A24 and Netflix come together for the new dark comedy series BEEF, starring Steven Yeun (Nope) and comedian Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe). Check out the first trailer for the new show below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFPIMHBzGDs
BEEF begins with a road rage incident where the failing contractor Danny Cho gets into a feud with the self-made entrepreneur Amy Lau. Soon, their clash begins to unravel their lives and relationships in this darkly comedic and deeply moving series.
Created by Lee Sung Jin, BEEF also stars Joseph Lee, Young Mazino, David Choe, Patti Yasutake, Ashley Park, and Mia Serafino. It starts streaming on Netflix this April 6.
Kill Boksoon is a 137-min Action/Thriller/Drama movie that revolves around Gil Boksoon (Jeon Do-yeon), a top-ranked contract killer who continues to build her impeccable kill record while raising her adolescent teen daughter Gil Jae-young (Kim Sia) as a single mother. Boksoon is keeping her job as a killer a secret from her daughter. Right before renewing her contract with the assassin agency ‘MK’ run by Cha Min-kyu (Seol Kyung-gu), she breaks her agency’s rules and consequently puts a target on her own back.
Directed by star director Byun Sung-hyun (The Merciless, Kingmaker), starring award-winning actress Jeon Do-yeon (Crash Course in Romance), Sul Kyung-gu (Yaksha: Ruthless operation),Kim Si-A (The Silent Sea, Kingdom : Ashin of the North), Esom (Black Knight), Koo Kyo-hwan (D.P., Kingdom : Ashin of the North),and a special appearance by Hwang Jung-min (Narco-Saints).
Kill Boksoon launches on March 31st, only on Netflix.
Mexico’s mythical creature, the Chupacabra, gets reimagined in the new movie Chupa! Netflix has released the trailer for the film, featuring a young boy who befriends the legendary creature. Watch the trailer for Chupa below:
The movie follows the teenager Alex who is visiting his family in Mexico when he discovers a young chupacabra hiding in his grandpa’s shed. With the help of his cousins, Alex embarks on an adventure to find the creature’s family and reunite them.
Directed by Jonás Cuarón, Chupa stars Evan Whitten, Christian Slater, Demián Bichir, Ashley Ciarra, Nickolas Verdugo, Adriana Paz, Gerardo Taracena, and Julio Cesar Cedillo. The film starts streaming on Netflix this April 7.
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are back for Netflix’s comedic whodunnit Murder Mystery 2! In the sequel, Sandler and Aniston reprise their roles as Nick and Audrey Spitz, who must solve another elaborate mystery as official private detectives.
Watch the new clip for Murder Mystery 2 below:
In this short clip, we see the Spitzes arrive in paradise after being invited by their friend, the Maharaja Vikram, to his wedding. After landing on the private island, the couple is greeted by Vikram and his fiancée Claudette, and a lot of kisses ensue. But as the initial trailer already revealed, the wedding will be upended by the kidnapping of the Maharaja, and it’s up to the Spitzes to find him– a new mystery that takes the couple to Paris!
Image courtesy of Netflix
Alongside Aniston and Sandler are Adeel Akhtar and John Kani, reprising their roles as Maharaja Vikram Govindan and Colonel Ulenga. Also joining the cast are Mark Strong, Mélanie Laurent, Jodie Turner-Smith, Kuhoo Verma, Enrique Arce, Dany Boon, and Zurin Villanueva.
Directed by Jeremy Garelick, Murder Mystery 2 starts streaming on Netflix this March 31.
In the first part of The Glory, we saw Moon Dong-eun carefully lay out the foundations of her grand machinations to take vengeance on the bullies who made her teenage years a living hell. Relentless in her pursuit for revenge, Dong-eun is almost a completely cold-blooded machine with only tiny sparks of humanity on display when dealing with her accomplice, Mrs. Kang (a wonderful Yeom Hye-ran), and a young doctor who has fallen for her, Joo Yeo-jeong (Lee Do Hyun). By the end of episode 8, the trap is set and one of the bullies has gone missing, Kim Gun-woo, while the husband of the mastermind of the bullies, Park Yeon-jin has begun to suspect their child is not his and his wife is not the person she had led him to believe.
The show, already intense as it is, gets even more heated in the first two episodes of its latest season. With Gun-woo missing, the bullies are starting to fall apart and turn against each other and this forces Yeon-jin to bare her fangs and fight back.
Part One of ‘The Glory’ was enjoyable because we saw Dong-eun (Song Hye-kyo) weave a tangled web that put her former tormentors into a tailspin. The show gave us a chance to revel in her vengeance. The campy, one-dimensional brutality of their bullying earns the psychological terror she puts the bullies in and we derive joy from it, despite how it could possibly destroy Moon Dong-eun’s soul forever.
Photo: The Glory Part Two trailer
But now that the pressure is on, Yeon-jin is fighting back and what was a one-sided battle has now become a head-on battle. And Yeo-jin is not without her means. While Dong-eun has had 18 years to prepare, at the heart of it all is a tortured soul. She’s still, inherently a good person seeking safety. Yeo-jin is pure evil and her opening salvo on episode 9 is directed at my personal favourite character, Mrs. Kang.
All of a sudden, Dong-eun’s plan is not as foolproof as we were led to believe.
At the same time, Yeon-jin’s husband, Ha Do Yeong (Jung Sung-il) is not some simple puppet. He’s still a variable who may or may not go against his scheming wife. And the bully Jeon Jae-jun (played by the brilliant Park Sung-hoon) has plans of his own to take Park Yeon-jin’s daughter as his own.
Photo: The Glory Part Two trailer
With all these variables coming into play, episode 9 and 10 of ‘The Glory’ has raised the stakes and taken out the fun of taking revenge and made the battle very real and very dangerous for Dong-eun. The advantage of surprise is no longer there. It’s her against all her bullies and while her first strike has been decisive and brutal; it seems that the retaliation will just be as severe.
What makes ‘The Glory’ so enjoyable was how we got to see these untouchable bullies suffer at the hands of the person they tormented. Now that it has evened out the playing field, it’s no longer a guilty pleasure. The show has managed to shift our desires from wanting to see Dong-eun’s comeuppance to just making sure she survives. This bait and switch, made possible by cutting the season in half and taking a 2-month break, is an interesting use of the medium to build momentum and to help the show gain its full stride.
Photo: The Glory Part Two trailer
Now, more than ever, her humanity is at stake and the show is now poised to reach a profundity that wasn’t available to it at the beginning. This is a promise made by the character of Mrs. Kang because Joo Yeo-jeong is very happy to be an accomplice to Dong-eun’s plan. His own dark backstory, as revealed in episode 10, has made him poised to be an even more frightening aspect of this story.
As ‘The Glory’ returns to streaming with part two, we will all await with bated breath how this story will end.
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The Glory Part Two starts streaming on Netflix this March 10.
Since its arrival here in the Philippines, Netflix has been continuously bringing us great content to stream on our favorite devices. Whether it’s a compelling drama with interesting characters, a thrilling title that keeps us on the edge of our seats, comedies that give us our much-needed dose of laughter, or just anything that keeps us entertained on the couch or on the go, we surely can count on the streaming service’s rich library of shows and movies.
If you’re always on the lookout for Netflix’s latest releases, then look no further! We’ve listed down ten shows and films to anticipate and add to your watchlist this month of March!
This documentary revolves around the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and its passengers in 2014, launching a global investigation that yields few answers even to this day.
Idris Elba returns to the role of the disgraced and imprisoned detective John Luther who must escape prison to track down a gruesome serial killer terrorizing London.
On the run from General Kirigan’s army, Alina and Mal join forces with new allies as they search for more mythical amplifiers that could stop the Darkling’s evil plans.
Based on Kate DiCamillo’s classic novel, The Magician’s Elephant follows Peter who must do three impossible tasks in exchange of a mysterious elephant in the hopes that it could help him find his long-lost sister.
Years after solving their first murder case, Nick and Audrey Spitz are now full-time detectives with their very own private eye agency. When their friend the Maharaja gets kidnapped during his wedding, it’s up to the Spitzes to rescue him and unmask the mastermind behind his kidnapping.
Kill Boksoonis an action film following Boksoon, who leads a double life of an ordinary single mom and a legendary killer at a top-tier killing agency, MK Ent. Amid early-on attention due to being officially invited to the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival for the Berlinale Special, the second poster and the trailer have been revealed, amplifying curiosity about the film.
The released second trailer explicitly portrays Boksoon’s dual life as an ordinary mom and an A-list killer, showing strongly contrasting scenes of her grocery shopping to sharp transition into her life as an assassin backed by suspenseful and intense BGM.
Gil Boksoon using weapons from axes to long swords, glass cups, ropes, guns, etc., to fight her opponents provide a tease into the dynamic action sequence that will take place in the film.
Meanwhile, the appearance of characters Han Hee-sung (Koo Kyo-hwan), a killer who is unrecognized as an A-list, and Cha Min-hee (Esom), Cha Min-kyu’s younger sister and director of MK Ent, adds spice to the plot and doubles its tension.
The second poster revealed along with the trailer shows Gil Boksoon (Jeon Do-yeon) holding a bloody ax in one hand as if she had just completed “work” she had been commissioned to do, and on the other, a bag of groceries as if she had gone grocery shopping like any other loving mother. Gil Boksoon’s items that hint at her ‘double life,’ as seen from the second poster, spark curiosity about which path she’ll take as she stands at the crossroads of her career as a professional killer and her responsibilities as a mom.
Kill Boksoon has viewers worldwide focused with its star ensemble cast from Jeon Do-yeon to Sul Kyung-gu, Kim Si-A, Esom, and Koo Kyo-hwan. The production is spearheaded by Director Byun Sung-hyun known for his stylish directing, unrivaled character narrative, and solid storytelling.
Kill Boksoon unfolds only only on Netflix, on March 31st.
Netflix has revealed the first teaser trailer for their upcoming anime series Pluto, which turns classic manga and anime series Astro Boy into a suspense thriller. Watch the sneak peek teaser trailer for Pluto below:
A highly-acclaimed manga, Pluto was created by Naoki Urasawa and his longtime co-creator Takashi Nagasaki based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy “The Greatest Robot on Earth” arc from 1964. Urasawa who is known for popular manga series such as Monster, 20th Century Boys, and Master Keaton to name a few, injected his dark drama and suspenseful style into his retelling of the iconic franchise.
The seriesis set in a futuristic world where humans and high-functioning robots co-exist. It follows Europol detective Gesicht as he tries to solve a series of murders where the bodies of the victims, both humans and robots, are positioned with objects on their heads to imitate horns.
“I applaud the courage of everyone that has taken on the challenge of making an anime based on PLUTO. I am excited about the birth of this new series to win over people’s hearts. I hope that now more than ever, Osamu Tezuka’s message reaches the world,” shared author Naoki Urasawa in a statement via Netflix.
The anime is produced by GENCO with animation from Studio M2. The voice cast includes Shinshu Fuji, Yoko Hikasa as Atom, and Minori Suzuki as Uran. The release date for the anime has yet to be revealed.
The teaser trailer and character posters for Part 2 provide a sneak peek into the continued revenge of Dong-eun. The Glory tells the story of a woman with a broken soul due to childhood violence, who dedicates her life to a meticulous web of vengeance to all the accomplices who brought her childhood nightmare.
In the teaser trailer, Yeon-jin says,“I’ve done nothing wrong, Dong-eun,” without a flicker of shame as Dong-eun’s chilling wrath intensifies, fueling anticipation for how Dong-eun’s vengeance will turn out. All eyes are on Dong-eun’s lifetime revenge, which will unfold in The Glory Part 2, releasing on Netflix March 10.
The 8 characters featured in the posters are all entangled in Moon Dong-eun’s detailed plan, those that help her; Joo Yeo-jeong, Kang Hyeon-nam and Ha Do-yeong, and the perpetrators; Park Yeon-jin, Jeon Jae-jun, Lee Sa-ra, Choi Hye-jeong, and Son Myeong-o. Viewers also look forward to more of Song Hye-kyo, as she received praise for leading the series with her stellar acting.
After its release in December 2021, The Glory Part 1 quickly rose to sensation, creating numerous parodies and memes on social media. The attention was also proven by its ranking in Netflix’s global top 10 TV (Non-English) list for 5 weeks following its release. The Glory Part 2 will build on the story of surveilling and closing in on the lives of Yeon-jin and their fellow perpetrators and show how they fall into their versions of ‘hell’ that Dong-eun has meticulously planned out, quenching viewers’ thirst for the ending.
The Glory Part 2 will be globally released on March 10, only on Netflix.
Adapted from a popular crime mystery novel by Japanese writer Miyuki Miyabe, Copycat Killer is set in ’90s Taipei and tells the story of the first-ever serial murder case in Taiwan. The Chinese-language crime thriller will be released on March 31 globally and exclusively on Netflix.
Taking advantage of the widespread interest, the media-savvy serial killer turns the case into a national spectacle, fueling gossip and notoriety. A no-nonsense prosecutor, played by award-winning actor Wu Kang-ren, vows to solve the case only to realize that things are not what they seem. Meanwhile the killer repeatedly makes a mockery of law and justice as he seeks to destroy peace and order in society.
“Genre series are fascinating as you won’t figure out who the killer is, right until the end,” shared Wu, well-known for his versatile performances in Light The Night, Shards of Her and Mom! Don’t Do That. “Every character is connected by hidden threads, which unravel throughout the story. Likewise, I follow my character in exploring these threads, gradually forming a beautiful web of connections. I look forward to bringing viewers on the journey of discovering the masterful storytelling behind each thread.”
Other members of the star-studded cast includes Alice Ko, Tuo Tsung-hua, Yao Chun-yao, Fandy Fan, Cammy Chiang, and Hsia Teng-Hung, with a guest appearance by Ruby Lin (producer and leading actress of Light the Night).
To produce a crime and mystery thriller of such intricacy, the production team spent over three years on preparation, adaptation, filming, and post-production. “It’s a pleasure to finally bring what we have worked on for so long to the audience,” said co-director Chang Jung-chi, who won the Taipei Film Awards Best Director for We Are Champions. “Beneath the thriller and detective story lies a story of how humanity struggles between good and evil.”
While most crime stories focus on details of the cases, Copycat Killer casts a wider net. “We hope to portray more facets of each character and their thoughts and reflections within an intriguing narrative,” explained co-director Henri Chang, who earned six Golden Bell nominations for Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner. “While the story begins with ‘evil’ as we know it, there is a lot more to reflect on and take away from the series.”
A co-production between Greener Grass Production and Nan Fang Film Productions, this gripping series is helmed by award-winning producers Hank Tseng and Phil Tang. “Copycat Killer depicts a story of how desires, when out of control, can cause evil to go viral in a city,” said Tseng. “We hope that the confluence and fluidity of good and evil in the series will be able to provide healing to our viewers in this world of madness, where a lot more can be done to help and support each other.”
