Category 2019

After the enraged birds that don’t know how to fly won the war, Leonard, the king of the green and squeaky pigs, plans a revenge against his intimate enemies. However, both will have to park their differences and ally when they see that their way of life is threatened by mysterious purple birds that throw snowballs full of lava. To avoid an icy future, Leonard and the grumpy Red bird will form the worst possible team. In August 2016, just a month after its premiere in Spain, a sequel to the animated film Angry Birds was announced, based on the famous videogame saga of the Finnish company Rovio. However, for Angry Birds 2, Sony Pictures has opted for a total replacement of writing and direction equipment. In front, there is this time Thurop Van Orman, television producer as acclaimed as unconventional, creator, among other series, of The Wonderful Adventures of Flapjack, atypical satire of the Cartoon Network channel. Once again, the characters have been dubbed into Spanish by Santiago Segura (Father there is only one), such as Red, the filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia (Perfect strangers), such as King Leonard, and José Mota (The spark of the life) in the role of Chuck...

The teenager Mia moves with her father and her new family to Mexico. Bored, he has to kill time with his stepsister Sasha while his father works as a researcher in an ancient submerged Mayan city. Mia, Sasha and two friends will end up exploring some Mayan caves without supervision. And what looked like any hobby will become an aquatic hell when they discover that they are surrounded by huge white sharks and trapped with hardly any oxygen. The director Johannes Roberts (The Strangers: Night Hunt), horror film expert, repeats the distressing approach of A 47 meters with its sequel. The two young sisters of the first film, trapped under the sea locked in a cage, are replaced at 47 meters 2 by two teenage stepsisters and two friends in a very similar situation of restlessness. Although the argument remains somewhat implausible and not very original, debtor of Shark and all the films derived from series B, At 47 meters 2 it is still entertaining as its predecessor and maintains the distressing tension...

Everyone knew The Beatles yesterday, but today Jack, a singer-songwriter who had given up his dream of succeeding in music, is the only one who remembers them. After a strange blackout, Jack wakes up in an alternative future where, singing the songs of the most famous band in history to an audience that has never heard them, will reach the top of the industry. However, this meteoric rise will jeopardize the relationship with Ellie, her muse and the only person who has always believed in him. If the Beatles did not exist, they would have to be invented. With this idea in mind, two of the key filmmakers of British cinema in recent decades, the eclectic and Oscar-winning Danny Boyle (T2: Trainspotting) and the father of the romantic comedy Richard Curtis (A matter of time) join forces in this Lovely rock spirit tape. Humor, friendship, love and the songs of the legendary Liverpool band are the main ingredients of Yesterday, a fantasy-dyed musical in which a failed composer from a small English town accidentally becomes the only person on the face of the Earth that knows successes like Let it Be or Hey Jude. Through the meteoric rise to stardom experienced by appropriating these issues and presenting them to an audience that listens to them for the first time, the film builds a story about the dangers of fame and leave behind loved ones that serves as a backdrop for An exciting and original love story...

During a mission in space, a cosmic force of great power reaches Jean Gray until almost ending it. Upon returning home, this mutant is forced to master skills that have made her practically a goddess, but will end up in a spiral of destruction that will affect those she loves most. Puzzled, his fellow X-Men will face their worst enemy to date, one of their own, while trying to prevent an alien race from using it as a weapon. Pioneers of the superhero genre boom, the X-Men close a stage of almost 20 years and 10 films behind them. X-Men: Dark Phoenix, last installment before the saga passes into the hands of the Marvel / Disney binomial, puts the finishing touch with a reformulation of the events already told in its third part (The final decision), more raw and faithful to the original material, which speaks of identity and destiny. The question of whether the hero (or the villain) is born or made is the true engine of a plot where mutants will have to check their alliances to stop an unstoppable force and the alien race that wants to turn it into a weapon to conquer worlds. Oscar nominee Simon Kinberg, producer and screenwriter closely linked to the franchise, debuts as director in this film, between the science fiction thriller and the character drama, which adapts the revered story arc devised by Chris Claremont and John Byrne in the 80s...

Nels Coxman works as a snow plow driver in a remote mountainous region of Canada. His neat and peaceful life turns around when he receives the terrible news that his son has been killed because of the drug business. Torn and eager for revenge, the father will use his hunting skills to wage a meticulous and risky war, in which he will have to face drug traffickers without arousing the slightest suspicion of the authorities. The Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland (Aberdeen, Redemption: The cases of Department Q) makes the leap to Hollywood with Revenge below zero, adapting his popular film One after the other (2014), counting on this occasion with Liam Neeson as the protagonist, who take over from Stellan Skarsgard when it comes to embody the vindictive Nels. This is an action thriller with touches of black humor written by Frank Baldwin and produced by Michael Shamberg (responsible for great hits like Pulp Fiction or Django Unchained). Set in the city of Kehoe, in the Rocky Mountains, Revenge below zero was actually shot at locations in Fernie, Vancouver and Alberta (Canada), with the operator Philip Ogaard of the direction of photography. The original soundtrack is provided by George Fenton, an English composer with a long career with five Oscar nominations under his belt (including Gandhi, Dangerous Friendships and The Fisher King). Tom Bateman, Laura Dern and Emmy Rossum (currently thanks to her role as Fiona in the Shameless series) accompany Liam Neeson in the cast...

Live the spree of their lives. That is the goal of two great and brilliant friends who the day before graduating from high school realize that they have dedicated so much to study that they have forgotten to have fun. After reaching this sad conclusion they decide to get down to work before going to university and live four years of fun concentrated in one night. A single evening whose purpose is to compensate for all the sacrifices that both have made in the name of their academic future. Super nerds is a fresh and intelligent film that goes beyond the typical youth comedy and incorporates a modern and feminist perspective. An ode to friendship, youth and, of course, parties, directed by actress Olivia Wilde (Like life itself), which is first put behind the cameras. The film stars Beanie Feldstein (Damn Neighbors 2) and Kaitlyn Dever (Beautiful Boy. You will always be my son), a leading duo consisting of two young talents from the world of acting that put themselves in the shoes of two girls who are point of finishing his studies at the institute. The two friends, intelligent students, realize that they have spent too much time between books and notes and that they have enjoyed little of this wonderful stage of life. Therefore, to celebrate their graduation they decide to take a crazy night and recover the time lost during these four years with a super party that will go down in history...

Dani and Christian form a couple of young Americans who are not going through their best moments. To overcome this critical moment, they travel with friends to a remote Swedish village, where a summer festival known as the Midsommar has been held for 90 years. But what were going to be an idyllic holiday in a place where the sun does not set, becomes a dark nightmare when the inhabitants of that region invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities. Starring Florence Pough (the unforgettable Katherine of the recent Lady Macbeth, now immersed in the filming of Black Widow), and Jack Reynor (Detroit, Sing Street), who are accompanied by a cast formed by Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper or Ellora Torchia, among others, Midsommar is the second feature of the director and screenwriter Ari Aster, after last year surprised with the elegant and terrifying Hereditary (2018). Based on the Midsommar holiday, which is held every year in Sweden to celebrate the arrival of summer – it would be something like our St. John’s Night -, the Aster movie once again dives on the most perverse side of human nature , with superstition and religion again in the first place, and with the added difficulty of displaying all this darkness in broad daylight (in the wave of pioneering films like Who can kill a child? and Cannibal Holocaust, although as references are also cited Wicker Man or The Forest). Shot in US locations. UU...

The spoiled terrier Max sees how his comfortable life undergoes great changes when his owner decides, once again, to introduce a new partner on the floor. But this time it is not another dog, but a human, his son Liam. Max, nothing friend of the children in the beginning, ends up having so much affection for the little one that in his eagerness to protect him he suffers a nervous tic. The anxiety of the unhappy terrier will go off when the whole family makes a trip to a farm and they begin to live crazy adventures. The animation studio Illumination, responsible for Los Minions or the Gru saga. My favorite villain, has decided to continue the story of Pets, a blockbuster in 2016. The sequel is again directed by Cris Renaud (Lorax, in search of the lost dome). However, Pets 2 is much more coral, since it is made up of three subplots in which many of the hairy protagonists of the first installment will live their own adventure. The ones in charge of lending their voice in the original version have been the humorist Patton Oswalt (The circle) as Max, formerly in the voice of Louis CK, Kevin Hart (Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle) as Pompom and Eric Stonestreet (Bad teacher) Like the street dog Duke...

In a magical city where everything is perfect, the dolls are created and trained in protocol for happiness and enjoyment of children. Next to this place is Feolandia, in which the rare and different is celebrated and beauty is something that goes far beyond what can be seen. Their worlds will meet when Moxy and his friends UglyDolls cross the border to the Perfection Institute, which governs the perverse and manipulative Lou, and discover that you do not have to be pretty to be amazing. Become a toy phenomenon, the teddies created by David Horvath and Sun-Min make the leap to the big screen in UglyDolls: Extraordinarily ugly, an animation film that extols the diversity, friendship and acceptance of each one as is. With a fun mix of comedy, adventures and music, the film transports the youngest of the house to a fantastic world where two very different places, one governed by perfection and encorsetamiento and another where the strange and different is celebrated, find and give rise to crazy and crazy situations. Kelly Asbury (The Smurfs: The Hidden Village) directs this feature film that conveys a valuable message in an era governed by image and likes...

Although Woody said goodbye to Andy and now has a new life with little Bonnie, his priorities of caring and making his owners happy have never changed. That’s why she tries to integrate Forky, a plastic fork in the middle of the existential crisis that Bonnie has turned into her favorite toy. After a setback during a family outing, Woody, Buzz and the others will have to take an alternative path that will make them reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Nearly a decade after closing one of the most brilliant trilogies in the history of animated film, Woody, Buzz and company return in Toy Story 4. Josh Cooley, who was nominated for an Oscar for the script of Del Revers, debuted as director of a feature film with a delivery that allows the viewer to discover new aspects of these iconic characters. The mixture of nostalgia, imagination, humor and adventure remains intact in this film that, as is usual in the franchise, is accompanied by an impeccable visual section. On this occasion, the story places the protagonists in a new environment, along with a new owner and new playmates, and before a road trip that will make them experience reunions that will make them see how great the world can be for a toy. Change and personal evolution becomes the main theme of the film, where the Oscar-winning Tom Hanks (The Pentagon Archives) and Tim Allen (One for all) return as the voices of these plastic creatures with emotions, worries, trusts and completely human insecurities...