Summer Cinema and Series: Blockbusters and New Releases This Week

The summer of bios kicks off with three blockbusters - spine-chilling "Final Destination: Bloodlines", the latest "Mission: Impossible" and new "Lilo & Stitch". Here are this week's films and series.

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FILM (premiere 16/5, unless otherwise stated)

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The horror classic "Final Destination" is back after 15 years with a sixth film. As usual, as many as possible die in the most macabre ways. Young girl Iris (Brec Bassinger) gets a warning and manages to save partygoers from a catastrophe. But you don't cheat death unpunished.

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Tom Cruise doesn't spare the powder in Ethan Hunt's farewell. The eighth and final film is both the most expensive – and the longest. It builds up to a final to save the world from the great AI threat.

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Disney's animated 00s phenomenon can reach a new generation of children with a "reboot" as a live-action film with the dog-like alien figure Stitch as computer-animated. Can Stitch become the salvation for little girl Lilo who's doing poorly?

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The Weeknd plays a version of himself who, at the top of his career, gets a breakdown – the downward spiral goes scarily fast. Barry Keoghan plays the star's best friend, Jenny Ortega does his girlfriend.

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A documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's turbulent life in New York in the early 1970s.

TV/STREAMING

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Alexander Skarsgård plays a kind of guard robot in the science fiction series that oscillates between thriller and comedy. The murderous metal figure has secretly managed to become self-sufficient, but when he gets the task of protecting a group of researchers who actually care about him, he starts to develop feelings for them.

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" (16/5, Max).

Small-time crook Jim (Josh Holloway, Sawyer in "Lost") starts working undercover for newly minted FBI agent Nina (Rachel Hilson) to solve crimes in Arizona 1972. There are many flared pants and big hairstyles in the crime series inspired by 1970s American TV detectives.

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" (15/5, Prime Video).

Credible film company A24 is behind the drama series about Benny (Benito Skinner) who comes to college, but is still stuck in the closet. To avoid being discovered, he overcompensates his masculinity. And then it's not easy to navigate student life.

"The Meaning of Life" (18/5, Viaplay).

The second season of the relationship comedy with Helena af Sandeberg and Ulf Stenberg.

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