There are some movies where the theatrical release feels like the main event. Primetime is not quite one of them for me. The September 25, 2026 cinema release is obviously a big deal, especially after the film’s Venice premiere, but the question I keep seeing everywhere is much simpler: When can I actually watch this…
There are performances that quietly hold a movie together, and then there are performances that walk into a scene, start shouting, and completely change the temperature. Bokeem Woodbine’s Chief Cortland Gunn in Primetime belongs firmly in the second category. A24’s Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheim, is one of those movies that seems almost designed to…
There is something deeply uncomfortable about Primetime, and honestly, that is probably what makes the movie work. A24’s 2026 psychological crime thriller does not simply bring back the world of To Catch a Predator and the internet-era legend of Chris Hansen. It drags the whole thing out from behind the meme, the famous catchphrases and…
There are movies where the “based on a true story” label feels like a marketing trick. Primetime is not one of them. The new A24 psychological thriller starring Robert Pattinson pulls from a very real and deeply uncomfortable chapter of American television history: the rise of To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen, Dateline NBC, and…
There are true-crime shows that feel like polished reenactments, and then there are shows that make you forget you are watching a dramatization at all. American Hostage looks like it wants to belong firmly in the second category. The new MGM+ psychological thriller arrives on September 20, 2026, with Jon Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi at…
If you’re the kind of viewer who can lose an entire evening to a good true-crime story, American Hostage is almost tailor-made to grab your attention. The premise sounds like something a screenwriter invented after watching too much late-night news: a radio reporter gets caught in the middle of a hostage crisis, and the hostage-taker…
There is something almost tailor-made for Ryan Murphy about the Lizzie Borden case. A wealthy Victorian family, a house filled with resentment, an infamous double murder, a daughter who was acquitted despite becoming permanently associated with the crime, and a mystery that has survived for more than a century. So when Netflix decided to make…