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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn The coming-of-age tale is adapted from Greg Neri’s book “Ghetto Cowboy." • 5 min read Idris Elba, left, and Caleb McLaughlin in a scene from the film "Concrete Cowboy." The way-cool sight of Idris Elba riding a horse on the streets of Philadelphia is bound to get you buzzed big time about what’s unique and unforgettable in “Concrete Cowboy,” the Black urban western (now on Netflix) that revels in the pleasures of the unexpected. Elba, who produced this clearly personal film with Le...

comments There is a warmth among the Black men and women that form the horseback riding community in North Philadelphia, and the appealing drama "Concrete Cowboy" lets viewers sit around a campfire with these characters as they drink, smoke, and talk about the whitewashing of Black history, real estate development, and other forces threatening their heritage. But this film, which premiered during last fall's Toronto International Film Festival, does not sit back and relax very often. The story opens with Cole (Caleb McLaughlin of "Stranger Things") being expelled from school in Detroit. ...

The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and Stan in Australia in April Our streaming picks for April, including ‘Concrete Cowboy,’ ‘Made for Love’ and ‘Them’ ‘Concrete Cowboy’Credit...Netflix April 1, 2021, 4:32 a.m. ET Every month, streaming services in Australia add a new batch of movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for April. ‘Worn Stories’ Season 1 Based on the Times columnist Emily Spivack’s book of the same name, the docu-series “Worn Stories” features short vignettes about what people wear and why. The show’s crew has assembled...

★★★★★ DESERVEDLY nominated for six Academy Awards, you can’t help but be swept away by this exquisitely tender and heartfelt story of a Korean-US family in pursuit of the American Dream in 1980s Arkansas.  Though totally fictional, writer-director Lee Isaac Chung was inspired by his own family and provides a fresh new take on the immigrant tale. It is a touching love letter to his own parents and their tenacity to forge a new life in the US and to provide their children with a more promising future. The film, the produced by Brad Pitt and named after a peppery Korean herb, follow...

GODZILLA VS. KONG: 3 ½ STARS “There can’t be two alpha titans,” says Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall), and yet, here we are with “Godzilla vs. Kong,” a mighty monster showdown now in theatres and Premium Video on Demand. The sequel to “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” and “Kong: Skull Island,” dispenses a whole lot of plot rather quickly to make room for the main event, a cage match between the two titans. That’s not a spoiler; it’s an inevitability. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Before the crash-bang-boom of the movie’s climax, the story begins with Nathan ...