New movie selection on Netflix is a bit…well it’s a bit crap this week.  There’s a horror movie that looks a bit interesting but only fares marginally well on IMDB and that’s ‘Dark Summer‘, but I haven’t seen it so I can’t exactly recommend it.  So what I will recommend is the new spanish language Netflix original series ‘NARCOS’. I’ve only watched the first episode but it already has me hooked, I’m not a big one for binge watching, but a quick check on IMDB  sees it score a whopping 9.3 out of 10!

The true story of Colombia’s infamously violent and powerful drug cartels fuels this gritty new gangster drama series. First they got the coke. Then they got the money. Now the Colombian cartels want the

Yes, yes, it has subtitles, but as we keep saying ‘Global Is Local’ and unless we learn to speak other languages (not gonna happen), and they keep making awesome films and TV that aren’t in English, then we need to start embracing this stuff. It also makes watching with a sleeping baby easy as peas, anyway if you like a gritty true story that’s tense as hell then this is your guy.  And yes i will come back and amend this if the rest of the series is a bit rubbish. Click the link here to watch NARCOS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7elNhHwgBU

 

 

Chris Caldwell

Author: Chris Caldwell

Chris Caldwell at your service! My favourite things are eating and Theatre, I have 2 small sons called Alex and Max who are more mustard than Hellmann's. I spend my days trying to wrangle them and exploring my favourite city - BELFAST! My favourite films are horror, my fav music is metal and my favourite Beatle is Ringo, mainly his work on Thomas the Tank.