Jessica Chastain plays an underground poker ringleader in “Molly’s Game.” And “Annihilation” hits Hulu. What’s on TVMOLLY’S GAME (2017) 6:40 p.m. on Showtime. See him here as he plays a lawyer opposite Jessica Chastain in the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, a fictionalized (and sympathetic) account of the life of the skier-turned-underground poker ringleader Molly Bloom. Dense with quick-moving dialogue, the film follows Bloom’s rapid rise from the back seat of a high-end Los Angeles poker game to her eventual F.B.I. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play sisters with midlife troubles in this comedy, by the longtime “Saturday Night Live” writer Paula Pell.

Source: New York Times January 06, 2019 06:00 UTC