What are we watching this weekend? The first cinematic shock of 2024, the sequel to Band of Brothers, Pierre Niney as Michel Gondry…

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The film in theaters: Iron Claw by Sean Durkin

By adapting for the cinema the moving story of the Von Erichs, a cursed family of American wrestlers, Sean Durkin (The Nest) is an instant classic. Between sports film, biopic steeped in the 80’s and devastating drama, Iron Claw grabs us by the throat and guts, with a simply exceptional cast, from Zac Efron to Jeremy Allen White, including Harris Dickinson and Holt McCallany, perfectly horrible as a toxic patriarch. A huge piece of cinema unfairly shunned by the Oscars.

What’s new at the cinema this week

Series : Masters of the Air

Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Barry Keoghan play Knights of Heaven in this new series Band of Brothers breathtaking. The little-known true story of the US bombers who pounded Nazi positions during the Second World War. A Dantesque reconstruction, with overwhelming emotional intensity and which offers an extraordinary deadly ballet in the clouds. We’ve never seen this on our screens.

Watch Masters of the Air on Apple TV+ (also available on Canal+ in France)

The film on DVD/VOD: The Book of Solutions by Michel Gondry

After eight years of silence in the cinema, Michel Gondry returned a few months ago with The Book of Solutions. A rather hilarious comedy where Pierre Niney plays his alter ego, a whimsical director who takes refuge in the Cévennes to finish his new film. In this mixture of truth and falsehood, Gondry examines his bipolarity and the behaviors that result from it (overflowing creativity, but also the inability to confront reality). A self-portrait that is both harsh and slightly complacent, where Niney holds the note superbly.

Watch The Book of Solutions on VOD on Première Max

The movie on TV: Ambulance by Michael Bay

A “gloriously anarchist and joyfully kamikaze manifesto”a “profession of faith from a true movie nut”. This is what we wrote two years ago when the latest Michael Bay came out, an actioner with a dazzling concept (two ex-soldiers rob a bank and escape in an ambulance) which crossed LA, making everything explode in its path. We couldn’t say any better, any more today, and it also goes very well on TV – where we saw many Bays for the first time.

Watch Ambulance Sunday January 28 at 9:10 p.m. on France 2

The classic : Stalag 17 by Billy Wilder

Stalag 17 is a war comedy about the fate of American prisoners in a German camp on the banks of the Danube in 1944. Wilder asked his colleague and compatriot Otto Preminger to play the Nazi commander. William Holden, in the role of a soldier with ruthless cynicism, won the Oscar in 1954. Stalag 17, which many consider to be the model of the series Papa Schultz, was for a long time Billy Wilder’s biggest commercial success. However, film buffs have an unfortunate tendency to forget it on their shelves. Compulsory catch-up session.

Watch Stalag 17 for free on Arte.TV until January 28