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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Apple TV+ drops 'terrifying' first trailer The Blacklist creator's explosive new thriller
The Last Frontier is set to make its global debut later this year on Apple TV+. The Blacklist boss has stepped away from the world of Red Reddington with Apple TV+ unveiling the first teaser trailer for his next thriller. Located in Alaska's remote wilderness, The Last Frontier is a 10-part drama making its worldwide debut with its opening two episodes landing on Friday, October 10, on Apple TV+. The official synopsis states: "The Last Frontier follows Frank Remnick (Clarke), the lone US marshal in charge of the quiet, rugged barrens of Alaska. "Remnick's jurisdiction is turned upside down when a prison transport plane crashes in the remote wilderness, setting free dozens of violent inmates. "Tasked with protecting the town he's vowed to keep safe, he begins to suspect the crash wasn't an accident, but the first step of a well-crafted plan with far-reaching and devastating implications." To celebrate the announcement of its release date, the streaming service has dropped its first chilling trailer which takes place on an aircraft packed with shackled prisoners. As one examines his restraints and another mutters to himself, a third is spotted seated alone at the rear, masked and sporting headphones. A blast then tears through the quiet with fire engulfing the aircraft's side. An external shot reveals one of the wings ablaze before cutting back to the convicts, now shrieking in terror as the aircraft judders and oxygen masks drop down. In the trailer's closing scenes, the aircraft appears moments away from crashing as it skims treetops and plummets towards the snow-blanketed terrain. The high-octane series has been developed by Richard D'Ovidio, who penned The Call, alongside The Blacklist mastermind Jon Bokenkamp. The Blacklist enjoyed a remarkable 10-year run on NBC, featuring James Spader as infamous criminal Raymond "Red" Reddington, before concluding in 2023. The Last Frontier will feature Zero Dark Thirty and Terminator star Jason Clarke, who is also serving as executive producer.
Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
The Assassin review — Keeley Hawes is a knockout as a ‘perimenopausal 007'
Can you ever truly pull off the comedy thriller? The comedy drama is everywhere these days, but that's easy. When you've run out of jokes you just go all serious for a bit (as a political sketch writer, believe me, I know that technique well). But in a full-on thriller, where plot and pace and mood are everything, how can a steady stream of gags not puncture the spell every single time? The movie Saltburn was theoretically a comedy thriller. I loved it, but it's not funny. If you can't decide if you're trying to be funny or darkly thrilling, you can end up with a man shagging another man's freshly covered grave or doing even worse to his bath plug. The Assassin, Prime Video's new six-part comedy thriller starring Keeley Hawes, is an education in how it should be done. It's an absolute cracker. The secret, we now know, is to serve the thrills and laughs one after another in very quick succession, not to try to blend them together. It's to take a quick break from, say, an all-action, no expense spared, absolutely full-on massacre and have a son ask his blood-spattered, gun-toting mother: 'Are you really not going to tell me why you're some kind of perimenopausal James Bond?' The simplicity of the premise only elevates it. Hawes's Julie, to the surprise of her son, a journalist, is a former 'hitwoman' drawn out of retirement for one last job. (It just doesn't sound right, does it, 'hitwoman', but I think that might be a joke too. The writers must be aware of the appropriate gender-neutral term for contract killer. It's right there in the title.) But there, you will not be shocked to learn, the simplicity stops as it gets lost in ever more interwoven webs of deceit. The scenes in a hellhole of a Libyan prison are every bit as dark and unsettling and stomach-churningly violent as anything you'll find in, say, Zero Dark Thirty. There are dismembered fingers all over the place and, eventually, a phone that has to be repeatedly unlocked with a very literal thumb drive. • The Top Ten Keeley Hawes performances — ranked And then, within seconds, you're watching a man built like the proverbial brick outhouse, powerless to take action against the almost octogenarian businessman who's slapping him repeatedly around the face, who also happens to be Jim Robinson from Neighbours (Alan Dale). By the end of episode four of six, which is all that's been made available for preview, all we know is that the world suddenly changes any time anyone dares to say out loud the word 'chantaine', which pertains to a shocking secret that must be suppressed whatever the blood-stained cost. With just a third of the action to go, we still have no idea what chantaine is, although I personally am leaning very gently towards incest. Another, less mysterious secret is that luxury saunas are still more dangerous than they look. It's strange how TV trends emerge, but barely a month after Mountainhead and centuries after the retirement of the iron maiden, the high-powered sauna has emerged as the torture instrument de jour for slightly stupid billionaires. In other recurring themes, Lisburn's own Richard Dormer, aka Gerry from Blue Lights and Norman Stoke in The Day of the Jackal, continues his late flourishing as a top-level criminal, and now appears to be hiding out in secret, dilapidated off-grid locations all over Europe. What's arguably most intriguing about The Assassin is that there is an easy way to get hold of a flawless comedy thriller, one with all the whip-smart, antic charm of, say, Killing Eve or Daniel Craig's last Bond movie, No Time to Die, and that is to pay a lot of money to Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Which is precisely what Prime Video did, several years ago, yet it has produced The Assassin without her involvement. If it feels Waller-Bridge-like, then it may be because it has been created by Two Brothers Productions, the two brothers being Harry and Jack Williams, who developed and produced Fleabag from Waller-Bridge's 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show. In The Assassin, they have yet another knockout triumph on their hands, and I can't wait for the final two episodes. • The best hidden gem TV shows and series to watch I have, on this page, occasionally mourned the near death of the straight-up, straightforward sitcom. Comedy dramas and comedy thrillers are fine, but only in a pure comedy can the laughs truly run the show. It's a long time since the humble sitcom ruled the TV schedules. That the three Gavin and Stacey Christmas specials were spread over 16 years, and without much else in between them, only proves the point. With comedy, it's always hardest to do it the supposedly easy way. What a treat, then, that the best new sitcom in years is back for a third series and as brilliant as ever. Here We Go, still being written by, and starring, the brilliant Tom Basden, and still starring the just as brilliant Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson and Jim Howick, is still regularly described as a 'sleeper hit'. Well all I can say is, 'Wake up, everybody! Wake up at once!' I truly envy anyone who has never seen Here We Go, never met its dysfunctional modern family and their boring life in suburbia, who can still take it all in from the beginning for the very first time in all of its chaotic, brilliant glory. It's possible that it takes a while to get into, because there are quite a lot of characters, and it takes a while to appreciate that every one of them is perfect, that they are each holding up their own corner of a ingeniously constructed comedy crucible into which anything can be placed and will always come out hilarious. Oh, the delight of knowing that absolutely everything you see, be it a smart door lock, a Lego Eiffel Tower or a Big Green Egg, or indeed two Big Green Eggs, are all Chekhov's guns, that all of them will go off, and all in more spectacularly disastrous ways than you've dared to imagine. • Read more TV reviews, guides about what to watch and interviews Here We Go is a rarity in that its format, if it can be described in such a way, actually improves with age. Constant escalation is required. At the end of the last series, the Chekhov's gun actually was a gun, being waved about at a wedding, and rather too close to the cake. At the start of this series, among the first seeds to be planted — the first glimpse of chaos — is a can of pepper spray in the handbag of Gran Sue (Steadman). Oh, and none of them can get to a long-planned family outing to an escape room because they have all been locked in their house. If all this sounds like it's at risk of jumping the shark, then absolutely not, that's the whole point. The shark was jumped before the first episode. Here We Go exists beyond the shark. There are seven new episodes and every one is a joy to be savoured. Love TV? Discover the best shows on Netflix, the best Prime Video TV shows, the best Disney+ shows , the best Apple TV+ shows, the best shows on BBC iPlayer , the best shows on Sky and Now, the best shows on ITVX, the best shows on Channel 4 streaming, the best shows on Paramount+ and our favourite hidden gem TV shows. Don't forget to check our comprehensive TV guide for the latest listings
Tom's Guide
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
New Apple TV Plus thriller starring Jessica Chastain gets release date
She's played heavily-mascaraed televangelists, stoic CIA analysts, sweet Southern socialites and an underground poker boss — now Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Chastain is adding "The Savant" to her list of memorable performances, the titular role of the upcoming crime thriller miniseries for Apple TV Plus. Inspired by an August 2019 article by Andrea Stanley, entitled "Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?" and published by Cosmopolitan, the limited series has Chastain playing an undercover investigator who infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop domestic extremists before they act,' per the show's logline. It marks the performer's first major TV role since leading 2022's "George & Tammy," in which she portrayed country-music icon Tammy Wynette. "I've played real people that I could talk to, like Maya from 'Zero Dark Thirty,'' Chastain said in a December 2023 interview with The Saturday Paper. 'A lot of people came out and claimed to be Maya from 'Zero Dark Thirty'; none of them have been [her]. I spoke to her before I played the role ... I've also played characters where I didn't have the benefit of meeting with them and working with them, like Tammy Wynette. "With 'The Savant,' I didn't feel that it was as important to get all of her mannerisms because she's undercover. I wouldn't want to look and behave exactly like her, because I want to keep her hidden.' And after much delay — the streaming service had ordered the concept from Fifth Season all the way back in March 2023 — the eight-episode series will officially premiere on Friday, September 26 with its first two installments. Individual eps will drop weekly thereafter, culminating on Friday, November 7. The "tense and thrilling" drama was created by Melissa James Gibson, an Emmy-nominated showrunner and writer known for her work on "House of Cards" and "The Americans. " Along with Chastain, the cast of "The Savant" includes Nnamdi Asomugha, Cole Doman, Jordana Spiro, Trinity Lee Shirley, Toussaint Francois Battiste, and guest star Pablo Schreiber. Andrea Stanley, who wrote the Cosmopolitan story that serves as the show's source material, is a consultant. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Tom's Guide will keep you posted on all things related to "The Savant," including teaser trailers, plot points, character details and more.
Tom's Guide
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
Netflix's new thriller movie with Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson already sounds intense — and we have a release date
Netflix seems to be doubling down on political thrillers lately. Just days after dropping the first look at its upcoming series 'Hostage,' the streamer has now revealed some juicy details on an original movie that sounds just as intense. 'A House of Dynamite,' a new dramatic thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, is officially coming to Netflix (and in select theaters) on October 24, 2025, and it already sounds like a gripping watch. The movie stars Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson, which is reason enough to pay attention, but throw in Bigelow (whose work on 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'The Hurt Locker' basically defined the modern political thriller) and this project immediately feels like something worth watching on the biggest screen possible. From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow comes A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, in select theaters October and on Netflix October 24. 18, 2025 Netflix hasn't released a trailer or any first-look images yet, but we do have an intriguing poster showing the outline of a soldier, with the title printed just below. It's not much to go on, but with this announcement out in the world, hopefully more details will follow in the coming weeks. The newly confirmed plot details line up with what The Hollywood Reporter revealed a few months ago, which also mentioned that the movie's standout element is its real-time format — following government officials in a race against the clock to prevent catastrophe. I love a ticking-clock setup when it's done right, and so I'm hopeful about this one. 'A House of Dynamite' certainly sounds intriguing, and I'm glad Netflix is putting this movie in theaters too. Honestly, any excuse to support your local theater is a win in my book! While details for 'A House of Dynamite' are scarce right now, we do have a small synopsis: 'When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.' Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. That one-line synopsis might be brief, but you can't deny that it sounds compelling. And with Noah Oppenheim, known for 'Jackie' and 'The Maze Runner,' behind the script, there's a good chance this story will be both smart and sharply paced. In fact, Netflix Tudum described it as 'a sharp and visceral new story.' Alongside Elba and Ferguson, the cast includes Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, and Jason Clarke. They're joined by Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O'Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever. Bigelow is officially making her return, and it sounds like she's diving straight into high-stakes territory with a tension-filled missile crisis thriller. The cast is stacked, the premise is juicy, and if early hints are anything to go by, we could be in for a tense ride. 'A House of Dynamite' hits select theaters this October and lands on Netflix on October 24.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kathryn Bigelow's Star-Studded Netflix Movie Gets Title, Release Date
Oscar winner 's White House mystery thriller at Netflix officially has a name and a release date. According to Netflix, Bigelow's new movie is called A House of Dynamite and will be released in select theaters and on Netflix on October 24, 2025. The movie is written by Noah Oppenheim, with Greg Shapiro, Bigelow, and Oppenheim all attached as producers on the project. 'When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond,' reads the film's official logline. Bigelow's credits include 2008's critically acclaimed The Hurt Locker, 2012's Zero Dark Thirty, 2017's Detroit, and more. Alongside the release information and name, Netflix has also fully unveiled the cast for the film. The cast for A House of Dynamite is a star-studded one, boasting several high-profile actors, including Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, with Greta Lee, and Jason Clarke. Also starring Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O'Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever. Before signing on for the untitled White House thriller, Bigelow was originally attached to helm the film adaptation of Aurora, based on blockbuster scribe David Koepp's survival thriller novel, which was first announced back in 2022. The post Kathryn Bigelow's Star-Studded Netflix Movie Gets Title, Release Date appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
