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New bridge, new opportunity to

binge on episodes

of a

streaming series,

known as

binge-watching

.

It's not cold enough to get out the blankets, but the variety of options offered by the platforms is suggestive enough to entertain yourself for hours and hours without having to get too far from the sofa.

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix)

Collection of

eight horror stories

presented as if it were the Crypt Keeper himself by the Oscar-winning Mexican director.

Young filmmakers display their talent to scare the viewer with witches, demons, curses, grave robbers, autopsies, monsters and gore, where there is no shortage of tributes to

HP Lovecraft

(they adapt his stories

Pickman's Model

and

Dreams in the House of witch

).

Perfect for a terrifying Halloween.

Heaven Commanded (Disney+)

Andrew Garfield

adds to his good streak in the cinema (

Tick, tick... Boom!

,

The eyes of Tammy Faye

or

Spider-Man: No Way Home

) one of the series most praised by critics this year.

Dustin Lance Black

, winner of the Oscar for Best Screenplay for

My Name Is Harvey Milk,

discusses the motivations

behind the Lafferty Affair

, in which two brothers believed they had been chosen by God to kill a woman and her 15-month-old daughter.

And he does it in an

intimate and reflective

way that manages to provide a wealth of nuances greater than usual.

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Last in Line (Netflix)

Five women in their thirties, friends from school who organize a week-long getaway together every year, face a special trip: one of them has just been diagnosed with cancer.

The screenwriter, film director and novelist

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo

(

AzulOscuroCasiNegro

,

Gordos

,

Primos

) offers a different approach to a story that sounds familiar, but that shines thanks to the chemistry of its protagonists and the tenderness that reaches when capturing that

life is "here and now

".

Riot (Movistar +)

The waters have calmed down since the premiere of the series provoked angry protests by the Jupol and SUP unions, who accused the series of "

damaging the image of the National Police

."

But the controversy did not prevent the suffocating production by

Rodrigo Sorogoyen,

director of

El Reino

o

Madre

, from being recognized as one of the best national series of recent years: a

reflection on violence

narrated through the lives of seven policemen who told with the collaboration of

Isabel Peña

in the script.

Show me a hero (HBO Max)

Journalist

William F. Zorzi

received the call from the unrivaled

David Simon

, creator of

The Wire

and

Treme ,

to tell together the story of

Nick Wasicsko

, the mayor of a New York City who had to comply with a court order that they should be built protected housing in middle-class neighborhoods for poor black people.

Through an ensemble cast with names like

Oscar Issac

,

Alfred Molina

and

Winona Ryder

, the fiction reviews the chronological evolution of

a project surrounded by problems

.

In the director's chair,

Paul Haggis

, winner of the Oscar for Best Picture for

Crash

and author of scripts like

Million Dollar Baby

or

Casino Royale.

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