1215 Best Film & TV Releases Translated Into Italian (Page 12)
Only Murders in the Building
Similar3rd Rock from the Sun,
Agatha Christie's Poirot American Horror Story,
Black Books Bodies Boy Meets World, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Common As Muck, El Chavo del Ocho, Elas por Elas, Friends,
Hospital Playlist I Love Lucy, Kamichu!, Komi Can't Communicate, Love, Victor, Loveless, Melissa, Murder in the Heartland, Murder Most Horrid, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Noah's Arc, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Stand Up!!, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, That '70s Show, The Nanny, Thriller, Twin Peaks,
Studio20th Television,
The surprise, sustained hit Only Murders in the Building brands itself as a comedy-mystery on Hulu. But, as season three hits the streaming service, with another murder for the Arconian trio of Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) to solve, something becomes apparent. The series isn’t going for big laughs. Instead, it provides warmth, small chuckles, and genial goodness between the triumvirate. The show remains about found family, intergenerational friendships, and murder mysteries. It’s perhaps best described as a cozy mystery, a murder show with a heart of gold, an oxymoron of concepts. Continue Reading →
Sightseers (In Italian: Killer in viaggio)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Strange Planet
SimilarA Returner's Magic Should Be Special, American Dad!, Chicken Nugget, Family Guy, Flower Boy Next Door, Futurama, Go Back Couple, Invincible, The Boondocks, The Bride of Habaek, The Simpsons, The Sound of Your Heart, The Venture Bros., Wedding Impossible,
StudioApple Studios,
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Kill List (In Italian: Kill List)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (In Italian: Tartarughe Ninja - Caos mutante)
Despite their hue, not all TMNT films deserved to be greenlit.
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back in 1984. Now almost 40 years later, what started as a comic book has inspired seven movies, five television series, and countless amounts of merchandise. This week the four ninja tortoises return in a new animated incarnation, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Considering I’ve been a fan of the Turtles since six years old, this seems like the perfect time to put an official rating on four decades of movies. Some are gnarly, some tubular, and there’s always a whole lot of cowabunga.
Writers Note: This list doesn’t include the recent Netflix installment Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, a TV-movie crossover Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or the live recording of the 1990 Coming Out of Their Shells stage show. That one you can catch on YouTube, although I don’t know why you would. Continue Reading →
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Similar'Allo 'Allo!, 2Moons: The Series, Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Astro Boy, Dead by Sunset,
Dexter Fallen Fate/Apocrypha, Fatherhood,
Fearless Fool Me Once Game of Thrones Garth Marenghi's Darkplace,
Gossip Girl Hilda Furacão House of Cards, Jewels,
Little Women Monarch of the Glen Mr. Mercedes, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Notes from the Underbelly,
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Rage of Angels,
Rebus Sherlock Holmes Super Pumped, The Alienist, The Buccaneers, The Calling, The Dreaming Boy Is a Realist, The Far Pavilions, The Moon Embracing the Sun, The Strain, The Sun Also Rises, The Thin Blue Line, Tientsin Mystic, Vanished,
StudioHyperobject Industries,
There’s no denying Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty remains entertaining in its second season. There’s no denying that its panoply of digital tricks holds the viewer’s attention, whether what’s on-screen is a scrimmage gone awry or a father meeting his child for the first time. But does that mean it’s good? Continue Reading →
Physical
SimilarAshes to Ashes, Astro Boy, Deadly Class, Des, Family Ties, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Higurashi: When They Cry, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,
So the idea of “having it all” was a big lie, right? It is nearly impossible to balance and give equal time to a fulfilling career, a stable relationship, and full-time parenting, with room for leisure time, hobbies, and staying fit. Something will fall to the wayside somewhere, sacrifices will have to be made that will either affect us now or affect us later. But women, we’ve been hearing this nonsense for decades, right, about how with the perfect day planner or the number one meal delivery service or the best ten-minute workout we can do it, we just have to want it bad enough. But not too bad, because ambition is an ugly thing in women. But, on the other hand, so is laziness. Add “find the right balance between too ambitious and not ambitious enough” to the list of things we have to do. Continue Reading →
Tout le monde aime Jeanne (In Italian: Tutti amano Jeanne)
Watch afterEverything Everywhere All at Once (2022),
“Superficiality is for another generation,” Jeanne Mayer (Blanche Gardin) screams to herself. Instead, her anxieties say it to her, visualized through sinuous, sketchy animation; they demand a lot. She can’t focus on her own body. Oh, no; that’d be too vain. It’s okay to appreciate the glances of men on the street, if just occasionally, though. It feels good, after all. But wait: she can’t give into hedonism. And she may be stressed, but having a bit to drink before noon? That’s just alcoholic behavior. How about labeling her a “wino” instead? Yeah, that’s better. Continue Reading →
So I Married an Axe Murderer (In Italian: Mia moglie è una pazza assassina?)
If anyone should be ripe for a huge comeback any minute now, it’s Mike Myers. Myers is largely responsible for two of the most iconic comedies of the 90s, Wayne’s World and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. If you weren’t there and cognizant of it then, it’s impossible to explain the grip both movies had on 90s pop culture, particularly Austin Powers. Even now, 25 years later, it’s very likely that you’ll occasionally hear someone say “One hundred…billion…DOLLARS” in the voice of Dr. Evil, or refer to a person’s lookalike child as their “Mini-Me.” Its closest competitor in the zeitgeist is probably Clueless, and Clueless didn’t get two sequels. Continue Reading →
深海 (In Italian: Deep Sea)
Fantasa International Film Festival gets wild.
Animals feature prominently in our first three films of the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival. From the bottom of the ocean to the reaches of the Arctic, these films mix their natural settings with unnatural mediums to create enchanting works that are wondrous to look at. Though they have different objectives, these films remind us that cinema is a world of dreams that combines things from our lived reality with our limitless imagination.
(Tribeca Film Festival
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This Fool
Similar3rd Rock from the Sun, Phil of the Future, Supernova,
StudioABC Signature,
This Fool's first season saw main character, Luis (Frankie Quiñones), getting out of prison and reuniting with his cousin Julio Lopez (Chris Estrada) at the Hugs Not Thugs program in Los Angeles. For many shows, getting out of the slammer would be the focal point of the drama, the end goal to build an entire season of storylines around. Instead, the series hits the ground running with Luis emerging from incarceration. Then it draws out comedic scenarios from him trying to get his life back on track. Continue Reading →
Justified: City Primeval
NetworkFX,
Similar2Moons: The Series,
Agatha Christie's Poirot Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Alias Grace, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Around the World in 80 Days, Clayhanger,
Dexter Fearless Game of Thrones Gossip Girl Helltown, Jewels, Korea-Khitan War,
M*A*S*H Mr. Mercedes,
No Escape Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Sám vojak v poli, Santa Evita,
Sherlock Holmes Star and Sky: Star in My Mind,
Tales from the Neverending Story The Alienist, The Buccaneers, The Calling, The Family Game,
The Lost World The Moon Embracing the Sun, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Vanished, Who Were We Running From?, Word of Honor,
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How does anyone justify a revival? The original Justified gave viewers a conclusion in the first 30 minutes and an epilogue with the last 16. It gave Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) a fitting third act, living in Miami as a part-time dad to his daughter and finally enjoying freedom from the town he worked so hard to escape. So how does a creative team go from “we dug coal together?” to that nearly happy ending to a brand-new Givens tale? The simple answer is to head north. Continue Reading →
Talk to Me
SimilarA Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Carrie (1976), Ghost Rider (2007), Irreversible (2002), Jennifer's Body (2009), Mulholland Drive (2001), Natural Born Killers (1994), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), The Fog (2005), The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), The Shining (1980), The Thing (1982), There's Someone Inside Your House (2021),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023), Fast X (2023), Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Meg 2: The Trench (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Saw X (2023), The Equalizer 3 (2023), The Nun II (2023),
Things have been very bad for much of the world for a very long time, and they won’t improve any time soon. I don’t mean to start things off on a bummer note, but to point out that from such dire circumstances comes one benefit: the horror movie renaissance that started in the late 2010s only seems to be getting better. Just this year we’ve gotten the low-fi nightmares Skinamarink and The Outwaters, horror comedy with M3GAN and Cocaine Bear, another mostly solid entry in the Scream franchise, too many indie horror films to list here (Bad Girl Boogey and Brooklyn 45 are but a couple), and the roaring return of the Evil Dead series. Even if there weren’t another release for the rest of the year, it’d still be a great year for horror. Continue Reading →
Good Omens
SimilarAgatha Christie's Poirot Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, American Horror Story, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Creature, Dear Edward,
Dexter Elas por Elas, Fate/Apocrypha,
Fearless Game of Thrones Gossip Girl Hilda Furacão HIStory In the Land of Leadale, Jewels,
Little Women Madan Senki Ryukendo, Mr. Mercedes, My Demon, Ninja Sentai Kakuranger,
Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Revolutionary Girl Utena,
Sherlock Holmes Star and Sky: Star in My Mind,
Tales from the Neverending Story The Lost World The Moon Embracing the Sun,
The Shining Who Were We Running From?,
Wycliffe StarringJon Hamm,
The 2019 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel Good Omens was a charming show that succeeded in translating the book’s strengths and weaknesses to the small screen. It was clever like the book, with an ingenious plot (what if there had been a mix-up at the hospital and the Antichrist went home with the wrong family) that parodied The Omen while conjuring an apocalyptic tale all its about an angel and demon whose millennials-long rivalry grew from mutual antagonism, to grudging respect, and finally admiration and even a kind of love. But it also carried over the book’s weaker elements, its wonky pacing, plurality of uninteresting characters, and the fact that the first two thirds of the story is essentially table setting for the final third. Continue Reading →
The Deepest Breath (In Italian: Respiro profondo)
How long can you hold your breath? A minute? Maybe? Kids time these sorts of things when swimming, but it's not something most of us think about in our waking lives. But I know that when I swim and misjudge the time it takes to surface, panic sets in almost instinctively. The body wants to live. It takes a particular personality to ignore the body's demands in apparent life-or-death circumstances. Stephen Keenan and Alessia Zecchini are two such people. Zecchini's first words in The Deepest Breath, Laura McCann's documentary about Keenan and Zecchini's goal to become legendary deep sea free divers, are about how she's never associated diving with death. I'll grant a writer is more likely to associate everything with death. But I cannot understand plunging into the darkest depths of the earth while holding your breath for minutes at a time and passing out before you can return without thinking of your own demise. Some of us, I suppose, see a Way where the rest see a void. Continue Reading →
Happiness for Beginners (In Italian: La felicità per principianti)
Similar2 Days in Paris (2007), 50 First Dates (2004), A Lot Like Love (2005), Amélie (2001), Annie Hall (1977), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Life Is Beautiful (1997), The Apartment (1960), You've Got Mail (1998),
Happiness for Beginners happens when hundreds of hours of labor come together over months to create something so bland and ineffectual it feels years old even on a first watch. Continue Reading →
Special Ops: Lioness
SimilarAlias, Chuck, Condor, Homeland, La Femme Nikita, The Agency, The Equalizer,
StarringNicole Kidman,
StudioMTV Entertainment Studios,
Taylor Sheridan believes in a very particular strain of the badass woman archetype—steely-eyed, whiskey-drinking, stoic badasses who refuse to be seen as anything other than the HBIC. There's a poetry to their confidence, a mystery to their vulnerabilities. They have no time for feminine pursuits and will be the first to tell you their Myers-Briggs type (ENTJ, obviously). The world might implode if Yellowstone's Beth Dutton ever picked up an Avon Paperback Romance. Continue Reading →
Cobweb
SimilarA Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Constantine (2005), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Silent Hill (2006), The Omen (2006), The Ring Two (2005),
StudioLionsgate, Point Grey Pictures,
As horror movies fans, we (and I’m very much including myself here) talk a good game about wanting to see something new and different in the genre, but there are plenty of old reliable tropes that still work with us. Zombies, kaiju, masked killers, all of those have a better than good chance of drawing in audiences, without trying too hard to bring a fresh new angle to anything. We also love child in peril and creepy kid movies, and Samuel Bodin’s Cobweb manages to incorporate both, to mixed results. Continue Reading →
Barbie
SimilarBridge to Terabithia (2007), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Catwoman (2004), Election (1999), Enchanted (2007), Ghost (1990), Ghostbusters (1984), I ♥ Huckabees (2004), La Dolce Vita (1960), Look Who's Talking (1989), Michael (1996), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Stick It (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), The Holiday (2006), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Volver (2006), You've Got Mail (1998),
The news that director Greta Gerwig’s follow-up project to her celebrated adaptation of Little Women would be a movie about Barbie dolls was met with skepticism and even disappointment when first announced in mid-2019. What did it mean for the future of one of Hollywood’s few high-profile female directors? Would she abandon her apparent passion for telling intimate stories about coming of age? Continue Reading →
Survival of the Thickest
SimilarAgatha Christie's Poirot Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Apples Never Fall, Dear Edward,
Fallen Fate/Apocrypha, Fatherhood,
Fearless Hilda Furacão In the Land of Leadale,
Little Women M*A*S*H Monarch of the Glen Mr. Mercedes,
No Escape Pride and Prejudice Rage of Angels,
Sherlock Holmes Tales from the Neverending Story The Buccaneers, The Far Pavilions,
The Lost World The Many Faces of Ito, The Moon Embracing the Sun, The Return of the Condor Heroes, The Strain, The Sun Also Rises, Who Were We Running From?, Word of Honor,
Wycliffe
In 1995, way back last century, I went shopping for a dress to wear to my cousin’s wedding. Accompanied by my mother, it soon became apparent to us both that I, both a big and tall girl, wouldn’t be able to buy a dress in the Juniors section. My options eventually whittled down to one adult black velvet dress that, while the saleswoman assured us was totally chic for weddings, nevertheless showcased to the world that I could not fit into a fun or stylish dress for someone my age and that’s rough. It’s very rough. Continue Reading →