A thrilling “Sunday Night Football” match and impressive performances by multiple long-standing series contributed to NBC capturing the largest viewership during the opening week of the 2024-25 television season.
In a household, older siblings often serve as role models and guides for their younger ones. They can function as mentors and companions. Growing up, many of us have enjoyed movies that portray sibling relationships such as Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Josh, Agneepath, Dil Dhadakne Do, among others. These films sometimes introduce characters who resonate with us deeply, giving off an older brother vibe as we watch them on screen. If you appreciate the bond between siblings, here are some Netflix movies that make you wish these characters were your big brothers.
In the past month, Ryan Murphy has churned out an impressive six new TV series! Among them are Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story” and ABC’s “Doctor Odyssey”, the latter being a medical procedural with an amusing title starring Joshua Jackson as a doctor on a cruise ship. With over 30 shows already credited to his name, including 12 seasons of “American Horror Story”, this productive TV mastermind continues to push forward at a rapid pace. This week, he’s added another series to the lineup: “The Beauty”, featuring Evan Peters, Jeremy Pope, and Ashton Kutcher (more on that later).
Besides setting a new box office record for Blumhouse in 2024, the horror movie starring McAvoy, titled “Speak No Evil”, was also highly praised by critics. Currently, it has an impressive rating of 83% on the Tomatometer based on 195 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Interestingly, reboots and reinventions often struggle to match up to their original counterparts; however, “Speak No Evil” is just one percentage point shy of the 2022 version’s rating of 84%.
The dawn of the new millennium was pretty solid when it came to big-budget comedy movies — so good, in fact, that winnowing this list down to just ten movies was actively difficult. Judd Apatow was making some of his best movies, including “Knocked Up,” and the group known as the “Frat Pack” — a group that included Will Ferrell, both Luke and Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and more — were releasing bangers like “Old School” and “Wedding Crashers” around this time. “Napoleon Dynamite” came out halfway through the 2000s and became an unexpectedly enormous hit to the point where every kid at your school started wearing a “Vote for Pedro” shirt. On the other side of the spectrum, unapologetically bawdy movies like “The Hangover” became overnight box office successes. Still, how can we narrow down the list of the best comedies of the 2000s to just ten movies? (For the purpose of this list, please ignore any creatively bankrupt sequels that followed these outstanding originals; the first movies are the only ones that matter.)