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“The Perfect Couple” (TV-MA) – This mystery-drama series features quite the cast to bring author Elin Hilderbrand’s characters alive. Nicole Kidman stars as Greer Garrison Winbury, a novelist and the proud matriarch of her wealthy family. As her son, Benji, prepares to marry a woman named Amelia in an extravagant wedding, a body is suddenly discovered in Nantucket Harbor just before the ceremony is set to begin. With everyone in the wedding party now a suspect, the Winbury family gets put under a microscope, revealing secrets that Greer has been desperate to keep hidden. Liev Schreiber (“Asteroid City”), Dakota Fanning (“The Watchers”), and Meghann Fahy (“The White Lotus”) co-star in the six-episode series, premiering Sept. 5. (Netflix)
“A Quiet Place: Day One” (PG-13) – Academy-Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o leads this apocalyptic horror film, which co-stars Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”), Alex Wolff (“Hereditary”), and Djimon Hounsou (“A Quiet Place Part II”). Serving as a prequel to the two “A Quiet Place” films, this installment picks up in New York City during the first invasion of the blind extraterrestrial creatures that hunt humans with their exceptional hearing. A hospice patient named Sam (Nyong’o) first encounters these terrifying creatures while on an outing with her nurse, Reuben (Wolff). The creatures’ attack on the city forces the pair (along with Sam’s cat, Frodo) to enter survival mode and find a way to leave the island of Manhattan without accidentally signing their own death warrants. Out now to rent. (Amazon Prime Video)
Maika Monroe stars in “Longlegs.” (MovieStillsDB photo)
“Longlegs” (R) – This horror-thriller film grossed $101 million in the box office against a less-than-$10-million budget, making it the highest-grossing independent film of the year. Set in the 1990s, Maika Monroe (“God Is a Bullet”) plays FBI agent Lee Harker, who gets assigned to several murder-suicide cases occurring in Oregon. All of these murder cases resulted in a father killing his family, then himself, and a letter signed by Longlegs. As Lee and her supervisor William Carter (Blair Underwood) follow clues that lead them closer to the murderer, a strange connection from Lee’s childhood resurfaces, and she realizes that Longlegs might be closer to her than she originally thought. Alicia Witt (“Alice”) and the illustrious Nicolas Cage (“The Surfer”) round out the rest of the cast. Out now to rent. (Apple TV+)
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“Normal People” (TV-14) – This Irish miniseries dubbed as a “romantic psychological drama” launched the careers of Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Twisters”) and Paul Mescal (upcoming in “Gladiator II”), who are on their way to becoming modern-day movie stars. Based on the acclaimed novel by Sally Rooney, the series follows two classmates, Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal), who are in very different places within their secondary school’s social food chain. Popular and carefree, Connell enjoys his solid group of friends, while the outspoken, headstrong Marianne turns others off with her blunt outbursts to students and teachers alike. But with Connell’s mom serving as Marianne’s housekeeper, the two inevitably cross paths and strike up a rare, tender romance. All 12 episodes are out now. (Hulu)
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