Colman Domingo, action star? Believe it or not, that’s what Netflix‘s “The Madness” has in store for subscribers later this month. It’s quite an about-face for the Oscar-nominated actor, but for those who’ve seen Domingo’s turns in “Zola” and “Drive-Away Dolls,” maybe it’s not so surprising?

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But those roles were villainous and broadly comedic.

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Two Jamaican-Canadian brothers hailing from Scarborough, a neighborhood in Toronto, look up at a soaring transmission tower. The older sibling Francis (Aaron Pierre, “The Underground Railroad”) explains to his younger brother Michael (Lamar Johnson, “The Hate U Give”) that the higher you climb, the more the reverberations of the electricity buzz and shake you. If you make one false move, it can instantly fry you.

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No other category has seen contenders come and go this season than Supporting Actress. Granted, fans of Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”) are no doubt champing at the bit that their icon may finally breakthrough with an expected eighth nomination. And Ellen Burstyn (“Pieces of a Woman”) could earn her seventh at the age of 87. But “Ammonite’s” Saoirse Ronan? Gone.

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