TORONTO – As of April 20th, North Americans are being treated to all four seasons of Italy’s most popular tv series, The Sea Beyond, thanks to a “unique deal” reached with powerhouse streamer Netflix. The series follows a group of delinquents including Filippo (Nicolas Maupas) and Carmine (Massimiliano Caiazzo), who are serving time in a juvenile detention center on the Gulf of Naples. Aptly labelled a “teen prison drama”, the series is an ensemble coming of age story whose themes have not only stuck a chord with younger audiences, but resonated with a wide demographic.
VATICAN CITY – The Pope’s tomb, in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, will be made with material of Ligurian origin, it will have only the inscription “Franciscus” and the reproduction of his pectoral cross: it will be in the niche of the side nave between the Pauline Chapel (Chapel of the Salus Populi Romani) and the Sforza Chapel of the Liberian basilica, located near the Altar of Saint Francis. And it will be on the ground, as the humble Francis wanted and asked it to be.
GENOA – Until the very end, he reminded the powerful of the world – remaining unheard – of the need to welcome and the importance of brotherhood among peoples: fundamental values for him, son of migrants before being a Catholic. →
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis returned to the house of the Father. Precisely on Easter Monday, when Christians celebrate the news of the Resurrection of Jesus and, with it, the hope of eternal life. And precisely after a series of public appearances – which had followed the long hospitalization of the Pope at the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome for bilateral pneumonia – they had given rise to hope. Jorge Bergoglio died at 7:35 this morning, at the age of 88, probably from a stroke.
TORONTO – Nearly a year ago, Paul Feig was on set filming his first film sequel in Italy while its original became the most watched movie on Netflix. The comedy crime thriller A Simple Favor (2018) starred Anna Kendrik and Blake Lively, as parents whose children attend the same school. Kendrik plays a single mother (Stephanie) with a parenting vlog who investigates Emily (played by Blake Lively), a PR Director for a Fashion Company. The simple favor: Emily asks Stephanie to watch her son for a night – but disappears and stages her own death.
