‘Swagger’ TV Review: Coming-Of-Age Basketball Drama Nails The Fundamentals With Confidence & Charm

Jamie Lang Leading Italian sales agent and production company The Open Reel has dropped the trailer for up-and-coming Spanish director Jordi Núñez’s debut fiction feature “What We Know,” produced by Valencia’s Pegatum Transmedia, a coming-of-age tale which unravels on the brightly lit beaches of Southern Spain.“What We Know” follows Carla, a cute young waitress who works at a beach-side restaurant and takes care of her sick mother.

Teens in the 2000s were obsessed with boy bands. Hell, with groups like BTS, boy bands are still a hot commodity for the young folks.

tennis greats Venus Williams and Serena Williams when they were just a few (extremely) talented kids from Compton trying to break into the elite sport with little more than heart and persistence. Will Smith stars and produced.

Will Tizard ContributorWith a reputation for nuanced color tones and tweaks that may evoke a suffocating Buckingham Palace in “The Crown” or a ghostly time shift in “Last Night in Soho,” Asa Shoul, senior colorist at Warner Bros.

Alissa Simon Film CriticA poignant script, attractive production design and appealing performances bring something fresh to familiar coming-of-age tropes in “On the Water.” Estonia’s submission for the international feature Oscar, the film unfolds in rural Soviet Estonia in the early 1980s, during a pivotal year in the life of the shy teen protagonist that finds him slowly unlocking his potential.

For years now, people have considered Paolo Sorrentino one of the best filmmakers working today. And it would appear by the rave reviews from this year’s Venice Film Festival, “The Hand of God” might just be one of his best films yet.

Horror is one of the most subjective genres in all of film. In horror, one person’s trash can be another’s treasure.

Apple TV+ sports drama “Swagger” brought back memories from his childhood. “My father coached me when I was playing basketball as a youth, and I went on to coach my little brother. So, I know the nervousness before you walk into a gym, the sound of the ball echoing off the walls and the layup lines.

Joshua Alston Former NFL quarterback turned professional lightning rod Colin Kaepernick has a story uniquely well-suited to being adapted for a deep-pocketed prestige streamer like Netflix. Rather than fade into obscurity in the five years since he was last invited to join an NFL franchise, Kaepernick has become an even more potent (and still unlikely) symbol of America’s roots-deep racial injustice.

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticApple TV Plus’ greatest success so far has been “Ted Lasso,” a show about the power of teamwork and connection, with a group of athletes led by a somewhat unlikely coach seeking a bit of redemption.Its newest drama has all those elements, remixed and transplanted into a new context. “Swagger” is inspired by the early life of NBA superstar Kevin Durant, who serves as executive producer along with Brian Grazer and showrunner Reggie Rock Bythewood.

While the Marvel Studios films seem to be the biggest franchise on the planet right now, able to wrangle some of the best filmmakers working today, the MCU can’t hold a candle to the James Bond franchise when it comes to the caliber of filmmaker absolutely desperate to join. We’ve heard from folks like Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve, who have both made it abundantly clear they would jump at the chance to tackle 007.

Apple TV+ keeps launching big-budget dramas in the hope that one of them will take hold of viewers with the same strength as its Emmy-winning “Ted Lasso.” This year alone, there have been massive, star-studded productions like “The Mosquito Coast” and “Lisey’s Story,” and the general response from the populous has been a shrug.

Peacock has locked in the full cast for Last Light, a series adaptation based on Alex Scarrow’s bestselling apocalyptic thriller novel.

Tomris Laffly France’s heroic leader Charles de Gaulle might have lent his name to airports and famed metropolitan intersections as one of the previous century’s most pivotal political figures. But save for a TV film here and a documentary there, he surprisingly has never been granted a major biopic of his own before.