Movie & Television Reviews

Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

Theology blends with politics, family tensions and derring-do in the generally well-crafted biblical drama “House of David.” Three hour-long episodes of the eight-part series, created by Jon Erwin, are currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

In 2012, Scottish professional diver Chris Lemons was temporarily stranded at the bottom of the North Sea with a rapidly dwindling supply of oxygen. Both before and after Lemons lost consciousness, two of his colleagues raced to save his life.

Vintage biblical epics sprout like daffodils during Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on March 5.

“The Monkey” (Neon), writer-director Osgood Perkins’ serio-comic adaptation of a 1980 short story by horror maven Stephen King, begins with the graphic disemboweling of a minor character and climaxes with the equally explicit decapitation of a major one by a flying bowling ball. ‘Nuff said?

“I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics) is an adaptation of Marcelo Paiva’s 2015 memoir recounting how his family survived the worst years of Brazil’s military junta in the 1970s.

Roses are red… and so is the flood of gore that mars the Valentine’s Day-themed slasher flick “Heart Eyes.”