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This is again a regular Karantévé article, Index, about new content published by Hungarian streaming service providers. You can access our recommendations from the previous week at this link.
The list is not exhaustive, but rather a recommendation for those who are looking for the new and want to know more about them. And there is also some overlap with last week’s releases, because there were some that we omitted from the previous article, but we’ve already included them. Or we have to mention here again the latest feature film by Szabolcs Hajdu, Time of Peace, which was presented for the first time on the Internet in a unique way in the history of Hungarian cinema. Our article on Time of Peace can be read here.
NETFLIX
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All day and one night – Joe Robert Cole wrote the script for The Black Panther and worked as a producer and writer for the first American Crime Story, O.J. In the Simpson season, he directed the drama All Day And A Night, in which the protagonists of Moonlight and Basquiat play a father-son lineup. There may be a lot in the previous sentence of the movie title, but at least it helps to figure out what kind of movie All Day and One Night is. Its protagonist is Ashton Anders (the teenage Chiron from Moonlight), who goes to jail for murder and meets someone he did not want to look like in any way: his father (Jeffrey Wright). (May 1)
Stone-rich Asians – One of the most successful romantic movies in recent years has generated almost $ 250 million in revenue worldwide, but it has only been released on DVD in Hungary. It’s the stone-rich Asians that fit exactly into the tag cloud movies of Tastes, Prayers, Loves, and Love, Paste, Sea – it’s also based on a very successful novel, though it’s a big difference compared to the fact that that every protagonist here is Asian, which is not. It sure would have reached a Hungarian audience that is not famous for the news. Because yes, it is a novelty that Asian women and men interpret the theme of desire in romantic movies, in this particular case, Constance Wu plays the young woman who visits the family of her partner, Henry Golding, in Singapore before meeting. . Stone-rich Asians are, after all, more interesting than fun (and not as good a movie as A Farewell on an almost similar subject), but it also works as a tourist movie, romantic drama, and sometimes comedy. . And he introduced the world to Henry Golding, who has since been included by Guy Ritchie in his new movie. (May 1)
Serie
Hollywood – Ryan Murphy will slowly get involved in more series than he doesn’t, thanks to him, including American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Glee, Pose, Controversy: Bette and Joan, Nip / Tuck, and even going back to the previous paragraph, too wrote and directed the film adaptation of Tastes, Prayers, Loves. Murphy is making so much that Netflix is already coming to a seven-part miniseries called Hollywood, which will showcase Los Angeles after World War II, the entertainment industry there, through the eyes of those trying to be successful and / or famous. at all costs. The series features familiar faces (Rob Reiner, Mira Sorvino, Dylan McDermott), known faces from other Murphy series (Darren Criss), faces known to today’s audience (Samara Weaving, Jim Parsons) and even stars of the golden age . like Vivien Leigh, Rock Hudson or Anna May Wong. While the question may arise of how faithful Hollywood will be to her figure, the first preview, for example, portrays Hudson as an ignorant, rural stump who doesn’t recognize the Gone With the Wind star, which, to put it mildly, Gently, it would have been unthinkable at the time. (May 1)
At night – On the occasion of the airport’s 50th anniversary, comes this flying Belgian series, in which the biggest problem is not a potential air disaster, but specifically the end of the world. The sun’s rays begin to exterminate humanity for no reason, so a survivor of the plane, led by a hijacker, embarks into eternal darkness with an aircraft carrier. A six-part miniseries, a mysterious basic idea, a multilingual pan-European cast. (May 1)
I have never had – Netflix also thinks of teenagers, Never Have I Ever is about a team of teenage girls who are trying to deal with being terribly horny and who come from a relatively conservative family (in the case of the protagonist, india). The preview is cute, albeit a bit like the Virginity Two Years ago movie, only without the parents. Quality assurance here is Mindy Kaling, who appeared as a co-star and producer in the American Office, then wrote his own series titled The Mindy Project (starring Vilmos Zsigmond in three parts), and he is the executive producer of Never Have I Ever . from April 26
HBO GO
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Light of my life “Just because people don’t get sick anymore doesn’t mean the world is fine,” says Casey Affleck’s character in light of My Life, a movie in which a mysterious virus kills women, but it’s strange. way the daughter of Affleck’s character remained immune. This is how two of them live in a world full of men, taking care of each other. I predict whoever waits for the new Walking Dead of Light in my life will take a big breath, Affleck’s directing debuted first in Berlin and then at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and was not described by correspondents as a great roller coaster from the end of the world, but an intimacy, mainly as a two-act chamber drama in which the action is little but the intimate moment is even more so. Elizabeth Moss also appears in a small role. (May 2)
sequences
Los Angeles Horror Stories: City of Angels – Starring Natalie Dormer, known for Battle of the Thrones, HBO’s new fantasy / horror series, which is actually a series derived from London horror stories. This time, instead of Victorian England, we are in the United States in the 1930s when the news of a horrible murder shakes Los Angeles. Detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto), who is investigating, faces supernatural forces that no longer threaten him but his family. In the mysterious history, the traditions of Mexican-American folklore and the construction of the city’s first highway also play an important role. (April 24)
Betty “Skate Kitchen 2018 was a lovely coming-of-age movie about a suburban girl who loves skateboarding, but her single mother doesn’t want to know anything about it either. However, Camille couldn’t be stopped and set out to meet the characters from her favorite skateboarding Instagram page, Skate Kitchen. Now based on the movie there is a series called Betty. The 30 minute series takes place in New York and is about a skateboarding company of young women trying to demonstrate in a world dominated by skate men that there is nothing in the approach that a girl cannot do. There are protagonists who are very different from each other, but as usual in such films, they are held together through fire and water. (2 of may)
Amazon Prime
Rise – Upload is a rather strange combination in the first audience, a series of science fiction, comedy and satire that is about the afterlife. More specifically, with a virtual future life that, according to the series, will be an option for everyone in the not too distant future. So when the protagonist dies young enough, he leans into the beyond of his choice, where a woman named Nora will help him. So far, it’s pretty reminiscent of a Black Mirror episode, but from here, the story takes a more absurd and comical direction. Because as the man tries to get used to the fact that he must now exist without the known things of his loved ones and his earthly life, the woman worries that he will perform well enough for him. Because for him, who is a real and living man, it is his job to integrate the deceased as much as possible in the future life. Upload is created by Greg Daniels, who also produced The Office and Parks and Recreation in the United States. (May 1)
apple +
trying – Trying is the first Apple + series made in the UK to try to circumvent adoption in a humorous way. The protagonist of the series is a couple in their thirties, Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall), who want a child. But Nikki cannot get pregnant, so they decide to try the adoption. The only problem is that Nikki and Jason, despite being in their thirties, are still children in many ways. Their lives are pure chaos, their family members may be called the least rare, their circle of friends is no different. How could you have a couple of babies like that? And even if they do, can they accomplish this enormous task? Can your environment adapt to them? Can everyone change for the sake of a child? (May 1)
iTunes, Google Play
These movies are those that can be bought or rented not from streaming sites, but from the offerings of the digital service providers mentioned above.
Seberg – The film, starring Kristen Stewart, is about the life of French actress Jean Seberg, best known for her role in the female role to the point of exhaustion. He was successful in American and French films, but his private life turned sadly. She was married four times, her second husband was Romain Gary, novelist and film director. Jean Seberg came into contact with the Black Panther civil rights movement in the late 1960s, becoming its activist, drawing the attention of the FBI. She was pregnant in 1970 when she claimed she was under so much stress due to constant FBI harassment that she had to take sleeping pills and sedatives. On one occasion, he took so many sleeping pills that he aborted. He later had a failed suicide attempt, and in 1979, at the age of forty, he was found dead with large amounts of alcohol and drugs in his blood. Probably committed suicide. The film shows the actress becoming a star and then joining the civil rights movement and how she slowly lost ground. In addition to Kristen Stewart, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, and Anthony Mackie play in it. from April 26
Harriet Biographical drama is also Harriet, which tells the life of Harriet Tubman (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo) who became a slave freedom fighter in the 19th century. Harriet was born a slave to Tubman, but managed to escape at an early age. He then prepared his life to help as many slaves as possible to escape and became one of the most successful members of the slave rescue network called the Underground Railroad. His figure became legendary, blacks began to refer to him as Moses, so many people owed him his freedom. When the Civil War broke out, he naturally joined the North and fought at the forefront of his own formation. However, the film does not focus on this period, but on his early years, when, after his escape, he realizes what his role in life is, how he can more effectively help blacks who are still enslaved. (May 1)
(Cover image: Betty, Alison Cohen Rosa / HBO. Cover image: Hollywood, Netflix.)
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