Netflix really added the Studio Ghibli collection at the right time. That phone call to your parents you’ve been putting off because you just can’t be bothered? Watch Mother and you’ll immediately recognise the error of your ways. Then there’s Mother, his lovely two-hander with Debbie Reynolds, about a directionless middle-aged man determined to reconnect with the overbearing mother he’s spent much of his life resenting. His Nineties work is probably the best entry-point for Brooks newcomers, notably the zany afterlife romcom Defending Your Life, which co-stars a luminous Meryl Streep. ALĪlbert Brooks is one of America’s unsung heroes of black comedy, whose pioneering films (including Real Life and Modern Romance) are studies in love, nihilism and fate. Centring around punky WWE wrestler Paige (Florence Pugh), Fighting with My Family follows the teen as she digs deep in order to find what it takes to become a star. They might be body slamming each other in the wrestling ring, but this family film gets seriously warm and fuzzy. It’s an emotional fistfight of a film so heads-up, you will be crying – but for all the right reasons. The heartwarming flick stars Golden Globe-winner Awkwafina as the Chinese-born and US-raised Billi who returns to Changchun to find that their family’s matriarch Nai-Nai has not been informed that she has only weeks to live. With The Farewell, writer and director Lulu Wang created one of the decade’s best films. A pre-fame Liv Tyler and Renee Zellweger are among the record shop’s employees. Somehow it is still incredibly powerful, though – buoyant and silly, and sharing DNA with Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused in its hazy charm. Set in an independent record shop threatened by the impending arrival of a nefarious CD chain, it’s about as familiar to the present day as something with cavemen in it. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny and profoundly moving throughout, this Netflix original documentary is unlike any other.įew films released in the recent past feel as much beamed from an entirely different universe as Empire Records. Dick Johnson is Dead sees its subject, a retired psychiatrist, stage elaborate re-enactments of his own demise, in clips which are interspersed with footage of Johnson’s home life.
When her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, documentary filmmaker Kirsten Johnson decided to celebrate his life – and examine his impending death – the only way she knew how: by filming it.
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