Tag: Pain Hustlers
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How ‘The Family Switch’ Pokes Fun at Classic Body Swapping Movies
Netflix will attempt to bring its own voice to a classical comedy trope with Family Switch, their upcoming comedy about a family that switches bodies on the worst day imaginable. The movie took inspiration from other stories that followed similar premises, with some of the most notable examples being 13 Going On 30 and 21…
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‘Pain Hustlers’ Review – Emily Blunt Is the Wolf of Pharma Creeps
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.In the past fifteen years, David Yates has made eight movies—seven of which were in the Harry Potter franchise. Yates followed what filmmakers like Chris Columbus, Alfonso…
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‘Pain Hustlers’ Review: Emily Blunt and Chris Evans Say ‘Yes’ to Drugs in Taxing Satire of Opioid Slingers
Early in his career, comedian Kumail Nanjiani did a bit about a new drug called “cheese,” which, if you break down the ingredients, turns out to be Tylenol Pm mixed with heroin. “So really, it’s heroin,” he joked. “Heroin’s doing the heavy lifting.”That line was going through my mind as I watched “Pain Hustlers,” a…
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Is Netflix’s ‘Pain Hustlers’ Based on a True Story?
Set to come out on Netflix on October 27, Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts director David Yates’ newest project, Pain Hustlers, is the most recent drama about grifters, scams, and overall schemes to hit our screens. But, in a landscape marked by fictional and documentary shows and movies like The Dropout, Inventing Anna, and The…
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Netflix Buys Emily Blunt-Led Pharmaceutical Conspiracy Thriller Pain Hustlers
News has broken about the biggest deal out of Cannes 2022 so far — and surprise, surprise, it’s a Netflix acquisition. Variety is reporting that the streamer has nabbed global rights for a movie called “Pain Hustlers” in a deal that may have cost as much as 50 million.”Pain Hustlers” will star “Jungle Cruise” actress…