“Spiderhead” is rich in human resources.
For starters, the darkly comic drama about drug experimentation at a secluded prison — debuting on Netflix this week and based on “Escape From Spiderhead,” a short story by Geroge Saunders published in The New Yorker in 2010 — is helmed by Joseph Kosinski. If you can’t quite put your finger on why that name rings such a loud bell, he’s also the director of the celebrated recent box-office smash “Top Gun: Maverick.”
The film’s protagonist, Jeff, is played by one of his “Maverick” stars, Miles Teller, whose recent hot streak also includes a fine performance in the Paramount+ series “The Offer.”
