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En vez de mirar el calendario y lamentar que el verano ya se está terminando, quizá lo mejor sea poner el aire acondicionado y entregarse al mejor plan posible: un maratón. No de correr, de series, por supuesto. Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+ y compañía no se han tomado vacaciones, y este mes viene cargado de historias perfectas para ver entre chapuzón y helado. Las hay para todos los gustos: xenomorfos, antihéroes bocazas, tu adolescente gótica favorita… Aquí tienes los estrenos a los que no hay que perder de vista:

El Gran Guerrero (1 de agosto en Apple TV+) © Apple TV+

Jason Momoa es un guerrero hawaiano del siglo Xviii que intenta unir las islas antes de que lleguen los colonos. La serie tiene unos paisajes que te dejarán boquiabierto, un casting mayoritariamente polinesio elegido con mucho mimo y,...

Álvaro Morte y Hovik Keuchkerian coprotagonizan esta historia de venganza. © Netflix

Netflix ha presentado el primer tráiler de Dos tumbas, su nueva miniserie original creada por Agustín Martínez (La caza).

Dos tumbas arranca dos años después de la desaparición de Verónica y Marta, dos amigas de 16 años, cuyo caso se archiva por falta de pruebas y sospechosos. Pero Isabel (Kiti Mánver), abuela de una de las jóvenes, sin nada que perder, decide llevar a cabo una investigación al margen de la ley. Isabel hará todo lo que sea necesario para descubrir la verdad sobre lo que ocurrió aquella noche y lo que comienza como la búsqueda de un culpable pronto se convertirá en una historia de venganza.

La serie de tres episodios está protagonizada por Kiti Mánver (Los abrazos rotos), Álvaro Morte (La casa de papel) y Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja). Completan el reparto Nadia Vilaplana (La vida breve), Joan Solé...

El actor de ‘Hellboy’ lidera el primer largometraje de Luis Gabriel Beristáin. © Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de la película Ya no quedan junglas, la ópera prima de Luis Gabriel Beristáin.

Basada en la novela homónima del periodista Carlos Augusto Casas, en Ya no quedan junglas, Theo (Perlman), conocido como «el Gentleman», es un ex soldado estadounidense cuya solitaria y miserable existencia transcurre entre sus recuerdos de un pasado mejor con su difunta esposa y su cita habitual de los jueves con Olga, una prostituta a la que paga por conversar, recordando quién fue una vez y soñando con lo que podría haber sido. Cuando Olga es asesinada, él busca una venganza brutal. El rastro de sangre que deja tras de sí es seguido por Iborra, una inspectora de policía alcohólica, y Herodes, un despiadado asesino a sueldo. La intersección de estos personajes al...

Una abuela dispuesta a todo para hacer justicia por su nieta desaparecida. © Netflix

Netflix ha desvelado la fecha de estreno y las primeras imágenes de Dos tumbas, su nueva miniserie creada por Agustín Martínez (La caza).

Dos tumbas arranca dos años después de la desaparición de Verónica y Marta, dos amigas de 16 años, cuyo caso se archiva por falta de pruebas y sospechosos. Pero Isabel (Kiti Mánver), abuela de una de las jóvenes, sin nada que perder, decide llevar a cabo una investigación al margen de la ley. Isabel hará todo lo que sea necesario para descubrir la verdad sobre lo que ocurrió aquella noche y lo que comienza como la búsqueda de un culpable pronto se convertirá en una historia de venganza.

La serie de tres episodios está protagonizada por Kiti Mánver (Los abrazos rotos), Álvaro Morte (La casa de papel) y Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja). Completan el reparto...

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Junio llega con un aluvión de series que te van a dejar pegado al sofá, donde mejor se está (además de en una sala de cine) con el aire acondicionado. Entre regresos muy esperados como The Bear o El juego del calamar, y estrenos que prometen dar mucho que hablar como Smoke o Mobland, este mes toca maratonear y degustar series que te atraparán entre cocinas, incendios, catas de vino y calamares. Aquí tienes los estrenos a los que no hay que perder de vista:

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Owen Wilson es un ex golfista profesional cuya carrera descarriló prematuramente hace 20 años. Después del fracaso de su matrimonio y ser despedido de su trabajo en una tienda de artículos deportivos de Indiana, Pryce deposita todas sus...

El thriller psicológico aterriza en SkyShowtime en junio. © SkyShowtime

SkyShowtime ha publicado el primer tráiler de la serie Matices, un thriller psicológico creado por Sergio Canovas (Noche de chicas).

Matices narra la historia de seis pacientes que se reúnen en una apartada bodega para completar el tratamiento de un reconocido, excepcional y carismático psiquiatra, convertido en una eminencia en su campo gracias a su famoso método, que ha logrado un altísimo porcentaje de cura entre los pacientes más complejos y difíciles de reconducir. Tras una insólita cata ceremonial, un fatídico suceso da un giro inesperado a los acontecimientos. Un intuitivo teniente de la Guardia Civil se hace cargo del caso y descubre la verdad de los traumas de los pacientes.

La serie de ocho episodios está protagonizada por un reparto coral compuesto por Maxi Iglesias (Punto Nemo), Enrique Arce (La casa de papel), Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja), Juana Acosta (Perfectos desconocidos...

El thriller psicológico aterriza en la plataforma de streaming en junio. © SkyShowtime

SkyShowtime ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de Matices, un thriller psicológico creado por Sergio Canovas (Noche de chicas).

Matices narra la historia de seis pacientes que se reúnen en una apartada bodega para completar el tratamiento de un reconocido, excepcional y carismático psiquiatra, convertido en una eminencia en su campo gracias a su famoso método, que ha logrado un altísimo porcentaje de cura entre los pacientes más complejos y difíciles de reconducir. Tras una insólita cata ceremonial, un fatídico suceso da un giro inesperado a los acontecimientos. Un intuitivo teniente de la Guardia Civil se hace cargo del caso y descubre la verdad de los traumas de los pacientes.

La serie de ocho episodios está protagonizada por un reparto coral compuesto por Maxi Iglesias (Punto Nemo), Enrique Arce (La casa de papel), Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja), Juana Acosta...

Spain’s rich TV show lineup at the Berlin Film Festival also features a screening of Atresmedia’s “Red Flags,” charting the often pained sexual and emotional awakening of four Gen Z teens.

Selected titles at Berlin:

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“Honor,” (Atresmedia TV, Portocabo)

The Spanish remake of Israeli TV series “Kvodo,” with the often superb Dario Grandinetti (“Talk to Her”) in the Bryan Cranston role of famed Showtime re-do “Your Honor,” as a principled judge attempting to save his son after, in an accidental hit-and-run, he kills the son of a lethal drug kingpin. Portocabo produces with Atresmedia TV in an intense and thought-provoking series,” says Atresmedia’s José Antonio Salso.

“Internal Affairs,” (“Asuntos Internos,” Rtve-Mediacrest)

Following a first women police inspector in Spain, a 1979-set series distinguished by strong thriller propulsion, premium production values and a novel female take on cop thrillers. It also offers a moving vision...

Starring Elsa Pataky and “Money Heist’s” Enrique Arce and Hovik Keuchkerian, SkyShowtime Original “Shades” (“Matices”) and Bulgarian drama “Shattered Bonds” will head Beta Film’s slate at the Berlin Festival’s European Film Market.

“Shades” is one of the two titles featured at a Berlinale Series Market Spanish Thrillers showcase on Feb. 17. Toplining “The White Lotus’” Julian Kostov, “Shattered Bonds” will center the EFM showcase “Narratives Against Rising Youth Violence” on Feb 18.

“Shades” and “Shattered Bonds” join official Berlinale TV entry “Other People’s Money,” inspired by the true story of Europe’s biggest known tax fraud, which screens as the sole TV series in the festival’s Panorama Section.

Beta Cinema represents Berlinale opening title “The Light” by Tom Tykwer and the Panorama entry “Cicadas” by Ina Weisse (“The Audition”).

Produced by Secuoya Studios and Stellarmedia for SkyShowtime, “Shades” marks SkyShowtime’s second locally commissioned original in Spain.

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by Isabel Jacobs

Michael A. Goorjian is an award-winning American actor, filmmaker, and writer, known for his roles in “David’s Mother” (1994), “Slc Punk!” (1998), its sequel, “Punk’s Dead” (2016) and many other films, television series and theater productions. Goorjian received acclaim as a director for his mock-documentary “Oakland Underground” (1997) and the movie “Illusion” (2004), which he wrote, directed and starred in alongside Kirk Douglas.

He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His father is Armenian, his grandparents are survivors of the Armenian genocide, an experience that also shapes his latest comedy-drama “Amerikatsi”. The film centers around Charlie Bakhchinyan, played by Goorjian himself, an Armenian-American who repatriates to Soviet Armenia after World War II. Arrested for the crime of wearing a tie, he ends up in prison.

“Amerikatsi” won various awards and became an instant classic in Armenia where it was selected as the country’s entry for the...

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The intricate planning, a bunch of misfits coming together, and an impossible amount of money all come together and result in a thrilling heist. The heist genre is generally one of the most popular sub-genres out because of all the thrills and mystery you can have in the plot while also having a ton of fun. So, if you are a heist genre fan, Netflix is the streaming service for you, as it has some of the best heist shows you can find anywhere.

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Kaleidoscope is a heist thriller drama series created by Eric Garcia. The Netflix series follows a master thief and his crew as they try to $7 billion, but their internal conflict and greed get in the way of their plans. Kaleidoscope is known for its unique way of presenting its story because...

Barcelona, Spain: May 23, 1981. The Central Bank of Barcelona opened its doors as it did any other day, seemingly a day that promised to be as uneventful as any other. That promise is shattered at 9:05 Am, when 11 hooded men with rifles storm the building, taking it under control. Warning shots were fired to silence the panicked crowd of 263 people stuck inside, and one employee of the bank took a bullet to the knee, a move intended to fend off the approaching police. It was a hostage drama that played out over 37 hours, eliciting concern worldwide from people captivated by the unfolding situation. It's an event brought to life in the new Netflix series Bank Under Siege (Asalto al Banco Central), a Spanish production starring Miguel Herrán, María Pedraza, and Hovik Keuchkerian. Over the course of 5 one-hour episodes, the harrowing 37 hours and their aftermath are explored through the eyes of determined reporter Maider Garmendia,...

This week, there have been big changes in the global entertainment business across streaming platforms and production companies, with big announcements coming from several countries.

“The Road Trip,” a new love comedy show from Paramount+, will start on December 26 in the UK, Canada, and Australia. People say the show will be funny and romantic, like old movies like “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” and “One Day.” The show is about a holiday romance that gets renewed and stars Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, and other great players.

Prime Video’s drama “Reina Roja” (Red Queen) is going forward with its second season in Spain. The new season is based on Juan Gómez-Jurado’s series of books. It follows detectives Antonia Scott and Jon Gutiérrez as they investigate a crime on Spain’s Costa del Sol with ties to the Russian mafia. Victoria Luengo and Hovik Keuchkerian will be back in the lead parts,...

‘The Road Trip’ Teaser On The Road At Paramount+

First-look images (above) and a teaser trailer have been released for The Road Trip, the Paramount+ rom-com launching on the streamer in the UK, Canada and Australia. December 26 has been pencilled in for a debut in those countries. The rom-com series about a camper van ride in Spain stars Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, David Jonsson, Isabella Laughland and Angus Imrie, and explores whether someone can be the right person but at the wrong time. The trailer reveals the love affair between Addie (Appleton) and Dylan (Davidson), which began two years before as a holiday romance before ending. Paramount claims the show has “all the fun of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and the romantic yearning of One Day.” Ryan O’Sullivan and Matilda Wnek wrote and created the show, with Miriam Brent, Eleanor Moran and Rory Aitken the executive producers. 42 is making The Road Trip...

Bank Under Siege is a Spanish Netflix original that is based on the true events that took place in the city of Barcelona in the year 1981. This is a period drama that unfolds as a robbery takes place in the Central Bank, situated in the city of Barcelona. As the hostage situation becomes tense, the police, the army, and the bureaucrats get involved to uncover the real motive behind the robbery and to find out if there were some other influential powers involved in this. Hence, there are many characters in the show that delve deep into this issue.

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Miguel Herran portrays the role of Jose Juan Martinez Gomez in Bank Under Siege, the leader of the robbers that have taken over the Central Bank in Barcelona. He is referred to as Number One by the fellow robbers who have followed him into the bank.

In the early stages of Spain’s democracy, a risky bank robbery would become a turning point to test the country’s new political order. “Bank Under Siege” brings back to life the amazing events of May 23, 1981, when eleven men in masks broke into Barcelona’s Central Bank and turned what seemed like a heist into a powerful political statement.

Three months after a failed military coup to remove Spain’s new democratic government, these thieves took more than 200 hostages. They demanded that Colonel Antonio Tejero and the other people who were involved in the coup be freed. What at first looked like a simple criminal operation turned out to be a complicated political move meant to throw off the country’s delicate shift to democracy.

The show is set in Spain after Franco’s death and shows a country still dealing with its authoritarian past. King Juan Carlos and...

Netflix releases a lot of miniseries every year, and a lot of them fail to justify why they needed to tell their stories in an episodic fashion instead of taking the feature film route. If we take a look at the streaming platform’s 2024 slate so far, Fool Me Once was absolutely atrocious. The Indrani Mukerjea Story seemed like an overlong PR stunt. Baby Reindeer was phenomenal, sure. Eric was so goddamn listless. Ic 814: The Kandahar Hijack seemed like a live-action version of the incident’s Wikipedia page. The Perfect Couple seemed so disinterested in its own story. And then there was The Last Night at Tremore Beach, which spent over 8 hours spinning some elaborate tale and then eventually revealed that maybe all of it had been a figment of its protagonist’s mind. Now, we have Bank Under Siege in our hands. Does it justify its miniseries tag?...

The first full week of November is here, and Netflix is not wasting any time getting the Christmas movies out. They have four Xmas movies coming out this week and are just throwing in a bank heist show for good measure. Is there really a bad time for a heist show? No.

First up this week is Meet Me Next Christmas! It hits Netflix on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 and stars Christina Milan, Devale Ellis, Tymika Tafari, and the entire Pentatonix crew. If nothing else, the music will be great in this movie.

The film follows Layla as she does everything she can to get a ticket to see Pentatonix. But can she do that and be with the man of her dreams this Christmas? You'll have to watch and find out. I love Christmas movies with weird premises. Delightful!

Take a look at the trailer here:

But what about the other three Christmas movies?...

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The capabilities of the horror genre are what make it so special when done right. Across that spectrum of scares sits the horror movie with an eye for social commentary that can cut through an audience as sharply as the killer wielding the knife. Netflix's The Platform is an unappreciated gem tucked away in the corner that, despite its high concept, has plenty to say about class and starvation wrapped in a digestible and delicious coating. The Platform might appear simple in its metaphors of the plight of human survival, but its efficiency in establishing its world sits at the heart of what makes it so successful.

Social commentary can act as a weight around a movie's ankle, constantly holding it back from what it wants to be.

The Platform 2 just debuted on Netflix and it's a huge hit. The movie is a sequel to the 2019's The Platform, a dystopian thriller about a prison where the inmates are fed via a descending platform that starts at the top level and proceeds to the bottom.

The Platform 2 was released on Netflix on Oct. 4, and it was a major success because it topped the Global charts for the week between Sept. 30 and Oct. 4 with 19.4 million, and 32.6 million hours viewed, making it the most-viewed title overall. Considering the sequel had only two days to make a statement, it not only met expectations but exceeded them. Based on Netflix's records from 2019, the original amounted to 56 million views in its first four weeks, Bloomberg shared in a 2020 article.

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The Platform 2 has become a hit on Netflix's global top 10 chart. The Platform 2 is the sequel film to the 2019 film The Platform, which first introduced audiences to a world that as constructed a prison wherein the inmates are fed via a descending platform that starts on the top level and proceeds to the bottom. The Platform 2 picks up with another story about this prison, expanding the first film's lore. This Spanish-language thriller is directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, and features a leading cast including Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, Oscar Jaenada, and Ivan Massague.

Now, The Platform has found success on Netflix's streaming chart. The film was no. 1 on the non-English language chart for the week of September 30 to October 6, amassing 19.4 million views. The Platform also made it onto the global chart for non-English language films, making it to no. 5. Looking at the English-language chart as well,...

Both its release date (March 2020) and subject matter conspired to make Spanish thriller The Platform a pandemic mega-hit for Netflix four years ago. The streaming giant will be hoping that this follow-up — which hurls us back into the nightmarish tower-block prison dubbed ‘The Pit’ — might bank similar record-breaking viewing-figure returns. Sadly, on the strength of the film's quality alone, that seems unlikely.

Before we get to the meat of this confounding sequel-or-is-it-a-prequel (more on that confusion in a moment), a brief recap for those who might have missed the first outing. The Pit — also known by its more PR-friendly title ‘The Vertical Self-Management Centre’ — is a 333-floor jail, featuring two cellmates per floor. Once a day, a floating platform containing a vast, medieval-style banquet descends from the very top to the very bottom, stopping briefly at each floor. Inmates are permitted to gorge themselves on as much grub as they can while it's there,...

The sequel to the hit Netflix dystopian thriller The Platform, aptly titled The Platform 2, has now been unleashed and has quickly topped the global streaming charts (via FlixPatrol). While audiences are clearly tuning in for another bite of this Spanish sci-fi horror series, the critical response has been a little more unsavory, with The Platform 2 now sitting at a divisive 50% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with just 25% from audiences on the "Popcornmeter."

So, what are the critics saying about our return to the "Vertical Self-Management Center" prison, a brutal system which sees a platform of food work its way down different levels. Pro tip, dont find yourself at the bottom. Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com gave the sequel just 1.5/4, and sees no reason why a follow-up was needed.

Within the first half an hour of director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutias The Platform 2, its apparent that this return is indeed a grave error.

Warning: Major spoilers for Netflix's The Platform 2 below!The Platform 2's ending again revolves around rescuing a child, but what is the purpose of these imprisoned children within the franchise? The Platform was a major success for Netflix in 2019, where Ivn Massagu's Goreng tries to survive his time within a "Vertical Self-Management Center," a fancy term for a surreal prison where food is distributed via the title platform. The movie wasn't subtle about its commentary on class or the distribution of wealth within society, and the film itself is one big metaphor.

The Platform's ending offered a glimmer of hope when Goreng decides to send a message to the prison's cruel, unseen administration by saving a life. His fate was deliberately left ambiguous, and a new cast of characters fronts The Platform 2. The sequel still doesn't reveal who built the tower or why, but it...

The themes of entrapment and the fight for survival in a manufactured environment have become recurrent narrative tropes in 21st-century cinema. While Vincenzo Natali’s “Cube” (1997) put a sci-fi spin on the survival quest of a group of strangers, the Japanese action thriller “Battle Royale” and similar iterations (including the hit Netflix series “Squid Game”) found grim sociopolitical parallels to our contemporary dog-eat-dog world. The winsome young adult stories like “Hunger Games” and “Maze Runner” put a dystopian cloak to the survival game tales. Then there were also richly allegorical dystopian visions in movies like “The Snowpiercer” and “The Platform.” The latter of the two – from Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia – felt like an assortment of familiar sociopolitical elements ensconced within this familiar narrative, but it offered unique twisty visual delights and an ever-deepening metaphor for social inequality.

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After the wild success of the original, The Platform 2 is disappointing for critics and audiences alike. The sequel to the original 2019 movie, it continues to tell the story of convicts in a vertical prison. With food distributed from the top floor and being sent down, the top floors horde everything available, leaving the bottom floors to starve. The original movie was led by Ivn Massagu's Goreng, but The Platform 2's cast is led by Milena Smit's Perempuan. Its sequel was just released on September 27.

While the first movie enjoyed immense success on Rotten Tomatoes, its follow-up is struggling. It currently sits at a 55% Tomatometer score, and audiences have offered a painful 29% Popcornmeter score. By contrast, the original has an 81% Tomatometer score and a 73% Popcornmeter score. After so much success for the first movie, it is struggling to achieve the original's relative acclaim.

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It’s October, officially known as “spooky season,” a term I just realized I’ve seen a lot less this year than in years prior. Maybe it’s a less spooky season than usual? In any case, “spooky season” means the streamers are putting up a lot of original horror movies this week. Max has “‘Salem’s Lot,” the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s vampire classic; Prime Video has “House of Spoils,” a Blumhouse psychological horror thriller starring Ariana DuBose as a Carmy-esque chef who’s either losing her mind or actually haunted; and Hulu has a period horror movie called “Hold Your Breath” starring Sarah Paulson as a mother in Dust Bowl Oklahoma who thinks there are monsters in the dust storms.

But none of those are our top picks this week. That would be “It’s What’s Inside,” a stylish Netflix horror comedy with a “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Platform 2 ‘Netflix’ Movie Review: The 2019 Spanish dystopian feature debut of director Glader Gatzelu Urrutia is the first installment of this science-fiction franchise that gained unwitting prescience when it landed on Netflix on 3rd March 2020. Smack dab in the middle of the pandemic, the story of prisoners stuck in a pait forced to do anything to survive turned out to be unfortunately too relatable for the people stuck inside their homes during the pandemic, struggling to keep their sanity intact as they were forced to adjust themselves to the new normal.

The first film’s conceit is a vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down—an endless nightmare trapped in The Pit. It is a movie where the plotting of the film could very easily bog down the potency of the premise,...

The Platform, one of the most-watched non-English Netflix films of all time, took viewers on a disturbing dystopian odyssey through a brutal prison extending over 200 stories underground. In the just-released follow-up The Platform 2, a new inmate leads a rebellion against the Pit’s oppressive food distribution system as a mysterious leader imposes brutal rules for prisoners to abide by — or else. From The Platform director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, The Platform 2 stars Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, and Óscar Jaenada.

“We started shooting the film full of excitement, eager to expand the universe of The Platform with a plot full of surprises, obstacles, new characters … and old friends,” Gaztelu-Urrutia told Netflix about the sequel. “We want this second installment to be an exciting physical journey that allows us to delve into the darkness, into that place where we are afraid to look.”

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“The Platform 2” is a movie directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia starring Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena y Óscar Jaenada.

Dive into the harrowing depths of “The Platform 2,” a nightmarish odyssey exploring themes of struggle, social justice, and religion across 333 torturous levels. This brutal allegory masterfully portrays life, social stratification, indoctrination, societal norms, and humanity’s ceaseless quest to quell an insatiable hunger. As the much-anticipated sequel to the 2019 Netflix hit, “The Platform 2” loses some of the original’s shock value but compensates with superior technical prowess and a well-crafted script, making it a worthy successor in a genre-defying cinematic landscape.

The film stands out at a technical level, showcasing the director’s adept use of cinematic tools to immerse the audience in a surreal, harrowing nightmare reflective of the human condition.

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The story plunges us into an unsettling experiment where prisoners inhabit various levels of a vertical prison.

The allegorical simplicity of Netflix’s The Platform makes it brilliant—a sequel seems antithetical. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform 2 needlessly complicates the original’s food-fighting take on hierarchical class governance. Religious iconography influences heavy-handed zealotry, while callbacks and returning characters feel out of place. Gaztelu-Urrutia’s expansion feels redundant and over-explained,...

While walking through another harrowing portrayal of a dystopian prison-like setting, The Platform 2 introduces new players while also marking the return of some characters from the first film. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, The Platform is a Spanish thriller that premiered on Netflix with rave reviews and even rose in the ranks to become one of the highest-viewed non-English movies on the streaming platform. Considering its success, it is not surprising that it spawned a sequel that delves deeper into the philosophical and social commentary introduced by its predecessor.

Similar to the first film, The Platform 2 also unfolds in a "self-managing" tower where each floor accommodates two people. The primary driver of its narrative is the titular platform that goes down and sequentially carries hoards of food from one level to another. While the movie's setting and the violent action it generates are enough to keep viewers hooked, The Platform 2...

It's difficult to ascertain where the quote came from, but someone wiser than myself once said that civilization is only nine meals away from anarchy. That is: if the citizens are starved, en masse, for three full days, governmental systems will collapse. One may be a moral, upstanding citizen, but if starved for three days, food theft becomes an attractive, natural option. Another old saying: If you see someone stealing food at the grocery store, no you didn't.

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's "The Platform 2," arriving on Netflix without fanfare on October 4, details the above adage in knuckle crunching detail. This new sequel has the same premise and setting as the first "The Platform," which was consumed voraciously by Netflix subscribers in 2020 right at the start of Covid-related lockdowns. Who would have guessed a bleak, sci-fi story about being trapped inside with limited food would resonate at such a time? "The Platform 2...

Released on Netflix in March of 2020 (unbelievably perfect timing for a movie about people confined to an inescapable prison whose design pits insatiable self-interest against the public good), Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s “The Platform” is an anti-capitalism allegory whose obviousness is its greatest strength. Like so many streaming hits, the genre exercise resonated because its high-concept premise told a compelling story unto itself.

The film’s most and only memorable character is “The Pit” where it takes place, a narrow concrete tower (or “Vertical Self-Management Center”) with a large square hole in the middle of each floor — a hole just large enough to fit the massive smorgasbord of food that’s lowered down the building’s 333 stories each day. The two inmates on the top floor are treated to a royal banquet, but only a few errant scraps remain when the movable feast reaches the 50th level below them...

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Netflix is ready with an entertainment-packed October this year. The upcoming month will see the return of one of Netflix’s best original films The Platform and also new brilliant movies like Don’t Move and Woman of the Hour. Just like every month, Netflix is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 10 movies coming to Netflix in October 2024.

The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist (October 3)

The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist is an upcoming animated Halloween heist comedy special directed by Kevin Peaty. Based on the 2022 film titled The Bad Guys written by Etan Cohen and the children’s graphic novel by Aaron Blabley, the upcoming Netflix special follows the Bad Guys after they steal from a haunted mansion but when Wolf is haunted by the owner of the mansion they have to return the loot.

"People die if the Law is not upheld." Netflix has revealed the official trailer for the sequel to the hit Spanish lo-fi sci-fi film The Platform from 2019 (it landed on Netflix in 2020) called simply The Platform 2. The first film is one of the best capitalism-is-terrible films of modern times. This continuation is again directed by the same Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia who made the original film (he has been making this in secret for years). As a mysterious leader imposes their rule in the Platform, another resident becomes embroiled in the battle against this controversial method to help fight the brutal feeding system. But when eating from the wrong plate becomes a death sentence, how far would you be willing to go to save your life? Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian star in the second installment of the dystopian sci-fi horror movie, with Óscar Jaenada, Natalia Tena, Bastien Ughetto,...

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia brings the highly anticipated sequel The Platform 2 to Netflix on October 4, and the streamer has debuted the bonkers official trailer this afternoon.

Begin the resistance by watching the official trailer for The Platform 2 below.

In Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s sequel, “A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in The Platform, but can justice truly be enforced in hell? And who will enforce it?”

Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian star.

The first film is set inside a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.

Rafael reviewed The Platform for us at TIFF, raving in his 4.5-star write-up: “The Platform takes full advantage of its isolated setting and small cast...

Netflix launched two new film titles and shared details on several projects currently in development at a buzzy showcase this afternoon at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

The streamer announced at the event that it will back two new genre projects, Cortafuego directed by David Victori (Cross The Line), and The Black Widow from filmmaker Carlos Sedes (The Summer We Lived).

The Black Widow will be produced by Ramón Campos, Bambú Producciones. The official synopsis shared by the streamer reads: August 2017. The body of a man appears in a parking lot in Valencia, stabbed seven times. Everything points to a crime of passion. The city’s Homicide Group, led by a veteran inspector, begins an investigation against the clock that soon leads them to a suspect that no one expected: Maje, the young widow, sweet and serene, who had been married to the victim for less than a year.

Cortafuego,...

Back in 2020, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia made his feature directorial debut (after a couple decades of making short films) with the thriller The Platform, which was released through the Netflix streaming service. You can read my very positive review of that film at This Link, but the gist of it is that I was very impressed and was left eager to see what Gaztelu-Urrutia would make next. He was assembling a film called Rich Flu before the strikes last year, but it turns out that the next movie we’ll see from him is a sequel to his debut, The Platform 2. This one will also be heading out into the world courtesy of Netflix – and the streamer will be releasing the film on October 4th, helping kick off the Halloween season. With that date just a couple of weeks away, Netflix has shared a clip from the film, and that can...

Get your knife and fork ready, as we now have a new look at the upcoming Netflix dystopian thriller sequel The Platform 2, courtesy of Netflix Geeked Week. A follow-up to one of the biggest hits on the streaming platform, The Platform 2 will once again take audiences to a place that many likely do not want to go, as we return to the so-called "Vertical Self-Management Center, a prison that finds residents living on different levels of a giant tower where a platform full of food slowly makes its way from top to bottom.

You can check out the newly released clip and the official synopsis for The Platform 2 below.

As a mysterious leader imposes their rule in the Platform, a new resident becomes embroiled in the battle against this controversial method to fight the brutal feeding system. But when eating from the wrong plate becomes a death sentence,...

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform was a massive hit for Netflix back in 2020, and hotly anticipated sequel The Platform 2 is headed to the streaming service on October 4.

Watch the first clip from The Platform 2 below, which features Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian. Netflix previews, “The names of the leading characters have been revealed. Who is Zamiatin? What motivated Perempuán to enter the platform? Find out in this clip.”

In Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s sequel, “A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in The Platform, but can justice truly be enforced in hell? And who will enforce it?”

The first film is set inside a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.

Netflixs thought-provoking horror franchise is on its way back as audiences will soon have their chance to fall into The Platform 2 when the movie arrives on the streamer in just a few short weeks. In the meantime, as part of their Geek Week festivities, Netflix has served up a piping hot trailer to give audiences more of an idea what to expect from the follow-up film. Starring Milena Smit (The Snow Girl), Hovik Keuchkerian (Money Heist), Natalia Tena (Game of Thrones), and scar Jaenada (Luis Miguel: The Series), the Spanish-language feature promises more twists, turns, and bottomless hunger.

Netflix is back this Halloween season with a packed “Netflix and Chills” lineup, packing in the horror offerings to maximize your spooky season. While you can also expect the arrival of horror favorites getting added to the library, the streamer has unveiled its original “Netflix and Chills” programming this morning.

Embrace your fears and stay tuned throughout the months of September and October, with Timo Tjahjanto‘s bone-crunching, ultra-violent The Shadow Strays, slasher Time Cut, Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour, and more being added all Halloween season long.

Here’s the “Netflix and Chills” schedule this year…

Sector 36 – September 13

Inspired by true events, several children go missing from a basti (slum) in Sector 36. A determined police officer must now face off with a cunning serial killer as a chilling investigation and dark secrets unfold

Director: Aditya Nimbalkar

Writer: Bodhayan Roychaudhury

Producers: Dinesh Vijan & Jyoti Deshpande

Banner: Maddock Films...

El Festival se celebra del 20 al 28 de septiembre. © Ssiff

La 72ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián contará con una notable presencia de cineastas, actores, guionistas y productoras de renombre que se darán cita en la ciudad.

La Sección Oficial será el epicentro de muchas de estas figuras, quienes presentarán sus últimas producciones y participarán en diversas actividades del festival. La inauguración del festival estará marcada por la película Emmanuelle, que llegará acompañada de la directora Audrey Diwan y los actores Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, Jamie Campbell Bower y Chacha Huang. Por otro lado, para clausurar el festival, el director John Crowley y el actor Andrew Garfield presentarán We Live In Time (Vivir el momento), una de las películas más anticipadas de esta edición.

El Festival de San Sebastián también recibirá a destacadas personalidades como la directora Gia Coppola y la icónica Pamela Anderson, quienes asistirán a la proyección de The Last Showgirl.

Lo hará dentro de la sección Culinary Zinema. © Ssiff

La esperada segunda parte de El hoyo tendrá su premiere mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián, clausurando la sección Culinary Zinema fuera de concurso. Se trata de una de las películas españolas más populares de la historia de Netflix, que ocupa el quinto puesto en la categoría de películas de habla no inglesa con 82.800.000 visualizaciones.

En El hoyo 2, a medida que un líder misterioso impone su ley en el Hoyo, una nueva inquilina se implica en la batalla contra este controvertido método para luchar contra el brutal sistema de alimentación. Pero, cuando alimentarse del plato equivocado se convierte en una sentencia de muerte, ¿hasta dónde estarías dispuesto a llegar para salvar tu vida?

La película está dirigida por Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, director de la película original, y protagonizada por Milena Smit (Madres paralelas), Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja...

Netflix has just announced its complete Fall 2024 lineup, giving us premiere dates for a small handful of horror movies coming to the streaming service this Halloween season.

Netflix previews in an official statement, “Netflix is firing up a new slate of thrilling titles just in time for autumn, and you’re invited to sit down and warm up. So turn on the TV and take a peek at your options — there are plenty of new movies just around the corner this fall.”

Here are the horror highlights from Netflix’s Fall 2024 schedule…

It’S What’S Inside – October 4

Fresh off the film’s premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Netflix opened up their check book and shelled out a whopping $17 million to acquire worldwide rights to It’s What’s Inside.

Oscar nominee Colman Domingo is an Exec Producer on It’s What’s Inside, the thriller that drew raves at...

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s high-anticipated “The Platform 2,” the Basque director’s follow-up to Netflix mega-hit “The Platform,” will world premiere this September at the San Sebastián film festival, closing its culinary section.

Subject of a high-profile acquisition by Netflix at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, engineered by CAA Media Finance, XYZ Films and Latido Films, “The Platform” has gone on to shoot to the near top of Netflix’s chart of non-English film hits on record, now featuring as No. 5 with 82.8 million views, thanks to its terrorific mix of futurist dystopian sci-f and redolent social allegory wrapped in a brutal survival thriller. That comes from the set-up: a vertical prison, with hundreds of floors, with every day a stone dumbwaiter descending with food left over from tenants above. Higher-level inmates gorge themselves; those below face starvation, suicide or cannibalism.

That structure looks to be retained in “The Platform 2,” set for release on Netflix on Oct.

Un elenco estelar con Luis Tosar, Hovik Keuchkerian y Elsa Pataky encabeza la producción. © Skyshowtime

Comienza el rodaje de la serie original de SkyShowtime, Matices, un thriller psicológico creado por Sergio Canovas (Noche de chicas).

Matices narra la historia de seis pacientes que se reúnen en una apartada bodega para completar el tratamiento de un reconocido, excepcional y carismático psiquiatra, convertido en una eminencia en su campo gracias a su famoso método, que ha logrado un altísimo porcentaje de cura entre los pacientes más complejos y difíciles de reconducir. Tras una insólita cata ceremonial, un fatídico suceso da un giro inesperado a los acontecimientos. Un intuitivo teniente de la Guardia Civil se hace cargo del caso y descubre la verdad de los traumas de los pacientes.

La serie está protagonizada por Maxi Iglesias (Física o química), Enrique Arce (La casa de papel), Hovik Keuchkerian (Reina roja), Juana Acosta (Perfectos desconocidos...

SkyShowtime confirmed Friday that production in underway on “Shades” (“Matices”), its new original series in Spain, made in collaboration with Secouya Studios and Stellarmedia and featuring a Spanish star cast renown internationally from involvement in big Spanish series and movies.

Shooting in Zamora, Madrid and the Canary Islands, the new series stars Maxi Iglesias (“Valeria”), Enrique Arce (“Money Heist”), Hovik Keuchkerian (“Reina Roja”) and Juana Acosta (“La templanza”)

Also starring are Fariba Sheikhan (“The Unit”), Miriam Giovanelli (“Nacho”), Eusebio Poncela (“Merlí. Sapere aude”), Raúl Prieto (“The Snow Girl”), Luis Tosar (“Cell 211”) and Elsa Pataky (“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”).

SkyShowtime carries other Spanish titles in Spain described as SkyShowtime Originals, such as ViX/The Mediapro Studio production “Las Pelotaris 1926.” The upcoming SkyShowtime Original series “Shades” marks, however, its second locally commissioned original in Spain, after “Mamen Mayo,” announced early June, and a comedy/family drama produced by Nostromo Pictures in association with SkyShowtime.

“The Platform 2” is a new live-action, Spanish-produced, satirical science fiction feature, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, starring Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena and Óscar Jaenada, streaming October 4, 2024 on Netflix:

“…return to the world of ‘The Platform’, a large, tower-style ‘Vertical Self-Management Center’ prison that houses various criminals.

“The dozens of floors house two occupants per floor and a free-floating platform delivers food to them on a daily schedule…”

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