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As “Cha Cha Real Smooth” approaches its release this Friday on AppleTV+, it’s safe to say that Cooper Raiff’s social capital in Hollywood is surging. And the upstart director already has his next couple of projects lined up.

What’s the verdict on Colin Farrell‘s recent foray into television? On the one hand, there’s season two of “True Detective,” a let-down after the riveting first season; but that’s not Farrell’s fault. Then there’s the BBC “The North Water” from last year, an acclaimed but underseen miniseries with Farrell as the show’s vicious villain Henry Drax.

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has a lot of plates on the stove right now, from “Star Trek 4” to a live-action “Hotwheels” movie to numerous TV shows in development for HBO Max and AppleTV+.

Is Cooper Raiff the Millenial Richard Linklater? It’s a little too early to tell (and no one is anyone’s anything when it comes to those kinds of comparisons), but Raiff is without a doubt a filmmaker to watch. If his debut “Shithouse” winning the Best Narrative Feature prize at SXSW 2020 didn’t get people’s attention, his latest film’s Audience Award at Sundance this year certainly did.

Is Cooper Raiff the Millenial Richard Linklater? It’s a little too early to tell (and no one is anyone’s anything when it comes to those kinds of comparisons), but Raiff is without a doubt a filmmaker to watch. If his debut “Shithouse” winning the Best Narrative Feature prize at SXSW 2020 didn’t get people’s attention, his latest film’s Audience Award at Sundance this year certainly did.

Is past trauma ever really forgotten? “Now And Then,” a new bilingual, Miami-set thriller coming to AppleTV+, explores this question as a group of old college friends reckon with their tragic past decades later. READ MORE: The 70 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2022 Here’s the official synopsis from AppleTV+: “Now and Then” is a multi-layered thriller that explores the differences between youthful aspirations and the reality of adulthood, when the lives of a group of college best friends are forever changed after a celebratory weekend ends up with one of them dead.

One of the most anticipated series this spring is HBO’s “Winning Time,” a look at the 1980s LA Lakers Dynasty based on the book “Showtime” by Jeff Pearlman. With Adam McKay directing, that’s bound to be a rollicking comedic look at the Showtime era of Lakers basketball and its most familiar face, Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

Will Josephine Decker ever stop surprising us? While her style isn’t for everyone, there are a lot of devotees of Decker’s free-form, immersive, and deeply personal experimental dramas (including this writer). Her last film, 2020’s “Shirley,” a seethingly interior take on the biopic formula, won over critics at the Sundance Film Festival that year, who praised it as her most ambitious to date.

When it comes to modern television platforms, AppleTV+ seems determined to prove that less is more. In a medium long-dominated by episodic bloat, Apple’s has demonstrated a sustained preference for shorter seasons, even with its most popular comedies.

Odds are that most Playlist readers are not avid “Yo Gabba Gabba!” watchers. But in the ever-fragmented streamer landscape, picking a platform that has content for your kids is an increasingly important part of the equation.

Comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host Jon Stewart left “The Daily Show” in 2015, one year before Trump was elected into office and in retrospect, was that the worst timing of a TV host exit in the history of the medium? In the meantime, Stewart’s done activism (helping out 9/11 families get what they’re owed and pressuring congress) and directing films (2020’s political satire “Irresistible“).

Few performers manage to maintain a high profile in the public eye and are as coveted by filmmakers as Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Back in 2010, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was in a professional rut. “I wanted to be creative, and no one was letting me,” he said of that time.

Last year, “Ted Lasso” was simply an under-the-radar comedy about a character invented for a TV commercial. But after turning into a surprise hit with critics and audiences alike, it returns to the pitch for a second season as one of Apple TV+’s headliners.

In Apple TV+’s deliciously dark comedy “Physical,” central protagonist Sheila Rubin, played brilliantly and compassionately by Rose Byrne, transforms from a San Diego housewife trying to make ends meet to the head of an incredibly lucrative and influential video aerobics empire.

Right when you thought Apple TV+ had enough remarkable projects on their upcoming slate to fill their content slots for the next few years, think again. Rebecca Ferguson has now been tapped to star in an Apple TV+ series adaptation of Hugh Howey’s dystopian future novel “Wool.” READ MORE: Summer TV Preview: Over 40 Series To Watch Originally published online as a standalone short story, “Wool” tells the story of a climate-corrupted future.

Nostalgia for the ’80s milieu isn’t precisely a cutting-edge trope in Hollywood and TV. Movies have parrotted and expanded upon the decade’s music, fashion, and general ambiance for decades now, well before recent examples like the third season of “Stranger Things” and “Wonder Woman 1984.” There’s a reason for that: ’80s style is so audacious, eye-catching, and versatile it’s tailor-made for visual media.

A review of Peter Weir‘s classic 1980s drama, “The Mosquito Coast” starring Harrison Ford—about an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, who decides to escape with his wife and children to the jungles of South America to start over— on Letterboxed humorously describes the film as, about “a fine-ass Libertarian mad scientist who brings ice to Belize.” That’s a little reductive but does speak to the nature of how relevant “The Mosquito Coast” is

At only 19-years-old, pop singer Billie Eilish has already experienced the level of high-pressure stardom, all-eyes-on-her success that most pop stars take decades to accrue. As the internet and entertainment world at large reawaken to the toxic culture surrounding celebrity in the wake of the “Framing Britney Spears,” there’s no better moment to take another scrutinizing eye to the way female artists are treated in the unforgiving, over-sexualizing music industry.

M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological horror series for AppleTV “The Servant” was a curious affair, in that, it ended with one of his trademark twists, and a creepy ellipsis, almost as if he took a movie idea of his and turned it into a limited series.

Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and the world’s leading supermodels is headed to AppleTV+.The Supermodels will feature interviews with Campbell, Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington, who will all executive produce the project, alongside Brian Grazer and Ron Howard.Directed by Barbara Kopple, the show will revisit the careers of the four stars and how they impacted the world of fashion in the 1990s.

Jennifer Aniston seriously considered walking away from Hollywood before landing TV hit The Morning Show after a horrible experience on an “unprepared project”.The Friends star made her return as a small screen regular on the Apple TV+ drama series last year (2019), and she admits her Emmy-nominated role as a breakfast show newswoman saved her from quitting showbusiness altogether.Aniston shared the surprising news during an interview with her actor pals Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean

Jennifer Aniston found some comfort starring as morning show host Alex Levy in her latest role.The actress, 51, opened up in an interview with the Los Angeles Times about her role on Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, explaining she found playing a character who is hounded by the press and has her personal life picked apart by the public “cathartic”.“That show was 20 years of therapy wrapped into 10 episodes,” she quipped.

Martin Scorsese has signed an overall deal to create content for Apple TV+.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-winner’s Sikelia Productions firm is now locked into a film and TV deal with the tech behemoth, meaning he will develop his projects for Apple’s TV+ streaming platform.The deal comes after Scorsese’s longtime collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio signed a similar deal with Apple, and both formalize a relationship beginning with the feature film Killers of the Flower Moon, starring D

Leonardo DiCaprio has signed a first-look deal with Apple TV to create new series and movies.The deal between The Wolf of Wall Street star’s Appian Way production firm expands their relationship beyond the film Killers of the Flower Moon and the TV series Shining Girls, which he is already producing for the tech giant’s streaming service, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Apple reportedly paid $200 million for Killers of the Flower Moon – a movie which reunites DiCaprio with director Martin

Tom Hanks’ new war movie Greyhound has shattered opening weekend viewing records at streaming service Apple TV+.The film, which Hanks wrote and stars in as a U.S.