ICYMI, the expectant mother/graffiti artist in Frankston has been charged. The whereabouts of Chris, the purported father, remains a mystery.
In other news, here are the best Netflix Originals titles out this month:
Otherhood (film)
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To Carol (Angela Bassett), Gillian (Patricia Arquette) and Helen (Felicity Huffman), ‘otherhood’ is what’s left of motherhood when your children grow distant.
In an interview with NPR, Bassett described this rite of passage as a break up, but with kids that are “just not into you anymore”.
After being collectively forgotten on Mother’s Day, the three friends drive to New York to reconnect with their adult sons, and end up rediscovering their own identities outside of motherhood.
“You know who you are without me,” Carol tells her son. “I need to figure out who I am without you.”
Otherhood is written and directed by Cindy Chupack (Sex and the City), and is based on William Sutcliffe’s novel Whatever Makes You Happy.
See this one with your mum from August 2 on Netflix Australia.
The Naked Director (series)
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After a stint in selling encyclopaedias during Japan’s 1980s bubble economy, Toru Muranishi switched to porn. He’s produced (and at times acted in) some 3000 adult videos (AVs) throughout his career, earning him titles such as “Emperor of Porn” and “Sex Shogun of Shinjuku”.
While Muranishi is credited with challenging Japan’s prudish culture and pioneering the AV genre, we shouldn’t gloss over his numerous criminal convictions, including casting underage actresses on more than one occasion.
Hopefully, Netflix’s new series The Naked Director gets it right.
The ten-part series is directed by Masaharu Take, and will star Takayuki Yamada (Isle of Dogs) as the ambitious Muranishi.
Will genitals be pixelated or laid bare? Find out on August 8 on Netflix Australia.
Wu Assassins (series)
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Iko Uwais and Mark Dacascos star in this new series about a guy blessed with martial arts powers, who uses them to fight off triads in the city and fulfill his destiny – oh, this ain’t Iron Fist?
Just kidding, we’re excited for this one.
Uwais is Kai Jin, a chef in San Francisco’s Chinatown, who imbibes powers from an ancient spirit to (reluctantly) become the Wu Assassin.
Unsurprisingly, the head of the main triad wants him dead.
Unfortunately, it’s his father.
#starwars #WuJedi
Wu Assassins airs August 8 on Netflix Australia.
Sintonia (series)
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This Brazilian coming-of-age series explores the intersection of music, crime, and religion in the favelas of São Paulo. Childhood friends Doni, Nando and Rita have taken different paths in life, but ultimately realize the need to band together if they are to beat “the struggle against the system”.
Sintonia is a collaboration between Netflix and KondZilla, the lauded Brazilian producer/record label manager. KondZilla owns the second-largest music channel in the world, with almost 51 million YouTube subscribers and over 25 billion views. On top of that, he’s widely credited for popularising the funk ostentação genre.
Safe to say Sintonia is going to have one hell of a soundtrack.
Sintonia airs August 9 on Netflix Australia.
Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready (stand-up special)
MINDHUNTER: Season 2 (Series)
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People are obsessed with the macabre. The flavour of the month seems to be Charles Manson, whose family haunts the background of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
Not to be outdone, the new trailer for Mindhunter: Season 2 also teases Manson’s sunken ‘n’ soulless visage.
The new season jumps forward a few years to the first Atlanta child murders of 1979. To catch the perp, FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench’s continue their pioneering behavioural analyses of imprisoned serial killers.
Serial killer/necrophile Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton) warns the agents that the child murderer “has an overwhelming fantasy life, fantasies of what he’s done, what he wants to do… his dreams will consume him… soon the real world won’t even compare.”
When asked how they can catch him, Kemper simply responds, “If he’s any good, you can’t.”
Mindhunter: Season 2 airs August 16 on Netflix Australia.
