Letterboxd — Your life in film

“I can’t quit you, rom-coms! I just can’t stay away,” Rachael Leigh Cook tells Netflix Tudum. “I am a lover of love.”  

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Sometimes all you need is a phone call with your mom. And it turns out that was exactly what Sofia Carson needed too before tackling her latest film, Purple Hearts. “Getting into this project, I was terrified, and I had never felt that scared before,” the actor and singer-songwriter tells Tudum. “I was paralyzed by fear. I literally parked outside the studio just sobbing and shaking.”

Cynthia Erivo’s journey into the world of Luther: The Fallen Sun began, fittingly, with a coat. As Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Odette Raine, Erivo dons a blue Burberry trench coat, a clear nod to DCI John Luther’s (Idris Elba) famous tweed number, which has followed him through five seasons of television and now, a movie.

The new film Luther: The Fallen Sun picks up where the series left off, but it’s easy to follow along.

From Stranger Things producer and Oscar nominee Shawn Levy, This Is Where I Leave You is a 2014 dark comedy about four siblings who endure a week under one roof with their mother while sitting shiva for their father. As they come to terms with his death, the Altman family deals with crises in their love lives and with one another. The film stars Jason Bateman, two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda, Oscar nominee Adam Driver and many more.

It’s been 50 years since five burglars were arrested at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The incident became known as the Watergate scandal and ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Though plenty of names have been immortalized in history books in relation to Watergate — FBI vet G. Gordon Liddy, Nixon’s Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — there’s one that hasn’t been as…

When designing the mysterious chupacabra at the center of his new film Chupa, Jonás Cuarón knew he couldn’t stay strictly loyal to his mythical source material. “Our goal was to create an incredibly cute creature based on a terrifying legend,” the director tells Netflix Tudum. “The mythical creature was described as a hairless dog with wings and sharp teeth. Chupa is furry and incredibly cute.” Considering the emotional bond the tiny creature forms with the film’s protagonist Alex, cute was…

Weddings are always social minefields. But when your daughter is marrying your ex’s son? How do you assign that seating chart? 

When a teenager finds a ghost in his attic, he ends up making a new friend. But after news of his paranormal pal gets out, the internet goes wild and everyone wants a piece of him — including a nefarious government agency. Starring Emmy nominee David Harbour and Jahi Winston, We Have a Ghost is a heartfelt horror comedy premiering on Netflix Feb. 24.

Ready to watch Glass Onion again? The twisty Benoit Blanc whodunit certainly benefits from repeat viewings — and now you have another excuse to revisit Miles Bron’s island with even more insight, thanks to a new director’s commentary from writer-director Rian Johnson.

The Tyler Perry cinematic universe is expanding. The latest from the prolific producer, writer and director is Mea Culpa, a new legal drama starring Kelly Rowland (The Curse of Bridge Hollow), who will also co-produce the film.

For Madelyn Cline, fame came with a White Claw.

Florence Pugh joins the show to talk about her latest film, The Wonder. Directed by Sebastián Lelio and based on Emma Donoghue’s book by the same name, the film transports us to 1862, where English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) has been called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months,…

Guillermo del Toro joins the show to talk about his latest film, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Brought to life using classic stop-motion techniques, it's a bold reimagining of Carlo Collodi’s classic fairytale.

The horrors of World War I come to life in All Quiet on the Western Front, the first German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 bestseller. Told through the eyes of 17-year-old German soldier Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), the film takes you straight into the muddy trenches of France, where he and his school friends arrive in 1917 — three years into the conflict. There, the schoolboys-turned-soldiers are confronted with the daily grind of life on the front: mud, death…

Awards season might feel like it’s everything everywhere all at once, but the Screen Actors Guild Awards only have one home: Netflix.