Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to watch? Well, whatever you want, of course, but the name of this website is Literary Hub, so we sort of have an angle. To that end, here’s a selection of the best (and most enjoyably bad) literary film and TV coming to streaming services this month.
Have fun. based on by Colin O’Sullivan (2018) Rashida Jones stars in Apple TV’s latest SF offering as an American woman living in a near-future Kyoto; after her son and husband ( ‘s Hidetoshi Nishijima) die in a plane crash. But something, she realizes, is not as it seems—especially after one of her husband’s colleagues appears at her door with gift: a domestic robot named Sunny.
It’s giving x , and I will watch. based on by Leonie Frieda (2003) Season two of Starz’s sardonic series about Catherine de Medici premieres this month, bringing with it a new enemy: Minnie Driver (nearly unrecognizable) as Elizabeth I. Fun! based on by Daniel P.
Mannix (1958; republished in 2001 as ) An 86-year-old Anthony Hopkins dons a toga as the Roman Emperor Vespasian in this sword-and-sandal epic based on Mannix’s non-fiction book—the very same volume that inspired Ridley Scott’s (which is for some reason getting a sequel this fall, 24 years later, starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, and Derek Jacobi—what?). All .
