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 THE WIDOWS OF THURSDAY on Netflix is a new miniseries with only six episodes. A mystery thriller from Mexico (org. title: The Widows of Thursdays). It's a very character-driven story and also a remake of the 2009 film of the same title. Both are based on a novel. Read our full review of Thursday's Widows series here! WIDOWS OF THURSDAY is a new Netflix mystery-thriller miniseries with only six 45-minute episodes. This is a Mexican production (org. title: The Widows of Thursdays) and a remake – or retelling, if you will – of the 2009 Argentine film. Both this new series and the film are based on the popular book by Claudia Piñeiro . The story takes place in a gated community in Mexico, where the rich live their best lives. Or are? Not everything is as it seems and in the opening scene, three men end up dead in a swimming pool. How this happened will ultimately be shown in the sixth and final episode, so you'll get definitive answers. A very character-focused story. This lim...

 It seems strange that an actor of Anthony Hopkins' prestige and acclaim would need a comeback so late in his career, but for a few years, the Oscar winner was stuck in a cycle of thankless sequels and one-word thrillers where the "and The Credit was beginning to lose its luster (Shock! Consolation! Misconduct! Blackway!) Within a year, he was nominated for an Oscar for The Two Popes and won for The Father (his first Academy Award attention since 1998), and, if Although this did not completely stop his predilection for B movies (in 2021 he started in Zero Contact, the first film released through an NFT platform), it took him back to substance, with a subtle but scene-consuming twist. in James Gray's Armageddon Time and now, another spectacular performance in the Second World War drama One Life. The film may at times feel more like a BBC TV drama (it comes from BBC Films, among others) with some tacky cinematic touches, but it builds toward a final act of towering emotion, ...

If filmmaker Minhal Baig has something, it is his good eye for casting. Her standout second feature, “Hala,” featured the dramatic chops of comedian Geraldine Viswanathan, and even her mostly maligned debut, “1 Night,” featured reliable and rising talents like Anna Camp, Isabelle Fuhrmann and Kyle Allen in juicy roles. Now his third film, the Chicago-set period piece “We Grown Now,” relies on the marvelous work of two first-time actors (Blake Cameron James and Gian Knight Ramirez). Baig certainly knows who he wants to see on the big screen, but that clear vision doesn't always translate to the rest of the production. Baig's "We Grown Now," which began in the fall of 1992, is set in and around Chicago's Cabrini-Green public housing complex (best known, at least in film circles, for his starring role in the franchise horror film "Candyman") and follows a pair of young best friends, Malik (James) and Eric (Ramirez), as they go through a particularly difficu...

Netflix has just released an eight-episode crime drama called Burning Body, inspired by the real events of the Pedro Rodríguez murder case in Barcelona in 2017. Although the show is heavily inspired by real events and remains almost loyal to the key figures of the case, much of the story is fictional for dramatic purposes. The series features a surprising twist, portraying Rosa Peral as a villain in stark contrast to the sympathy she evokes in the documentary The Tapes of Rosa Peral, released the same day on Netflix. The documentary had a clear purpose: to give Rosa Peral the opportunity to tell her side of the story and perhaps prove that she was not guilty of it. I wanted to show how her case was really complicated and how society often unfairly judges women in the legal system. Additionally, the documentary wanted to highlight how someone's personal life sometimes receives more attention than actual evidence in court. In the end, I wanted to make us all reflect on the moral aspe...

Seven different operations are examined, including the overthrow of Manuel Noriega in Panama, an interview with the man who shot Pope John Paul II, the Mossad operation that eliminated participants in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack, the Americans who actually worked undercover with the Taliban and a Cold War operation to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. However, the first episode talks about the people involved in Operation Jawbreaker, which entered Afghanistan a few days after 9/11 and worked with the Northern Alliance to drive the Taliban out of Kabul and other territories they controlled. Schroen (who died in 2022) is interviewed, along with other CIA agents, as well as senior Northern Alliance commanders who worked with the CIA. The effort to overthrow the Taliban was to prevent them from continuing to give Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who carried out the 9/11 attacks, safe haven in the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan. A key Afghan figure interviewed is former ambass...

Just five years ago, Tom Hardy was the nation's whisperer-in-chief, bewildering viewers as the formidable top-hatted adventurer Jack Delaney in the BBC drama Taboo. Some viewers were angry, while others reckoned that the 98 pig-like grunts Hardy emitted in the first seven episodes were not so much signs of an apparently pre-verbal role, but rather a cry for help. How nice to report then that in Sky Nature's new Predators series, Hardy has stepped back from the brink of incomprehensibility. In future episodes, polar bears, wild dogs, cougars and lions will take center stage, but here we watch two male cheetahs mow down as much of the Tanzanian wildlife as they can, while Hardy narrates with the crisp enunciation of a post-war Eliza. makeover. Doolittle. Perhaps reading bedtime stories calms a person. The only pig-like grunts you'll hear in Predators come from the prey who realizes too late that, like the innocent insects eaten by Matt Hancock, their fate is for their final m...