Pipoca Moderna has made a selection of productions of different genres that have just arrived in the streaming and digital rental shops
New previews on streaming and digital stores offer a rich selection of stars to take home during the weekend. But as much as the collaboration between Tilda Swinton and her daughter is a critical favorite, there is no way to surpass Nicolas Cage as Nicolas Cage.
Rich in genres, the selection of titles includes action comedies, romance, award-winning dramas, zombies, animation and Brazilian dystopia. Check out 10 tips below, with trailers and information, for programming your home cinema.
| THE WEIGHT OF TALENT | LIVE GAME, VOD *
The action comedy is a satire on star Nicolas Cage’s career. In the film, he is a broke actor with no job offers named Nick Cage, who is forced to accept an invitation for a paid appearance at a party of a millionaire Spanish fan. But the character played by Pedro Pascal (“The Mandalorian”) runs a drug cartel and going to the party ends up becoming an opportunity for the CIA to persuade Cage to become a spy.
Complicating the situation is the actor who begins to show symptoms of schizophrenia, confronting himself with a version of himself from the 90s, and the surprise arrival of his ex-wife and daughter, brought to the millionaire for a reconciliation. With the lives of those he loves at stake, Cage decides to face his own legend, channeling his most iconic characters into the most important role in his life: the hero capable of saving his loved ones from crossfire.
Directed by Tom Gormican, who also wrote the screenplay with Kevin Ettan, his creative partner on the “Ghosted” series, the film also includes Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”) as the manager of Cage and Tiffany Haddish. (“Queens of Crime”) as a CIA agent.
| THE MEMORY: PART II | LIVE TV, VOD *
The sequel to Joanna Hogg’s masterpiece is another sublime production, with a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and considered the best British film of the year by the London Critics Circle. Set in the 1980s, the story is based on the life of the director and sees the young protagonist, a film student named Julie, after the tragic consequences of a toxic relationship, use her graduation film to translate her disenchantment into art. .
The cast includes Honor Swinton Byrne, daughter of Tilda Swinton, in the lead role, and Tilda herself as the character’s mother, as well as Richard Ayoade (“The IT Crowd”), Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”), Alice McMillan (“Duo Explosive 2: And the First Lady of Crime “) and Jaygann Ayeh (” Cursed Dress “).
| PERSUASION | NETFLIX
Adapted from Jane Austen’s novel of the same name, the drama follows a multiracial love triangle formed by Dakota Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Gray”), Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) and Cosmo Jarvis (“Lady Macbeth”).
“Persuasion” was Austen’s last complete novel, published in 1817, shortly after her death. The plot follows Anne Elliot (Johnson), a nonconformist woman who is convinced to dump the courtier Frederick Wentworth (Jarvis) because she is poor. Now she, with her snobbish family on the brink of bankruptcy, she discovers that Wentworth has returned rich in search of a wife. But there are complications.
The history of the novel has seen several adaptations for television and theater, but this is the first described as a “modern and witty approach”. In other words, it is a production under the colorless filter of “Bridgerton”, which transforms the English aristocracy of the early nineteenth century, already known as an example of “pride and prejudice”, into a model of racial integration rare to see until these days. – so says Meghan Markle.
The adaptation is written by veteran “My Best Friend Getting Married” screenwriter Ronald Bass and newcomer Alice Victoria Winslow (“Seratonin”), and marks the debut of theater director Carrie Cracknell at the helm of a feature film.
| ESCAPE – NO PLACE TO CALL HOME | VOD *
The creative documentary by Danish artist Jonas Poher Rasmussen (“Searching for Bill”) tells, through animation, the true story of a refugee named Amin. On the eve of his gay wedding, he unveils his hidden past for the first time, telling how he got even smaller in Denmark, fleeing Afghanistan on his own. The story comes to life through a cartoon, with an impressive result that makes it into the history of the 2022 Oscars, as the first feature film nominated simultaneously in the categories of Best International Film, Animation and Documentary.
“Flee” has not won an Oscar, but has won 82 other international awards since its premiere for best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2021, including trophies for best documentary and animation presented by the European Film Academy.
| BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD FROM THE UNIVERSE | PARAMETER +
The animated film, which marks the return of the iconic ’90s MTV duo, sees Beavis and Butt-head on a space mission. Somehow, inactive metalheads have become astronauts. But thanks to an accident, they soon return to Earth. Only in the future – more precisely, in 2022 – when they will begin to be hunted down by US security agencies and satirical versions of The Watcher (seen in “What If …?”), In an allusion to the Marvel metaverse.
Original series creator Beavis & Butt-head Mike Judge is responsible for all this confusion. He returns as a director, screenwriter and voice actor for the characters.
| BASTARDOZ | NETFLIX
The curious horror of the zombies with a historical context takes place during the Spanish Civil War, when communist revolutionaries and fascist military, declared enemies, must join forces to face a horde of creatures created in a Nazi experiment. Directed by the duo Alberto de Toro (from the horror “O Páramo”, also available on Netflix) and Javier Ruiz Caldera (from the comedy “Formatura Fantasma”).
| THE GOOD MOTHER | CLARO TV +, VOD *
The protagonist is a woman who works as a cleaning lady and takes care of her small family in a housing project in the north of Marseille. She is worried about her granddaughter, jailed for several months for theft, and she awaits his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety as she deals with her daily life and finds the money to pay the lawyer.
Awarded at the Cannes Film Festival last year, the second feature film directed by French actress Hafsia Herzi (“The Fountain of Women”) centers on the interpretation of Halima Benhamed, who had never acted before in her life – it went to accompany his daughter in the audition and was eventually chosen by the director for the lead role. And everyone in the plot depends on her, who does everything for her children, from drugs to keeping the house tidy and with food, as more and more people take advantage of her-hers goodwill in a representation of motherhood.
| THE GODDESS OF FIRES | CLARO TV +, VOD *
A story of youth revolt set in a rural town in Quebec, Canada, during the height of the grunge era. The central character is a teenager who goes into crisis with her family in the middle of her discovery phase: sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Geneviève Pettersen, the film is directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, winner of the Berlin Film Festival for “Inch’Allah” (2012).
| THE WOMAN OF THE DIVIDER | CLARO TV +, VOD *
The first film to be presented by Somalia for an Oscar, the drama follows a gravedigger as he tries to raise money for a desperately needed kidney transplant for his beloved, increasingly ill wife. Due to the lack of film tradition in the country, the production is Finnish and highlights the debut of Somali artists based in Finland, director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed and actor Omar Abdi, who have won numerous international awards for their work. . In all, the film won 23 festival awards, including last year’s Toronto Film Festival.
| PROVISIONAL MEASURE | GLOBOPLAY
Lázaro Ramos’ debut as a director has already passed through the cinema, through digital rental shops and now comes to subscription streaming. The dystopian plot takes place in the not too distant future, in which a new law of the right-wing federal government orders the deportation of all Brazilians with “accentuated melanin” to the African continent. Under the guise of being a historic reparation, the initiative also aims to put an end to racism in Brazil once and for all, leaving the country alone with whites.
Acclaimed by world critics, the film has been compared to “Get Out!” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” in the US, reaching a 92% approval rating on the US website Rotten Tomatoes. But despite having been screened and awarded at international festivals since 2020, it took two years to arrive in Brazil due to difficulties involving Ancine, the National Film Agency – a similar problem to the one that also delayed Wagner’s “Marighella”. Moura, another politicized film with a black protagonist. Attacked by the Bolsonarists, he ended up reinforcing his message.
Cast Features Alfred Enoch (“How To Get Away With Murder”), Seu Jorge (“Marighella”), Taís Araújo (“O Robo da Taça”), Mariana Xavier (“Minha Mãe É uma Peça”), Adriana Esteves (“Benzinho”), Luís Miranda (“Crô em Família”), Renata Sorrah (“Árido Movie”), Jéssica Ellen (“Três Verões”) and the rapper Emicida.
* VOD (video on demand) versions can be rented individually on platforms such as Apple TV, Google Play, Microsoft Store, Prime Store and YouTube, among others, without the need for a monthly subscription.
Source: Terra
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