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A thrilling and deeply mysterious crime miniseries that cleverly and effectively reassembles plot elements familiar from other series of this kind. Australian actor Eric Bana (known from HULK, TROY, and MUNICH) and the other members of the cast deliver very convincing and sensitive performances. The real star of this six-part series, however, is the breathtaking Yosemite National Park, which is beautifully shot.

It all begins with a mysterious death, which is also filmed in an extremely spectacular way. A reclusive park ranger and a policewoman from the megalopolis of Los Angeles must team up to solve the case. Soon, more mysteries emerge, and the story doesn't stop at just one death.

It's not a reinvention of the genre, but the story develops a pull that's very difficult to escape!

Worth seeing!

A film based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King, awarded the People's Choice Award at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival! And lo and behold, the result is a wonderful film that celebrates life without glossing over the cruelties and randomness of our existence. And seeing Tom Hiddleston dance with Annalise Basso is already a highlight of this cinematic year. But first things first...

In three backward-told acts, the life story of accountant Charles "Chuck" Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) is unfolded. This is at times mysterious, joyful, and tragic.

In the first act, with teacher Marty (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his ex-wife Felicia (Karen Gillan), we experience something like the collapse of the digital world we know, which also includes natural disasters and the strange behavior of numerous people. Chuck appears here as an oversized billboard thanking him for 39 great years.

In the second act, we meet Chuck himself and follow him through the streets of a town in Alabama where something wonderful is about to happen.

And in the third act, the audience gets to know Chuck during his childhood and youth, which are shrouded in tragedy. And then there's the actually beautiful tower room in his grandparents' Victorian house.

How it all fits together and what roles mathematics, Walt Whitman, a volcanic eruption in Germany, and the moonwalk play in it is best experienced for yourself in the cinema. In addition to the actors already mentioned, there are also very fine performances by Mark Hamill (Star Wars), Heather Langenkamp (Nightmare on Elm Street), Carl Lumbly (Cagney & Lacey), and Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off).

A beautifully told film that is exciting, moving, and very unusual!

A very quirky and funny superhero series from James Gunn's DC Extended Universe, which also offers a surprising dose of social criticism. John Cena astonishes as the washed-up superhero Peacemaker, offering a lucid portrayal of a broken man from the neo-Nazi milieu of the United States, who suffered greatly from his brutal and stubborn father (Robert Patrick from T2: Judgment Day) and a terrible childhood trauma. The series is similarly brutal and absurd to AMAZON PRIME VIDEO's THE BOYS.

The biggest surprise, however, is that the Norwegian glam rock band Wig Wam contributes the title song "Do You Wanna Taste This?", which is also accompanied by a spectacular dance performance in the title sequence. The series' soundtrack also includes the song "In My Dreams," with which Wig Wam competed for Norway at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, achieving an excellent ninth place (back then, only the televoting of the European public counted). The attention generated by the DC series has given the Norwegian band a well-deserved comeback, which (so far) hasn't been rewarded with a return to the Eurovision Song Contest stage. What hasn't happened yet, may yet happen!