Hulu looks to get 2025 off to a strong start with “Paradise,” which features a cast full of Emmy winners and nominees, headlined by the always entertaining Sterling K. Brown.

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In the series, Brown plays Xavier Collins, a secret service agent who’s the last person to see the US President alive before his assassination.

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Another day, another buzzy project to hit the Cannes Market. Deadline reports that Adam Scott will have a package for his feature directorial debut for sale on the Croisette next month: “Double Booked,” a revenge thriller set to star Sterling K. Brown, Zazie Beetz, and Alexandria Daddario.  That’s a solid trio to frontline someone’s first film.

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Scott also stars in the project, about two couples forced to spend the night together as a blizzard traps them in a secluded cabin.

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“He’s changing the narrative.” The new comedy, “American Fiction,” features a wickedly sharp and bitingly funny premise. The feature-length directorial debut of Cord Jefferson, a producer and writer on acclaimed series such as “Watchmen,” “Station Eleven” and “Master Of None,” the film is adapted from Percival Everett’s “Erasure,” a brilliant indictment of the way modern culture handles race, a pointed satire about the commodification of marginalized voices and a writer forced to confront himself and his own creative integrity.

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“American Fiction” has quickly become the movie to watch in the awards season after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim, garnering the festival’s People’s Choice Award. The award has come to be seen as a precursor for Academy Award nominations. Since its inception in 1978, 42 TIFF People’s Choice Award winners have gone on to be nominated for a Best Picture or Best International Picture Academy Award, with 17 taking home a statue.

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If you’re going to spend the apocalypse with someone, you might as well do it with your BFF, right? Though that could potentially get really weird. That’s the premise of “Biosphere,” a new IFC Films movie that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and stars Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”) and Mark Duplass (“The One I Love,” “The Morning Show”).

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The end of the world seems to be a topic that will always be interesting to delve into in films and TV series. But most of those stories take place in the post-apocalypse with people scavenging for food and doing horrible things to stay alive. That’s not the post-apocalypse that is shown in the new film, “Biosphere.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Biosphere,” the film does take place in the post-apocalypse, but not in the way you might be expecting.

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**This review may contain some potential, unavoidable spoilers about the basics of “Biosphere.’ Spoilerphobes, please beware and return after you have seen the movie.**

A film like “Biosphere” poses a genuine conundrum for the film critic, who is tasked with the job of describing, in some detail, a film that counts among its best qualities the element of absurdist surprise. Its only plot description at the time of this writing, on the TIFF website (where it was added, quite close to the festival, as a “special surprise screening”), reads simply, “In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.” Well, that sounds like any number of science fiction pictures, while “in the not-too-distant future” recalls “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” The film itself falls somewhere in between.

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