Your week-endless preview: What to watch that's NOT in the theatres.

Looking for something new to watch? To paraphrase Shakespeare, now is the spring of a whole lotta content.

New series, movies, and releases that were supposed to go to the theatres are ready for home streaming.  The Original-Cin team has spent a busy week curating and rating new releases on various formats. We've even managed to track down a couple of actors and filmmakers hiding in their lairs.

A denizen of the Indigenous-themed zombie movie Blood Quantum

To start, Jim Slotek takes a look at Ryan Murphy's instant-binge seven-part Netfllix series Hollywood, a post-war portrait on the dirty business of dreams in the last days of the studio system, featuring a sprinkling of famous names and salacious backstories, some of which are true.  Bonnie Laufer talks to Holland Taylor, who plays a savvy woman executive in the the series (along with Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, Rob Reiner and Dylan McDermott.

Here's another Hollywood nostalgia story with a more wholesome approach:  Bonnie Laufer talks to film historian Dan Lanigan for his new eight-part Disney + series,  Prop Culture, as he tracks down movie props from some of Disney’s most iconic films over the years

From London, we have the filmed version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's original one-woman show, Fleabag, the basis of hit television series.  Thom Ernst, who believes Waller-Bridge has superpowers, looks back in awe at the Fleabag "origin story". 

There’s also a wealth of Canadian content: Jim Slotek writes about True North: Inside The Rise of Toronto Basketball, Ryan Sidhoo's documentary which focuses on the rise of three young prospects in a city that has become a premiere breeding ground for the NBA. Thom Ernst has an in-depth chat with Michael Greyeyes, star of Jeff Barnaby’s Indigenous zombie horror film, Blood Quantum.  Linda Barnard looks at the documentary, Finding Sally, Canadian-Ethiopian filmmaker Tamara Mariam Dawit’s investigation of the mysterious disappearance of her aunt.  Kim Hughes reviews the bittersweet Hamilton-shot dramedy, Tammy's Always Dying, with Felicity Huffman and Anastasia Phillips, as a mother and daughter. Bonne Krebs talks to director Amy Jo Johnson.

There's another Canadian story in the heartfelt Netflix documentary, A Secret Love (also co-produced by Ryan Murphy), about the 70-year-plus love affair between two women from Saskatchewan, one of whom played in the women's professional baseball league featured in  A League of Their Own.  Liam Lacey reviews, along with another new Netflix release, The Half of It, a smart Cyrano De Bergerac-inspired dramedy about an Asian-American teen who writes romantic letters for a male friend to their mutual sweet girl crush.

Have a great week and keep your eyeballs peeled.