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| 'End of Oak Street': Anne Hathaway thriller coming Nov. 13 to HBO Max | The End of Oak Street is coming to HBO Max in November. The film starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor will start streaming on the service Nov. 13. The End of Oak Street is a sci-fi survival thriller written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and produced by Lost creator J.J. Abrams. Hathaway and McGregor star as Denise and Greg, a suburban couple living with their children Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery) in 1982. The family struggles to survive dinosaurs and more after their neighborhood is mysteriously transported to prehistoric times. |
| Movie review: 'Mouse' finds emotional healing through song, grief | With Ghoslight, Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson explored a family's grief in a profound and touching way. Their latest, Mouse, in theaters Friday-featuring many of the same actors-explores different but equally relatable corners of grief. Minnie's (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) best friend Callie (Chloe Coleman) dies in an automobile accident, leading Minnie to navigate her classmates' and others' reactions to grief. At the same time, she has to sort out her own feelings. Grief is different for everyone and for everyone they lose, so there are infinite dramatic possibilities. Drama is also a healthy way to process it before it inevitably touches our lives, because nobody can avoid it. |
| 'Nobody Wants This': Kristen Bell rom-com series renewed for Season 4 | Nobody Wants This will return for a fourth season on Netflix. The streaming service announced Friday that it renewed the series starring Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) and Adam Brody (The O.C.) for Season 4. Nobody Wants This is a rom-com created, written, executive produced and co-showrun by Erin Foster. The show follows the inter-faith romance between Noah (Brody), a Jewish rabbi, and Joanne (Bell), an agnostic woman. Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn also star. "We are so happy and thrilled to do another season of our favorite show on television, which coincidentally is the one we run," Foster and co-showrunners Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan told Netflix's Tudum. |
| Melania Trump returns to White House in Prime Video series trailer | First lady Melania Trump returns to the White House in a trailer for her new Prime Video series. Melania, The Series is a two-part follow-up to her documentary Melania, The Film, released in January. The series offers "unprecedented insight into Melania Trump's life, including the extraordinary days immediately following the 47th presidential inauguration," according to a press release. Part 1, titled "Family & Trust," will see Melania, 56, set priorities as she prepares for Trump, 80, to take office and deals with trust being tested upon her return to the White House. Part 2, titled "Pride & Honor," will follow Melania as she serves as first lady and "sets her mission in motion for the American people. |
| Yeon Sang-ho's 'Paradise Lost' explores grief in the age of AI | Paradise Lost, South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho's twisty new feature about a parent-child relationship shattered by loss, began with a short story written by his own mother. "My mother has always felt quite sorry for me because of the work I do," Yeon told UPI in an interview at his office in Seoul. "She thinks I work incredibly hard and that my job takes a real toll on me." The filmmaker behind the zombie blockbuster Train to Busan tried to reassure her that writing stories wasn't so difficult. On his next holiday visit, she presented him with a story of her own: three pages about a mother tormented by an evil son. |