Another weekend arrives and in Espinof it is time to review the most appetizing news of this week in relation to the seventh art. Today we propose you 11 must-see movies that have reached movie theaters these days, streaming platforms, have been launched in physical format or can be seen on television from October 15 to 17. I leave you with them:
CINEMA
Venom: There Will Be Carnage
Second installment of the franchise headed by Tom hardy. The first one I did not like too much and in its continuation it is decidedly committed to the mamarrachismo, to the point of being impossible to take anything seriously. As such, it can become very entertaining … if you don’t end up unhinged by disbelief at what happens on screen.
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‘The good boss’
The brand new film selected to represent Spain in the next Oscars brings the director back together Fernando Leon de Aranoa with the actor Javier Bardem, with whom he had already coincided both in ‘Monday in the sun’ and in the less inspired ‘Loving Pablo’. On this occasion, it is committed to comedy in a film called to be one of the most outstanding of our cinema in 2021.
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STREAMING
‘Rescue distance’
María Valverde leads this film by Claudia Llosa placeholder image for Netflix based on the novel by Samantha Schweblin, opting for it by mechanisms typical of genre cinema but without ever forgetting the drama that the story is telling.
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‘Free Guy’
One of the most entertaining films of last summer, which benefited so much from the charisma of Ryan reynolds as for his way of using codes of the video game world to offer us a great adventure. This week it debuts both in the Disney + catalog and in physical format.
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PHYSICAL FORMAT
‘Do not desecrate the sleep of the dead’
One of the titles with which the Ediciones 79 Fantaterror Collection starts, which promises to bring great joy to fans of Spanish genre cinema. In the case at hand, it is a film that was born in the wake of the success of ‘The Night of the Living Dead’, but it achieves enough of its own personality to become an essential work for lovers of zombie cinema.
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TV
‘Tarzan’
The film that marked the end of a golden age in Disney animated productions. An intense adventure that knew how to take advantage of the history of the king of the jungle, being more faithful to the original source than most adaptations in real image. An energetic movie, great animation work, and good character development.
Friday at 9:20 p.m. on Disney Channel
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‘The visit’
The race of M. Night Shyamalan He was not going through his best moment when he decided to bet on a return to horror movies with great freedom. The result was a stimulating film that knew how to balance its most tense moments with others in which comedy gained presence without ever losing control of the situation, also making use of an intelligent use of found footage.
Dawn from Friday to Saturday at 0:05 at 1
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‘Oz a world of fantasy’
Not that it had a great reception at the time, but this film by Sam raimi knows how to combine the need for entertainment for all audiences with a hopeful message without being cloying. It is also a great visual spectacle and a great tribute to the seventh art itself.
Saturday at 6:45 pm on Disney Channel
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‘Heat’
Probably the most influential thriller of the 90s, since many were those who drank from this great movie of Michael Mann around a robbery that ends up getting complicated. In parallel, the obsessive rivalry in the shadows between a first-rate thief and a policeman with a complicated personal life embodied by some great Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
Saturday at 7pm at Paramount
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‘Noa’s diary’
An acclaimed romantic film that was the starting point for Hollywood to adapt the work of Nicholas Sparks with forgettable results. The one that concerns us here is, without a doubt, the best of these adaptations, largely because of the work of its cast.
Saturday at 22:05 at 1
‘Joker’
An overwhelming film that is supported by a Joaquin phoenix delivered for the cause. It is true that it is a work somewhat indebted to the style of Martin Scorsese, who at the time came to consider directing it, but it also expands the limits of the more commercial superhero cinema with a story more oriented to the adult audience that has no problem embracing the problematic personality of its protagonist.
Sunday at 22:05 at 1
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