This week's films and series - poking fun at Hollywood

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Seth Rogen uses his 25 years of experience in the film industry for a satirical comedy series about Hollywood and its excesses. Rogen has partially written the script and plays a recently promoted – and very conflict-averse – film company CEO, constantly on a collision course with all the stars whose strange demands he cannot say no to. Several big names play themselves, such as Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, and Anthony Mackie.

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During a state banquet for the Australian Prime Minister – and artist Kylie Minogue – a murder takes place in the White House. Who among the 200 guests is the culprit? The police send super detective Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba), a kind of female Hercule Poirot, to solve the case. The puzzle thriller is produced by TV series queen Shonda Rhimes.

FILMS (premiere: 21/3).

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This year's Oscar winner for best international film deals with a dark chapter in Brazil's history, beyond Rio's glittering beaches in the 1970s. Director Walter Salles tells the story of five-child mother Eunice (Fernanda Torres) whose husband Rubens is kidnapped by the military dictatorship.

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Action comedy about Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), a timid bank employee with a strange ability – he feels no pain. Something that facilitates when his girlfriend Sherry (Amber Midthunder) is taken hostage during a bank robbery and he takes up the hunt for the perpetrators to rescue her.

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After the film about the Stockholm Bloodbath last year, Mikael Håfström continued with the science fiction thriller "Slingshot", which now gets a Swedish premiere on the streaming service Prime. Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne portray astronauts on board a doomed journey to one of Saturn's moons.

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Sadie Sink got her big breakthrough in the Netflix hit "Stranger things". In this dystopian rock opera, she is O'Dessa, a mysterious guitar-playing prophet who becomes the leader of the resistance against the evil leader, played by Murray Bartlett ("The White Lotus").