Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Midwinter Break’ on Netflix, a “Drama-for-Adults” Starring Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds

An underwhelming screenplay hampers the work of two gifted veteran actors.

A couple of months after production wrapped on the untitled high-school hockey drama series headlined by Michelle Monaghan, Netflix is revealing more cast members — and a title, The Sticks. NCIS: New Orleans alum Scott Bakula, in his return to television, and Logan Marshall-Green, currently filming Season 2 of his hit

Oscar nominee Wagner Moura and Greta Lee lead Netflix’s sci-fi tale of a family trapped in their house as something sinister arrives Most of us aren’t truly ready for films that directly cover the recent horrors of Covid and, well, why would we be? There was a need back in 2021 for something strict and journalistic lik

A decade or so ago, the premise of apocalyptic thriller “The Last House” might have sounded a little more out there than it does now: A middle-class Seattle family wakes up one morning to find themselves sealed inside their house with no means of escape, a mysterious enforced house arrest that turns out to be…

Louis Leterrier directs this hybrid of sci-fi, horror, mystery and domestic psychological drama in which both physical and mental survival are tested.

Released: August 7, Netflix; Cert: TBC