It’s that time again that we reflect on ourselves before the year ends– looking back on our achievements, our most cherished moments, and maybe even our favorite pastime. And when it comes to keeping us entertained in our free time, Netflix delivered some exciting titles this year, from the penultimate season of Stranger Things to the much-awaited Knives Out sequel Glass Onion.
Before the year ends, now’s the best time for us to look back at our favorite titles that were released on Netflix. Thus, we have listed down some of the most popular 2022 titles on the platform in our Ultimate Netflix Checklist, so just before this year closes, you can check which ones you’ve watched and which titles you might’ve missed!
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Disney+ audiences across the world today awoke to the spine-chilling arrival of Gannibal, a heart-pounding new Japanese psychothriller that starts streaming on Disney+ today.
Set in Kuge, a fictional Japanese village, Gannibal sees newly moved police officer Daigo Agawa arrive a broken man. While things start off promisingly for the new arrival, a series of alarming events, including the unexpected death of an elderly villager, begin to unfold, leading Daigo to the horrifying realization that something is deeply wrong with the village and those who live there. Thrown into a hostile environment with suspense around every corner, will the latest police officer to patrol the streets of Kuge village be able to bring those responsible to justice before it’s too late?
Based on the hit manga series of the same name by Masaaki Ninomiya, Gannibal features a unique storyline. Yuya Yagira (HOKUSAI, Asakusa Kid), known for winning Best Actor at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, plays the role of police officer Daigo Agawa who is faced with unexpected events after moving to a new village, and Riho Yoshioka (Quartet, Here Comes Asa!) plays Yuki Agawa, Daigo’s wife who moved to the new village in hope to find peace after going through a traumatic incident. Show Kasamatsu (Tokyo Vice, Love You as the World Ends) takes on the role of Keisuke Goto, a member of the Goto family that dominates the mysterious Kuge village.
The series is brought to life exclusively on Disney+ by some of the biggest names in the Japanese creative industry. Produced by Teruhisa Yamamoto, producer of this year’s Academy Award-winning Drive My Car and Tatsuya Iwakura, Gannibal is directed by Shinzo Katayama (Siblings on the Cape) and adapted for the screen by Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award-nominee Takamasa Oe, who most recently wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning Drive My Car.
Enjoy the first two episodes of the nail-biting series Gannibal, exclusively on Disney+ from today.
If you feel like spending some of your free time this month of January on the couch, watching films, PBO Channel has you covered with their lineup of Pinoy movies. And to make it even easier for you, we’ve rounded up eight movies from their lineup that you might want to catch on your TV!
Ang Pamilyang Hindi Lumuluha
January 1, 6 AM | January 9, 11:30 AM | January 20, 9:30 PM A lonesome alcoholic woman attempts to fulfill a local legend about the Family That Doesn’t Weep with the help of her nanny and her nanny’s uncle in the hopes of reuniting her own estranged family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpk56oi1kU&t
Bekis on the Run
January 3, 5:30 PM | January 13, 11:15 AM | January 18, 9 AM Andres and his gay brother Donald try to rob a construction site to fund their guardian’s medication, but things get complicated, leaving them no choice but to run.
Your Place or Mine?
January 14, 9:30 PM | January 19, 1:30 PM | January 31, 7 AM A young woman has a one-night stand with a total stranger. Fate brought them together again. And that’s where their whirlwind romance started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vjEtO6cv2Y
The Maid in London
January 6, 9 AM | January 16, 7 AM | January 28, 11:30 PM Inspired by true events, a young mother, Margo, and her best friend, Faye are forced to cling to the edge of a knife so they can travel in the United Kingdom.
Kita Kita
January 4, 1:30 PM | January 16, 7:30 PM | January 27, 11:30 PM A film about a working Filipino woman working as travel guide in Sapporo, Japan who was driven to blindness due to extreme stress and heartache. While living alone, she found comfort in the company of a fellow Filipino who served as her eyes during her temporary blindness.
Double Barrel
January 2, 9 AM | January 12, 8:30 AM | January 24, 3:30 PM A young impoverished couple work as hired killers.
Ulan
January 10, 3:30 PM | January 18, 1:30 PM | January 29, 9:30 PM Maya is a girl who has always held a pessimistic view of the rain, reminding her of failed love and other depressing things. Will the rain ever stop her in her journey to overcome past heartaches?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_H2UqfnSQ8&t
Boy Golden
January 7, 6 AM | January 18, 3:15 PM | January 23, 7:15 PM The leader of a notorious gang is released from prison. He is on the lookout for the rival gang leader who is responsible for his imprisonment and also the rape and murder of his sister. He plots and executes revenge with the help of his friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_A41Ii5W8
For more Movies on PBO Channel this January and for the daily schedules of PBO, click here.
[Note: schedules are subject to change without prior notice]
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 January!
A mastermind and his crew attempt to pull off a $7 billion heist, but the plan is compromised by greed and betrayal.
Sitsit (Film)
January 6
This 2-part movie follows an aging photographer who uses a potion to turn into a young and handsome man to attract the woman he likes, and a woman who adopts a stray dog that transforms into an aswang.
It’s 1995, and Eric and Donna’s daughter, Leia Forman, visits her grandparents at Point Place and meets the new generation of kids in the neighborhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOpoPPIRtdQ
Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Series)
In the second season of Record of Ragnarok, the battle between gods and the remarkable humans in our history resumes to decide the fate of humanity. In the next round, Jack the Ripper faces the righteous god Heracles.
Prime Video today revealed its first Filipino Amazon Original Movie, Ten Little Mistresses (Sampung Mga Kerida), a murder-mystery comedy film directed by Jun Robles Lana and top-billed by John Arcilla, Eugene Domingo, Christian Bables, Pokwang, Arci Muñoz, Carmi Martin, and Agot Isidro. Ten Little Mistresses (Sampung Mga Kerida) tells the story of a widowed billionaire, Valentin Esposo, and his ten mistresses, fighting tooth and nail to become his new legal wife. But when Valentin suddenly turns up dead, all ten women end up being prime suspects. And so, the race to prove their innocence and unmask the real killer begins. The murder-mystery comedy film will be available on Prime Video in the Philippines and more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on February 15, 2023.
Director Jun Robles Lana envisioned the film to be the “biggest, wildest, campiest mistress movie to end all mistress movies” – fusing together the popular genres of comedy, drama, mystery, and mistresses in the Philippine entertainment industry. Paired with over-the-top costumes and larger-than-life personalities, the film provides audiences with a grand spectacle to look forward to.
Ten Little Mistresses (Sampung Mga Kerida) aims to showcase the creative talents of the Filipino filmmaking community to international audiences. “Filipino audiences love entertainment. We’re excited to be a home for leading Filipino storytellers like Jun, and look forward to partnering with many more.” said David Simonsen, Director Prime Video, Southeast Asia. “Ten Little Mistresses is a uniquely local and highly enjoyable comedy and we are delighted to bring this movie to not just audiences in the Philippines but customers across the region and worldwide.”
Produced by Perci Intalan and the Idea First Company, the film features the country’s top movie stars – Eugene Domingo, Christian Bables, Pokwang, Arci Muñoz, Carmi Martin, Agot Isidro, Kris Bernal, Sharlene San Pedro, Adrianna So, Kate Alejandrino, Iana Bernardez, Donna Cariaga and John Arcilla.
Ten Little Mistresses joins the thousands of TV shows and movies in the Prime Video catalogue, including exclusive local Filipino titles such as Drag Den with Manila Luzon, One Good Day, Whether the Weather Is Fine. Members also have access to Korean titles such as Curtain Call and Love in Contract, anime hits such as Chainsaw Man, on top of award-winning and critically acclaimed Amazon Originals like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Boys, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Emmy and Golden Globe winners Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Prime members in the Philippines and Southeast Asia will be able to watch 10 Little Mistresses anywhere and anytime on the Prime Video app for smart TVs, mobile devices, Fire TV Stick Basic edition, Fire tablets, Apple TV, and stream online. In the Prime Video app, Prime members can download episodes on their mobile devices and tablets and watch anywhere offline at no additional cost. Prime Video is available in the Philippines for just 149 PHP per month, new customers can find out more at www.primevideo.com and subscribe to a free 7-day trial.
I’ll be completely honest and say that I have not seen a single film from the ‘Night at the Museum’ franchise. None of the three installments, starring Ben Stiller as Larry Daley, the night guard at the American Museum of Natural History, who discovers that an ancient mystical tablet brings the exhibits to life. So when I saw the animated film ‘Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again’ on Disney+, I don’t know why I clicked on it but I wanted something different from all the things I’ve been watching lately – heavy, dramatic, or with a language that I don’t know – so I thought it would be nice to see something light, wholesome, and not anything that I needed subtitles for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WdSQFdMYZg
Surprisingly, ‘Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again’ was an easy film to follow. Even without having seen the first three movies, I was able to quickly figure out the dynamics and relationships of the characters that were present – Larry, his son Nick, and the exhibits Theodore Roosevelt, Octavius, Jebediah, Sacagawea, Laaa, Joan of Arc, and a whole bunch of other characters. The frenetic pacing and the animation style really made it feel that this was made for the kids, as a light-hearted for-the-family entertainment type of movie for a weekend movie night.
In this fourth installment of the franchise, Larry is off overseas to take over a new museum and makes a decision to let his son, Nick, take over the job as the night guard. Nick is now in high school but is suffering from the teen angst of not having enough confidence in himself. He wants to try out for the school’s jazz band and ask the girl he likes out but he’s clumsy and doubts himself. So Larry suggests he takes his old job as it has done wonders for him and his self-esteem.
All seems to be going well except Kahmunrah, an exhibit with ambitions for world domination, manages to escape from the basement (due to Nick’s lapse in judgment) and begins to wreak havoc in and around the museum with the goal to take over the world.
There’s very little plot and character work happening in this film as it really is just Nick and the other exhibits trying to stop Kahmunra (and his partner Seth) from taking over the world. It’s one gag after the other with shallow attempts at pushing for Nick to get more courageous.
But there’s no real depth to the story, no real internal struggle that needs to be solved for Nick or any of the characters. It’s loud and fast-paced and full of spills and thrills that are meant to keep the kids watching engaged until the end of the movie. Maybe, hopefully, it will get them interested to go to a museum but with no real big spectacle or memorable moment or particularly heart-warming scene, ‘Night at the Museum: Kahmunra Rises Again’ doesn’t really pop out or stand out from anything else Disney+ has to offer.
Without even the familiar voices of the stars of the live-action films like Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson, there’s very little to attach new viewers to this installment. With all the amazing films and tv shows one can watch on Disney+, this will have a hard time finding its place in the catalog. The platform is going to have to work harder to make its IPs like ‘Night at the Museum’ stand out from Disney+’s connection to Star Wars, the MCU, or their animated films and collaboration with Pixar. There’s just too much in there for something like this to find its audience.
Emily Cooper is back for another season of Netflix’s Emily in Paris, streaming this December 21. Now in its third season, the hit Netflix show follows Emily as she faces more life-changing choices, involving her dream career and further complications in her romantic life.
Before Emily in Paris season 3 releases on Netflix, its stars Lily Collins (Emily Cooper), Ashley Park (Mindy Chen), and Camille Razat (Camille) joined a virtual roundtable interview with the Philippine press where they talked about this season’s story trajectory, the growth of their characters, and more!
Check out the highlights of the Q&A below:
Can you share about your character’s growth this season?
Camille Razat: I think we get to see more of her work side, we see more of her at the gallery, being an artist. So more work side to that, and I would say there would be more love triangles and more complicated things.
Lily Collins: For me, you get to see me make decisions and then per usual, once I made decisions, they slightly become undone in certain ways based on experiences that happened. But there’s a quiet confidence about Emily this season and feeling more grounded in her skin and the city that I was excited to partake in.
Ashley Park: I think Mindy, in the first season, I don’t know if you’re a horoscope kind of person with you know, your star sign, your rising, mask, and your moon… But I feel like, in the first season, we really got to see Mindy’s rising sign, the mask, the [people’s] first impression of her as she gets to know Emily. In the second season, she grows closer to her and she gets to be vulnerable and we get to understand who she is on the inside, her moon. And I think that in the third season, she has to figure out how to navigate her past and present and not apologize for herself anymore and I think that we really see her star sign.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
How did the styles of your characters evolve across the three seasons of the show?
Ashley Park: I feel like, a lot. All three women, I feel like all of us have really found our identities, and they’re all becoming the women that they really want to be, and really trying to discover… We self-express through fashion, and I think especially for Mindy and also Emily, you know this is [Mindy’s] second year in Paris, and Emily, she’s within her first year, and we have a Parisian here. So, all of them are grounding on who they are in Paris, whether they lived there for a month, a year, or their whole life. I really feel like everybody’s found this chic tone this season, that’s very empowering. Especially watching it last night I felt like, even all of us are as bright and risk-takers as we want to be, or feel in that moment, there’s a really chic, nice undertone this season.
Lily Collins: And I think for me, specifically, there’s a more French quiet confidence about Emily’s wardrobe even though she’s as bright and bubbly. She’s being influenced by the women that she’s surrounded by. And feeling quiet and confident in her place in the city, it gets shown in her wardrobe. So it’s as big as you hope for, but at the same time slightly tailored down to feel a little bit more grounded.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
If there was an Emily in Paris spinoff where Emily gets a vacation someplace else, where would you like her to be?
Lily Collins: I would say… I have two places and I know what they think I’m gonna choose because I love Copenhagen and I think Emily in Denmark would be amazing. But I also think that Tokyo would be really fun, because for me, I love being in Tokyo because it feels like you’re in the past and the future at the same time, and for Emily to be surrounded by so much visual stimulation, I think would just be so fascinating and like another fish out of water experience. I think that would be so fun.
What can you say to the viewers out there who are doubting themselves in terms of taking a leap of faith in their career and romance, just like Emily did?
Lily Collins: I think not being afraid to fall is really important. I think letting go of control and not being afraid to not have it go perfectly is really important in order to succeed and go forward. And sometimes, you have to rely on others to lift you up, and that’s okay. So as long as you know that you have a support system around you to support you when things don’t go your way and to celebrate you when you do, it makes it that much easier.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
What are the important things about friendship that you’ve learned while working on this project?
Ashley Park: What I love about the female friendships in [the show], between us three is there’s no sense of judgment. I think that we all have our separate challenges and we go through different obstacles, and we didn’t even see eye to eye sometimes. And I think that the grounded support that comes into friendship, comes from this non-judgmental nature, in the spirit of just trying to be empathetic and being there for each other and I think that’s really beautiful.
Lily Collins: Yeah, and I’ve learned so much from both of these women on set, but really offset, about embracing who you are. Learning and growing, and not being afraid to ask for help or ask questions, being you. As simple as seeing you with and without your makeup, is the same as seeing you with and without knowing all the answers all the time. It’s like you’re being able to be vulnerable as well as strong, and that’s a beautiful thing and both of these women beside me on screen and off, they emulate that all the time, and I think it’s very inspiring.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
— Emily in Paris season 3 arrives on Netflix this December 21.
Disney+ has an exciting holiday gift for fans as Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Strange World is heading to the streaming service beginning Dec. 23. New key art and a special look are now available to download and share.
They’re in their element when exploring this world…
“Strange World” introduces a legendary family of explorers, the Clades, as they attempt to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob called Splat; Legend, the family dog; and a slew of ravenous creatures. The voice cast includes Academy Award®- and Tony Award®-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal as Searcher Clade, a family man who finds himself out of his element on an unpredictable mission; Emmy®- and two-time Golden Globe®-nominee Dennis Quaid as Searcher’s larger-than-life explorer father, Jaeger; comedian, actor, writer, filmmaker and musician Jaboukie Young-White as Searcher’s 16-year-old, adventure-seeking son, Ethan; actress, producer, bestselling author and TIME100 cover honoree Gabrielle Union as Meridian Clade, an accomplished pilot and Searcher’s partner in all things; and critically acclaimed actress, producer, director and fine artist Lucy Liu as Callisto Mal, Avalonia’s fearless leader who spearheads the exploration into the strange world. Helmed by director Don Hall (Oscar®-winning “Big Hero 6,” “Raya and the Last Dragon”) and co-director/writer Qui Nguyen (co-writer “Raya and the Last Dragon”), with Roy Conli (Oscar®-winning “Big Hero 6,” “Tangled”) producing, “Strange World” is in theaters now.
K-drama fans, here’s a new thrilling Netflix title starring Song Hye-kyo and Lee Do-hyun! A trailer for the upcoming series The Glory has been revealed, teasing an intriguing tale filled with revenge, childhood trauma, and confrontations.
Watch the trailer for The Glory below:
In this new K-drama, Song Hye-kyo (Descendants of the Sun) stars as Dong-eun, who harbors the painful memories of her being bullied and subjected to violence in her school. Now, 18 years later, she begins to take her revenge by driving all of the perpetrators and the people around them to the brink of ruin.
She encounters Yeo-Jung, played by Lee Do-Hyun (Sweet Home), who is another victim of a miserable tragedy. Circumstances will bring the two together, becoming co-conspirators in their own paths to exact revenge on the guilty.
The Glory is an 8-episode drama directed by An Gil-ho (Stranger) with a story written by Kim Eun-sook (Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Mr. Sunshine). The series premieres on Netflix this December 30.
Heads up! Here are the titles that you’d want to check out on Prime Video ASAP! From Drag Den with Manila Luzon to Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan season 3, the streaming service is sure to entertain you this holiday season. Check out this month’s highlights of Prime Video release below:
Your Christmas Or Mine? December 2, 2022
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases. Hayley arrives at a vast mansion in a small village in the Gloucester countryside to find a place where Christmas does not exist, whilst James heads north to a small semi-detached in Macclesfield and steps into the warm and chaotic pandemonium that only a large family Christmas can bring. When the entire country is blanketed in the biggest snowfall on record, our star-crossed lovers are trapped at the most manic time of the year. Christmas traditions are turned on their head, secrets are revealed, and family truths are told with hilarious consequences. The couple realize that there is an awful lot they don’t know about each other. Will they be able to swap back in time for Christmas Day? And will Hayley and James’ fledgling relationship make it through to the New Year?
Drag Den with Manila Luzon December 8, 2022
The world’s most famous Filipino drag queen Manila Luzon hosts a reality drag competition where the Philippines’ finest drag queens compete in performance, comedy and fashion challenges in hopes of snatching the historic crown as the first ever drag supreme.
The Forbidden Marriage December 9, 2022
When the crown princess dies, the crown prince is so sad he doesn’t get married for 7 years and proclaims a law that bans everyone in the 8 provinces of Joseon from getting married. Ye So-rang, who calls herself Hanyang’s greatest matchmaker, takes her greatest scheme to the king in order to save the dreary country.
Something from Tiffany’s December 9, 2022
Nothing compares to the magic and excitement of the holidays in New York City, where the streets blaze with lights, windows dazzle and a special box from Tiffany could change the course of a person’s life. Or several lives. Rachel and Gary (Zoey Deutch, Ray Nicholson) are happy enough but not quite ready for that big commitment. Ethan and Vanessa (Kendrick Smith Sampson, Shay Mitchell), the perfect picture, are just about to make it official. When a simple mix-up of gifts causes all of their paths to cross, it sets off a series of twists and unexpected discoveries that lead them where they’re truly meant to be. Because love – like life – is full of surprises, in the holiday romance Something from Tiffany’s.
Ultimate Oppa December 15, 2022
Follows the story of Yana, a K-drama enthusiast and a die-hard fan of Shiwoo- A big celebrity in Korea, and her journey after winning the meet-and-greet contest with her idol in South Korea. As the contest comes to a close, she realizes that the man she has been crushing on for years is not what she thinks he is in real life and she has developed feelings with Shiwoo’s manager- Jay.
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Season 3 December 21, 2022
In the third season of the action-thriller series, Jack Ryan is working as a CIA case officer in Rome, when he is tipped off that the Sokol Project, a secret plan to restore the Soviet Empire, is being resurrected more than 50 years after it was thought to have been shut down. Jack embarks on a mission to confirm the intelligence, but things quickly go awry, and he is wrongly implicated in a larger conspiracy. Accused of treason, with a Red Notice out for his arrest, Jack is forced to run from his own government, if he has any hope of uncovering the rogue faction before it’s too late. Crisscrossing Europe as he is hunted by former allies and new enemies alike, Jack races against the clock to stop the cascade of destabilizing conflicts from leading to global catastrophe.
Always December 22, 2022
A romantic drama about two people with different outlooks on life, both damaged by the cruelties of the world – one physically and the other emotionally. It tells the story of Anna, a blind girl who remains cheerful despite her disability, and Lino, a former boxer who tries to stay away from people because of some bitter personal experiences he encountered. They make a connection, fall in love and Lino learns later that he is somehow responsible for the accident that killed Anna’s parents and made her blind. Weighed down by guilt, he will then make a sacrifice just for Anna to get the chance to regain her eyesight but Lino goes missing when Anna gained her sight back.
Island December 30, 2022
Island is a fantasy action series based on the comic/webtoon of the same name by Yoon In-wan and Yang Kyung-il. Set in Jeju island, it depicts the journey of the characters fighting the evil force that is trying to destroy the world. Produced by YLab Flex, Studio Dragon and Gilstory Ent, Island assembles one of the best on and off screen teams, including director Bae Jong (Welcome to Dongmakgol, Fabricated City), writer Oh Bo-hyin and an A list cast including Kim Nam-gil, Lee Da-hee, Cha Eun-woo, and Sung-joon in lead roles. Set in the most famous and beautiful Korean island of Jeju, Island taps into the legends and folklore of the well known tourist destination through which the audience gets to experience its natural beauty.
