Streaming channels are often criticized as the place where content comes and goes; streamers sometimes just drop trailers at the last minute for content, and not a lot of care goes into their marketing. Sometimes. But if you’ve ever wanted to know how much Netflix cares about a certain piece of content, just look at “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and the reams of promotion they’ve put behind the series, including this third and final trailer.

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While there was a live-action movie, “The Last Airbender,” in 2010 from M. Night Shyamalan, the film never took off nor captured the spirit of the “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” animated series from Nickelodeon which has become a cult classic for specific audiences who grew up with it. After many years of development, Netflix has finally turned “Avatar: The Last Airbender” into an epic live-action fantasy series that fans are already clamoring about.

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Can a live-action series live up to its animated predecessor? Netflix is once again taking on a  beloved animated property with “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” The live-action project sees executive producer and original showrunner Albert Kim adapt the early ‘00s Nickelodeon title for a new generation of fans—all the while keeping an eye on what original fans are looking for in a new ‘Avatar’ series.

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The title of writer B.J. Novak’s new FX anthology series is essential to understanding its approach, and also its failure. One can easily picture a whiteboard in a writer’s room consisting of as many shocking “premises” as possible, ways to grab viewers in the first two minutes. There were probably phrases like “Butt Plug,” “Sex Tape,” and “Mass Shootings.” And every episode of “The Premise” does start with a hook.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

This week’s big, big new release roundup includes two high-profile winners at this year’s Oscars, the big winner at 1965’s Oscars, a handful of cult faves making their 4K debuts, a must-have box set for fans of low-budget genre fare, and catalog Blu-ray releases featuring such icons as Jackie Chan, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, and Snoopy.

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Space has always served as a vast, grand, and mysterious canvas for directors to paint and project their metaphorical journeys on. Much like the desert in Westerns, the journey through space is a deeply intimate and human one, often an exploration of the soul and the human condition when at its best. The Netflix drama “Stowaway” grapples with some of these ideas and questions of morality when a group of astronauts travel from Earth to Mars on a two-year voyage.

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Youtube musician-turned-director Joe Penna took the Cannes Film Festival by storm back in 2018 with his feature-length debut, “Arctic.” In that film, Mads Mikkelsen plays a pilot stranded in the arctic circle who embarks on a perilous rescue mission after a helicopter crash leaves an injured woman in his care. It’s a white-knuckle film despite its modest budget and barebones cast. And despite the expansive polar landscape, it’s also tense and claustrophobic and taps into the primal themes of survival at the brink of death.  

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Penna looks up to something similar in his next film, “Stowaway.” Instead of the far north’s barren chill, this time, Penna plunges his small cast into another vast and desolate landscape: outer space.

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Reigning Best Director Guillermo del Toro has had a number of projects languish in development hell over the course of his career, from H.P. Lovecraft adaptation “At The Mountains Of Madness” to a more faithful take on Disney’s “The Haunted Mansion” to a darker stop-motion “Pinocchio,” but none are more sorely missed by fans than the final sequel in his unfinished trilogy of “Hellboy” films.

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No one figured that, when it was announced that the “Hellboy” franchise was being rebooted, that it might turn into a key moment in the history of Hollywood, race and casting. Most people were just initially annoyed that Guillermo Del Toro wasn’t going to get to close his trilogy up. But then “Game Of Thrones” and “Deadpool” actor Ed Skrein was announced as playing a character called Major Ben Daimio, a Marine who can turn into a jaguar, and things went briefly ballistic.

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