Disney+ announced today it would continue to build on the early success of its local original content with an exciting expansion of its 2024 Korean slate. This comes after a bumper 2023 that saw Korean originals Big Bet and Moving take home a steady stream of international awards and Moving becoming the most viewed local original of the year on the platform.   Today’s unveiling saw several newly announced titles join the company’s slate, including: Blood Free, Unmasked, The Tyrant, Gangnam B-Side, and The Zone: Survival Mission season 3, adding even greater anticipation to a year of local Disney+ releases...

Like his Night Swim character, Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) was a former athlete, one of the reasons director Bryce McGuire wanted him for the role of former baseball pro Ray Waller.    For the actor, being able to draw on his own experience as an athlete definitely helped his performance. “There are aspects of this character that obviously I’ve felt before, or seen in people I know, where you’re sort of losing your ability and sense of identity to injury,” says Russell, who played hockey on the amateur and professional levels for...

Bring on the feels, mushies! Whether you’re a hopeless romantic, a self-love advocate, or a justice warrior, Netflix has something for you no matter what you’re watching this Valentine’s Day. Warning: Sometimes the greatest love stories don’t always have happy endings, so grab your popcorn (or tissues, we don’t judge), snuggle up, and discover what’s next on your watchlist. Calling All Brave Hearts In love, sometimes the battlefield is literal. These titles feature fearless hearts that fight for love and justice. They say all is fair in love and war, and here, the two are intertwined. Damsel Kicking off this category is Damsel,...

Directed by Academy Award winner Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) from a script by David Hemingson (Kitchen Confidential), The Holdovers follows a grumpy instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a prestigious American school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them – a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) – and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).  The Holdovers has a 97% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. RogerEbert.com finds The...

The scale becomes even more epic as Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two picks up where 2021’s Dune left off. New characters sweep into the vast world, as the adventure sets off with even more stunning visuals and thrilling action sequences. Dune: Part Two continues the story of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), now away from his home and propelled by fate into an intergalactic power struggle. As he journeys with the Fremen people, he tries to gain their confidence with the support of Chani (Zendaya) and Stilgar (Javier Bardem). To prepare for their continuous revolt against the tyrannical Harkonnens, and to...