And just like that, another Oscars season is over and done with. We can all focus on a fresh set of movies, and maybe never think about Emilia Pérez again. Kicking off a post-awards season is Mickey 17 finally making it to theaters, after constant date changes. We’re thankful to have Robert Pattinson on the big screen again. Thank you, Bong Joon Ho. Also, coming back to our (smaller) screens are Daredevil (who would’ve thought), the Gemstones, and the dramatic folks of Love Is Blind.
Featured Presentations
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Mickey 17
After Parasite’s award-winning run in 2019/2020, earning four Oscars including Best Picture, director Bong Joon Ho is premiering his follow-up, an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel Mickey 7. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, a man so desperate to run away from Earth that he signs up to be an “expendable,” which means he does dangerous missions and is regenerated every time he dies. Mickey 17 is more akin to Okja than Parasite, with more creatures, comedy, and big performances from its whole cast including Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, and Naomi Ackie.
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Daredevil: Born Again
Who would’ve thought in 2019 that Charlie Cox would be one of the MCU’s more consistent recurring faces post-Endgame? After appearances in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Echo, and She-Hulk, Cox’s Matt Murdock is back to leading his own series alongside Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin. Elden Henson and Deborah Ann Woll are also returning to Daredevil: Born Again as Murdock’s friends and co-workers Foggy and Karen, respectively.
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The Righteous Gemstones season 4
Danny McBride’s series wraps with this fourth season, centering on the titular televangelists’ absurdism. After motorcycle ninjas, monster trucks, professional-wrestling personalities, and packs of wolves eating their enemies, what’s next? Maybe success for the church with the Gemstone children leading it? The stacked ensemble adds Megan Mullally and Seann William Scott. —Roxana Hadadi
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Deli Boys
A sort of Guy Ritchie and Succession hybrid, Abdullah Saeed’s series focuses on a pair of spoiled Pakistani American brothers who learn, after their emotionally distant father dies, that his convenience-store empire was a front for drug dealing and crime. —R.H.
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Dark Winds season 3
Graham Roland’s 1970s-set series has given us two seasons of supernatural-tinged crime fighting and a depiction of Navajo life. In the new one, two boys have gone missing, and it’s up to Zahn McClarnon’s Joe Leaphorn, Kiowa Gordon’s Jim Chee, and the rest of the Navajo Tribal Police to find them. Bruce Greenwood, Jenna Elfman, and Raoul Max Trujillo join the cast. —R.H.
Grand Finale
Love Is Blind season-8 reunion
This season has been quite the weird roller coaster. From TikTok accusations to political conversations, prenups, and whatever is going on with Dave and his sister, there’s plenty for this season’s cast to be grilled on. Nick and Vanessa Lachey don’t usually grill them enough for our liking, but we’ll still be tuning in for the mess.
Animation Station
Plankton: The Movie
“Are ya ready, kids?!” SpongeBob SquarePants’ villainous Cyclops copepod with a Napoleon complex now has a film of his own — an AI love story, naturally. After his latest failure to steal the recipe for the Krabby Patty, Plankton returns defeated to his computer wife, Karen, who pivots their own restaurant into serving “fusion” chum instead of just chum … leading Plankton to take a flamethrower to the (underwater) establishment, because her actions apparently weren’t evil enough. This prompts Karen to go Skynet and try to take over the world. Will their love survive? —Eric Vilas-Boas
Double Feature
Dual
If you want to double-down on clones (sorry, pun intended) after Mickey 17, then why not check out this deeply strange, under-seen gem from 2022? Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy) stars as a woman diagnosed with a terminal illness who decides to clone herself. When she ends up recovering after all, she and her clone must duel to the death to determine which version will continue living. —Tolly Wright
Finally Streaming
Heretic
“I’m quite drawn to evil, violence, death,” Hugh Grant has said of the recent run of villain roles he’s called his “the freak-show period.” Last year’s Heretic is the latest — a chilling A24 horror directed by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck in which Grant stars as an anti-religious murderer. Now, Grant’s always had a hard edge, a degree of attitude behind his charmer roles even in rom-coms like Bridget Jones and Four Weddings and a Funeral. He’s always been capable of roles like this one; what’s surprising is how scary he is playing it. —E.V.B.
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