TALLAMY: Choose plants that are going to support that food web, the ones that will share the most energy with other living things. That’s the problem with plants from other continents; our insects can’t eat them. So, there are no insects for the birds, and the food web stops.
— If you’re wondering whyseems to be everywhere lately, Netflix is the answer. The streamer has a new Christmas romantic comedy on the way,
on Wednesday. The idea is that Lohan’s character is spending the holiday with her boyfriend’s family, only to discover that his sister is dating her ex.— The Beatles’ first trip to America is chronicled in a new movie produced by“Beatles ’64,” which streams on Disney+ on Friday, Nov. 29. The documentary uses never-before-seen and rare footage and drills down on the Fab Four’s milestone American visit, which included appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Colosseum, and a meeting with Muhammad Ali. It offers interviews with David Lynch and Ronnie Spector as well as some of the women who as girls screamed outside the Beatles’ New York hotel. Its backbone is rare footage filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles of John, Paul, George and Ringo being exceedingly silly.
— Grab your captain’s hat and fake mustache for a tour of yacht rock, the once dismissed musical genre that has found new love of late. HBO’s revealing “Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary” traces the rise of the music style — elevated pop music infused with jazz and R&B — from the perspective of its makers, includingThe documentary nicely connects yacht rock to the culture and music heritage, adding the creators of the web series who coined the label. Sail away on Friday, Nov. 29.
has a new live album and concert film, “Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023,” which captured the shows on Sept. 23-24, 2023, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Only Clapton could attract this level of musical talent to join him: Gary Clark Jr.,
H.E.R., Los Lobos, John Mayer,that it is an “absolute movie triumph, a soulful sweet-sad animated journey that may have your kids asking why you’re tearing up so much.” He also noted the striking visuals, “a textured world that is almost painterly. You can see snowflakes settle on mottled fur, moss on rocks, individual leaves in a den.” It’s a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination.
— Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debutwill be free for Prime Video subscribers starting Jan. 21. Channing Tatum plays a tech mogul who flies cocktail waitress Friday (Naomi Ackie) out to a private island where strange things start happening.
called it a “stylish, ambitious, buzzy film that seems to aspire to be a gender-themed ‘Get Out,’ or a #MeToo-era thriller with echoes of ‘Promising Young Woman.’” Kravitz, she added, “almost pulls it off.”— Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a New York writer who accidentally overhears her loving husband’s (Tobias Menzies) brutally honest assessment of her new book in