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High School: Key Information • An adaptation of Tegan and Sara Quinn's memoir, High School • Directed by Happiest Season writer/director Clea DuVall • Railey and Seazynn Gilliland, who found fame on TikTok, play the sisters • MCU star Cobie Smulders plays the pair's mother • Eight half-hour episodes •First four episodes debut on Amazon Freevee on October 14, then once a week for the remaining four Almost all teen dramas focus on the more salacious side of high school. They're bright, glossy, vibrant and often a cruel look into the minds of teenagers. Their creators are able to use the recklessness and violence of adolescence to make wild decisions seem entirely plausible, making for great entertainment in the process.  Whether it's current favorite, Do Revenge , which riffs on Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train in a story where two high-schoolers plot to destroy those who have wronged them, or classics such as She's All That or Mean Girls, ever...

The Playlist: Key Information - Releases on Netflix on October 13 - Directed by Per-Olav Sørensen  - Written by Silk's Christian Spurrier - Made by the same company as Young Wallander for Netflix - Six episodes - Swedish with subtitles and US dubbing available - Vikings' Edvin Endre and The Last Kingdom's Christian Hillborg take key roles We're so used to seeing real-life sagas turned into prestige television now that whenever a political scandal, shocking court case, or the demise of a conglomerate plays out, many of us are already casting the drama to come in our minds as the events unfold. The unspoken rule about waiting years for all sides of a story to be told no longer applies.  Elizabeth Holmes has yet to be sentenced for her crimes in the scandal about Theranos, but she's already had her own miniseries with Hulu's The Dropout . Anna Delvey is still in prison for her widescale fraud, but her infamy has already been put on screen with Inventi...

It’s hard to imagine a director who has taken as much delight in the size and scale of his movies as Roland Emmerich does. Even now, at the age of 66, the German director continues to be attracted by only the biggest of canvasses.  His taste for scale has been there since his earliest days.  Even on his 1984 feature film debut, Das Arche Noah Prinzip, aka The Noah's Ark Principle, Emmerich managed to make the most expensive student film ever made. He raised 1.2 million German marks (around US$600,000, a lot of money back in 1984) to pull it off.  Most of Emmerich's fellow students at the The University of Television and Film Munich scraped together about 20,000 marks for their film, just over 1% of what Emmerich ended up putting on the table. He used the cash to create a sci-fi epic set about a space station whose crew are battling for Earth's very survival. His talent for scale and his uncanny ability to persuade producers to part with large amounts of money have serv...