On our RADAR
STREAMING:
Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Weds, February 21, Disney +
In this epic final season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the Batch will have their limits tested in the fight to reunite with Omega as she faces challenges of her own inside a remote Imperial science lab. With the group fractured and facing threats from all directions, they will have to seek out unexpected allies, embark on dangerous missions, and muster everything they have learned to free themselves from the Empire. Star Wars: The Bad Batch features a talented voice-cast, including Dee Bradley Baker, Keisha Castle-hughes and Wanda Sykes.
STREAMING:
Constellation, Weds, February 21, Apple TV +
In this limited series, Noomi Rapace ( Alien: Prometheus) plays an astronaut who returns to earth after a space disaster and finds her home life in tatters. This action-packed space adventure is an exploration of the dark edges of human psychology, and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel, while also attempting to recover all that she has lost. Jonathan Banks and James D’arcy co-star.
STREAMING:
My Son, Tues, February 20, Netflix
James Mcavoy and Claire Foy star in this remake of a successful French crime drama about two parents searching for their kidnapped son in the Scottish Highlands. The twist in this missing-person drama is that, as in the original, the male lead is flying blind without a script or dialogue, improvising as the action unfolds. Mcavoy plays a man whose seven-year-old son goes missing, presumably kidnapped from a campsite, and his desperate search for answers sends him to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives.
PODCAST:
Hollywood Exiles
Host Oona Chaplin guides listeners through the period in America known as the Red Scare – an ideological battle that implicated Hollywood’s biggest stars, including her grandfather, Charlie. Charlie Chaplin helped to create the movie industry with the success of his Little Tramp persona. He was one of Hollywood’s first and greatest stars. But he was shunned as a communist and by the 1960s, he was exiled. Was it because of his politics? Guest interviewees include Geraldine Chaplin and Mitzi Trumbo, daughter of Dalton (one of The Hollywood Ten).
RADIO:
People Fixing The World, Tues, February 20, BBC World Service Barcelona is famous for its beautiful streets, lined with tall apartment buildings. But the architecture is a problem for many people who have lived for years in upstairs apartments and now find the stairs unmanageable. A group of volunteers have decided to do something about this and invented a special wheelchair which can be used to take people up and down stairs with ease.