Looking for something to watch? They're all highly recommended.
Now that we're firmly in Oscar season, there are plenty of new films to keep audiences entertained over the coming weeks - we listed our favourites
here and
here.
With titles like The Shape of Water, The Post, and Three Billboards Outside fo Ebbing, Missouri, yet to hit the cinema, it's easy to forget that there are also some remarkable TV shows and films that are currently available to watch.
We've been very vocal about the brilliance of shows like The Handmaid's Tale,
Game of Thrones and various others
(here's our best of 2017 list) but it's awards season and there's no better time to get acquainted with some of the best titles around.
If you're a Netflix subscriber, all of the following films and TV shows were nominated for a Golden Globe - some even won.
Films
Mudbound
Plot: Set in the rural American South during World War II, Dee Rees' Mudbound is an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta. Mudbound follows the McAllan family, newly transplanted from the quiet civility of Memphis and unprepared for the harsh demands of farming. Despite the grandiose dreams of Henry, his wife Laura struggles to keep the faith in her husband's losing venture. Meanwhile, Hap and Florence Jackson - sharecroppers who have worked the land for generations - struggle bravely to build a small dream of their own despite the rigidly enforced social barriers they face. The war upends both families' plans as their returning loved ones, Jamie McAllan and Ronsel Jackson, forge a fast but uneasy friendship that challenges the brutal realities of the Jim Crow South in which they live.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 96%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xucHiOAa8Rs
First They Killed My Father
Plot: Angelina Jolie directed this biopic about a human rights activist and her attempts to survive during the oppressive Khmer Rouge era of rule in Cambodia.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS3Vp_quGCw
TV Shows
Stranger Things: Season 2
Plot: Following on from the critically acclaimed first season, the show picks up with further eerie events in Hawkins, Indiana. As the town preps for Halloween, a high-scoring rival shakes things up at the arcade, and a skeptical Hopper inspects a field of rotting pumpkins. What unfolds is another trip that will turn your life upside down.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
The Crown: Season 2
Plot: Beginning with soldiers in Her Majesty's Armed Forces fighting an illegal war in Egypt, and ending with the downfall of her third Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan after a devastating scandal, the second season bears witness to the end of the age of deference, and ushers in the revolutionary era of the 1960s.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Master of None: Season 2
Plot: After traveling abroad, Dev (Aziz Ansari) returns to New York to take on challenges in his personal and family life, a new career opportunity, and a complex, developing relationship with someone very meaningful to him.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 100%
The Sinner
Plot: A crime thriller about a young mother who commits a public act of violence and the investigator who attempts to learn why.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
13 Reasons Why
Plot: The late Hannah Baker explains why she committed suicide to her high school peers through a collection of cassette tapes she left behind.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Ozark
Plot: A family moves into an Ozarks resort community and faces a struggle in this new place filled with dirty money.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 64%
Better Call Saul: Season 3
Plot: Series 3 of Better Caul Saul picks up where Series 2 left off and sees Chuck with a potentially incriminating tape recording of Jimmy's confession.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%
Shameless: Season 7
Plot: From producers John Wells and Paul Abbott, this outrageous family drama is based on the long-running hit UK series and stars Emmy winner William H. Macy (Fargo) as a working class patriarch of an unconventional Chicago brood of six kids headed by the eldest sibling (Golden Globe nominee Emmy Rossum - Mystic River) who keep the home afloat while their dad is out drinking and carousing.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 88%
GLOW
Plot: Set in Los Angeles during the 1980s, an unemployed actress hopes to find stardom by portraying a female wrestler.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%
If you're still on the lookout for even more brilliant TV, our
2018 preview is just the thing.
