Movies and series – tips from the Zoomers

This week we have summarised some of the Zoomers' top tips for movies and series you should watch right now - hopefully, they'll keep you entertained when you're recharging your batteries. Enjoy!

Movie tips

Action

Top Gun: Maverick
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 
Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of himself, which threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse. They seek help from Wanda the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.

The Last Samurai 
An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was assigned to destroy after he is captured in battle.

Deadpool
A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal but ugly and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.

Dune 
A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.

Everything Everywhere All at Once 
An ageing Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.

The Northman 
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.

Biography

I am Zlatan
Son of Balkan immigrants, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, born in Sweden, becomes, after a rough childhood, the best Swedish football player.

Crime

A Clockwork Orange 
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Once Upon a Time in America 
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Adventure

The Abyss 
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

The Peanut Butter Falcon 
Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.

Comedy

As Good as It Gets
A single mother, waitress, misanthropic author, and gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Animation

Luca
On the Italian Riviera, an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human.

Documentary

The Rescue 
A chronicle of the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

Seaspiracy
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption.

Series tips

Signora Volpe (Brit Box)
A disillusioned British spy-turned-detective starts a new life in the beautiful heart of Italy and begins a new life as a detective.

Peaky Blinders
A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centring on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.

Altered Carbon
Set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored, a prisoner returns to life in a new body and must solve a mind-bending murder to win his freedom.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
After her husband leaves her, a young mother of two, Miriam "Midge" Maisel discovers that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. Could this be her calling?

Money Heist (La Casa Del Papel)
Eight robbers take hostages and lock themselves in the Royal Spanish Mint, while the man behind the heist manipulates the police into carrying out his plan.

We Own This City
Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption surrounding it.

Extras
Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is an actor with ambition and a script. But, reduced to working as an extra with a useless agent, Andy's attempts to boost his career invariably end in failure and embarrassment.

Kastanjemannen (in Danish)
Kastanjemannen is a Danish crime series from 2021, created by Dorte Warnøe Høgh, Mikkel Serup and Søren Sveistrup. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Sveistrup. The series premiered on the Netflix streaming service in September 2021 and comprised six episodes.

Fartblinda (in Swedish)
Star-studded suspense drama about power games, money, passion and dark secrets. Financial reporter Bea (Julia Ragnarsson) receives an anonymous tip about irregularities at a major Swedish bank. Bea smells a scoop, but the investigation is complicated by her love affair with the bank's married CEO, Peder (Matias Varela). The series is based on Carolina Neurath's book "Speedblind".

Rick & Morty
A global phenomenon about the alcoholic scientist Rick and his impressionable grandson Morty: they divide their time between family life and interdimensional travel.

Bron (in Swedish)
Award-winning crime series starring Sofia Helin as Saga Norén in Malmö. The programme was broadcasted from 2011-2018.

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