“Shotgun Wedding”: Jennifer Lopez the Eternal Bride on Amazon Prime
From Love at first sight in Manhattan to Marry Me, Jennifer Lopez has, like Julia Roberts, built a massive section of her filmography on romantic comedies.
The singer and actress does it again with this improbable action film.
Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) reunite their adorable but opinionated families for their dream wedding on an island in the Philippines.
Collapsing under the preparations and bickering of their loved ones, the lovebirds are quick to have doubts.
To make matters worse, their lives and those of their guests will suddenly be put in danger during a hostage-taking by pirates.
The expression "Until death do us part" takes on a whole new dimension, promises the schoolboy feature film.
The twists are certainly telegraphed.
However Lenny Kravitz,
The White Lotus
), excessive mother-in-law and ace of the trigger, play around and take everything in their path.
"The Disappearance of John Darwin": the canoe that kills on MyCanal
A crazy and completely true story of a life insurance scam... In 2002, crumbling under debt, prison guard John Darwin (Eddie Marsan) staged his drowning during a canoe trip to sea.
He asks his wife to lie to the English authorities and their sons.
The couple goes to Panama, where the subterfuge lasts five years.
Based on the point of view of wife Anne Darwin (Monica Dolan), the initially comical series shows the preparations for the plan, the obstacles narrowly avoided.
Then the emotion arises.
Implicitly emerges the portrait of a woman under the influence, not daring to emancipate herself from her husband, and of a mother who knows that she is committing the irreparable.
"1945, the children of chaos", heartbreaking documentary on France.tv
This film returns to a rarely mentioned tragedy, that of the lost children of the Second World War.
So many orphans – several hundred thousand – escaped from the camps,
from forced labor and from the bombardments, who, at the Liberation, wandered on the roads of a Europe in ruins.
Heart touching.
“Kaleidoscope”: a messy story on Netflix
One series, eight episodes and 5,040 ways to devour them.
As in
Ocean 11
, a band of robbers attacks an ultra-secure safe to steal 7 billion dollars.
Kaleidoscope
stands out for its non-linear narrative and the freedom to watch each part in any order it pleases.
"Profession reporter": the hell of the info on arte.tv
In 1986, in Melbourne, a rookie journalist and a presenter in search of recognition join forces to find their place in the newsroom of their news and ward off the ghosts of the depression.
The Chernobyl disaster, the explosion of the Challenger shuttle, the AIDS epidemic… The hunt for scoops is ruthless.
The secrets of Helen (Anna Torv,
Fringe
) and Dale (Sam Reid) could also derail their complicity in a society that does not forgive those who deviate from the norm.
An elegant fiction, with quiet strength, which takes the pulse of the Australia of yesteryear.
A Gad "from elsewhere" on MyCanal
Seven years after his last one-man show in France and an international tour, the favorite comedian of the French is making a comeback.
Captured at the Dôme de Paris in 2022, "D'ailleurs", his most intimate and touching stand-up, already evoked his fascination for the Catholic religion.
Very good Gad Elmaleh.
