Category 2019

Dark Waters

Rob Bilott has just become a partner in his prestigious law firm thanks to his work defending large companies in the chemical sector...

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Ready or Not

Grace is a girl of humble origins who falls in love with Alex Le Domas, the son of a wealthy family that has built her empire around board games. The courtship ends in an opulent wedding at the Le Domas mansion. Everything is going well until Grace receives the invitation to participate with her eccentric political relatives in an ancestral tradition. When, without knowing it, choose the hiding card, the young woman will have to remain hidden and play a game where if she loses, she dies. In his second feature film, the duo formed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpiny Tyler Gillett (The Devil’s Heir) intends to break the molds of survival. Between terror and black comedy, the filmmakers turn the mansion of a billionaire clan of the board games industry into a gigantic board where the bloodiest and most chilling hideaway game of all time is fought. The eccentricities of the rich and the fears that emerge just before being part of a new (and sometimes almost unknown) family take a fun and perverse twist on their wedding night. The protagonist is a young woman of humble origins who, after marrying one of the heirs of this empire, will have to consummate her adhesion to him through a strange ritual: to survive a human hunt that will take her to the physical and emotional limit. Samara Weaving (Three ads in the suburbs) and Mark O’Brien (Bad times in El Royale) are the fleeing couple of this film full of irony, scares and violence...

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A Rainy Day in New York

When the university newspaper offers Ashleigh the opportunity to interview film director Roland Pollard in Manhattan, she and her boyfriend Gatsby see the opportunity to enjoy an idyllic weekend in which he, of New York origin, shows him his Favorite places in the city. However, the sun will give way to rain and the couple will be separated by a series of circumstances. She will meet personalities from the big screen, and he will meet a girl from his past. In his nth walk through the streets of Manhattan, the Oscar-winning Woody Allen (Wonder Wheel) composes an optimistic tribute, in comedy key, to the romantic Hollywood classics. With identity as the main theme, both in regard to finding oneself, and to show the true self to others, Rainy Day in New York follows the adventures of a couple who, after being separated by a series of circumstances, Experience a momentous and revealing weekend. What promised to be an idyllic getaway of two lovers of wealthy families (a New Yorker and another from Arizona) will end up becoming two trips: one to the bowels of the film industry for her, and another to old and new emotions of the past for him. Topics as recurrent in Allen’s filmography as sentimental and family relationships or creative crises coexist with a reflection on the relentless dictatorship of time. Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy) and Elle Fanning (Seduction) lead the cast under the captivating and gray print of a rainy Big Apple...

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Doctor Sleep

Dan Torrance has become an alcoholic adult who has not forgotten the horror he lived at the Overlook Hotel. His life changes when he meets Abra, a young woman who, like him, has “the glow.” The girl asks for help against Rose la Chistera, leader of a mysterious group, called The True Knot, which feeds on children with this gift to achieve immortality. In this life-and-death battle, Abra’s innocence and courage will encourage Dan to challenge the ghosts of his past. In 1977, Stephen King wrote The Shining, his third novel that, over time, became a must-have of horror literature. Three years later, the master Stanley Kubrick adapted this story in a film that, although he did not finish to excite King, became history as one of the most disturbing and disturbing of all time. Now the cycle is repeated with Doctor Sueño, a late sequel written by the genius of Maine and published in 2013 that, by the hand of promising director and screenwriter Mike Flanagan (Ouija: The origin of evil), makes the leap to the big screen. Ewan McGregor (Christopher Robin) plays an adult, alcoholic and irascible version of Danny Torrance, that child with sensory powers who tricycle the sinister halls of the Overlook Hotel, in a film that attempts to capture the spirit of King’s work and, at the same time, respect the heritage and the most emblematic scenarios of the Kubrick classic. Beyond the typical scares of the genre a psychological thriller is developed, with a strong supernatural component, where its insane atmosphere and a tension that increases in crescents cause a gradual restlessness in the spectator...

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Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey, the luxurious mansion of the Crowley family, prepares to receive the most illustrious guests who have ever set foot in the place: King George V and Queen Mary of England. Faced with the challenge of offering a banquet and a parade at the height of the guests, Lady Mary asks Carson to return to lead the servitude to success. However, this visit will unleash all kinds of scandals, romances and intrigues that could endanger the future of Downton and its inhabitants. The television phenomenon of Downton Abbey makes the leap to the cinema of the hand of its creator, Michael Engler (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). Engler turns his most acclaimed series into his debut for the big screen, a period drama that keeps the ingredients that turned this universe of luxury and scandals set in the early twentieth century into a show so often that it influenced aspects such as resurgence of the academies of butlers, alcohol consumption habits, the economy and even tourism. Class differences, political intrigues and love relationships continue to be the main attractions in this film that, since the drama, follows the aristocracy and servitude of the time. On this occasion, the visit of the kings of England is the excuse to release all the pomp and purely British boato in one last and exciting look at the life of these venerated characters...

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Staff Only

Marta is a 17-year-old teenager who, with her father and her brother, spends Christmas holidays in Senegal. The only downside of this exotic trip is that he barely has freedom, as he has filled the agenda of safaris and cultural visits with retirees staying at the resort. In search of people his age, Marta will meet a young hotel worker who records the excursions of tourists. This new friendship will strain the relationship with your family and force them to talk and understand each other. After an applauded cousin, Neus Ballús (The Plague) directs a film that, through the eyes of a 17-year-old teenager who begins to realize how the world works, talks about social inequalities and clash of cultures in a Luxurious Senegal resort. Applauded in festivals such as San Sebastian, Berlin or Malaga, Marta’s trip (Staff Only) becomes an exciting feature film that is inspired by real stories and whose core develops a journey of maturity and reconciliation that will change forever the complicated relationship between a father and his daughter. The drama is combined with some humorous notes in this film that goes into the less glamorous places of these hotel venues to show the difference between good and bad tourism in Africa and the way that Western visitors experience a sweetened version of The reality in this continent. Sergi López (7 reasons to flee) brings experience to a cast completed by debutants Elena Andrada (who plays the protagonist), Ian Samsó, Diomaye Augustin Ngom and Madeleine C...

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Gemini Man

Henry Brogan is a legendary government assassin who, at 51, begins to feel the weight of the numerous deaths that adorn his resume. For all this, Brogan has decided to retire. However, being the perfect killing machine and knowing the darkest secrets of the system have made it a dangerous loose end for its bosses, who will not hesitate to end it. The one chosen for the mission will be Junior, a clone of Henry much younger and able to anticipate all his movements. With the purpose of taking a new evolutionary leap in entertainment cinema, producer Jerry Bruckheimer (one of the Midas kings of Hollywood) and the Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (The Life of Pi) join forces in this duel rather than fratricide between two versions of Will Smith (Aladdin) separated by 30 years. The first is that of the actor nominated for two Oscars today, who plays a hitman whose age does not forgive and that carries too many deaths in his conscience. The second is a 100% digital recreation of his twenty-year-old self (from the era in which he triumphed with The Prince of Bel Air) turned into an impulsive but implacable murderer, who will chase him across three continents. Shot at 120 frames per second and in native 3D in 4K, Gemini promises an immersive and completely revolutionary visual experience where the action sequences reach a new level of spectacle. In turn, the film delves into the internal conflicts of the characters, who reflect on guilt and their own identity...

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The Addams Family

The Addams are, without a doubt, the most eccentric family in their neighborhood. In their mansion, located on top of a hill surrounded by fog, they live happily unhappy while preparing the Mazurka with saber, an initiation ceremony for their son Pugsley where he must prove that he is already a teenager worthy of the clan. However, his lifestyle clashes with the plans of Margaux Needler, who wants to turn the neighborhood into an idyllic and cool urbanization for select personalities. Conceived as a tribute to the origin of these charmingly sinister characters (the Charlie Addams cartoons for the New Yorker in 1933), the Addams family recovers, in an animated feature film, this eccentric clan immortalized in television series, two remembered films from the early 90s and an acclaimed Broadway musical worldwide. In addition to taking as a reference the revolutionary visual style of his first drawings, this film directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon (The Feast of Salchicas) is also soaked in that macabre atmosphere, black humor and lapidary phrases that made the Addams into the Favorite Halloween family. In this way, Morticia, Gómez, the cousin That, Fetido, Pugsley or a Wednesday in the process of transformation are again protagonists of a fun and gothic comedy for the whole family that celebrates diversity and proposes another idea of ​​what it means to be normal...

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A Shaun the Sheep Movie-Farmageddon

When Lu-La, a naughty alien, lands near the Mossy Bottom farm, the Shaun sheep sees the opportunity to live an intergalactic adventure. However, helping her new friend find her missing ship and returning home will not be an easy mission, as Red, an agent of a government organization that wants to prove the existence of alien life, and her bully squad follow closely. . To give them a corner, they will resort to Shaun’s impudence and Lu-La’s powers. Almost 25 years light this nice sheep that, short films, television series, a successful first feature film (The Shaun Sheep: The Movie) and even theme parks through, has become, together with Wallace and Gromit, the great emblem of Aardman . The charm and absurd humor typical of this house founded in 1972 is combined in Sheep Shaun. The movie: Granjaguedon with a spirit of adventure and wonder that reminds of E.T. The alien. In an incredible journey that will take them to a place where an sheep has never arrived before (outer space), the protagonist and his friends will help a friendly alien to return home and escape from a relentless government agent. Converted into one of Aardman’s most ambitious productions, this film directed by debutants Will Becher and Richard Phelan proposes a crazy comedy for all audiences where stop motion animation with clay figures acquires the art category...

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Maleficent= Mistress of Evil

Years after their first meeting, the relationship between Maleficent and Princess Aurora, born of resentment, revenge and, finally, love, has become a strong bond between godmother and goddaughter. After a disastrous dinner in the palace, the dark fairy and the one that will soon become queen will separate, seek new alliances and face dangerous enemies to protect their lands and the magical creatures that live in them. This adventure will help them to know each other better. Five years after Maleficent, the film that turned the mythical characters of Sleeping Beauty into flesh and blood, this sequel arrives that continues to deepen the complicated love-hate relationship between the dark fairy and Princess Aurora. Maleficent: Master of evil elapses years after her predecessor, and shows how the link between the two has evolved over time. However, a series of circumstances and secrets that come to light will force them to separate their paths and start, each on their own, a journey of self-discovery that will face the responsibilities of adulthood or the feeling of belonging to two worlds become irreconcilable enemies...

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