After is a weekly application in its streaming recommendation we always write about the latest or soon-to-be-released movies and series, which are also available from Hungary.
The Sympathizer (HBO Max)
A24 came up with a premium production for HBO: The Sympathizer is a black comedy based on the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which takes place at the end of the Vietnam War. In it, a North Vietnamese spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army is forced to flee to America, where he continues to spy on his compatriots in a Vietnamese refugee camp.
Robert Downey Jr. is not only the producer in the series, but he also plays four characters at the same time, and Sanrah Oh, John Cho and David Duchovny also appear in minor roles. Episodes will arrive weekly on Max.
Gentleman in Moscow (SkyShowtime)
Another novel adaptation, because A Gentleman in Moscow was based on the 2016 novel by Amor Towles. The mini-series is about a count named Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who returns to Moscow from Paris after a long time and is forced to spend decades in the attic of a hotel room after being put under house arrest by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution of 1917.
The aristocrat is played by Ewan McGregor, but Mary Elizabeth Winstead also played an important role in the series. The first three parts of the series have already been uploaded to SkyShowtime.
FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Disney+
The second season of the FX anthology series is about writer Truman Capote and his relationship with New York’s elite society called the Swans. More precisely, about how the man angered his former friends by starting to write a novel about their scandalously hedonistic lives. When a chapter of the never-completed novel appears in a newspaper, the Swans vow revenge and do everything they can to ruin Capote’s life.
The title character is played by Tom Hollander, and the Swans have been entrusted to truly elite company, such as Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, Chloe Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Diane Lane and Naomi Watts. The entire season is available on Disney+.
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, Netflix)
“There are fighting spiders, a wild man breaking into a winged monster in flight, all kinds of exotic planets and, of course, Sofia Boutella, with whom the viewer cannot identify for even a minute, and in return they did not even try to portray her as a sentient human being,” we wrote last year about Rebel Moon, Zack Snyder’s large-scale Netflix project, which wanted to be the new Star Wars, the new Game of Thrones and the new Dune at the same time, but ended up being just another expensive video clip-like action montage with a ridiculous amount of slow motion.
Snyder basically started the whole thing with the idea that Rebel Moon will be a multi-platform franchise with video games, series and other spinoffs, but for now we’ll have to wait and see if the second film will even be able to jump the low bar that was set with the previous one.
Bluey: The Sign (Bluey ‘The Sign’, HBO Max)
It’s been a long time since his children’s story had the same critical success as the Australian Bluey, which on paper is nothing more than a lovely little family animated series about talking dogs. However, it is very rare for a production primarily intended for children to be instructive for adults as well, because it simultaneously playfully presents what it is like to grow up from the children’s point of view, and what it is like to raise children from the point of view of adults.
A few days ago, an extra episode called The Sign was released, which is special because instead of the usual 6-8 minutes, this episode is almost half an hour long. And we can really recommend Bluey, because there are few fairy tales intended for very young children that are not stupid, not badly drawn and that do not stimulate the little ones’ brains to raggedness, while they can also be entertaining for parents.
