Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Will Becher and Richard Phelan, 2019) – Some Foreign Rights – Family Comedy Picking up from the popular TV series Shaun the Sheep and acting as a sequel to the 2015 feature film, Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon has the eponymous farm animal and his motley flock of misfit sheep […]

Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

On Body and Soul – ***** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Teströl és lélekröl (Idikó Enyedi, 2017) – Some Foreign Rights – Arty Melodrama Endre (Géza Morcsányi) is a manager at a slaughterhouse in Budapest. One day the factory is visited by a government inspector, Mária (Alexandra Borbély), whose cold impersonal manner alienates many of the workers and whose preliminary findings threaten to hurt the factory’s […]

On Body and Soul – ***** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Como caído del cielo – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Como caído del cielo (José Pepe Bojórquez, 2019) – Full Original – Musical Comedy The late, great Mexican ranchera singer and actor Pedro Infante (Omar Chaparro) finds himself in the afterlife, stuck in purgatory. The angels cannot decide if he deserves to go to hell for how badly he treated women during his lifetime – […]

Como caído del cielo – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Ultras – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Ultras (Francesco Lettieri, 2020) – Full Original/Co-Production – Realist Drama Sandro aka Mohicano (Aniello Arena) is pushing 50 as well as single and childless. He is also the leader of a group of “ultras”, fanatical fans of the Naples football club/soccer team. He and other senior members of the group have long since been banned […]

Ultras – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

The Platform – ****½ — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

El hoyo (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019) – Some Foreign Rights – Horror Reported Budget: “A little more than €1 million” In a bid to obtain a graduate degree that will open up better employment opportunities, Goreng (Ivan Massagué) volunteers to spend 6 months in a center euphemistically dubbed by its managers as the “vertical self-management center”. […]

The Platform – ****½ — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

37 Seconds – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

37 sekanzu (Hikari, 2019) – All Foreign Rights (outside Japan) – Coming of Age Drama Yuma (Mei Kayama) is a 23 year-old woman who has cerebral palsy. She lives with her mother (Misuzo Kanno) in Tokyo and works as the ghostwriter/illustrator for would-be manga author and influencer Sayaka (Minori Hagiwara). These relationships are both problematic […]

37 Seconds – **** — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Sergio – ***½ — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Sergio (Greg Barker, 2020) – Full Original – Political Biopic Reported Budget: $16 million (IMDB) In this biopic, Sergio Vieira de Mello (Wagner Moura) leads the UN delegation to occupied Iraq in 2003. While preparing a report on human rights abuses there by the occupying American army, his base is attacked by Al-Qaeda. Lying trapped […]

Sergio – ***½ — Netflix Original Movies Reviewed

Telluride Film Festival 2020 Will Move Forward, with an Extra Day for Safety — IndieWire

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The 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado is still happening, despite growing concerns in an industry that has this year seen festivals shutter left and right. 470 more words

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10 Most Anticipated Summer 2020 TV Series — DVD Corner’s blog

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With the theatrical experience being very limited this summer, our collective attention turns to TV for new entertainment. From May to August, there are a host of new shows, returning favorites, and plenty of reality and game shows if that is your thing. Below, I have listed my 10 most anticipated series in no particular […]

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