Time does not fly, it slides. And when this week just started ends, it will be almost the middle of July, which indicates that the summer of 2021 will pass as quickly as that of 2020. And without a doubt, the number of premieres on the different VOD platforms that we have this week will contribute to it.
Disney + is the strongest one this week, with two of its heaviest weights of the year: First we have the highly anticipated Black Widow / Viuda Negra, which recovers the character of Natasha Romanoff to give her – FINALLY – her own film, which becomes the first of the 4th Phase of the UCM after the Infinity Gems saga. A story in which the Widow will have to deal apart from the villain on duty, with her family, and especially with her sister.
As for series, megaton, because in July it arrives Monsters at work the animated series based on one of Pixar’s most beloved IPs such as Monsters SA, and whose latest installment, Monsters University, premiered in 2013. The series tells the story of Tylor Tuskmon, a recently graduated rookie who wants to become a scarer, while recovering Mike and Sully, converted into senior managers of the company.
Another premiere, and very gamer, is that of Netflix with Resident Evil: Infinite DarknessParallel to Paul WS Anderson’s hated / loved feature film series with Milla Jovovich, Capcom produced up to three CGI films that told canon stories in the video game series using iconic characters such as Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield and his sister Claire. Netflix brings us Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, a CGI series that falls between the Resident Evil 4 and RE 5 games that have Leon and Claire hunting the undead in a very curious setting: The White House.
And the second piece of the triptych ta slasher The Street of Terror, which despite adapting a series of books by the juvenile author RL Stine -Pesadillas-, there are three films with the R for those over 18 years old due to their gore content. The best thing is that the three films have the same protagonists and setting, but each one changes from year to year.
And in Movistar + the patriotic thriller by Daniel Calparsoro, Up to heaven -which shows that in Spain you can make movies with a good commercial invoice, and also the long shadow that La Casa de Papel has and will have.
NETFLIX 5 – 11 julio
SERIES
July 5
You are my spring
July 6
Why don’t you go, season 2
July 7
In the swamp, season 2
Neighbor war
July 8
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
July 9
A place to dream, season 3
Biohackers, season 2
Atypical, season 4
Close Enough
FILMS
July 7
Igor Grom against Dr. Peste
This Little Love of Mine
July 9
Trilogy ‘The street of terror’
That summer
How I became a superhero
The water man
Finding Hubby
DOCUMENTARY
July 7
Crazy about cats
July 8
Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime
July 9
How they became tyrants
Lee Su-guen: The Sense Coach
HBO SPAIN July 5 – 11
FILMS
July 9th
THE END OF THE ROMANCE
CROSSROAD
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
YO, TONYA
BASED ON REAL FACTS
7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE
HBO KIDS
July 9th
NEW LOONEY TUNES. Temporada 3
MOVISTAR + 5 – 11 July
FILMS
Monday 5th
Our best years
22: 00h at Movistar CineDoc & Roll (dial 31). Italian Gabriele Muccino returns to his origins in this nostalgic and exciting drama about the relationship of four friends over 40 years. Victories and defeats, loves and heartbreaks, encounters and disagreements will mark the lives of the protagonists in this film inspired by ‘A woman and three men (We had loved each other so much)’ by Ettore Scola (1974).
Thursday 8
Friends forever
22: 00h at Movistar Premieres (dial 30). Family drama starring Geoffrey Rush, who plays a successful retired businessman who reminisces for his environmentally conscious granddaughter of her childhood in a wild area of the Australian coast. There he lived happy years with his father, a fisherman, and became friends with a lonely aboriginal and a pelican whose company marked him forever.
Friday 9
Up to the sky
22: 00h at Movistar Premieres (dial 30). Daniel Calparsoro in the direction and Jorge Guerricaechevarría in the script revisit and update the quinqui cinema in this action thriller based on real events. Action, romance and unbridled ambition are the keys to this film starring Miguel Herrán, Luis Tosar and Carolina Yuste that follows Ángel, a boy who, after fighting with Poli -the possessive boyfriend of a girl he meets in a nightclub-, is Invited by Poli himself to join a gang of robbers that has the entire Madrid police in check.
Saturday 10
The Wolf of Snow Hollow
22: 00h at Movistar Premieres (dial 30). This first studio film by Jim Cummings, protagonist and director of the independent hit ‘Thunder Road’ (premiered on Movistar +), is, once again, a very particular dramatic comedy, this time mixed with fantasy cinema and intrigue.
SERIES
Tuesday 6th
Close Enough
02:12 a.m. on TNT (dial 15). Josh and Emily, a young couple from California, live with their daughter Candice and their recently divorced friends Alex and Bridgette.
Friday 9
Supernormal
Movistar + original series in collaboration with Secuoya Studios. Complete on demand. Comedy about what it means to be the head of an investment bank and have a family in the 21st century. Created and written by Olatz Arroyo and Marta Sánchez (screenwriters of ‘There Down’) and directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro (‘Eight Basque surnames’).
Saturday 10
Crime in paradise.
9:30 p.m. at COSMO (dial 18). Detective Neville Parker tries to solve the mysterious crimes that take place in the sunny Caribbean. The detective comedy returns on its 10th anniversary with new intrigues to be solved, more guest stars, and a few surprises! Like the return of Florence Cassell and the arrival of Marlon Pryce, a teenager who will quickly bring problems.
DOCUMENTARY
Monday 5th
The Love Parade case
22:05 at # 0 (dial 7). Love Parade was an electronic music festival that was born in 1989 in the form of a small street parade in Berlin. In 2010, the event moved from the German capital to the Ruhr Valley, the former industrial baton of Germany. That summer hundreds of thousands of electronic music lovers made a pilgrimage to Duisburg, but that day the party turned into a tragedy. What went wrong? 21 people died and there were more than 600 injured, including two Spanish students.
‘The Love Parade case’ is a documentary directed by German director Dominik Wessely that follows this lengthy judicial process – the largest trial in Germany since the postwar period – which lasted two and a half years, had 184 views, but ended without a verdict.
Wednesday 7
David Byrne’s American Utopía
22: 00h at Movistar CineDoc & Roll (dial 31). In 2018 David Byrne, former leader of the band Talking Heads, publishes ‘American Utopia’, his tenth and last studio album. The live performance of this album became a Broadway show with which he toured the world. The Oscar-winning Spike Lee (‘Infiltrated in the KKKlan’, ‘Da 5 Bloods’) brings it to the screen and makes the viewer become one more member of the group in this artistic celebration.
Thursday 8
Billie
7:00 p.m. at Movistar CineDoc & Roll (dial 31). Billie Holiday is one of the queens of jazz, although her life has always been an enigma. In the 70s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie and recorded more than 200 hours of interviews with some of the people who somehow passed through the iconic singer’s life: her stepfathers, her fellow inmates , her lawyers, her drug dealers, her pimps, and even the FBI agents who arrested her.
Thursday 8
The secrets of the British crown
22: 00h at # 0 (dial 7). The British royal family is one of the most famous dynasties in the world. For more than a century, the life of the Windsors has captivated the world, mesmerized the press and inspired series and films. ‘The Secrets of the British Crown’ is a documentary that portrays the royal family from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II to the present day.
Sunday 11th
Searching for Sugar Man
22: 00h at Movistar Fest (dial 23). In the late 1960s, a musician was discovered in a Detroit bar by two producers who fell in love with his poignant melodies and prophetic lyrics. They recorded an album that, they thought, would place the artist as one of the greatest of his generation, but that success never came. The singer disappeared amid rumors of a horrible suicide on stage. While the figure of the artist was being lost in oblivion, a pirated recording reached Apartheid South Africa and during the next two decades Rodríguez became a phenomenon.
Pioneers of haute couture
22: 00h at Movistar CineDoc & Roll (dial 31). Coco Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, Vivienne Westwood, Donna Karan, Gabriela Hearst and Hanako Maeda are the protagonists of ‘Pioneras de la alta couture’, a documentary that deals in depth with the impact and empowerment of great fashion designers over the last century, an intimate look at women who have succeeded in an industry that, despite being created for them, has always been dominated by men.
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO 5 – 11 July
SERIES
July 9th
Luxe Listings Sydney, season 1
FILMS
July 10th
Escape Room
July 11
Another twist
DISNEY + 5 – 11 July
SERIES
July 7
Monsters at work
Empire
FILMS
July 9
Black widow
Absolutely fabulous
Planet of the Apes
DOCUMENTARY
July 7
Legends: A review of the career in the UCM of Black Widow
Hip hop uncovered
FILMIN 5 – 11 July
SERIES
July 6
Cardinal
Thriller directed by Canadian ‘Podz’ Daniel Grou (“Mafia Inc.”). A detective returns to his hometown after ten years to join the homicide squad.
FILMS
July 8
Claude Chabrol Cycle
We continue to recover the jewels of the greatest filmmakers of all time with this cycle dedicated to Claude Chabrol, one of the most relevant directors of the Nouvelle Vague. We released the 4K versions of “Nightcap” and “The flower of evil”. In addition, “The Torment”, “A judgment in Stone”, “The Swindle” and “L’Oeil du Malin (The evil eye)” arrive in HD.
July 9
Make Up
The vacation of a young couple begins to be cut short when she feels that she is moving away from her boyfriend. A psychological thriller with fantastic touches that has emerged as one of the most acclaimed debuts in recent British cinema.
On the prowl
Francisco D´Eufemia signs this police thriller with western features, in natural scenes of wild fauna and with Rodrigo De la Serna in the role of a park ranger who will discover a network of poachers, traffic and deceptions.
DOCUMENTARY
July
The disappearance of my mother
An intimate documentary about the iconic model Benedetta Barzini who now struggles to escape the world of images and disappear forever, like a “Fedora” of our time.
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