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by Renate Amaral - Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 11:24 PM
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Season 1 is fantastic, south of fort worth but Untold's just-concluded second season comes with an assured confidence to tackle tougher stories, with better, more in-depth reporting. Incredibly, it feels like a show gathering steam. More than great, actually. It's a series of mini masterpieces each more intriguing than the last. So yes, Untold is great.

Sewing the rest of its stories together with a constant black humor, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a Coen Brothers winner. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

The Coen Brothers kick up the western dust with an anthology film that gives you six vignettes all set on the American frontier. But there's a dark twist that keeps you on your toes. One of them is about the titular Buster Scruggs, a chipper singing cowboy who casually sets off a shoot-up in a cantina.

I'd argue documentaries are the best thing about Netflix, period. That's before we even mention viral hits like Tiger King or Drive to Survive.  There's genre-defining true-crime series like Making a Murderer, Oscar-winning movies like Icarus, incredible nature docos like Our Planet.

Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs will pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, ballantyne reading academy which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.

Robin Wright, 56, poses with... Keeping up with the Stallones! They could pass for sisters! Blade Runner 2049's follow-up series Blade Runner 2099 has... Sylvester's family to debut... Harrison Ford and his Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom...

Apple TV 4K (2022)

From $129

Preorders are now open for the new Apple TV 4K with prices starting at $129. Devices will begin shipping on Nov.

(Front R) with cast and crew attend The World Premiere of Marvel's Captain America: Civil War at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles in 2016 Captain America cast: Actors Chris Evans (Front L) and Robert Downey Jr.

With the much more powerful Apple TV 4K running an updated A12 processor and just $30 more at the time, it begged the question of why anyone would even want the Apple TV HD anymore? If you already are fine with spending over $100 on a streaming device, that delta probably doesn't matter when the experience on the 4K version is so much better. 

There's Crimes and Penalties, which tells the Slap Shot-esque story of the Danbury Trashers, a minor league hockey team run - incredibly - by the 17-year-old son of a waste management mogul connected to the Genovese crime family.

The Dig (2021)

This fine British drama excavates a whole lot of buried treasure with a distinguished cast in Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn. Romantic, intellectual and moving, The Dig is a full sweep of elegance. It's based on the true events around the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, yielding a priceless trove of Anglo-Saxon artifacts hidden in a burial ship.

It's as fascinating as it sounds. The Two Popes (2019)

Set primarily in Vatican City, this biographical drama follows Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the aftermath of the Vatican leaks scandal. The Two Popes carves up a slice of real-life drama with a first-class two-hander featuring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins.

Its high-concept story centers on a tower that delivers food to people on each of its many levels via a platform. Social commentary rings throughout this dystopian thriller, which takes shocking, occasionally gruesome turns all the way to the bottom. Those at the top snag the best and most abundant spread, which is devoured as the platform lowers down the levels. The Platform (2019)

From Netflix's impressive stash of international films comes Spanish sci-fi horror The Platform.

In January Morag Ross, QC, was appointed by the university to carry out a review of the institutions's approach to addressing gender-based violence, including harassment and harmful practices that are 'committed disproportionately by men against women'.

Which is like saying Game of Thrones is a story about an iron chair or Harry Potter is a franchise about a kid with glasses. It's obviously much more than that. Produced by the folks behind the also extremely good Wild Wild Country, Untold is a series of feature-length documentaries focused on sports.

In our latest review of the Apple TV HD last year, the device did a fine job opening and playing all the major streaming apps -- but did so at a significantly cheaper  or . Asking the Apple TV HD to do anything more, like play an Apple Arcade game, and you quickly saw how limited the box was. 

The Indiana Jones star, 80, will make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: New World Order, set for release on May 23, 2024, before starring in the standalone Thunderbolts movie, which will debut July 26, 2024, sources confirmed to .