Pop Culture Imports: Netflix’s Most Relatable Anime, an Irreverent Israeli Comedy, and the Superhero Movie Antidote to ‘Infinity War’

Posted on Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 by Hoai-Tran Bui

(Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.)

It looks like summer may finally be peeking out from behind the clouds — and you know what that means. It’s time to take refuge indoors as the weather becomes unbearably hot. And what better to watch on a warm summer day than a few foreign-language movies and TV shows?

In this week’s Pop Culture Imports, we have Netflix’s adorable anime about a death metal-loving red panda that has taken the internet by storm, a surreal Israeli religious comedy, a heartbreakingly human superhero movie from the director of Train to Busan, a Brazilian dystopian thriller series, and a Bollywood-inspired retelling of Pride and Prejudice.

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Netflix’s ‘3%’ Trailer: A Post-Apocalyptic TV Series Where Only 3% Will Succeed

Posted on Thursday, October 27th, 2016 by Peter Sciretta

3% is a new thriller series from Netflix set in “a world sharply divided between progress and devastation, where people are given a chance to make it to the ‘better side’, but only 3% of the candidates succeed.” Sounds like a compelling concept. Watch Netflix’s 3% trailer now after the jump.

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Tom Tykwer’s ’3′ Trailer – Not Your Everyday Love Affair

Posted on Friday, September 2nd, 2011 by Germain Lussier

In 3, a man and a woman, married for twenty years, both fall into extramarital affairs. Seems like a fairly straight forward premise to a movie. But this is Tom Tykwer, the man who directed Run Lola Run and is teaming up with the Wachowskis to make Cloud Atlas. There’s gotta be a catch. In 3, this husband and wife both end up having an affair with the same man.

An official selection at last year’s Venice and Toronto Film Festivals as well as winner of awards at Outfest 2011 and the German Film Awards, Tom Tykwer’s 3 opens in New York and Los Angeles on September 16. Check out the trailer and where else you can see it after the jump. Read More »

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