What to watch on OTT: Queer, Bad Genius and more

Luca Guadagnino’s Queer has sparked a batch of involvement since its satellite premiere astatine Venice International Film Festival, 2024. Available to watercourse from January 31, Queer is based connected the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs and is acceptable successful the 1950s Mexico City. William Lee, (Daniel Craig) an American expat successful Mexico City, spends his days astir wholly alone, but for a fewer contacts with different members of the community. His brushwood with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), an expat erstwhile soldier, shows him that it mightiness beryllium yet imaginable to found an intimate connection.

The movie is written by Justin Kuritzkes, with euphony from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, cinematography from Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, edited by Marco Costa and costume plan from J.W. Anderson. The formed besides features Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga, Omar Apollo, Andra Ursuta, Andres Duprat, Ariel Shulman, Drew Droege and Michael Borremans.

The Snow Girl S2
Netflix

The Snow Girl 2: The Soul Game (releasing connected January 31), the 2nd adaptation of Javier Castillo’s caller series, begins with the instrumentality of Miren Rojo, erstwhile again starring Milena Smit. Following the events of the archetypal play of The Snow Girl, Miren investigates this clip an elite schoolhouse that seems to beryllium astatine the halfway of the disappearance and execution of 2 young girls. She volition bash it unneurotic with Jaime (Miki Esparbé), an investigative writer who arrives astatine the Sur paper fleeing from his past and trying to retrieve his mislaid reputation. Joining Miren is Jaime, played by Miki Esparbé, a caller workfellow of Miren’s astatine the paper Sur. Aixa Villagrán and Marco Cáceres reprise their roles.

Bad Genius
Lionsgate Play

Sometimes, the smartest crippled is the astir dangerous. Directed by JC Lee, Bad Genius returns with a thrilling caller chapter, diving into the high-stakes satellite of world fraud and deception. A radical of talented students, led by the cunning and superb Lynn (Callina Liang), mastermind an elaborate cheating strategy with planetary implications. As the heist escalates to caller heights, friendships fracture, and the enactment betwixt close and incorrect blurs. This is an American remake of the 2017 Thai movie Bad Genius and it volition watercourse from Friday. This has been remade arsenic ‘Farrey’, a Hindi-language movie directed by Soumendra Padhi and featuring Alizeh Agnihotri arsenic the lead.

Mo: S2
Netflix

The archetypal play introduced viewers to Mo Najjar (co-creator and enforcement shaper Mo Amer), a Palestinian exile desperately trying to support his beingness — and household — unneurotic successful Houston, arsenic helium attempts to unafraid asylum. The heartfelt drama series, inspired by Amer’s ain life, is simply a uncommon amusement that mines the difficulties of interfaith relationships and migration struggles alongside the drama of finicky feline owners. Mo’s caller play brings its hero’s travel for asylum to an end, with Amer reprising his relation arsenic Mo, alongside Teresa Ruiz (Maria), Farah Bsieso (Yusra), and Omar Elba (Sameer), who are backmost arsenic bid regulars.

The caller episodes find Mo stranded crossed the borderline and hopeless to get backmost to Houston earlier his family’s asylum hearing. But arsenic a stateless exile without a passport, he’s gonna request each the hustle and charm helium tin garner. Little does helium cognize that the travel location is conscionable the commencement of his troubles, and there’s a caller feline successful municipality acceptable to bargain some his longtime love, Maria — and his falafel taco recipe.