Time Int 09.16.2019

Olive Kitteridge,

the protagonist of

Strout’s Pulitzer-

winning 2008 novel.

In them, she forges

connections with a

cast of characters,

both new and old, from

a grieving teen to an

overwhelmed lawyer.

LOOKING FOR

ALASKA

Oct. 18

The duo behind

The O.C. and Gossip

Girl adapts this

young-adult novel

by John Green (The

Fault in Our Stars),

about a teen who

falls for a mysterious

classmate named

Alaska Young. (Hulu)

JOJO RABBIT

Oct. 18

Writer-director Taika

Waititi’s dark comedy

features the filmmaker

as a bumbling Adolf

Hitler, an imaginary

friend to a member of

the Nazi Youth during

World War II who

discovers his mother

(Scarlett Johansson)

is hiding a Jewish girl

in their home.

FIND ME

André Aciman

Oct. 29

Following the success

of the 2017 movie

adaptation of Call Me

by Your Name, this

sequel picks up years

after the central pair

first met, with Elio in

Paris as Oliver, back in

America, considers a

trip to Europe.

HARRIET

Nov. 1

Cynthia Erivo plays the

legendary abolitionist

Harriet Tubman, who

escaped from slavery

and went on to help

free hundreds of

slaves through the

Underground Railroad.

THE IRISHMAN

Nov. 1

Martin Scorsese

directs Robert De Niro

(for the ninth time)

alongside Al Pacino

and Joe Pesci in the

story of the hit man

Frank Sheeran, who

was rumored to

have carried out the

infamous mob hit

of Teamster leader

Jimmy Hoffa.

IN THE DREAM

HOUSE

Carmen Maria

Machado

Nov. 5

Each chapter of this

memoir from the 2017

National Book Award

finalist is guided by

a specific narrative

trope—the haunted

house, the unreliable

narrator—to explore

her experiences in an

abusive relationship

with another woman.

THE

MANDALORIAN

Nov. 12

Disney launches its

streaming service with

the first live-action

Star Wars TV series,

in which Game of

Thrones’ Pedro Pascal

plays a gunfighter who

operates at the outer

edges of the galaxy.

(Disney+)

CHARLIE’S

ANGELS

Nov. 15

Elizabeth Banks

directs this new

addition to the

franchise that began

with a late-’70s TV

series and lots of

feathered hair. Kristen

Stewart, Naomi Scott

and Ella Balinska play

the formidable trio.

FROZEN  2

Nov. 22

Disney’s sequel

to the smash hit

2013 animated film

finds Anna (Kristen

Bell), Elsa (Idina

Menzel) and their

anthropomorphic

friends traveling north

to search for the

source of ice queen

Elsa’s magic.

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A BEAUTIFUL

DAY IN THE

NEIGHBORHOOD

Nov. 22

Just over half

a century after

Mr. Rogers’

TV show

debuted, this

drama inspired

by a 1998

Esquire

profile sees

Tom Hanks slipping

into his red sweater

and genial charm.

HIS DARK

MATERIALS

TBA

HBO is ready to fill

the Game of Thrones–

size hole in your

heart: the network

has teamed with the

BBC to adapt Philip

Pullman’s beloved

fantasy novels about a

girl caught in a battle

between religious

zealots and scientists.

THE MORNING SHOW

TBA

Co-Producers Reese Witherspoon and
Jennifer Aniston star alongside Steve
Carell in this series about behind-the-
scenes drama and gender dynamics at
a morning news show. (Apple TV+)

QUEEN & SLIM

Nov. 27

This modern-day Bonnie and Clyde

story from writer Lena Waithe follows

a man and a woman (Daniel Kaluuya

and Jodie Turner-Smith) whose

first date turns disastrous when a

traffic stop leads to the death of an

aggressive white cop. The pair takes

off, becoming wanted enemies to

some and folk heroes to others.