Streaming Wednesday, July 15:
Lucky — After a robbery goes wrong, con artist Anya Taylor-Joy has to go on the run from both the FBI and a pissed-off crime boss (Annette Bening). She’d better hope the feds find her first, because nobody should be forced to watch Town & Country over and over again. (Apple TV)
Ride or Die — Best friends Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham find their relationship tested when the former learns the latter is a highly paid hit lady. The issue isn’t a clash of moralities, but Octavia knowing in her heart of hearts that if the shoe were on the other foot, she’d be making 15 percent less. (Prime Video)
The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On — The Season 4 cast of commitment-phobic cuties and their impatient partners includes Jessica Grace, a realtor and former Charlotte Hornets dancer who refuses to have kids with boyfriend Edris until they get married. OK, I’ll bite: Where does the “ultimatum” part come in? (Netflix)
Streaming Thursday, July 16:
The Hawk — Could it be that our long national nightmare is over and the era of the Will Ferrell sports comedy has returned? In this one, Mr. Toolshed plays a has-been PGA golfer who refuses to retire without completing the Grand Slam. Sounds like we’re in for some surreal fun, since any Denny’s customer worth their salt will tell you that retiring right after finishing a Grand Slam is gonna give you some weird-ass nightmares. (Netflix)
Streaming Friday, July 17:
23,000 Lives — An inspiring true story, well, inspired this timely drama about seafaring German kids who shirked law and convention to rescue refugees from the Mediterranean. “In hindsight, I’d tell ’em to opt for a staycation,” offers Greta Thunberg. (Netflix)
Desire — Dangerous complications are afoot for a married lawyer who dives into an affair with her daughter’s swimming coach. It would have ended a lot sooner, but her stupid husband believed her when she told him the active element in HTH is chlamydia. (Netflix)
The East Palace — A South Korean monarch tasks a swordsman and a medium with ridding his home of ghosts. First step is ordering them to flee to the nearest convenient parallel dimension that isn’t under martial law. (Netflix)
Hanzaisha — The nightmare isn’t over for the one man to walk away from a mass stabbing. Now he’s marked for death by the kingpins of an insidious conspiracy. Keeping him alive is the mission of two guardian angels whose respective vocations make them distinctly suited to the task: a cop and a former TV journalist, who — aaaand he’s dead. (Prime Video)
Heartstopper Forever — Nick and Charlie try to keep their long-distance relationship going in a feature that acts as an ersatz fourth and final season for the queer coming-of-age series. Sounds like somebody’s too impatient to follow the normal cycle, which is six seasons, a movie and finally admitting it all happened just because you were bored at camp. (Netflix)
The Map of Longing — Bereft after her sister passes away from leukemia, a Spanish woman discovers she’s been bequeathed a game to play that may hold the key to her moving on. I mean, I enjoy Cards Against Humanity too, but I can tell you “my sister’s piss-poor stem cells” only slays the room about 40 percent of the time. (Netflix)
Young Farts Trailer Parts — Two Canadian brothers run a business selling recovered RV parts in a comedy docuseries that was originally known as Trailer Trash. You know, just like Demi Moore! (Prime Video)
Streaming Monday, July 20:
King of the Hill — Season 15 shows Bobby finally doing the deed with Connie, while his parents adjust to the challenges of retired life, like learning to spot internet scams. But are they really the ones we have to worry about, given that their kid has apparently just fallen for some Laotian influencer’s long con? (Hulu)
Streaming Tuesday, July 21:
Bill Maher: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — Watch Louis C.K., Jay Leno and a bunch of other shameless, gutless toadies walk under the tarp together to honor Bill for speaking truth to power. And when I say “truth,” I mean “both-sidesism that just happens to fall more heavily on the less enfranchised.” And when I say “power,” I mean “everybody who keeps forgetting to cancel HBO.” (Netflix)
WWE: Unreal — Storylines in Season 3 include the writing staff’s quest to give a proper sendoff to the retiring John Cena. Given that the brilliant plan they came up with was to have the guy whose motto had been “Never give up” tap out to a sleeper hold, I’m wondering how they missed out on landing the gig as my divorce lawyers. (Netflix)
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