RADIOACTIVE
Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET
MOVIE PREMIERE: Rosamund Pike stars as Marie Curie in this new dramatized biography, in which she holds aloft a small vial of radium and lectures her fellow scientists that this mysterious element “does not behave as it should.” The same certainly is true of the woman herself, as she stages two fights: to unlock the secrets hidden within radium and to fight for credit once her discoveries are made and confirmed. Radioactive is saddled with some unimaginative biopic tropes, including the tired one-person-clapping trick that slowly builds to a standing ovation – but the story itself is so interesting, and so relatively unfamiliar in its specifics, that it’s worth a peek. Especially since it’s being unveiled on Amazon as part of its prime subscription.