What’s initially a close-quarter story of personal redemption grows into a two-headed beast: a documentary on the film you’re seeing and narrative concerning the documentation of said film. Jafar Panahi, working with co-star Kambuzia Partovi, crafts a spiritual sequel to 2012’s This Is Not a Film that’s deeper, more mysterious, and perhaps even grimmer. The big surprise, then, is that Del Toro, who cornered the market on nightmares with Pan’s Labyrinth’s Pale Man, has hitched his cart to The Book of Life, a colorful, joyous and buoyant lark that draws more from Mexican tradition and Greek myth than ghoulish Burton-esque kitsch. When Guillermo Del Toro produces an animated film about traveling into the afterlife and then releases it in time for Halloween, one would be right to expect some family-friendly creepiness. Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options - no t only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves - we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs.
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