Five things to watch this weekend
BIGGIE: I GOT A STORY TO TELL NETFLIX
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Emmett Malloy’s documentary manages to stand above the many already out-there examinations of the short, magnetic life of Christopher Wallace, the man history knows best as rapper the Notorious B.I.G. Made with the blessing of his mother, Violetta, it features previously unreleased homevideo footage of his life during his short reign at the top of the hip-hop food chain, before his fatal shooting at 24 in 1997. The film benefits from focusing not so much on the mystery of his killing as on the motivations, ambitions and desires of a subject whose legend still lives on through the music he made.
WE ARE WHO WE ARE — SHOWMAX
Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino makes a poetic and emotionally engaging excursion into modern adolescence in what’s really an eight-hour-long film on the uncertainties and struggles of identity of a group of US teenagers thrown together on an army base in Italy.
ZOE’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST SHOWMAX
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A show filled with the exuberance and joy of pop music. When a young computer coder undergoes an MRI that leaves her with the ability to hear the inner thoughts of those around her delivered through renditions of pop songs only she can see and hear, her world is turned upside down and music may be the only thing that can save her from insanity.
MURDER AMONG THE MORMONS — NETFLIX
Christopher Wallace aka Biggie with 50 Grand in ‘Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell’ ./
A three-part docuseries that tells the fascinating, forgotten story of a series of bombs that rocked the Mormon community in 1980s Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s an engaging, character-filled, tightly executed examination of the mysterious and shocking attacks that rocked the tightknit and self-contained world of a still somewhat perplexing religious group to their core.
HIGHTOWN — SHOWMAX
A US fisheries government employee who enjoys a life filled with drugs and booze in the popular Cape Cod holiday town where she lives hits rock bottom just as the body is discovered of a young girl murdered brutally on the beach. She becomes convinced solving the murder is integral to her recovery, putting her on a collision course with the local police detective.