The TV Guide

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- with James Croot

The Pod Generation (Neon and other rental services)

Debuting at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, this sci-fi-infused, not-sodistant-future-set romantic-comedy sees Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a couple who are offered the opportunit­y to expand their family via detachable artificial wombs and pods. “A wickedly funny and fun, if disconcert­ing, film that arrives right on time for our age of ChatGPT and artificial intelligen­ce doomerism,” wrote

The New York Times’ Brandon Yu.

Boy Swallows Universe (Netflix)

Adapted from Trent Dalton’s critically­acclaimed 2018 novel of the same name, this comingof-age story is set in 1980s Brisbane. With a lost father, mute brother, recovering addict mother, heroin dealer stepfather and a notorious criminal for a babysitter, Eli Bell (Felix Cameron) is just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way. Veteran Australian actors Bryan Brown, Anthony LaPaglia, Simon Baker, Travis Fimmel and Deborah Mailman also feature.

The Brothers Sun (Netflix)

When the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is shot by a mysterious assassin, his eldest son, legendary killer Charles ‘Chairleg’ Sun (Justin Chien) heads to Los Angeles to protect his mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), and his naive younger brother, Bruce (Sam Song Li) – who has been sheltered from the truth of his family, until now. But as Taipei’s deadliest societies and a new rising faction go head-to-head for dominance – Charles, Bruce and their mother must heal the wounds caused by their separation, before one of their countless enemies kills them all. The eightepiso­de series is billed as both an action-packed comedy and a family drama.

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