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New Movies and TV November 2021
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Respect
Based on the life and times of Aretha Franklin, the woman who would come to be known all over the world as the undisputed Queen of Soul, this story follows her beginnings back to when she'd first come onto the music scene as a singer in the choir at her father's church when she was a young girl growing up in Detroit. Following many difficulties in her adult life, due to bad marriages and other unwise choices, she still managed to keep contributing her natural talent to the music world, becoming one of the art's most recognizable voices, and producing songs that would be known and enjoyed by many generations. | |
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My Salinger Year
Set in the 1990s, a young woman quits college and moves from California to New York City. An aspiring writer, she hustles her way into a job with an old-school literary agency that represents the American classic writer J.D. Salinger, author of A Catcher in the Rye. Her job is strictly secretarial and involves answering the fan mail of Salinger with a boilerplate form letter. The young woman gets into big legal and ethical trouble when she decides to start skipping the form letter to compose her own answers to Salinger's fans without the author's prior approval. | |
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Candyman
Candyman is a horror/thriller movie that is a sequel to the original movie of the same name. The antagonist returns to the Chicago neighborhood where he first wreaked havoc to the new gentrified area. In the sequel artist Anthony McCoy, who was kidnapped by Candyman as a youth, learns of the urban legend that he plans to use as inspiration for his art. As he becomes enveloped in the legend of Candyman, he finds himself being surrounded by mysterious murders that all seem to link to him as the prime suspect. This culminates into a final faceoff with Candyman. | |
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Paw Patrol: The Movie
The Paw Patrol is back and ready for action! When the notorious Mayor Humdinger takes over nearby Adventure City and begins to cause chaos, Ryder and his team of pups are called in to help save the city. Armed with new crime-stopping gadgets and gear, the pups can take on some of their most exciting and nail-biting rescues yet. With the assistance of familiar friends and a clever dachshund named Liberty, the Paw Patrol is on a roll to save Adventure City! | |
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Pig
Rob, a recluse living alone and off the grid in the Oregon woods, leads a contented life with his truffle-hunting pet, Pig, and occasional visits from Amir, Rob's sole customer. But when Pig is kidnapped from his house in the middle of the night, Rob and Amir set out for Portland to hunt down the culprit and find his prized pet. While Rob searches for the kidnappers to exact his revenge, he is also forced to confront his past and a heartbreak that he cannot seem to escape. | |
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Prisoners Of The Ghostland
In Prisoners of the Ghostland, a notorious criminal named Hero goes to a supernatural universe, Ghostland, to rescue a girl, Bernice. Ghostland is a macabre mixture of samurai, western and wasteland settings. Bernice is the governor's daughter and Hero is wearing small bombs that will explode if he tries to harm her during the rescue attempt. At stake is Hero's freedom from prison where he was serving time for a bank robbery. | |
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Four Good Days
Based on a 2016 Washington Post article, "How's Amanda" covering the lives and realities of American addiction, A young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days straight. Based on a true story, follow this emotional journey as 31-year-old Molly enlists the help of her estranged mother Deb to help her when she needs her most. Deb accepts after years of disappointment in one last desperate attempt to save her daughter from heroin. | |
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Reminiscence
Nick Bannister is the most private of investigators, digging up memories from the minds of his clients. Living in a sunken Miami threatened by rising sea levels, he accepts a job that will change everything. The woman who hires him for a seemingly simple task soon becomes the love of his life. However, once she vanishes, Nick sets out on an unexpected and dangerous journey through Miami's underground to find her. Along the way, he stumbles across revelations that show he may not have known his love as well as he thought. | |
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Coming Home In The Dark
A school teacher named Hoaggie and his wife, Jill, decide to take their two sons to the countryside for the day. While enjoying their time together, the family is approached out of the blue by what appear to be two drifters. One of the men, Mandrake, has a gun and describes himself as a magician who makes things disappear. The other, Tubs, allows Mandrake to do all of the talking. The family learns that the men have tracked them down to confront Hoaggie about his past and a brutal act that took place in his youth. Seeking justice, the men have decided to take the family on a terror-filled, long-distance road trip... | |
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Come True
Troubled high-school student, Sarah, finds her problems growing dangerous after she runs away from home. Estranged from her mother, she struggles to survive while dealing with frightening recurring nightmares. Sarah is offered the opportunity to participate in a dream study in exchange for a place to sleep and some much-needed cash. What starts out as a turn of good fortune quickly draws her into a dark descent to a world where dreams and reality blur into one. Alone and afraid, Sarah searches for someone to trust as the horrors of her nightmares become a terrifying reality. | |
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Old Henry
Old Henry is a western film focused on a widowed farmer named Henry and the dangerous situation he finds himself in. When an injured man named Curry shows up on his farm carrying a bag of cash, he and his son, Wyatt, decide to take him in despite their misgivings. It isn't long before three men arrive in Curry's wake and it becomes necessary for Henry to decide who the enemy is. As he sets out to defend his farm and his child, his skill with a gun offers up more questions than answers for everyone involved. | |
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Caveat
Isaac is a drifter who suffers from amnesia about parts of his past. When his old landlord, Moe Barrett, offers him a job as caretaker for Moe's niece, Olga, he agrees to the opportunity. Olga lives alone on a remote island in an abandoned house. Moe informs Isaac that he can only take the job if he agrees to wear a harness that restricts his movements. Alone with Olga, Isaac soon discovers that something horrific is happening inside of the house. With his life in danger, Isaac's missing memories might be the only thing that can save him... if he can remember in time. | |
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The Banishing
Dark secrets begin to reveal themselves when a reverend, Linus, moves his family into an English rectory with a terrifying hidden past. Linus and Marianne's already strained marriage turns dangerous when a stranger, Harry, enters their lives. Harry has mysterious knowledge of long-kept secrets about the couple's young daughter, Adelaide. As more dangerous secrets are revealed, Harry pleads with Marianne to take her daughter and flee the rectory in fear for their lives. Her worst fears are realized when she finds her daughter missing and must confront the supernatural forces that have been holding the rectory hostage. | |
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Raging Fire
The Regional Crime Unit's Senior Inspector Cheung Sung-bong has a stellar history of cracking big cases and risking his life on the front line. Yet, few of his colleagues wish to work with him because he behaves conservatively and self-righteously. Cheung's former protege, Yau Kong-ngo, always respected him and eventually became like him. Eventually, Cheung discovered that Yau beat to death a suspect during a high-profile kidnapping of a bank tycoon five years ago. He testified against Yau, which resulted in Yau going to prison. At present, deeply involved with criminal enterprises, Yau swears to have his revenge against his former mentor. | |
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Malignant
Madison Mitchell started experiencing visions. These visions are terrifying as they portray horrific murders. What does this have to do with Madison? She discovers that her visions began to portray reality. Somehow she must stop the killer and try to save her own life. Madison must dig into her past and face her nightmares to stay alive. The visions continue to haunt her. Who will be murdered next, and what can she do to stop it? | |
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The Crown: Season Four
As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing an appropriate bride for Prince Charles, who is still unmarried at 30. As the nation begins to feel the impact of divisive policies introduced by Britain's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, tensions arise between her and the Queen which only grow worse as Thatcher leads the country into the Falklands War. While Charles’ romance with a young Lady Diana Spencer provides a much-needed fairytale to unite the British people, behind closed doors, the Royal Family is becoming increasingly divided.
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American Experience: Citizen Hearst
By the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst controlled the largest media empire in the country: 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations, and 13 magazines. He used his communications stronghold to achieve political power unprecedented in the industry, then ran for office himself.
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DC's Legends Of Tomorrow: The Complete Sixth Season
Having spent last season trying to track down the Loom of Fate, the Legends must now save history from a foe like none they’ve encountered in the past or future. Waverider co-captains Sara Lance and Ava Sharpe have dealt with monsters, time anomalies, and most recently, villains from Hell, but this season they will face something even more challenging and bizarre ... space aliens! After one of their own is abducted by a ruthless alien, this new mission becomes personal. It will take more than the combined powers of John Constantine, Mick Rory, Nate Heywood, and brother-sister duo, Zari and Behrad Tarazi, to save the world for a sixth time. They must recruit a new Legend, a woman who was abducted by aliens when she was a child and supposedly imbued with powers that will help the team defeat their intergalactic foes. Either that or she’s just crazy... |
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Snowpiercer: The Complete Second Season
At the end of season one, the survivors of the revolution are trying to pick up the pieces and maintain a fragile peace amongst the now merged classes with Layton (Daveed Diggs) emerging as the train’s leader. Discovering Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean) is alive and headed their way on a rival train, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) risks going outside to prevent him from invading Snowpiercer. While she’s out there, it’s revealed that Alexandra (Rowan Blanchard), Melanie’s daughter, who she thought had died, is alive and has become Wilford’s dedicated protegee. In season two, an entirely new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalty to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing. While Layton battles Wilford for the soul of Snowpiercer, Melanie leads the charge on a shocking new discovery that could change the fate of humanity.
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Grantchester: Season 6
Rev. Will Davenport is at odds with his own ideals when Leonard Finch is caught up in a scandal. It will take all of Will's skill and empathy to navigate the choppy waters and help the ones he loves.
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Emily In Paris: Season 1
Emily in Paris is a new comedy-drama series, recently renewed for a second season, revolving around Emily Cooper, a social media strategist who spontaneously moves from Chicago to Paris for work. Her job is the difficult task of adding an American perspective to a French marketing firm, creating a culture shock that manages to be both dramatic and humorous. The show features a love interest and budding friendships with the new people she meets in Paris, and it takes every opportunity it can to show the beautiful sights of Paris, brought to your streaming device. | |
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Baptiste: Season 2
Julien Baptiste delves into Budapest’s corrupt underworld to find a British ambassador’s family who go missing on a skiing holiday in the Hungarian mountains. Ambassador Emma Chambers is thrust into the crosshairs of Baptiste’s most complex case to date, as the detective navigates an untrustworthy Hungarian police force and international media interest as he hunts for her husband and two sons.
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Kung Fu: The Complete First Season
A young Chinese American woman is forced to make a life changing decision and travels to a remote Shaolin temple in China where she learns their values as well as hones her martial arts skills. After the assassination of her mentor, she returns to her home in San Francisco to try and learn the identity of the assassin who is now targeting her. At the same time, she uses her skills to protect her community from crime, corruption, and the influence of the Triad. | |
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