CINEMA
Love of the Moment
Cinemundo, 9pm
A comedy-drama directed by Michael Showalter (of the seminal sketches The State) is about Kumail Nanjiani (who plays himself), a comedian who immigrated from Pakistan to the United States and fell in love with a white woman against his parents’ wishes. In addition to starring, Nanjiani co-wrote the film with Emily V. Gordon, in a work that was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.
The Giver – The Giver of Memories
AXN Movies, 21h10
Phillip Noyce directs this adaptation of Lois Lowry’s novel of the same name. In a seemingly perfect society, where history has been erased and everyone’s lives are controlled to the millimeter, a young man is appointed guardian of humanity’s memories and receives the legacy of the world’s memories – including the worst ones. Now, he must make the most important decision of his life: keep the information to himself or tell everything he knows. Brenton Thwaites, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift bring the characters to life.
Judas and the Black Messiah
Hollywood, 21h30
Directed by Shaka King, it is a biopic of African-American activist Fred Hampton, leader of the Black Panthers, who was shot dead by police on December 4, 1969, in Chicago, while sleeping with his pregnant girlfriend. Among other awards, the film won two Oscars: best supporting actor (Daniel Kaluuya, as Hampton) and original song (Fight for youfrom HER). Lakeith Stanfield plays Bill O’Neal, the informant who betrayed the revolutionary.
My Friend Dahmer
Cinemundo, 23h
Ross Lynch stars as Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous serial killer who murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991, in this film by Marc Meyers based on a graphic novel by John “Derf” Backderf. Backderf was a classmate and friend of Dahmer’s in high school in Ohio and even drew him as a young man. This biographical psychological drama focuses on Dahmer’s high school years, his peculiar obsessions, his relationship with his parents, hobby of taking dead animals and dissolving their bones. There are other films and series about Dahmer, but this one, from 2017, was one of the best received among critics.
SERIES
The Post Office Scandal
RTP2, 22h01
The British miniseries premieres on Channel 2, dramatising a real-life scandal: around seven hundred employees of the Royal Mail – the UK’s national postal service – were accused of theft, fraud and false accounting. The case, which filled the courts with cases between 1999 and 2015, involved dismissals, arrests, insolvencies, the break-up of families and other even more dramatic situations. Years later, it was realised that it had all originated, in fact, from a failure in the computer system used by the post office.
It was one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Britain and the repercussions continue to be felt, with the State having to compensate the victims. Many only contacted lawyers after watching the series, which originally premiered on ITV in January. The four episodes are now being shown daily on RTP2.
The Seeds of Evil
The movie, streaming
Debut. Suspensecrime, neo-Nazis and German mythology converge in the six episodes of this German police miniseries that begins in 1993, in Wussnitz, in the former German Democratic Republic, when a young woman is found dead in macabre circumstances. The Seeds of Evil is an adaptation of a novel by Ada Fink and features Henriette Confurius and Fahri Yardim in the roles of the inspectors in charge of investigating the case.
DOCUMENTARY
Kant: The Experience of Freedom
RTP2, 22h56
On April 22, 1724, one of the most influential minds in Western philosophy was born in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). This documentary, directed by Wilfried Hauke, aims to act as a journey through time, to show Kant’s connection to the city where he was born, grew up and developed his thought. In addition to recreating this atmosphere, the film addresses “many of the pressing questions that tormented people 300 years ago are raised again in the face of climate catastrophe and war in Europe,” as the synopsis states.
