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Netflix Added 6 New Mo7vies/TV Shows Today

The weekend is once again upon us, which can only mean that Netflix has inevitably released at one original project that’s more than likely a mid budget genre film with a high concept that’s set to make an instant impact and rocket towards the upper echelons of the Top 10 most-watched list long before we get to Sunday.

As if by magic, Beckett appears to be that film. Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, the propulsive chase thriller follows John David Washington’s American tourist, who finds his vacation to Greece drastically and dangerously affected by a wide-ranging political conspiracy that he can barely comprehend.

On the episodic front, Brand New Cherry Flavor finds Rosa Salazar’s Lisa coming to LA to direct her first movie, before she falls foul of the wrong crowd and gets drawn into a nightmare packed with zombies, hitmen, a tattoo artist with a penchant for curses and much more. It sounds wild, so bet on it to play very well with subscribers, and you can check out the full list of today’s arrivals below.

Beckett — NETFLIX FILM
Brand New Cherry Flavor — NETFLIX SERIES
Fast & Furious Spy Racers: Season 5: South Pacific — NETFLIX FAMILY
Gone for Good — NETFLIX SERIES
The Kingdom — NETFLIX SERIES
Valeria: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES

Korean historical series Kingdom has also been added to the library as of today, along with Season 2 of Valeria. Gone for Good is the latest Harlan Cohen adaptation to hit Netflix following the well-received likes of The Stranger, The Woods and The Innocent, while Fast & Furious Spy Racers Season 5: South Pacific should keep the younger ones entertained for a while. All told, it’s not the strongest Friday lineup we’ve ever seen, but Beckett and Brand New Cherry Flavor should have more than enough about them to draw in a crowd.



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Free Guy Review

Video games are a uniquely user-driven experience, and removing that element is part of the reason why so many big screen adaptations have failed to catch fire with either critics or audiences. In effect, the project removes the sole reason why people are invested in the property, and boils it down to what’s often an CGI-heavy slog piggybacking on a recognizable IP to at least guarantee a certain demographic will show up.

That’s why the argument can be made that the best video game blockbusters aren’t based on existing titles at all, but grab some recognizable elements and apply them to a completely original story that doesn’t come carrying years or decades of baggage. Think Wreck-It Ralph and its sequel, WarGames, Hardcore Henry, TRON, Jason Statham’s Crank duology, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, this year’s Boss Level, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and The Next Level, and now Free Guy. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to suggest that Shawn Levy’s latest might just be the best big budget video game-inspired film yet.

Do you need to be a gamer to enjoy Free Guy? Absolutely not, but it probably helps. Make no mistake, there are a huge number of cameos in this movie, beginning with the opening seconds, from A-list celebrities (with one very notable star making a voice-only guest appearance in the first scene), but presumably many of them are well-known figures in the world of streaming, because this writer had no idea who the majority of these people were. Does it affect the viewing experience? Not in the slightest.

A high concept premise like Free Guy, which finds an NPC deviating from his daily routine to try out being a hero before slowly discovering that the world around him is an elaborately constructed ruse, needs a killer lead performance to work. Luckily, Ryan Reynolds is on phenomenal form here. It would have been the wrong move for the actor to lean into the snarkier and more sarcastic side of his onscreen persona, but he gives Guy a surprising amount of depth for someone who essentially isn’t supposed to do much more than stamp checks and get blasted into oblivion. Warm, caring, charming, romantic, funny, wholesome and even an action hero when the occasion calls for it, it’s a knockout turn.

In fact, the cast is largely excellent across the board. Taika Waititi is clearly having a blast as the villain of the piece, Joe Keery once again signals that he’ll be just fine when Stranger Things draws to a close, and Lil Rey Howery brings plenty of heart to what’s essentially one-note comic relief. However, Free Guy could turn out to be a star-making vehicle for Jodie Comer, best known for Killing Eve. It’s her first-ever leading role in a major motion picture, and you wouldn’t have guessed given the deft balance between personality and punching power she brings to the role of Milly.

The plot, for what it’s worth, finds Guy taking his destiny into his own hands after discovering he has the ability to do whatever he wants. Deciding to be a force for good in a world riddled with crime and violence, he slowly impacts not just his fellow Free City NPCs, but the player community at large. Naturally, Waititi’s dastardly Antwan will stop at nothing to ensure he gets as much money as possible from his customer base as possible, even if it means sabotaging his own creation, all while Milly and Keery’s Keys try to uncover the hidden code that he stole from them and used to make a fortune.

Free Guy might be an expensive studio production packed full of action sequences, splashy visuals, impressive CGI and a raft of nods, winks, references and Easter Eggs to pop culture, but it’s dealing with some surprisingly subversive themes in the broadest possible fashion. In effect, Waititi doesn’t care in the slightest about originality or offering a new experience when he can continue to mine the same recognizable IP over and over again, which is Hollywood and large swathes of the gaming industry down to a tee. Admittedly, it’s a little ironic to have such a thinly-veiled dig at consumerism and corporate uniformity in a movie that stands every chance of getting a sequel, but it’s there in the subtext regardless anyway.

It also deals with how obsessed people become with living their lives online, free will, destiny, broken dreams and much more, all wrapped up in what’s essentially The Truman Show meets Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, with a dash of The LEGO Movie thrown in for good measure. While it’s not as prescient or timely as the former, or as outright hilarious as the latter, Free Guy still has plenty to say without verging onto the saccharine or cloying, all while never forgetting that it’s supposed to be a big, dumb, loud, fun slice of popcorn escapism. It’s comfortably the best movie Levy’s ever directed, it finds Reynolds bringing every ounce of his natural charisma to the fore and a brisk narrative that’s over and done with credits in less than two hours ensures that Free Guy never overstays its welcome, either.



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Here’s Everything That’s New On Disney Plus Today

Over the past couple of months, Disney Plus has switched up its release schedule. It used to be that the Mouse House’s streaming service would only drop new content on Fridays, but following the success of Loki launching on a Wednesday, the platform began moving all of its original TV titles to mid-week. This means that the weekly Friday hauls have become much thinner than they used to be.

That explains why this Friday, Aug. 13, sees only three fresh titles going up on Disney Plus in the U.S. Or, so we seemingly thought. Unexpectedly, however, Disney decided to add two new Marvel classics back to the list.

First of all, there’s another episode of National Geographic’s Shark Attack Files. All the shows that started their current seasons before the switchover to Wednesdays have continued releasing on Fridays. The same goes for Star Wars: The Bad Batch, with the Lucasfilm animated series offering up its season 1 finale today.

Last week’s penultimate episode ended on a nail-biting cliffhanger, as Clone Force 99 were stranded on the clone homeworld of Kamino after it was attacked by Star Destroyers. Fans of the Clone Wars spinoff, that details the very beginnings of the Empire post-Revenge of the Sith, don’t need to worry about the fate of the show; a second run has already been commissioned. It’s due to premiere sometime in 2022.

Then there’s the planned movie debut for Aquamarine. This 2006 fantasy romcom is the latest 20th Century Fox flick to find its way on Disney Plus, even though this one feels like it was always a Disney production in the first place. Emma Roberts and JoJo star as two best friends whose summer vacation is turned upside down when they discover and befriend a teenage mermaid named Aquamarine (Sara Paxton).

However, Disney secretly added two classic Marvel films from the 2000s today, introducing Fantastic Four and X-Men to the streaming catalog. In total, that means Disney fans have five new shows and movies to watch, two of which brand new and three of which perfect throwback hits.

Catch these five titles on Disney Plus this weekend.



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