kill Team...

Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira’s HBO Max series has found another lead.

Zackary Momoh, whose recent credits include the 2019 pics “Doctor Sleep” and “Harriet,” will star in a lead role opposite Nyong’o in the WarnerMedia platform’s adaptation of “Americanah.”

Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel, “Americanah” tells the story of Ifemelu (Nyong’o), a young, beautiful, self-assured woman raised in Nigeria, who as a teenager falls in love with her classmate Obinze (Momoh). Living in a military-ruled country, they each depart for the west, with Ifemelu heading for America, where, despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple for the first time with what it means to be black. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London.

Gurira will write the pilot and exec produce alongside Nyong...

Zackary Momoh (Harriet) has been cast in a leading role opposite Lupita Nyong’o in HBO Max’s Americanah, the limited series based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel of the same name.

Americanah tells the epic story of Ifemelu (Nyong’o), a young, beautiful, self-assured woman raised in Nigeria, who as a teenager falls in love with her classmate Obinze (Momoh). Living in a military-ruled country, they each depart for the west, with Ifemelu heading for America, where, despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple for the first time with what it means to be black. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London.

Nyong’o’s Black Panther co-star Danai Gurira wrote the pilot and will serve as showrunner on the 10-episode limited series, which hails from Plan B Entertainment,...

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that the third season of the Emmy-winning comedy series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will debut on the streaming service in December. Also set to return is the sci-fi series “The Expanse” for season 4 and the Indian import “Inside Edge” for a second edition.

Look for the premiere of the feature film “The Aeronauts,” a fanciful tale of Victorian balloonists which reunites the Oscar-winning Eddie Redmayne with his “Theory of Everything” leading lady Felicity Jones. Also scheduled to start streaming is Joe Talbot‘s acclaimed drama “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.”

And in association with the NFL Channel, Amazon will continue to stream “Thursday Night Football,” with a new game airing live each week.

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming to Amazon Prime Video in December 2019. Unlike Netflix, Amazon does not disclose the shows and movies leaving the service in any given month.

With the holidays around the corner, Amazon Prime Video is adding an abundance of movies and TV shows to stream while relaxing at home.

A majority of fresh content will drop on the first of the month, starting with Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” and Kevin Bacon’s “Footloose” on Dec. 1. For superhero enthusiasts, “Hancock” and “Bumblebee” will drop on the first of the month as well.

Newer offerings such as “What Men Want” and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” will be added to Amazon Prime Video later in December.

Amazon original series like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Clifford” and “Inside Edge” will each add new seasons on Dec. 6, while a fourth season of “The Expanse” will hit Dec. 13.

See the full list of titles below:

December 1

A Better Life

Almost Famous

Bug

Footloose

Hamlet

Hancock

Havana Motor Club

In Secret

Out of Time

Phase IV

Some Kind of Wonderful...

Exclusive: Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) has joined Tessa Thompson (Avengers: Endgame), Ruth Negga (Loving) and André Holland (Moonlight) in Rebecca Hall’s (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) directorial debut Passing.

Shoot is underway in New York on the anticipated drama based on a screenplay Hall adapted from the Harlem Renaissance novel of the same name by Nella Larsen. It tells the story of two African-American women, each of whom can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1928 Harlem.

Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker (Significant Productions), Margot Hand (Picture Films), and Rebecca Hall (Flat Five Productions) are producing, with support from Film4, Aum Creative, Xrm Media, Gamechanger Films, Tgck Partners and Sweet Tomato Films. Endeavor Content is handling world sales.

Hall previously said about the project, “Nella Larsen’s Passing is an astonishing book about two women struggling not just with what it...

Academy-award nominated filmmaker Dan Krauss returned to Tribeca this year with The Kill Team, based on his documentary of the same name (a 2013 Tribeca award-winner). This narrative re-telling of true events explores how and why a group of American soldiers murdered Afghan civilians in the Kandahar Valley. Spinning a subjective take on an already compelling reality, Krauss takes a deep dive into moral fragility and the horrors engendered by toxic masculinity. Although there have been many Iraq war films, this one feels especially timely in the way it depicts characters—both manipulators and manipulated—with a great deal of empathy.

Nat Wolff stars as Andrew, the squad’s moral compass and audience conduit, whose hard-fought resistance to war crimes conflicts with his desire to fit in.…...

Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff) is ready to go into the army. In his spare time, the young man works out and moves around his room as if avoiding enemy fire. He’s still boyish in these moments — hitting his head on a toy basketball hoop in his room and using his skateboard as a stand-in rifle. He thinks he’s ready for war and to follow in his father’s footsteps into service. However, Dan Krauss’ sobering drama “The Kill Team” shows that there’s nothing to prepare a young soldier for when your commander leads you and your brothers-in-arms astray.

That sense of Andrew’s promising energy fades quickly once the story shifts to Afghanistan in 2009. The cinematography imagines a color-drained horizon, a place where everything is dusty and the brightest pop of color is the overhanging pale sky. The War on Terror is still claiming lives on both sides,...

In 2001, the United States began to wage the endless War in Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army retired the most enduring slogan it had ever used — “Be All that You Can Be” — and replaced it with “Army of One.” It didn’t take. So the marketing team went back to the drawing board and came back with a tagline so popular that it would be in active service for the next 12 years: “Army Strong.”

It was short, it was aspirational, and — unlike the two previous slogans — it shifted focus away from the soldier. “Army Strong” wasn’t about self-improvement or individual power, even if it subtly promised to confer those things on all who heeded the call. It was saying, in brute terms, that the Army is strength. That must have been a difficult message to internalize for the soldiers who were sent halfway across the world just to flex their country’s muscles.

In his latest film “The Kill Team,” director Dan Krauss aims to tell a true story about a man of exemplary courage; a man who disclosed the killing of innocent Arabs in Afghanistan. Whether or not you side with Andrew Briggman in the film is beside the point. The point is that we are nothing without morals, though not all morals are created equal. And ‘Kill Team’ proves that it is a gallant war film that puts the audience in the middle of a ethical debate with no clear answers.

Continue reading ‘The Kill Team’: Dan Krauss’ War Film Spotlights Moral Questions Instead Of Non-Stop Action [Review] at The Playlist.

The 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) — held Nov. 7-17 — provides St. Louis filmgoers with the opportunity to view the finest in world cinema: international films, documentaries, American indies, and shorts that can only be seen on the big screen at the festival. Sliff will screen 389 films: 81 narrative features, 63 documentary features, 227 shorts, and 18 film programs exclusive to the Cinema for Students program. The fest also will feature 12 special-event programs, including our closing-night awards presentation. This year’s festival has 63 countries represented.

Sliff will present our usual array of fest buzz films and Oscar contenders, including “The Apollo,” “Atlantics,” “The Chambermaid,” “Clemency,” “Cunningham,” “A Faithful Man,” “Frankie,” “A Hidden Life,” “Just Mercy,” “The Kill Team,” “Little Joe,” “Marriage Story,” “Nomad,” “Olympic Dreams,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Premature,” “The Report,” “The Rest,” “Seahorse,” “The Song of Names,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Synonyms,” “A Tramway in Jerusalem,” “The Traitor,...

Now in its 18th year, the San Diego Intl. Film Festival, produced by the nonprofit San Diego Film Foundation, once again steals the movie glamour spotlight from its neighbor to the north, combining major regional premieres with a focus on social and environmental issues.

Running Oct. 15-20, the festival received more than 3,000 submissions from 68 countries, including feature films, shorts and documentaries. The result is a lineup that includes 107 films, with five in the narrative spotlight competition, 20 in the narrative contest, nine in the doc competition and 66 short films, says Tonya Mantooth, CEO and artistic director.

Opening night at the historic Balboa Theatre will see the premiere of “Jojo Rabbit,” a World War II black comedy written and directed by Taika Waititi. Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” starring Robert De Niro, opens the screenings at the ArcLight Cinema La Jolla on Oct. 17. “A Hidden Life,” a drama set during WWII, written and directed by Terrence Malick,...

The horrors of murder, war, imprisonment and abuse somehow make for a drab little drama in Henry Alex Rubin’s sincere, but unremarkable “Semper Fi.”

The film takes events which should be riveting and makes them stalwart, pushing the biggest emotions and most complicated thoughts into too-short scenes that feel isolated from the rest of the movie. A documentary about these characters’ therapy sessions would be fascinating. The movie about how they got there? Not so much.

“Semper Fi” stars Jai Courtney as Callahan, a police officer and Marine Reservist, whose brother Oyster has always been a bit of screw up. Callahan had to call in favors to get the Marines to waive Oyster’s prior felonies so he could join the service. Callahan had to get Oyster his job at a burger joint. Oyster knows all this and, although he appreciates it, he resents that his brother looks at...

Exclusive: Nat Wolff (Stella’s Last Weekend) has been cast opposite Alexander Skarsgård in The Stand, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel at CBS All Access.

In addition to Skarsgård, Wolff joins James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke and Whoopi Goldberg in the drama, which is currently filming in Vancouver.

Wolff plays Lloyd Henreid, a petty criminal who becomes fiercely loyal to Randall Flagg, the Dark Man (Skarsgård).

Written by Josh Boone and Ben Cavell, The Stand is King’s apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. The fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail (Goldberg) and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man (Skarsgård).

The...

Alexander Skarsgård is to star in The Stand, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel at CBS All Access.

The Big Little Lies star joins James Marsden, Amber Heard, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Owen Teague, Henry Zaga, Brad William Henke and Whoopi Goldberg in the drama, which has kicked off filming in Vancouver.

Skarsgård plays Randall Flagg, also known as ‘the Dark Man’, whose unsettling and ever-changing presence is the embodiment of pure evil. Like Mother Abagail (Goldberg), Flagg appears in plague survivors’ dreams but, unlike her divine messaging, his ultimate goal is far more sinister.

He recently wrapped production on Warner Bros’ Godzilla vs. Kong and also starred in Lionsgate’s Long Shot, Fox Searchlight’s The Aftermath, The Hummingbird Project, Hold The Dark and AMC’s limited series The Little Drummer Girl. He is currently on Showtime’s On Becoming a God in Central Florida and next up...

I swear, 2019 is just flying by! As we have now wrapped up August and are more than a few days into the month of September, I wanted to once again put a bow on everything that’s come before the next stage of the fall festival season. That way, it could focus us more clearly on the awards contenders to come, all the while remembering the hopefuls from the parts of 2019 we’ve completed. As such, today I’m putting out my list of the best of the first third of the year so far. Below you’ll see what the first eight months have brought us, including some films seen at festivals as well as early year releases that the precursors will surely forget, sadly. I don’t have any titles that I’m embargoed on right now, so this is as close to an exhaustive look at everything...

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet star in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, along with Meryl Streep, Florence Pugh and Emma Watson, while Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding lead Paul Feig's romantic comedy, Last Christmas. 

James Franco directs and stars in Zeroville, along with Seth Rogen, Joey King and Megan Fox. Eddie Murphy returns for Netflix's Dolemite Is My Name, directed by Craig Brewer and featuring Wesley Snipes and Keegan-Michael Key. Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff and Adam Long star in The Kill Team, directed by Dan Krauss. Terrence Malick's new film A Hidden ...

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet star in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, along with Meryl Streep, Florence Pugh and Emma Watson, while Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding lead Paul Feig's romantic comedy, Last Christmas. 

James Franco directs and stars in Zeroville, along with Seth Rogen, Joey King and Megan Fox. Eddie Murphy returns for Netflix's Dolemite Is My Name, directed by Craig Brewer and featuring Wesley Snipes and Keegan-Michael Key. Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff and Adam Long star in The Kill Team, directed by Dan Krauss. Terrence Malick's new film A Hidden ...

Whenever smaller film trailers slip through the cracks, we try to give them a spotlight with a trailer round-up. Below you’ll see trailers for a horror-comedy, a new documentary, a creepy thriller, and a war drama from the fine folks at A24. Satanic Panic I saw Satanic Panic at the Overlook Film Festival this year, […]

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A24 has released a new trailer for filmmaker Dan Krauss’ ‘The Kill Team’, an adaptation of his award-winning 2013 documentary.

The feature, which is directed by Krauss, focuses on Andrew Briggman, a young soldier in the Us invasion of Afghanistan who witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic leader.

The film stars Nat Wolff, Alexander Skarsgard, Adam Long, Jonathan Whitesell, Brian Marc, Osy Ikhile, Anna Francolini, and Rob Morrow.

Also in trailers – Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding star in first trailer for ‘Last Christmas’

The film is released in the Us in Autumn.

The Kill Team Synopsis

When Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff), a young soldier in the Us invasion of Afghanistan, witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic leader, Sergeant Deeks (Alexander Skarsgård), he considers reporting them to higher-ups but the heavily-armed, increasingly violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them,...

Adapted from the 2013 documentary of the same name, The Kill Team tells the story of a young American soldier (Nat Wolff) in Afghanistan who struggles between his conscience and his survival when he's coerced by his new sergeant (Alexander Skarsgard) into a murderous scheme which involves killing civilians. A24 has released the first trailer for the psychological drama, and by the…...

An official selection at Tribeca, A24 has unveiled the intense first trailer for Dan Krauss’s The Kill Team, set to be released October 25. Inspired by Krauss’s documentary of the same name, The Kill Team conveys the trajectory of Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff), a young soldier unaccustomed to active combat, having to circumvent an active war zone while also having to confront his superior officer Sergeant Deeks (Alexander Skarsgård), who manipulates his men to turn a blind eye to his various war atrocities as it is revealed that the sergeant is more than willing to kill the enemy for sport.

In his review, John Fink says, “The Kill Team is a psychological thriller with a large scope, exploring both “relationship building” and the battle for “hearts and minds” as much as “shock and awe.” Briggmann, like Winfield, is confronted with difficult decisions, deciding to turn on the killing machines...

The Kill Team Trailer Dan Krauss‘ The Kill Team (2019) movie trailer has been released by A24 and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff, Adam Long, Jonathan Whitesell, and Brian Marc. Plot Synopsis The Kill Team‘s plot synopsis: “the film is based on the 2014 documentary of the same name about a private in the Us [...]

Continue reading: The Kill Team (2019) Movie Trailer: Nat Wolff Tries to Expose Alexander Skarsgård’s War Crimes in Dan Krauss’ Film...

In A24’s “The Kill Team,” Alexander Skarsgård plays a morally corrupt commanding officer during the Afghanistan War who leads one of his soldiers, played by Nat Wolff, to question his sense of duty and challenge authority despite the fear of his own life.

It’s all based on a true story and even a documentary by the same name. Dan Krauss is the writer and director of both “The Kill Team” and the 2013 documentary, which was selected as one of the year’s top five documentaries by the National Board of Review.

The film specifically follows Andrew Briggman (Wolff), a young soldier in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2009 who witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of their sadistic leader, Sgt. Deeks (Skarsgård). He considers reporting them to higher-ups — but the heavily-armed, increasingly violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them,...