Marvel star Sebastian Stan gets steamy in new romance Monday
Here’s a collection of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Movies
• Sebastian Stan’s fans are getting a fair amount of him this spring on Disney+ in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. But for anyone looking for something outside Bucky Barnes and the Marvel universe, he’s also starring in the steamy new romance Monday, both in theatres and on video on demand starting Friday. Stan stars opposite Denise Gough as a pair of strangers who start an intense summer affair in Greece in director Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s film.
• If the Athens club scene is too intense for your pandemic addled brain, perhaps Sofia Coppola’s 2010 masterpiece Somewhere is more your speed. The mesmerizing and meditative film stars Stephen Dorff as a jaded movie star living in the tabloid-ridden Chateau Marmont who finds himself caring for his young daughter Cleo. Like all Coppola films, the sensational and glamorous setting is just a backdrop for her acutely observed and humane portrait of a father and daughter at a tender time in her life. It’s available to rent on iTunes.
• A modern and youthful spin on the Arthurian legend, writerdirector Joe Cornish’s The Kid Who Would Be King didn’t get enough attention or praise when it came out two years ago. But the family can get a chance to check it when it hits Disney+ on Friday. Andy Serkis’s son, the charming Louis Ashbourne Serkis, leads a charismatic British cast of fresh faces and veterans (including Patrick Stewart as “old” Merlin). I wrote in my review at the time that: “It’s an Amblin-esque movie about fantasy, geek culture and outcasts that’s actually been made for modern kids.” — Lindsey Bahr
Television
• The docuseries Shine True devotes each episode to a transgender or non-conforming individual who’s on a path of personal exploration, supported by mentors and family. Among them: Azul, who finds the “punk mariachi” within before the opening of their art show, and Juan, who connects with his feminine side with help from the Latinx community. The half-hour series, airing 10 p.m. Monday on the Fuse channel, is hosted by artist-activist Lucas Silveira and photographer Richie Shazam.
• Big Shot stars John Stamos as a hot-button NCAA basketball coach who’s bounced from the league and ends up coaching girls at an elite private high school. Will the tough guy acquire the sensitivity to connect with his teen players? Will students learn important lessons about the game and themselves? Odds are good on all counts with the Disney+ series, which co-stars Yvette Nicole Brown, Jessalyn Gilsig and Richard Robichaux. It debuts Friday.
• Kate Winslet stars in HBO’s limited series Mare of Easttown as a police detective investigating a murder possibly linked to a friend’s missing daughter. She’s also divorced and a bereaved parent in the crime-cum-human drama debuting Sunday. Julianne Nicholson co-stars as Mare’s longtime friend, with Jean Smart as her mom. Guy Pearce, who played opposite Winslet in HBO’s 2011 miniseries Mildred Pierce does so again in the Pennsylvania-set series.