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Chris Crespo's picks for OCTOBER are LIVE!!

See what he has to say about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, and Living With Yourself with Paul Rudd and Paul Rudd!!

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Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix - April 2018 • With Chris Crespo

Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – April 2018

By: Chris Crespo

Fastest Car

Coming to Netflix April 6, 2018

With Fastest Car, Netflix continues their attempt to become a standalone network, providing every sort of entertainment currently found on every other channel out there. Producing movies and television shows for a few years now, Fastest Car is their foray into car-centric television culture. Taking cues from popular past and present shows like Top Gear and Pimp My Ride, and mixing in a little “reality tv” style competition drama a la Storage Wars, Survivor and Ru Paul’s Drag Race, this appears to be a show that will easily to appeal to gearheads and speed freaks but may also draw in folks who enjoy these sorts of contests. It is like Guy’s Grocery Games, but instead of answering questions about food and then doing a cooking challenge, we have men and women building cars and racing them in the desert. So pretty much the exact same show.

Actually, now that I think of it, Fastest Car could use a little Guy Fieri in it. Think about it, the guy is synonymous with his cherry red land shark convertible, his spiky head poking out over the windshield, the wind in his face whipping his sunglasses all the way around to the back of his head, and it would be fantastic to see him line his car up against the others in this competition to see who has…the Fastest Car oooooooohhhh okay now I know why they called it that. Got it.

So Fastest Car probably doesn’t have any Guy Fieri, and probably doesn’t have any food or cooking in it at all, but that’s okay cause you see those cars? They  look crazy.

TRAILERS: Fastest Car | Coming to Netflix April 6th

    Come Sunday

Coming to Netflix April 13, 2018

In 2005, the Chicago public radio show and 21st cultural force This American Life did a story about a fella named Carlton Pearson, who at that time was in the midst of a scandal within his church, as the minister turned bishop had reversed course on decades of religious teaching and declared to his Tulsa, Oklahoma congregation of literally thousands that Hell was not a real place but was instead a human construct, an idea that our wicked and sinful ways would bring suffering to us and those around us while alive here in this plane of existence. Called universal reconciliation, this line of thinking is not widely accepted by Christians, as the non-existence of Hell and the thought that all people, whether they be believers or not, would be reconciled with God and would receive salvation after death regardless of how they lived their lives simply does not sit well with their ingrained belief that the avoidance of Hell is reserved only for those who “put in the work” but living a life largely free of sin and using this time on Earth to evangelize to anyone and everyone, ultimately proselytizing enough new Christians to make sure entry into Heaven is assured. Believe me when I say this (coming from much experience), most people who consider themselves believers do not do so because they want to live better lives or because they even want to get into Heaven, they are living these religious lifestyles simply to avoid going to Hell. For them, if Hell does not exist, what is the point of living a moral life? If Hell is here on Earth, why bother making it any better? And if there is no Hell, can there really be a Heaven?

Producers have been trying to make Carlton Pearson’s story into a movie since 2010, and now thanks to Netflix it is here in the form of Come Sunday, with the great Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dr. Strange, 12 Years A Slave) in the lead role and supported by Martin Sheen, Danny Glover and Jason Segal. How can universal reconciliation be cinematic? Is it possible to make a fight over the interpretation of religious texts compelling? Why should anyone outside of the church even care? We’ll get answers to these questions on April 13 with Come Sunday.

TRAILER: Come Sunday | Coming to Netflix April 13, 2018

  Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – April 2018 • With Chris Crespo was originally published on Netflix Center

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Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – August 2018 • With Chris Crespo

By: Chris Crespo of Cinema Crespodiso

  Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix… August 2018

  Like Father

Coming to Netflix August 3, 2018

  TRAILER: Like Father | Coming to Netflix August 3, 2018

Lakeland, Florida’s own Lauren Miller escaped the humid hellhole of cultural malaise that is the Central Florida Land of Lakes and found success in the not at all vapid and totally fulfilling entertainment world of Hollyweird, California, via acting and writing, and now Lauren Miller is expanding her directorial chops with an original comedy called Like Father, starring Kristen Bell as a bride-to-be stood up at the altar and who finds herself on her honeymoon cruise with her workaholic father (Kelsey Grammer). Of course if they got along right away and understood each other and just had a pleasant time then this would not be a very good movie at all, would it? So of course they are NOT going to get along at first, practically estranged from each other, so a multi-day cruise is the perfect opportunity to be forced to learn about each other and grow as a father-daughter relationship is supposed to grow. Along the way, Kristen Bell’s character meets a nice fella (played by Lauren Miller’s weed-loving beardo husband Seth Rogen), and surely by the end of the movie things will have worked out for everyone involved, right? Why else would we watch something like this? The whole reason romantic comedies exist is so that we the audience members can watch these relationships fail and then either be salvaged or watch the people in those failed relationships move on to bigger and better things, but in real life most of us are sitting around either stuck in bad relationships we can’t get out of, or we are wishing we could even get ourselves stuck in one of these bad relationships in the first place, and as we sit and look around at how everyone else seemingly gets it and knows how to play this game of love, loss and love again, we at least get to enjoy dumb little romantic movies like this in which even the hapless schlubs and the workaholic women get to find love and be joyous and live happily ever after. That. Is. The. Point.

  Insatiable

Coming to Netflix August 10, 2018

  TRAILER: Insatiable | Coming to Netflix August 10, 2018

Not immune to controversy, Netflix is already under fire for a show that hasn’t even debuted yet called Insatiable, and now in August we will all get to see what the big deal is all about. You see, what had happened was, Netflix released the trailer for their original series number 4,382, and in this show, a high school student named Fatty Patty (singer Debby Ryan) is overweight and insulted due to her appearance, but she loses weight when a homeless man (??) punches her in the face and breaks her jaw. So she can’t eat food. So she loses TONS of weight and becomes very attractive. Now that she lost all that weight, she can just go to school as a desirable person and not as a punching bag, and what a shocker, some people have an issue with this weird bit of body shaming. And it is indeed a little strange in 2018 to have a show with a premise that is straight out of 1988, in which a character’s acceptability to others and happiness with herself is tied directly into how others perceive her body shape, as if the only way a person can be happy is if other people think they are physically attractive. Then again, this is America, our culture is very real, and it has been built thoroughly on The Male Gaze, so perhaps the reason this show exists in 2018 is because plenty of people still think this way, and still believe their happiness in life is only related to how many people want to have sex with them and love them for who they appear to be as opposed to who they really are, so I guess Insatiable may be a little toxic in its themes but these are themes reflected from our own society in the first place.

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Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – July 2018 • With Chris Crespo

By: Chris Crespo of Cinema Crespodiso

  Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix… July 2018

  Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Coming to Netflix July 8, 2018

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee – Season 10 – Coming to Netflix July 6, 2018

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is getting a whole new season as part of a deal Jerry Seinfeld struck with Netflix, in which the streaming giant agreed to produce the newest seasons of the show while also picking up all the past seasons from Sony’s Crackle service, the original home of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. For the uninitiated, this is a show in which Jerry Seinfeld picks up a comedian friend of his (usually a white dude of some sort), and then drive to a diner to get some coffee. Their conversations in the car and while drinking coffee are recorded and turned into a show, and there you have it, remarkably simple in set up and execution. You know what else is really interesting about this show? Jerry Seinfeld is being sued for creative and intellectual theft, as an old collaborator of his claims that he came up with this idea way back in the 1990’s, and Jerry Seinfeld shot it down then by a decade later revived it as his own idea, without providing any credit or compensation to the original creator. Which should not be a surprise to anyone because amateurs create and professionals steal, so maybe expect this case to be settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, as the show has proven relatively popular, certainly the most well liked and most watched thing Jerry Seinfeld has done since the end of his eponymous situational comedy. It is an easy going show, with funny people having a relaxed conversation (except for the Jim Carrey episode because that guy seemingly cannot chill out for even a moment as long as there are cameras nearby), and an easy way to pass some time. No stress, no mess, just some (mostly) dudes talking with coffee breath.

    Her

Coming to Netflix July 29, 2018

  At the end of the month, Netflix will be adding to their extensive library the Spike Jonze film “Her,” in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a letter writer who obtains a new computer operating system that has a level of artificial intelligence that currently only exists in science fiction films like this but in reality isn’t that far down the road from where we are now. This story imagines what it would be like if our Alexas, Siris and Cortanas not only provided map directions and cookie recipes but also managed to attend to our emotional needs as well. Is it absurd to think that certain emotionally unavailable people who find the appeal in a partner that could be put away or shut off when things got weird or tough? “Her” goes through the entire life cycle of such an imagined relationship, and the story examines the different ways the relationship would work and how it would affect other real world relationships and how it would be seen by others, and by the end of this story it is amazing how nuanced and “real” this seemingly artificial relationship feels. It also helps to have a great cast like this one, filled with actors all ready to go to those emotional places, prepared to take a silly sounding set up and turn it into something with gravitas and meaning, and of course Spike Jonze knows how to make a damn movie, expertly juggling the weird elements pf the story with the much more grounded and emotional aspects, making for a tonally consistent movie that never feels absurd or unbelievable but instead feels much more universal. And if you really want to trip yourself out, first sit down to watch the (dumb but fun) Scarlett Johansson movie “Lucy,” follow it up immediately with “Her” and then end it all with “Under the Skin,” and you’ll find it makes for a strangely satisfying trilogy of human evolution. Seriously. Do it.

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Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – June 2018 • With Chris Crespo

Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – June 2018

By: Chris Crespo of Cinema Crespodiso

    Sense8: Series Finale

Coming to Netflix June 8, 2018

  In 2015, Netflix debuted one of their most daring, forward thinking and quite frankly BIGGEST shows ever in the form of Sense8, a sci-fi drama literally spanning the globe about a group of people psychically-linked trying to solve a huge mystery about WHY they are linked and what it all means. Created by The Wachowskis (The Matrix trilogy, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, World War Z), it was released to much fanfare and received generally strong reviews. A second season aired on Netflix in 2017, but shortly after it was released, Netflix announced the series would be cancelled, despite huge cliffhangers and tons of open storylines leaving the show’s fans with televisual blue balls (or pink walls). Enough of a groundswell of support for the show convinced Netflix that it would be in their best interest to commission a two-hour series finale, which will now come out on June (Sense)8 . Dramatically exciting, filled with interesting characters, action packed, and sexy AF, fans of the show will hopefully get what they are looking for with this big finale, and while it would have been great to see this story play out over a longer period of time, at least this is a case of fans getting some closure to the show. How will all these storylines wrap up? What will happen to these characters? Thanks, Netflix, for at least being willing to provide some answers in this one instance.

Sense8 Series Finale Official Trailer

OFFICIAL TRAILER: Sense8: The Series Finale | Coming to Netflix June 8, 2018

  Nailed It! Season 2

Coming to Netflix June 29, 2018

  Debuting June 29 will be the second season of Nailed It!, a cake baking competition that is more about jokes and fun than it is about actually baking cakes. You see, the producers of the show have a world class professional baker take several days to make elaborate and amazing baked desserts, and then they task a trio of amateur bakers with recreating these insane cakes in a tiny fraction of the time. So not only do these contestants barely know what they are doing, they are also pretty much set up to fail for our entertainment, to the point where it is impressive that these folks make ANYTHING in the allotted time frame, let along something that looks amazing (and tastes great, too!). This show is hosted by comedian Nicole Byer (MTV’s Girl Code, Why Won’t You Date Me?) and her energy and general sense of wildness adds just the right amount of comedy and shenanigans to the overall proceedings. And the production of the show itself has a shaggy dog “making it up as we go along” quality that is a lot of fun, as each episode seems rough around the edges in just the right ways to make Nailed It stand apart from other run of the mill baking shows. Season one, which debuted earlier this year, is only six episodes long so you still have plenty of time to watch that before the second season begins, giving you a chance to prepare for the undeniable chemistry between Nicole Byer and head judge (and world renowned chocolatier) Jacques Torres, the dopey but well-meaning and often likeable contestants, and stagehand (and dreamboat) Wes’ trophy deliveries. This show is an absolute delight.

Nailed It! Season 1 Trailer

OFFICIAL TRAILER: Nailed It | Coming to Netflix March 9, 2018

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Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – May 2018 • With Chris Crespo

  Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix – May 2018

By: Chris Crespo of Cinema Crespodiso

  Anon 

Coming to Netflix May 4, 2018

  Anon is a Netflix original sci-fi film starring Clive Owen (Children of Men) as a tough detective investigating an elusive criminal. The sci-fi twist is that this is a dystopian future (what movie future isn’t dystopian?) in which the government has successfully eliminated privacy and anonymity, making crimes easier to investigate and harder to commit. So when a criminal played by Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) has proven to be undetectable, it provides a new and unique challenge for our hard scrabbled detective. Although, if she can’t be detected, how do they know she committed the crime in the first place?

Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show, Gattaca, The Host, In Time), this movie obviously plays in to our current fears and concerns with the lack of privacy we are currently experiencing through our use of the internet and social media , in which we freely give up our privacy rights for nebulous reasons. What a world we live in that we are currently looking at a movie about a society with no privacy rights and it doesn’t seem too far off from what is going on now. Just look at how some cities like London are under constant surveillance through their government installed and monitored CCTV system, and look at how people all around the world but especially in America just love their social media accounts and are more than willing to put the most personal and private information out there for anyone and everyone to consume. It is so easy to manipulate this world we live in for nefarious gains, and we can see how this could continue into a really bad situation, and it looks like Anon does just that by exploring a privacy-free world through the guise of a noir crime mystery.

OFFICIAL TRAILER: Anon | Coming to Netflix May 4, 2018

  Forgive Us Our Debts 

Coming to Netflix April 13, 2018

  Recently Netflix declared that they want to be “a voice for European entertainment” (source) and part of that involves putting European made movies and shows on their platform, and their first Italian made movie is called Rimetti A Noi I Nostri Debiti (Forgive Us Our Debts), and the setup of this movie plays right into the same economic anxieties and doubts and troubles that plague people all over the world: a recently unemployed man finds himself in trouble with creditors, so he agrees to work for a creditor as a debt collector and repo man, which has him confronting people and trying to extract money for his new boss, and this causes some serious problems because of course it does, this is a movie, and movies don’t exist with some sort of drama. No matter what country you live in, this Italian movie will likely have some resonance with you because we all just want to get by and live our lives and provide for ourselves and our families, and many of us do things we do not want to do in order to just survive, often with emotional (if not physical) consequences. And good on Netflix for knowing that world cinema is a thing and taking the time and resources to help make these internationally made movies available to North American audiences, because Lord knows we need more culture beyond reality television and spandex wearing superpowered heroes.

TRAILER: Forgive Us Our Debts | Coming to Netflix May 4, 2018

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Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix: With Chris Crespo!

Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix

Netflix Center is excited to announce that Chris Crespo of Cinema Crespodiso, Chris Crespo Trivia, and PFT Media will be contributing to the blog with the Top Two Titles Coming to Netflix every month! You might know where we’re going with this one, every month Chris will use his forecasting abilities to pick the most promising two original Netflix titles coming in the following month.

Mr. Crespo comes highly accomplished with an unmatched knowledge of movies (that’s not hyperbole) and years of reviews and articles under his belt. If you’re looking for a movie on Netflix and like to read reviews first, chances are he already covered it as a Netflix Pick of the Week, or will be in a day or two as he ploughs through 100 movies on the #CrespoHundo hashtag… which you can follow and join in on if you feel inclined.

Chris is also a founder of PFT Media, which if ya don’t know, is a network of some Pretty Freakin Terrific podcast shows based in Orlando. No kidding, besides hosting Cinema Crespodiso with Dr. Drewster Cogburn, PFT offers a whole lineup to pick from, including Orlando Opinions, Scotch and “good” Conversation, a show I had the pleasure of begin on twice, The Simon Time Trivia Show… so if you’re looking for a new podcast show to get hooked on, visit PFT Media.com!

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Speaking of What’s coming to Netflix next month., here is the page for March, keep an eye on it for updates and new trailers…

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