The week of Thanksgiving is finally here: a few days off from work and school, a time to be with family and friends and check out some new movies and TV shows. Whether you prefer your turkey basted and baked or deep-fried and crispy, the days ahead will have something for everyone to dig into.
On the menu this week: Left-Handed Girl, a coming-of-age portrait of a single mother and her two daughters as they return to Taipei to open a stall in a night market. Shih-Ching Tsou directed, produced, and co-wrote (with Sean Baker) the deeply personal film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and is Taiwan’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.
Fans of one of Netflix’s most popular TV shows will finally have their cravings sated with a fifth season of Stranger Things. The sci-fi horror series is back in Hawkins for its final episodes, the first batch of which debuts on Wednesday night. (Can’t wait that long? Appease your appetite with the first five minutes of the premiere episode, which brings the action back to where it all began in Season 1 — the Upside Down in 1983.)
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Follow officers from a South Carolina sheriff’s department as they urgently search for individuals who've disappeared under troubling circumstances.
Hired to stage the ultimate holiday gala, an event planner rediscovers the magic of Christmas while searching for the perfect Santa.
Is It Cake? Holiday returns for another festive season with Mikey Day and six All-Star cake artists! Three Is It Cake alum and three baking heavy hitters try to fool celebrity judges with their incredible hyper-realistic cakes. In each episode, the bakers will compete for their share of the $75,000 prize pot and a coveted spot in the finale. This holiday season the stakes, the bakes, and the cakes are better than ever!
Sophia (Olivia Holt), a sharp-witted retail worker, and Nick (Connor Swindells), a down-on-his-luck repairman, are small-time thieves with their eyes on the same Christmas Eve score: robbing London’s most notorious department store. Forced into an uneasy alliance, as secrets surface and feelings for each other deepen, Sophia and Nick put their relationship and the heist in jeopardy.
The fall of 1987. Hawkins, Indiana is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s (Noah Schnapp) disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything our friends have faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.
When a mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, they encounter challenges and secrets that threaten family unity.
A former Saigon photo editor reveals a secret he’s been plagued with for 52 years, setting off a gripping two-year investigation into the truth behind one of the most iconic photographs made during the Vietnam War. Acclaimed conflict photographer Gary Knight and a small team of journalists embark on a relentless search to locate and seek justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”
When the vengeful Black Manta returns wielding a powerful ancient weapon, it's up to Aquaman to reconcile with a former rival and save the world.
