What to Watch: “Nightbitch,” Streaming “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew”

For Amy Adams, it’s the Year of the Dog.

The six-time Oscar nominee shows her original side as a mother who thinks she’s turning into a dog in the dark comedy “Nightbitch”, a nice counterprogram to “Wicked”, “Gladiator II” and “Moana 2”. This holiday season at the movies is looking great so far and is getting an exciting boost with The Order, a true crime drama starring Jude Law. The Englishman can currently be seen on the big screen as both an FBI agent in this film and as a mysterious villain in the new “Star Wars” series “Skeleton Crew”. And it’s a big week for television, as our best shows of 2024 are ranked, in case you make a list and check it twice. (It’s not just a Christmas thing!)

Now for the good stuff:

Watch Amy Adams unleash her role as the foremother in Nightbitch

Amy Adams plays a mother who thinks she's turning into a dog in the drama "Night slut."

With Golden Globe nominations coming up Monday morning, Adams has a good chance of nabbing her 10th career lead actress musical/comedy category. She’s the best thing about “Nightbitch,” an adaptation of the Rachel Yoder book: Adams plays a creatively unfulfilled housewife who, exhausted by her young son and the daily grind, begins to notice fur, fangs, and a tail developing her body. But these strange physical aspects lead to necessary changes for their emotional well-being.

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Adams told me in an interview how much she enjoyed filming a scene in which she ran with a whole group of real dogs – “being kind of the pack leader was fun,” she says with a laugh – but held back tears back when she talked about how working with young children in film gave her a new perspective on motherhood. “It made me want to go back. Monotony becomes a memory and then it’s gone and replaced by something else and it’s really beautiful.

Stream Jude Law’s New ‘Star Wars’ Show ‘Skeleton Crew’

“Star Wars” has been accused in recent years of ignoring children and capitalizing on adult nostalgia, but the new Disney+ series “Skeleton Crew” is definitely aimed at a new generation of fans: A group of teenagers find a buried spaceship and inadvertently catapults himself into an intergalactic coming-of-age adventure, a sort of “Goonies” meets the Force. (The little alien guy with the elephant-like face will most likely do the “Truffle Shuffle.”) And keeping with the kid theme, TV critic Kelly Lawler is pleased with the “straightforward and straightforward” show, writing in her ★★½ review: “If If you’re looking for sophisticated and complex storytelling on the level of Andor, you’ll be sorely disappointed.”

Law plays the enigmatic pirate captain Jod Na Nawood, who helps the children in their search home. And in an interview about his latest projects, the actor says he’s had a soft spot for the galaxy far, far away ever since he saw the first Star Wars as a child: “It just changed my life, blew me away. And that too.” My love affair started just by going to the cinema.

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Fun fact: I watch a lot of movies. A lot. Especially this year. And because of that, there are a ton of great TV shows that I hope to catch up on over the Christmas holidays. If you’re also in that year-end mood, check out Kelly’s list of the best shows of 2024. She writes that her No. 1, Apple TV+ mystery thriller “Disclaimer” is a remedy for our current TV age of “light, simplistic fluff that can’t get you to stop scrolling long enough to pay attention She also praises FX’s Emmy-favorite Shogun (which I still haven’t seen!), as well as HBO’s True Detective: Night Country and Amazon’s Fallout (both of which are great!).

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What to Watch: “Nightbitch,” Streaming “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew”

Watch Amy Adams unleash her role as the foremother in Nightbitch

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