At The Movies

Kate (Netflix)
After she’s irreversibly poisoned, a ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims. Kate featuring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Miku Martineau is streaming with subscription on Netflix. Kate is a high action, emotional film. The progression of Kate's appearance throughout the film is just a beautiful plot device to drive the story and I the viewer can appreciate that she didn't need to look sexy in every shot.
 

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Vacation Friends (Hulu)
Marcus and Emily enjoy an unusual week without inhibitions when they meet new friends on vacation, but they are horrified when Ron and Kyla show up uninvited to their wedding. John Cena delivers his second rib-tickling performance of the year after Suicide Squad in this delightful holiday comedy featuring a soon to be married couple encountering a wacky and clearly off-the-rails couple on a vacation. Lil Rel Howery is a riot as the beleaguered boyfriend trying desperately to show his fiancée (played by Yvonne Orji) a good time, only for Cena and his equally crazy wife (Meredith Hagner) to repeatedly throw a spanner into the works.
 

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The Voyeurs (Prime Video)
Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment. They notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite - inviting them to witness the volatile relationship of the attractive couple across the street. But when they attempt to anonymously intercede in their lives, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events leading to deadly consequences. The Voyeurs featuring Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith is streaming with subscription on Prime Video.
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Farrah Abraham is ready to go back to her MTV roots, signing on to join a new Teen Mom spin-off series, although the reality TV personality has yet to publicly confirm her latest project. The 30 year old star is currently filming with other Teen Mom Og and Teen Mom 2 cast members.

“I just want my life back,” Britney Spears says at the beginning of the trailer for the Netflix documentary Britney vs. Spears (dropping September 28). The documentary takes a look at the conservatorship that led to the #FreeBritney movement: In 2008, her father, Jamie Spears, became conservator of her estate and in charge of decisions about everything from her finances to her health.

Cynthia Nixon led tributes to her Sex and the City co-star Willie Garson, following his tragic death. Shortly after news of his death broke, celebrities flooded to social media to share their memories of the screen star, with Cynthia among the first.

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Melvin Van Peebles, the pioneering African-American auteur behind the 1970s films Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, has died. He was 89. Van Peebles, the father of actor director Mario Van Peebles, died at his home in Manhattan.

Warner Bros. is charting an earlier return to the world of J.K. Rowling. The newly titled Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore will open globally on April 15, 2022, moving up three months from its previous July 15, 2022 date.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will land on Disney+ on November 12 as part of the upcoming Disney+ Day.

Variety has learned Kathryn Hahn is attached to play Joan Rivers in The Comeback Girl, a limited series in development at Showtime, produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment and Berlanti Productions.

A Pitch Perfect series has been ordered at Peacock with Adam Devine onboard to reprise his role from the film franchise.

Paramount+’s revival of Rugrats is getting a second season. New episodes for the current first season will return on Oct. 7, which will include a Halloween special.