Interactivity has become a bit of an overused gimmick, including "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" to "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" on Netflix. Still, such stunts are only as good as their execution, and the Warner Bros. Animation delivers with "Batman: Death in the Family," which, with the Robert Pattinson movie delayed, might be the only version of Batman fans see for a while.
"Driving While Black: Space, Race and Mobility in America" is an extremely rich and detailed PBS documentary, exploring the long history of restrictions on Black movement, from slavery through the present. As part of that journey, the two-hour film addresses not only modern-day issues of policing but deeper ones about the American Dream denied.
"Totally Under Control" is, in some ways, a greatest-hits collection of Trump administration failures and missteps pertaining to Covid-19, but with an extraordinarily timely kicker in the president's own diagnosis. Director Alex Gibney and his collaborators also earn degree-of-difficulty points for having assembled this documentary during the pandemic, designing a remotely operated "Covid-cam" to safely record interviews.
If "The War With Grandpa" sounds like the argument that you're dreading over Thanksgiving dinner, happily, it's not. Instead, this slightly naughty family comedy gets a mild lift from its casting, starting with Robert De Niro as the aforementioned grandpa, who has the audacity to move into his 12-year-old grandson's room.
Margaret Nolan, an actress and model who famously featured covered in gold paint in the title sequence for the James Bond movie "Goldfinger," has died at the age of 76.
Jack White performed Saturday as a last-minute musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," where he paid tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen by using a guitar designed by the iconic rocker.
ICE agents raid a big-box store, racing down the aisles to apprehend an employee. A DACA recipient who's a doctor frets over her future. And a family separated by deportation struggles to connect on the phone.
Jay-Z showed his support of protesters this week by paying the fees for those arrested and fined in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, where demonstrators are calling for justice in the death of Alvin Cole at the hands of police, according to a spokeswoman for Team Roc.