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".Kane Parsons' terrifying "Backrooms" videos have become a phenomenon on YouTube, and now the 20-year-old director has been given the chance to make a feature film that several critics believe could be a big talking point of the summer. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a man who finds a parallel world behind the wall of his furniture store - a huge, abandoned office landscape with long corridors and eerie yellow walls and floors. His therapist (Renate Reinsve) doesn't believe him, but becomes curious and is drawn into a very unpleasant world.
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".Benedict Cumberbatch plays a man who becomes haunted by a crow-like creature as he tries to get over his wife's death.
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" (Apple TV).Straight from the Cannes Film Festival comes John Travolta's directorial debut, just over an hour long; a sort of fairy tale set in a stylized, dreamlike 1960s setting about eight-year-old Jeff, whose wishful thinking comes true - a flight across the United States.
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” (1/6, SkyShowtime).Rich man's daughter Thora (Rebecka Harper), the boundless artist August (Felix Sandman) and shy Hugo (Seth Manteus), who has just moved from Lund, become close to each other in Stockholm's student life. But it can never last, and 20 years later two of them meet to talk it out. August Wittgenstein plays the older Hugo in the TV series, which is based on Johanna Hedman's debut novel from 2021.
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” (28/5, Netflix).The second season of the series starring Tina Fey and Colman Domingo follows a group of friends who vacation together every season, but this time with a baby in tow and without one of the characters who died in the first season.
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” (5/29, Netflix).Brazilian drama series about how perhaps the most talked-about national team in football history, Brazil's 1970 World Cup team, led by stars Pelé, Rivellino and Jairzinho, won their third World Cup title. This despite chaotic preparations in the shadow of the military dictatorship that removed the team captain just months before the World Cup.
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" (29/5, SVT Play).The Norwegian hit series "LIS", about the staff at a hospital north of Oslo, has been given an English title for Sweden. At the center is the newly qualified doctor Petra (Elpida Stojcevska), who has to take on too much responsibility too soon, with dramatic consequences.
