Despite being a Hollywood thriller, this breathless multi-perspective narrative has been described as ultra-realistic – informed by the World Health Organisation and praised for its accurate depiction of a pandemic by scientists. It’s additionally got a Hollywood solid to make you weak on the knees – Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon – but seeing Paltrow catch the flu on film couldn’t have impressed confidence in her wellness model, Goop. Steven Soderbergh’s medical thriller Contagion, launched in 2011, raced back up the iTunes charts to take a Top Ten place this month, helped little question by the movie’s parallels with the current outbreak of coronavirus.
This quick-paced thriller charts the fast transmission of a virus across the globe as scientists hurry to discover a vaccine and social order disintegrates. Beasts of No Nation With civil war raging across a fictional African nation, this Netflix original focuses on a … Read More