Dear viewers, make yourselves comfortable.
It’s Friday 26 April 2024, it’s 12.00 and the time has come to experience incredible adventures through the small and big screen! We have selected for you the most beautiful stories in which you can get lost, get excited and dream while being comfortable on the sofa at home or eating popcorn in the most beautiful cinemas in your city.
This is “Vision – What to see on the weekend”, Today.it’s weekly newsletter dedicated to the best films and TV series not to be missed at weekends.
The choice is yours and enjoy!
At Cinema
Challengers
A new work by Luca Guadagnino starring Zendaya, also co-producer of the film, Challengers is an adrenaline-filled and magnetic film about passion, competition and sport. Betting everything on a love and sports triangle, Challengers tells the story of Tashi, a tennis champion and coach struggling to transform her husband into a promising player in the sport. Something, however, goes wrong and the man finds himself competing with his wife’s ex-boyfriend who was once also his best friend. The past comes knocking back into their lives and the emotional, erotic and sporting tension between them grows. How will it end? RATING 8
The trailer
The review
Confidence
Daniele Luchetti returns behind the camera four years after the release of Lacci with Confidenza, a powerful film that aims to make us reflect on the relationship that human beings have with their emotions and their weaknesses. Based on the novel of the same name by Domenico Starnone, Confidenza tells the story of Pietro, played by Elio Germano, a brilliant and charismatic high school teacher. Through the relationship established with his former student Teresa, based on the mutual telling of one of their secrets, Pietro will have to face his conscience, his shame and his insecurities, becoming a metaphor for contemporary man fleeing from his weaknesses. RATING 6
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Streaming
Dead Boy Detectives
Available on Netflix
Taken from Neil Gaiman’s popular comic book series and set in The Sandman universe, Dead Boy Detectives is a fantasy series where magic, introspection and adventure mix for a truly successful story. Edwin and Charles are “the brains” and “brawn” of the defunct Detective Agency. Teenagers born decades apart who meet in the afterlife, these two boys are best friends but, above all, ghosts who solve mysteries. Together they go on crazy adventures, including escaping evil witches, hell, and death itself. RATING 7.8
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The review
Brigands
Available on Netflix
Set in mid-nineteenth century Southern Italy, Briganti is a modern, epic and action-packed tale of the phenomenon of brigandage. Freely inspired by people, men and women, who actually existed and became symbols of the peasant revolution in post-union Italy, the series is a choral tale of a story of struggle for the freedom of the last. A modern western with an international touch that shines in its direction and cinematography but lacks in its screenplay. RATING 7-
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The Prize of Destiny, season 2
Available on AppleTV+
The comedy series Big Door Prize is back on AppleTV+ with the first episodes of its second season. Based on the novel of the same name by MO Walsh, this series with its second chapter once again manages to make people laugh and reflect at the same time. The story revolves around a mysterious machine that promises to reveal the hidden potential of anyone who uses it. Soon, people begin to change jobs, reconsider their relationships and opinions. All for the pursuit of a better future. Dusty (Chris O’Dowd), a history teacher at the local high school, tries to oppose the collective mania unleashed by the machine, but it will be difficult to resist. RATING 7.7
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THEM: The Scare, season 2
Available on Prime Video
The horror series THEM: The Scare returned to Prime Video with a new season just this week. In the new episodes we will make a time leap of 40 years from the events of the first chapter of the series. We are in 1991, still in Los Angeles and detective Dawn Reeve finds herself investigating the terrible murder of a woman, foster mother of several orphaned children. Dawn is determined to find the killer but as she gets closer to the truth, something sinister and threatening begins to haunt her and her family. How will it end? RATING 7.1
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The review
CityHunter
Available on Netflix
Live action adaptation of the legendary City Hunter manga. The film, directed by Yuichi Satoh, narrates the adventures of Ryo Saeba, played by Ryohei Suzuki, a well-known “sweeper” who operates in the crude crime of modern Shinjuku in Tokyo. Balancing a calm demeanor with a fun personality, Ryo faces enormous challenges in the underworld. Misato Morita takes on the role of heroine Kaori Makimura in this action-packed adventure. An affectionate but somewhat chaotic tribute. RATING 6
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The classics to rediscover
Anne’s Choice – L’Événement
Available on Prime Video
In recent days there has been a lot of discussion about abortion, especially after the declarations of the deputy director of Tg1 Incoronata Boccia during Serena Bortone’s broadcast “Che will be”. It was 2021 when Anne’s Choice – L’Événement won the golden lion at the Venice Film Festival, a film that tackles the very delicate topic of abortion with impressive communicative strength and honesty. Today, linking ourselves to current events, we want to offer you the vision of this film. France, 1963. Anne is a brilliant student with a promising future ahead of her. However, when she becomes pregnant, she sees the possibility of completing her studies and escaping the constraints inherent in her social background vanish. As final exams approach and her pregnancy becomes more apparent, Anne resolves to take action, even if she must face shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to follow her path. RATING 7.5
The trailer
Diabolik
Aired Friday 26 April 2024 on Rai 2 at 9.20pm
In 2021, the Manetti brothers brought the famous masked thief from Angela Giussani’s comics back to the big screen with the film Diabolik, the first chapter of a trilogy that ended in 2023 with the release of Diabolik – Who are you?. The first film of the saga is on TV this weekend so you can watch it again or catch up on it on the sofa at home. What should you expect? A crime/action with some of the most popular actors in Italian cinema from Luca Marinelli to Valerio Mastandrea up to Miriam Leone. In the fictional town of Clerville, at the end of the 1960s, Diabolik, a criminal with a masked face, has just pulled off his last coup by escaping his great rival, Inspector Ginko. Diabolik, however, falls in love with the beautiful Eva Kant, an heiress who has just arrived in the city and owns a priceless jewel. Diabolik’s goal? Steal the Pink Diamond but it might be more complicated than expected. RATING 6.1
The trailer
Insomnia
Airing Friday 26 April 2024 on Iris at 9pm
Christopher Nolan won 7 Oscars this year with his latest film Oppenheimer but why not rediscover some of his best works from the past? One of these is the film Insomnia which returns to TV this weekend. Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank, Insomnia is an engaging thriller that tells the story of Will Dormer, a Los Angeles detective who is sent to Alaska to investigate the murder of a young woman. During a search at the crime scene, Will accidentally kills one of his colleagues but the confusion and fear of admitting his guilt is too great, so Will accuses another man who, however, saw everyone through his eyes. Thus begins a telephone blackmail between the two men during mutual sleepless nights caused by the fact that the sun, in Alaska, never sets in that particular season of the year. RATING 7
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