SCREENING GUIDE
HARRY WILD Acorn TV
Acting icon Jane Seymour returns to the small screen in this wildly entertaining new murder-mystery series. Here, the former Bond girl and medicine woman stars as Harriet “Harry” Wild, a retiring university literature professor who turns amateur detective after stumbling into the middle of a police investigation into a gruesome murder. Each week a new mystery presents itself that she and her unlikely companion, a teen mugger, have to get to the bottom of.
OUR GREAT NATIONAL PARKS Netflix
Former American President Barack Obama narrates this fivepart nature documentary series that celebrates the planet’s greatest national parks and wild spaces. Visiting five continents, viewers experience the natural wonder of these astonishing places and the wildlife that calls them home.
ALL THE OLD KNIVES Amazon Prime Video
Chris Pine, the Star Trek movie’s Captain Kirk, beams down to earth for this glossy espionage romance. He stars as a veteran CIA operative tasked with digging out a mole who has been leaking sensitive information that has cost upwards of 100 lives. His investigation ultimately pairs him with his former colleague, and ex-lover, Celia Harrison, played by Thandiwe Newton. With the pair forced back together, will their passion trump their professionalism or will the mole get away?
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Neon
Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett lead the cast of this psychological thriller. Based on a 1946 novel of the same name — it’s about a man who runs away to join the circus. Once there he befriends a clairvoyant and her mentalist husband and learns the secrets of their act, which he then uses to grift wealthy patrons. Getting greedy, he plans a big con, which takes a nightmarish twist.