DN-tips: Best TV series and movies to stream right now
« Mussolini. Son of the Century ”
Sky showtime, 3/3. Series creator: Stefano Bises and others. Directed by: Joe Wright. With: Luca Marinelli, Francesco Russo, Barbara Chichialli and others. 8 section x 60 min.
Unpleasantly current series that dramatizes the emergence of fascism in Italy under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. Luca Marinelli has received much praise for its multifaceted portrait of the dictator, which appears as both ridiculous and dangerous monster. The series is based on Antonio Scuri's mentioned novel ”M. Il Figlio del Secolo ”(2018) and is directed by Joe Wright who is behind the Churchill Dramat » Darkest Hour « with Gary Oldman.
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« Yellowjacket's 3 »
Sky Showtime, 27/2. Series creator: Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson. With: Tawny Cypress, Melanie Lynskey, Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher, Hilary Swank and others. 10 episodes x 50 min.
The horrific secrets of the past continue to bubble up to the surface of the third season of this psychological horror drama with dark sect vibes. Twenty-five years after the air crash, the former high school friendesses are still plagued by what happened in the wilderness. After a slightly lost and sprawling second season, the Yellowjackets seem to have found back to their humor and self -distance. Hilary Swank enters the ensemble.
“Lockerbie. A search for truth ”
Sky Showtime, 28/2. Series creator: David Harrower and others. With: Colin Firth, Ardalan Esmaili, Sam Troughton, Catherine McCormack and others. 5 section x 50 min.
A real -life and detailed series depicting the aftermath of the bomb attack against Pan AM Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988, where 270 people were killed. Colin Firth plays the sad doctor Jim Swire, who seeks justice and the truth behind the attack that killed his daughter. Swedish actor Ardalan Esmaili plays the Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted of the terrorist act. Builds on the book “The Lockerbie Bombing. A Father's Search for Justice ”.
« Toxic city »
Netflix, 27/2. Series creator: Jack Thorne. With: Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Robert Carlyle, Claudia Jessie and others. 4 section x 60 min.
After last year's « Mr. Bates vs The Post Office », it's time to dig up another British scandal from reality. Dark and claustrophobic « Toxic Town » depicts the Corby scandal where a red-toxic waste pond from a closed steel mill was linked to birth defects. Jodie Whittaker plays a mother who fights against the municipality in pure « Erin Brockovich » style after her children have been born with serious health problems. Written by Jack Thorne (« This is England », « Falling Legend »).
« Abbot elementary 4 »
Disney+. Series creator: Quinta Brunson with: Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, and others. 13 section x 23 min.
It is possible that Quinta Brunson's rap and fun romantic workplace mockery may have seen their very best days. On the other hand, we are many who want to know how things are going for Janine Teagues and her brave teachers who fight in the absolute front line of the public school world. The intrigue is pointed out when the incompetent principal Ava Coleman makes the fate -filled decision to let HR do an extensive examination, which of course triggers an avalanche of complaints – while the school gets more students without any extra resources.
« Berlin is »
Apple TV+. Series creator: Viktor Jakovleski, Samuel Jefferson. With: Haley Louise Jones, Slavko Popadic, Bernhard Schütz and others. 8 section x min.
“Under -paid. Underestone. Overworked. Welcome to Krank ”. So is the sales line to this German response to Apple's American hospital series « Pitt » which premiered in January. « Berlin is » kicking off with one of the doctors going straight to work after a spinning out in Berlin's club world. From bad to worse. Bedged for a hectic and high -energy series that takes place in the emergency department at one of Berlin's most loaded hospitals.
« The Conclave »
SF Anytime, et al., 28/2. Directed by: Edward Berger. With: Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and others. 2 hours.
« It's a war, and you have to choose Sida, » says Stanley Tucci's Cardinal to his colleague Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) who leads an unofficial investigation into the Pope's death and the suspected full game of a successor. Edward Berger's dense and raffling drama thriller after Robert Harris's bestseller has sailed up as the betting company's top candidate – after « Anora » – to win the heavyweight title Best movie at this weekend's Oscars gala.
« Kneecap »
Triart play. Director: Rich Peppiatatt. With: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvai, Michael Fassbender and others. 1 hour 42 min.
A Northern Ireland molotov cocktail of politics, humor and hip hop. About the same could be described this anarchist and entertaining history of a Belfast Raptrio that happens to become front figures for a civil rights movement that wants to save the Irish language. A fabricated biography in « Trainspotting » style about a real hip hop group where artists Mo Chara, DJ Próvai and Móglaí Bap play a kind of elevated versions of themselves.
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« The order »
Prime video. Directed by: Justin Kurzel. With: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and others. 1 hour 56 min.
Tight and dimmed True Crime drama takes place in the mid-1980s with eerie parallels to various white power groups in today's United States. Jude Law convinces as a traumatized FBI agent living in the northwestern United States, which is drawn into the hunt for the neo-Nazi terrorist group The Order. It has ended up on the police radar after a series of brutal bank robberies that fund their armed revolution. Nicholas Hoult is icy and charismatic in the role of the group's leader in this gold lion candidate from the director behind « Nitram » and « Macbeth ».
« Hollywoodgate »
SVT Play, 2/3. Directed by: Ibrahim Nash'at. 1 hour 32 min.
« Undoubtedly a nasty fascinating meeting with a bunch of violent people who are once again allowed to control an entire country, » DN's Fredrik Sahlin wrote about this German-American documentary that follows the Taliban after the US exit from Afghanistan. When they take over abandoned military bases, they find advanced western equipment, which transforms their rule into a new regime. A revealing film despite the fact that director Nash'at – called « The Little Bastard with the camera » – was threatened with death and only had to film what the Taliban allowed.
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« Mulholland Drive » (2001)
Drakenfilm.se. Directed by: David Lynch. With: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux and others. 2 hours and 27 min.
“It will be just like in the movies. We pretend to be someone else, ”says Naomi Watts in his big breakthrough role, which took place in the heart of Lynchland. In the film, she plays the aspiring actor Betty who comes to Hollywood where she meets the enigmatic Rita (Laura Harring) who suffers from memory loss after an accident. Beded for a spooky and surreal Hollywood fantasy that revolves around illusion and identity, eroticism and mystery. Lynch's master test with echoes of Bergman's « Persona » can finally be streamed via Dragon film.
« Promising Young Woman » (2020)
SVT Play, 28/2. Directed by: Emerald Fennell with: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Jennifer Coolidge and others. 1 hour 53 min.
Pig and original intersection between a black comedy and a so-called « rape-revenge » thriller where Carey Mulligan plays a traumatized young woman who has become obsessed with revenge her raped best friend. A really promising directorial debut by actor Emerald Fennell (« Saltburn ») who also won an Oscar for best script. Speeding cast with, among others, Bo Burnham, Jennifer Coolidge and Alison Brie.
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This week's classic:
“The French Connection. The violent men of the law ”(1971)
SVT Play. Director: William Friedkin. With: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Blanco, Bill Hickman and others. 1 hour 44 min.
On the occasion of Gene Hackman's passing, SVT shows this hard-boiled and adrenaline winner from the 70s that commutes between a windy Marseille and a chaotic New York and holds some of the most famous car chases of film history. Gene Hackman won an Oscars for his efforts as drug spanner Jimmy « Popeye » Doyle who together with his partner Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) chases a French-American drugny. Gene Hackman can also be seen in Roger Donaldson « No resort » on SVT Play.
