Cinema

"Heaven Can't Wait" and more recommendations.

We recommend new releases, classics, or content that you have not yet seen in theaters or on your favorite platforms.

Patricio Sánchez-Jáuregui-March 3, 2023-Reading time: 2 minutes
Cinema

We bring you new releases, classics, or content you haven't yet seen in the cinema or on your favorite platforms (Unsplash / Bastian Riccardi).

LOCKWOOD & CO.

Creator: Joe Cornish

Actors: Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman, Ali Hadji-Heshmati

Netflix

Lucy Carlyle is a small-town girl in the big city. But in this world, nothing is what it should be. Ghosts populate the land and only a few young people have the skills to hunt them down. Lucy is one of them. A girl with psychic abilities who teams up with two teenage boys from the Lockwood & Co. ghost-hunting agency to fight the deadly spirits plaguing London, doing their best to save the day without adult supervision.

Lockwood & Co. is a pleasant surprise in the Netflix catalog. A suspense, adventure and detective TV series, for all audiences and developed by Joe Cornish ("Tintin", "Attack the Block"). It is based on the book series of the same name by multi-award winning Jonathan Stroud ("The Screaming Staircase" and "The Whispering Skull"). It consists of eight episodes and premiered on January 27, 2023.

HEAVEN CAN'T WAIT

Blessed Carlo Acutis (CNS photo/courtesy Sainthood Cause of Carlo Acutis)

Director: José María Zavala

Script: José María Zavala

Music: Luis Mas

AT THE MOVIE

Documentary on the celebrated life of Carlo Acutis, a young blessed who died in 2006 and whose charisma and fame continues to arouse passion and devotion. At only 15 years old, his life has become an unstoppable force that knows no borders. Thanks to José María Zavala ("Amanece en Calcuta", "El Misterio del Padre Pío") comes this work with a dozen testimonies of people of all ages and nationalities who have been touched by the grace of God thanks to the intercession of Carlo Acutis. This is woven with important moments in the life of the young Blessed, interspersing documentary genre with fiction to try to show with greater vividness the whole life and impact of the venerated.

The authorPatricio Sánchez-Jáuregui

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