On a more serious note, there's nothing that writers love more than writing about writers, which brings us neatly to a new miniseries called The Beast In Me. This eight-episode crime thriller created by Gabe Rotter and showrun by Howard Gordon starts with one thing and that's Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes). She's a successful author. Aggie's life takes an unexpected left turn when her new neighbours in Oyster Bay, New York turn out to be Nile (Matthew Rhys) and Nina Jarvis (Britt

Maybe reading is for losers, though, which is why we're watching Ballad Of A Small Player, a film adaptation of Lawrence Osborne's novel 'The Ballad Of A Small Player'. Colin Farrell stars as Lord Doyle who's an alcoholic gambler causing mischief in Macau that is famous for its gambling industry. Grabbing the viewer's attention isn't an issue at all as director Edward Berger is very much indulging in the visual pomp that the location offers. Cinematographer James Friend goes

Director Kathryn Bigelow returns from hibernation with A House Of Dynamite, a political thriller with deadly stakes. Broken into three parts, we begin by following Olivia Walker (Rebecca Ferguson), a captain and an official working at the titular house which is White House. In addition to Walker, we also follow events from the points-of-view of deputy security advisor Jake Baerington (Gabriel Basso); defence secretary Reid Baker (Jared Harris); major Daniel Gonzalez (Anthony

Kevin McKay, Matthew McConaughey's character in The Lost Bus, might do just that, considering the extraordinary situation he's thrust into. He is a school bus driver in California's Butte County in 2018. A large-scale wildfire breaks out in the city of Paradise. Kevin responds to a call to pick up 22 kids in order to evacuate them, but soon enough, he and teacher Mary Ludwig (America Ferrera) must keep everyone safe and find a way out of the uncontrolled fires when all hell b

Everyone's favourite spy thriller series Slow Horses returns to rage at nightclubs and cook with toxic gas, adapting 'London Rules' from Mick Herron's 'Slough House' series of novels in the process. In season five, the titular group—J.K. Coe (Tom Brooke), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) and Shirley Dander (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) —led by Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) is on full freak-out mode when they discover that Ho is dating a real woman.

While you're doing stuff, give a polite round of applause for The Woman In Cabin 10, the film adaptation of Ruth Ware's novel of the same name. This lavish thriller follows Laura "Lo" Blacklock (Keira Knightley), a journalist who receives an invite from Anne Lyngstad (Lisa Loven Kongsli), an ultrarich Norwegian, and her American husband Richard Bullmer-Lyngstad (Guy Pierce) to board his private yacht for a voyage from England to Norway. This luxury cruise is for their charita

One Battle After Another has all of those things, including Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) who's a member of the far-left revolutionary movement called French 75 alongside his girlfriend Perfidia (Teyana Taylor). Perfidia finds herself in a p(r)ickle when she's caught by colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn). The action thriller is written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and "inspired" by Thomas Pynchon's novel 'Vineland'. Bob is living a quiet life in the woods with Willa (Ch

Jaffa plays a major part in All That's Left Of You (اللي باقي منك in Arabic), the decades-spanning drama written and directed by Cherien Dabis who is also one of its stars. Following one Palestinian family for 75 years, the story begins in 1948's Mandatory Palestine where family man Sharif (Adam Bakri) is unwilling to leave the family home. His wife Munira (Maria Zreik) and their kids evacuate. In 1978, Munira and Sharif's now-adult son Salim (Saleh Bakri) has a family of his

You're in luck because Wayward arrives just when you thought there was nothing. This new miniseries is set in 2003 and one of our entry points is Alex Dempsey (Mae Martin; they're also the series' creator and co-showrunner), a cop who is moving to Tall Pines, Vermont alongside his pregnant girlfriend Laura (Sarah Gadon) who's originally from there. In Toronto, we meet Abbie (Sydney Topliffe) and Leila (Alyvia Alyn Lind), two teenage best friends going through a somewhat rebel

Speaking of, Alien: Earth is a new series that is set in the 'Alien' franchise. This first season begins in 2120 in space and on Earth. Five corporations are in a race to the top. One of these is Prodigy whose young, eccentric human CEO Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) develops hybrids in his research facility on a remote island alongside synth scientist Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant). We mainly follow Wendy (Sydney Chandler), the first functional hybrid who is essentially a child in

But who you gonna call? Hey, let us call Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren so they can settle things once and for all. The Conjuring: Last Rites is billed as the closing chapter for this dynamic duo, serving as the ninth film in The Conjuring Universe and a sequel to 2021's 'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It'. The Warrens' careers are winding down and their daughter Judy (Mia Tomlinson) is getting serious with her boyfriend Tony Spera (Ben Hardy).

Austin Butler's character Hank Thompson knows all about that when it comes to his journey in Caught Stealing. Adapted by Charlie Huston from his own novel of the same name, the crime thriller drama follows Hank who is a former baseball prodigy and current bartender living in New York City. When his neighbour Russ (Matt Smith) leaves for London and gives him a cat to look after, Hank and his lover Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz) suddenly find themselves in danger.