‘Doctor Who’, documentaries of all kinds, a new multiverse series on Apple TV+…
One more month, the programming of streaming unfolds before us. New seasons of old series, new series that want to replace the old ones, big movie premieres that end up on the platforms, movies that have been filmed only for streaming… There goes our selection of what to watch on all platforms during the month of May 2024.
‘The Bridgertons’ S3
The series continues its determined chronicle of the Bridgerton family’s troubles, this time distancing itself from Julia Quinn’s original books. The protagonists change: Colin Bridgerton and his love story with Penelope Featherington will be the center of attention in this new season (which occupied the fourth book of the literary series), and which we will see divided into two parts: the first arrives on December 16 May 2024 and the second, on June 13.
Monster
Netflix surprises us from time to time with Indonesian horror films that surprise with the intensity of their images and the daring of their proposals. From what we know about this one, we can expect a thriller with tension at the absolute maximum: in a house in the middle of nowhere, a kidnapped girl tries to rescue a friend after managing to escape from her captor, but that is only the beginning of a true descent into pure horror.
The 8 Show
The pseudodystopia with a bizarre Korean contest of the month, following in the footsteps of ‘The Squid Game’, is this ‘The 8 Show’, which has a frankly intriguing starting point: eight people in need of money are invited to participate in a reality show show that consists of staying locked in a studio. They have to spend one hundred days there, but everything they spend on necessities (food, water, electricity…) is subtracted from the prize.
Atlas
Netflix’s most luxurious production for May is this curious science fiction film that is currently giving us action-packed trailers. An intelligence analyst (Jennifer López) is stranded on a distant planet and must learn to use military-grade robotic armor controlled by powerful artificial intelligence to survive. Directed by Brad Peyton, vehicle expert for The Rock: ‘Project Rampage’, ‘San Andrés’, ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth 2’…
Dark matter
The multiverse craze gets the Apple TV+ treatment (i.e. excellent cast, impeccable visuals) with this adaptation of a Blake Crouch novel starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. The series follows a physicist who, while returning home one night, ends up lost in an alternate version of his life. While trying to return to his original existence, he goes through all the possible lives he has gone through, while facing his worst enemy: himself.
- On Apple TV+ on May 8
Concrete Utopia
Excellent and very tense Korean dystopian film in which, after an earthquake, Seoul has been reduced to rubble. Only one building remains standing, some apartments around which the survivors congregate. But the residents of the block feel threatened and decide to organize to protect themselves. Rules and conflicts will soon emerge between each other, in a proposal that is halfway between the harsh social simulation of Ballard’s novels and the realistic drama of Korean science fiction.
- On Prime Video on May 24
Star Wars: Chronicles of the Empire
This ‘Star Wars’ animated series is conceived as a sequel to ‘The Jedi Chronicles’, and shows us two warriors from different times, facing the Empire: Morgan Elsbeth will enter a spiral of revenge and the former Jedi Barris Offee Try to survive a changing galaxy. A good appetizer before ‘The Acolyte’ arrives.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is back! After the magnificent episodes with the farewell of David Tennant, we have the start of Ncuti Gatwa’s season after the presentation a few months ago. BBC considers this new season as a reboot of the series (in fact, it appears on Disney+ as Season 1 again), if not plot-wise, then at least concept-wise, and although the unmistakable style and plots of the franchise are present, yes It seems clear that this is an ideal time to get into the Tardis.
Jim Henson: The audacity of ideas
A documentary about one of the greatest artists that American cinema and television has ever produced, at the hands of an expert filmmaker like Ron Howard. From what it seems, the documentary will focus both on the human side of Henson and on his facet as an absolute innovator. A very special piece that, why fool ourselves, promises laughter and tears in more or less the same quantities.
All Dirty Harry and other classics
HBO is pulling this month, before the transformation into Max, of something that we would like it to pull more often: the catalog of Warner classics, to fatten the catalog of a platform that could draw much more on the company’s vast legacy. This month, for example, the entire ‘Dirty Harry’ saga arrives, with its five films. And there’s more: ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, ‘Boogie Nights’, ‘Wyatt Earp’, ‘Superman Returns’, the special edition of the original ‘Superman’ by Christopher Reeve, ‘Superman III’, the tremendous ‘Superman IV: In search for peace’, ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Gremlins’.
The area of interest
One of the most relevant releases in recent months, winner of the Oscars for Best International Film and Best Sound, is finally coming to streaming. Although its incredible use of the soundtrack makes it worthy of being seen on the big screen, now you can go back to curling up in a whimpering ball on your couch at home with this horrifying story of psychological denial of horror and the portrait of the daily life of a Nazi family that lives and works next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. A film that, far from taking us to a remote time, tells us a lot about the mental stratagems that so many people use today to justify the unjustifiable.
The great menu
If you are interested in haute cuisine, this documentary can more than satisfy your appetite. The veteran director Frederick Wiseman, responsible for the radical documentary classic ‘Titicut Follies’, delves here into the guts of a French restaurant that has had three Michelin stars for more than fifty years. All the processes and gears that make it work are dissected in this documentary piece.
Agatha Cristie: Killing is easy
They say that a viewer could spend the entire month pecking from Agatha Christie adaptation to adaptation without seeing anything else for the entire month. We confirm that it is true, and also very fun, because new series based on the works of the queen of crime are continually released. In this case, with the first starring a black character and with a racialized cultural plot in the background: to the apparently quiet English town of Wychwood, Nigerian Luke Fitzwilliam arrives, ready to unravel the mystery of several deaths that the villagers insist are accidental. .
- On Movistar Plus+ on May 8
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