The most effective new Netflix UK collection, movies, and documentaries to binge in January 2020, courtesy of Secret London. This 1967 movie starring Paul Newman as a Christ figure in a southern jail is just as the title promises. The story is pure ‘60s tradition struggle angst, the dialogue is rife with iconic lines (What we have here’s a failure to speak”) and speeches about rebelling in opposition to authority, and nobody ever made prison blues look nearly as good as Newman. Greater than half a century after it was first launched, it still does not get a lot cooler that Luke.
Between Beasts of No Nation and First They Killed My Father, Netflix has two winners about a horrible subject: baby soldiers. This one—Netflix’s first big unique movie to garner some awards consideration—would be the most harrowing. It stars Idris Elba because the commandant who takes young Agu (Abraham Attah) from his family. A tough however essential watch.
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