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Netflix unveiled on Thursday that Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses, Harlots), Jessica Plummer (EastEnders, The Girl Before), Richard Armitage (Fool Me Once, Obsession) and Lenny Henry (Fear the Walking Dead, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) will star in Missing You, one of its two upcoming Harlan Coben novel adaptations following the success of Coben’s latest Netflix hit series, Fool Me Once, which stars Michelle Keegan and premiered globally on Jan. 1.

Eleazar will portray protagonist Kat Donovan; Plummer will play Stacey Embalo; Armitage was cast as Ellis Stagger, and Henry portrays Clint Donovan.

Earlier in the year, the streamer had said that it would make limited series based on the author’s novels Missing You and Run Away, produced by Quay Street Productions. The casting news was announced at the annual Next on Netflix event at central London’s Picturehouse Central.

Missing You is about Detective Kat...

Exclusive: Jessica Plummer (The Girl Before), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), Lenny Henry (The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power), Steve Pemberton (Happy Valley), Paul Kaye (Sexy Beast), Samantha Spiro (Sex Education), Lisa Faulkner (Archie) and Mary Malone (Doctor Who) are among cast to have joined Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses) in Netflix’s Harlan Coben adaptation Missing You, which is currently filming in the UK.

Rounding out the cast are Charlie Hamblett, Oscar Kennedy, Brigid Zengeni, Catherine Ayers, Felix Garcia Guyer and Jo Martin.

Drama Missing You (5×60 mins) tells the story of detective Kat Donovan who stumbles across her estranged fiancé on a dating app, forcing her to delve back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder.

The official synopsis reads: “Eleven years ago Detective Kat Donovan’s fiancé Josh – the love of her life – disappeared and she’s never heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app,...

It isn't always true that a cacophonous work of cinema takes home the Academy Award for Best Sound (or what used to be "Oscars" before Design and Mixing were combined into one category), but I can't think of the last time a genuinely quiet movie won this award.

Then again, Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest" might've been, in terms of subject matter, the loudest movie of 2023. It shouldn't have been. 80 years after Allied forces began liberating Axis-operated concentration camps at the end of World War II, we should be crystal clear on the topic of genocide. We should've been clear on it then. But rather than learn from history, we remain determined to repeat its most despicable mistakes.

And as "The Zone of Interest" makes abundantly clear throughout its harrowingly placid 104-minute runtime, these really aren't mistakes. The monsters who executed the Third Reich's Final Solution were...

Long-working British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer celebrated his first Academy Award win at the 96th Oscars, taking home the Best International Feature Film prize for “The Zone of Interest.”

The Holocaust drama, starring Christian Friedel and “Anatomy of a Fall” Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller as the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his sociopathic wife Hedwig, has been steadily wending its way through the awards season since earning the Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Glazer loosely adapts a Martin Amis novel for this searing story about the Höss’ indifference to the Auschwitz horrors happening on the other side of their bucolic garden; the family lives with their three children in an emotionless bubble while Jews are exterminated en masse.

“Zone of Interest” never shows those horrors on screen, instead relying on Johnnie Burn’s Oscar-nominated sound design to convey the horrifying reality as screams and shots and roiling furnaces...

Since we’re talking about the short films, I’ll accordingly keep this brief. Here are five reasons why “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” will win the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

1. It’s the clear standout in the category.

All five nominees are exceptional — the others being “The After,” “Red, White and Blue,” “Invincible” and “Knight of Fortune.” In a less competitive year, any one of them could easily walk away with the prize. But it’s simply too hard for anything to top “Henry Sugar.” Based on the short story of the same name by celebrated children’s author Roald Dahl, the film is seamlessly adapted to the screen with the same charm, wit and magic of the original tale. “Henry Sugar” features superb acting, exquisite costume and production design, beautiful cinematography and sharp editing. It holds an outstanding 95% “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes,...

Many of cinema’s hard men are notorious softies in real life. Ray Winstone may well be one of those, even if he admits to not looking particularly approachable.

“My wife always says to me, ‘Why do you look like you’re going to kill someone when you walk into a room?'” he tells Variety. “But I don’t mean to!”

Winstone’s long-standing status as the go-to man to depict violent approach-with-caution individuals or British mob bosses continues to serve him, however, as “The Gentleman” — Guy Ritchie’s eight-part Netflix spinoff of his 2019 gangster comedy feature of the same name — proves. In the series, awash in the classic Ritchie mix of guns, drugs, violence, aristocrats, boxing and tweed, Winstone stars as a gangland patriarch and head of a massive weed-growing empire. Because of course he does — who else would you cast as an elder statesman than the actor...

The actor, 80, describes his roles in Iron Man 3 and Sexy Beast and wonders if his greatest work is still to come

Storytelling is my tribal function. That is how I belong. Just to be given the grace and fortune to occupy that role in society is an eternal blessing. There is something urgent and exhilarating about telling a story. When the material is right and the audience are there, there’s nothing to compare it with.

This might sound narcissistic, but maybe my greatest role hasn’t happened yet. The hankering is subconscious. I didn’t know how much I needed to play Don Logan in Sexy Beast until he arrived on the page.

Ray Winstone dreams of making a ‘King Lear’ film directed by his old friend Gary Oldman.The ‘Sexy Beast’ film and TV hardman, 67, worked with the ‘Slow Horses’ actor, 65, on brutal domestic violence drama ‘Nil By Mouth’, and said he would love to return their collaboration to make a “reality”-based version of Shakespeare’s bloodsoaked play about the tortured monarch.He told The Independent about the play, and how he would not want it adapted to the modern age: “It’s very cleverly written, innit, by a very clever man… I’d wanna go back to the nitty gritty of no mobile phones, just concentrate on this family and do it down and dirty.”When asked if he would rather make a film version of ‘King Lear’ with Gary or Guy Ritchie, 55, with whom Ray has worked with on the new Netflix series ‘The Gentlemen’, he said: “With Guy,...

In terms of new original content coming to Hulu, March is a slight month, with the streamer’s highlight being the limited series premiere of We Were the Lucky Ones at the end of the month. The show, which is based on Georgia Hunter’s New York Times bestselling novel, is inspired by the true story of a Jewish family who are separated at the start of WWII, and who then have to survive in order to eventually reunite. We Were the Lucky Ones stars Joey King from The Kissing Booth films alongside Percy Jackson‘s Logan Lerman, and debuts on March 28.

Here’s everything coming to Hulu (and leaving) in March…

Hulu New Releases – March 2024

March 1

Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains: Complete Seasons 1-3 (Dubbed) Dark Side of the 90s: Complete Season 2 Dark Side of the 2000s: Complete Season 1 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem | 2007 Ali | 2001 Bad Teacher | 2011 Batman Begins | 2005 Beasts of the Southern Wild...

The historical comedy series The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is set to premiere with its first two episodes this Friday, March 1st, with the rest of the show’s six episodes being released on a weekly basis through Friday, March 29th – all of this exclusively on Apple TV+. In anticipation the show’s premiere, we’re proud to share an Exclusive clip from the first episode, and you can check it out in the embed above!

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin stars Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh and The Great British Bake Off in the titular role as the legendary British highwayman. Also in the cast are Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Ellie White (The Windsors), Marc Wootton (High & Dry), Duayne Boachie (Blue Story), Tamsin Greig (Episodes), Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing), Dolly Wells (Doll & Em), Joe Wilkinson (The Cockfields), Mark Heap (Stardust), Geoffrey McGivern...

Prepare for an adrenaline-fueled ride as “Sexy Beast” reaches its thrilling climax in Season 1 Episode 8, titled “Think of the Money.” Set your alarms for Monday, March 4, 2024, at 10:00 Pm on Showtime, as viewers are taken on an electrifying journey into the heart of the final heist.

In this episode, tensions are at an all-time high as Gal, Don, and the rest of the crew race against the clock to execute their meticulously planned operation. With everything on the line, every second counts as they navigate through obstacles and unforeseen challenges to secure their ultimate prize.

As the stakes escalate, viewers can expect heart-pounding action, unexpected twists, and nail-biting suspense that will leave them on the edge of their seats. Will the team succeed in pulling off the heist of a lifetime, or will their plans unravel before their eyes?

Don’t miss the thrilling conclusion of “Sexy Beast” Season 1 Episode...

Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” only the fourth film in the 24-year feature career of the British director of “Sexy Beast,” “Birth” and “Under the Skin,” is in some ways the unlikeliest of this year’s 10 Best Picture nominees. A purposefully dispassionate chronicle of a subject — the Holocaust — unusually approached with enormous passion, it follows the daily life of a German family that lives in Poland during World War II.

The father, Rudolph Höss, is the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which sits just over their garden and from which screams, shouts and smoke occasionally disturb the lives of Rudolph (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and their children.

The camera never goes over the wall and into the camp, and the film takes place without a single closeup, as if the camera itself doesn’t want to get too close to these people. Though the...

There are 10 nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film, but it looks like the race has narrowed down to two top contenders: “Poor Things” and “The Zone of Interest.” But which will ultimately win?

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The two films couldn’t be more different: “Poor Things” is a fantastical comedy about a resurrected woman finding herself during a journey across the world, while “The Zone of Interest” tells the disturbing story of the commandant of Auschwitz and his family, who live idyllic lives while horrors take place in the background.

Only one of them has a corresponding Best Picture nom, though, and that’s “Poor Things.” That might be why, according to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users as of this writing, that film has the lead in this category with odds of 13/2. But it’s going to be close.

A man of many parts, from starring in Deadwood and Sexy Beast to MCing for Grace Jones, the artist also still known as Lovejoy is here to tell all

With a new film on the way, now is a good time to reflect on all things Ian McShane. He trained with Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt at Rada (living with the latter) and both McShane and Hurt’s first film was 1962 British romantic drama The Wild and the Willing.

Other career highlights on the big screen include a role as a bisexual drug dealer opposite Richard Burton in the classic 1971 crime drama Villain, crimelord Teddy Bass in 2000’s Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley, Captain Hook in 2007’s Shrek the Third, Blackbeard in 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and has starred with Keanu Reeves in all four John Wick films.

Arclight Films has announced that Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley star in Renny Harlin’s survival thriller Deep Water, which is in post. Arclight continues worldwide sales at EFM this week.

The first feature greenlit by the stand-alone label Simmons/Hamilton Productions wrapped at the end of last year in New Zealand and Spain.

The lead cast includes Molly Wright (Lionsgate’s upcoming The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Angus Sampson (FX’s Fargo), Kelly Gale (Lionsgate’s Plane), Li Wenhan from Chinese-Korean K-Pop group Uniq, and Chinese actress Nashi (Creation Of The Gods I: Kingdom Of Storms).

Harlin, whose credits include Die Hard 2,...

The Zone of Interest.Watching The Zone of Interest (2023) is an act of endurance. The latest film by British director Jonathan Glazer depicts the lives of the commanding officer at Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), and their children, with most of the action set within and around their idyllic home. Viewers must face the intolerable sight of the house existing right alongside the concentration camp, with the camp’s roofs hovering above the adjoining perimeter fence. On the camera’s side of this divide, the children swim and Hedwig attends to her garden. Unlike most films about the Holocaust, representations of the Nazi regime’s victims are only occasionally in the foreground, yet—through distant screams, the flicker of flames, alarm sounds, and splatters of blood—the atrocity is present. Meanwhile, the film’s focus is on those who enact this atrocity: how they eat together,...

Jonathan Glazer is a scalpel-precise filmmaker whose work explores how the smallest fissure in a pattern can undo your sense of time, self, and place. In “Birth,” a woman about to be married is confronted by a child purporting to be the reincarnated ghost of her dead first husband, unraveling her impending marriage. In “Under the Skin,” an alien succubus goes about her ways preying on men in Scotland, only to, as if by accident, discover the humanity within her. In “The Zone of Interest,” a Nazi concentration camp commandant’s body rebels against the horrible doings of his soul.

Glazer stamped his name as a director of eerie music videos for the likes of similarly contrarian groups Radiohead and Massive Attack, later applying the dreamlike and expressionistic demands of that genre to narrative feature lengths. All of his films feature some kind of reverie interlude, where the movie itself appears to be dreaming,...

This week started on a high for director Jonathan Glazer, after his Cannes Grand Prix-winner The Zone of Interest took Best Film and Best Director at the 44th London Film Critics’ Awards on Sunday. Glazer has been sparing in his appearances since the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, presumably keeping his powder dry for the BAFTAs and the Oscars, where his film is seen as a dark horse in the International Feature Film category (being a rare submission from the UK).

Last week, he broke that silence at great length, in an extensive interview conducted at London’s BFI Southbank by four-time Oscar winner — and 11-time nominee — Alfonso Cuarón.

During the chat, which preceded a last-minute UK preview screening of Zone of Interest on Thursday, Cuarón frequently praised the film, describing it as “probably the most important film in this century, both from the standpoint of his cinematic...

Exclusive: Paramount+ has yanked a raft of international originals from its service along with several big-ticket acquired series.

Numerous English-language originals disappeared overnight last week, as the U.S. conglom’s strategy shift towards more Hollywood-style content and lower costs played out in real time. Other series that had been tipped for second seasons will not return.

Subscribers were left perplexed as shows vanished, and voiced bewilderment and frustration on X and elsewhere online. The removed shows have been taken off the streaming service in all territories.

Samantha Morton-starrer The Burning Girls and One Night, the Australia-set drama with Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker, have disappeared from the streamer. Likewise, Eleventh Hour Films-produced The Killing Kind, based on the book of the same name, and thriller The Serial Killer’s Wife, have been pulled.

The Doll Factory, the adaptation of the bestselling novel from Marcella producer Buccaneer, has also come down.

"I wanted to avoid the artifice of cinema." A24 has revealed a behind-the-scenes featurette for The Zone of Interest, the Best Picture nominated Holocaust film from British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer. It premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year, and after opening in December, ended up with a total of five Oscar nominations – including Best Director and Best Sound. This film is about the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his family who live inside a nice house located adjacent to this horrible concentration camp in Poland. It stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as the couple, with Freya Kreutzkam, Max Beck, Imogen Kogge, Ralph Herforth. In this featurette, Glazer and his Polish Dp Łukasz Żal talk about filming this with cameras hidden in the house, and natural lighting, to make it as authentic and immersive as possible. Yes this is an outstanding film that deserves to be seen...

Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller Argylle is the widest opener at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office in 626 cinemas, with Universal looking to emulate previous successes from the British director.

Directed by Vaughn from a script by Jason Fuchs, Argylle follows a reclusive author of spy novels, who realises the plot of her new book is starting to mirror real world events.

Henry Cavill, pop star Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, Bryce Dallas Howard, John Cena, Sam Rockwell, Catherine O’Hara, Samuel L. Jason, Bryan Cranston, Sofia Boutella, Louis Partridge and Richard E. Grant are on a star-studded cast list.

Vaughn broke...

“Sexy Beast” is the new crime thriller prequel TV series, spinning-off from director Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 feature, now streaming on Paramount+:

“…’Sexy Beast’ traces the origins of best friends ‘Gal Dove’ (James McArdle) and ‘Don Logan’ (Emun Elliott), two thieves navigating London’s criminal underworld during the 1990’s.

“The duo will cross paths with ‘DeeDee Harrison’ (Sarah Greene), an adult star who begins a love affair with Gal, and ‘Teddy Bass’ (Stephen Moyer), a crime boss who recruits Gal and Don to work for his empire…”

Additional cast members include Tamsin Greig, Eliza Bennett, Ralph Brown, John Dagleish, Peter Ferdinando, Nitin Ganatra, Robbie Gee, Alice Bailey Johnson, Paul Kaye, David Kennedy, Cally Lawrence, Clea Martin, Nicholas Nunn, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Lex Shrapnel.

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This year’s Best Director lineup is filled with familiar names for cinephiles: Martin Scorsese and Alexander Payne are old pros at this point, Bradley Cooper has long been famous as an actor, and Jonathan Glazer — despite only making four films — has been a known quantity since 2000’s “Sexy Beast.” That just makes it all the more impressive that in this (very male) lineup, Justine Triet not only made it into the category, but was nominated with a film that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with her heavyweight competitors’ works.

Although Triet made her feature debut “Age of Panic” in 2013, it took her a decade to obtain her true breakout moment when her fourth feature “Anatomy of a Fall” premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2023. Starring a never-better Sandra Hüller as a successful writer who is tried for the sudden death of her husband, a fellow creative, the film is a marital drama...

To celebrate the release of Sexy Beast, the new prequel series streaming exclusively on Paramount+, we sat down with some of the show’s cast to find out more about their exciting new show.

Sexy Beast tells of the origins of Gal and Don’s complicated relationship as they find themselves descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the vibrant and volatile 1990s, while Gal’s budding relationship with DeeDee threatens everything in their world. James McArdle is Gal Dove, Emun Elliott is Don Logan, Sarah Greene is Deedee Harrison, Stephen Moyer is Teddy Bass, a treacherous, rising name in the gangster world, who seduces Gal and Don into his criminal web, and Tamsin Greig is Don’s pathologically controlling and formidable older sister Cecilia.

Chatting to McArdle, Greene, Moyer, and Greig, we chat about the trepidations about taking on a new prequel series of the film,...

Get ready for another thrilling episode of “Sexy Beast” as the mystery deepens and the intrigue unfolds! In Season 1, Episode 4, titled “Always Wanted to See That Place,” viewers will be in for a rollercoaster ride of suspense and discovery. Tune in to Showtime on Monday, February 5, 2024, at 10:00 Pm to catch all the action.

The episode picks up with Gal demanding answers, setting the stage for a high-stakes journey to Spain alongside Don. Their mission? To uncover the truth about the enigmatic figures they are truly working for. As the plot thickens, viewers can expect more twists and turns in this gripping tale of espionage and intrigue.

“Sexy Beast” has garnered attention for its captivating storyline and complex characters, and this episode promises to deliver another dose of heart-pounding suspense. With each revelation, the layers of the mystery surrounding Gal and Don’s mission are peeled away, keeping viewers on the edge of their seats.

Welcome to the 245th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

Here’s how this week’s episode plays out:

1. Headlines

Sex and the City, Rick and Morty and The Flight Attendant highlight the week’s top TV news.

2. Jon Stewart goes home

The former host of The Daily Show returns to the Comedy Central series for one night a week starting next month. But in the long run, is it good for the series after execs have struggled for more than a year to replace Trevor Noah?

3. Netflix’s $5B swing

If you had...

Short days on site, nice rental cars, plus room and board — being a hitman doesn’t seem so bad. But a job is a job, and everybody deserves a vacation now and then. That’s what Wilson (Ian McShane) treats himself to in “American Star,” checking into a Canary Islands resort after discovering his target’s residence empty for the time being. A foreign location and senior citizen with a gun can often indicate a bargain bin actioner these days, but filmmaker Gonzalo López-Gallego surprises with an art-house touch, pushing his star into a considered, if also very safe, tranquility.

The director’s most rewarding decision: simply trusting McShane to summon the mood. Now 81 years old, the decorated English actor conveys a wealth of character with his delicate but steady gait, playing a hitman of few words. It’s beguiling enough to see Wilson scan an empty room for signs...

In the 2000 crime drama Sexy Beast, the laid-back bacchanalian lifestyle of a quartet of middle-aged Brits is rent asunder by the very announcement that an old cohort from their past lives of crime is coming to pay them a visit. The two married couples — Gal and Deedee, and Gal’s best friend Aitch and his wife Jackie — are doing just fine in their respective Spanish villas when Aitch gets a call that Don Logan wants to see them. Upon Aitch sharing this news grimly at dinner one night, the four of them each look uniquely horrified, as if they’ve just learned of the death of a close friend or family member.

The new eight-episode series “Sexy Beasts” explores the story of two best friends Gal Dove and Don Logan and is available on Thursday, Jan. 25 on Paramount+. This prequel series to the 2000 film of the same name focuses on the pair’s complicated relationship that finds them descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the vibrant and volatile 1990s, while Gal’s budding relationship with adult film star Deedee threatens everything in their world. You can watch Sexy Beast: Season 1 with a 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus. You can also watch with Amazon Prime Video.

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About ‘Sexy Beast’ Series Premiere

A prequel to the 2000 film that starred Ray Winstone,...

Exclusive: Sarah Greene is “excited” to be at the center of a high-stakes “love triangle” involving James McArdle and Emun Elliott in Sexy Beast, the Paramount+ prequel to director Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 classic.

Greene tells me she is a great admirer of Amanda Redman’s sultry performance as former adult actress Deedee Harrison – the role that holds a place in the annals of gangster movie history – and the part that the Cork-born Normal People star takes on in the Sexy Beast drama that premieres on Paramount+ this Thursday, January 25.

Greene watched the movie “over and over again and just studied her through line. And she’s very still, she doesn’t say a whole lot.”

We chat just as the actress is in the midst of shooting the second season of Bad Sisters with her Garvey siblings played by Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle and Eve Hewson. “We were all like,...

Acclaimed filmmaker Lulu Wang hops to the small screen this week with Expats on Prime and she dropped by the podcast to tell us all about it. Plus we witness Sofía Vergara breaking bad as a cartel boss Griselda Blanco in Netflix's Griselda, revisit London's '90s criminal underworld in Sexy Beast on Paramount+, and rejoin Vicky McClure's bomb squad in the return of Trigger Point on ITV.

But that's not all, because the gang talk about the ups and downs of this year's Emmys (#justiceforBetterCallSaul) and Boyd and Kay once again try (and fail) to get James to care about The Traitors.

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Plot: Gal Dove and Don Logan are best friends and small-town thieves living the good life in ‘90s East London. Deedee Harrison is a captivating adult film star whose ambitions to control her own personal destiny and her love affair with Gal Dove put her in danger. Teddy Bass is a treacherous, rising name in the gangster world who seduces Gal and Don into his criminal web.

Review: Of all the films I never expected to get a prequel, Sexy Beast would never have occurred to me. The 2001 crime movie, director Jonathan Glazer’s feature debut, focused on a pair of former friends whose lives have drifted apart since they were thieves working for a London crime boss. That film was barely a blip at the domestic box office but garnered critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for Sir Ben Kingsley. Since Sexy Beast, screenwriters Louis Mellis and David Scinto...

In the upcoming episode of “Sexy Beast,” Season 1 Episode 3 titled “Won’t Soon Forget This,” viewers are in for a thrilling ride as the plot thickens and characters face the consequences of their actions. Gal, having successfully completed both jobs, finds himself torn over trust issues, sparking a quest for answers that promises to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

Meanwhile, Deedee discovers that her safety hangs in the balance if she fails to fulfill her contract, adding a layer of suspense to the narrative. Simultaneously, Cecilia’s control over Don takes a dark turn, introducing a gripping element that adds depth to the storyline.

Tune in at 11:00 Pm on Monday, January 29, 2024, on Showtime to witness the drama unfold in “Sexy Beast.” With a mix of suspense, trust dilemmas, and unforeseen consequences, this episode is sure to deliver an intense and captivating viewing experience.

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Get ready for another thrilling episode of “Sexy Beast” airing on Showtime on Monday, January 29, 2024, at 10:00 Pm. In the upcoming episode titled “Donny Donny Donny,” Gal and Don find themselves facing a new job after leaving a lasting impression on Teddy with their skills. However, the duo quickly realizes that the task at hand is far from a walk in the park.

As Gal grapples with challenges closer to home, Deedee, on the other hand, forges a new connection that could potentially provide her with an escape route from her precarious situation. With the tension rising and unexpected twists in store, “Sexy Beast” continues to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Don’t miss this captivating episode, where the stakes are high, and the characters are drawn deeper into a world filled with intrigue and suspense.

Release Date & Time: 10:00 Pm Monday 29 January 2024 on Showtime

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Get ready for an adrenaline-fueled premiere of “Sexy Beast” with Season 1 Episode 1 titled “More,” airing on Showtime at 9:00 Pm on January 29, 2024. The series kicks off with a high-stakes scenario as successful thieves Gal and Don, fresh from a triumphant raid, find themselves recommended for an even bigger job by the enigmatic Teddy Bass.

As the duo contemplates the prospect of the grand heist, tensions rise, particularly when it comes to making a crucial decision. While Don is eager to plunge into the next daring escapade, Gal hesitates, creating a rift that puts their partnership to the ultimate test. The premiere promises a thrilling blend of action, suspense, and the complexities of loyalty and trust.

Join the suspenseful journey of “Sexy Beast” as it unfolds with “More” at 9:00 Pm, offering a glimpse into the high-stakes world of heists and the intricate dynamics between partners in crime.

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Hallmark’s megahit The Way Home returns this week, continuing the time-traveling tale of the Landy family as they pick up the pieces after multiple family tragedies.

The World War II drama Masters of the Air, from the same people who brought you Band of Brothers and The Pacific, begins on Apple TV+ this week, and it’s a masterpiece.

You can also find a couple of crime-related series with Netflix’s Griselda and Paramount+’s Sexy Beast. See more about our recommendations for what to watch this week below!

Saturday, January 20

Betty’s Bad Luck in Love (Hallmark)

Laci J Mailey and Marco Grazzini star in this new original romantic movie.

Cursed from childhood to fail at romance, Betty's relationships have always ended in disaster.

But when she meets Alex, she's tempted to try once more. Can true love prevail over a curse?

8/7c Dying in Plain Sight (Lifetime...

“Sexy Beast” is the new prequel TV series,, from director Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 crime thriller, streaming January 25, 2024 on Paramount+:

“…’Sexy Beast’ traces the origins of best friends ‘Gal Dove’ (James McArdle) and ‘Don Logan’ (Emun Elliott), two thieves navigating London’s criminal underworld during the 1990’s.

“The duo will cross paths with ‘DeeDee Harrison’ (Sarah Greene), an adult star who begins a love affair with Gal, and ‘Teddy Bass’ (Stephen Moyer), a crime boss who recruits Gal and Don to work for his empire…”

Additional cast members include Tamsin Greig, Eliza Bennett, Ralph Brown, John Dagleish, Peter Ferdinando, Nitin Ganatra, Robbie Gee, Alice Bailey Johnson, Paul Kaye, David Kennedy, Cally Lawrence, Clea Martin, Nicholas Nunn, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Lex Shrapnel.

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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s historical drama that was inspired loosely by Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name set outside the walls of Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

The A24 film has been a critical smash since its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix and Fipresci prizes and was in the running for the Palme d’Or that was eventually won by Anatomy of a Fall.

The pic, which made the Oscar shortlist as the UK’s submission for this year’s International Feature race, hit U.S. theaters with a qualifying run in December and just had a screening at the United Nations. It marks Glazer’s first feature film in a decade – since the Scarlett Johansson-starring sci-fi drama Under The Skin in 2013. His...