Category 2019

Dumbo

Max Medici, the owner of a decadent circus, hires Holt Farrier so that, with the help of his children, he can take care of Dumbo, a huge-eared elephant that has become the laughingstock of the place. When they discover that the pachyderm is able to fly, success and prosperity will return to the show. This will attract the attention of the persuasive businessman V.A. Vandevere, who will reunite Dumbo with a charming trapeze artist in a great show for his amusement park, a place with dark secrets. In the line of his latest reviews of animation classics, Dumbo is the new iconic character of Disney in starring an adaptation to real image. The Oscar-nominated Tim Burton (Home of Miss Peregrine for peculiar children), which gave the kick-off to this fever by the remake in the company of the mouse with Alice in Wonderland, is responsible for leading the great screen the well-known history of the elephant of disproportionate ears that made him both the laughingstock of the circus and, later, the great star of the show. In this film, Burton relies on the latest special effects techniques to give life to the cute pachyderm and the rest of his four-legged friends, main characters in an adventure that combines action, emotion and good messages about respect for the different and the value of the family. For this film, which recovers the spirit of the original and, at the same time, adds new aspects to the plot, the director has a cast full of familiar faces in his filmography, from the Oscar nominees Danny DeVito (At the wedding of my sister) and Michael Keaton (Spider-Man: Homecoming), until Eva Green (Based on real events)...

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The Queens Corgi

Rex is one of the corgis that inhabit Buckingham Palace. The luxury life he enjoys and being the queen’s favorite has made him a very arrogant dog. However, a diplomatic incident with the US president, of which he is guilty, will make him fall into disgrace and, after being betrayed by one of his companions, he will end up lost in the streets of London. With the help of new friends, Rex will have to overcome a dangerous adventure if he wants to return to his beloved owner. Become a benchmark for European animation, Ben Stassen (Bigfoot’s son) premieres his new production, a cartoon tape of Belgian origin but shot in English. Corgi, the queen’s pets, takes the viewer on an incredible adventure from the luxurious outbuildings of Buckingham Palace to the less glamorous corners of London. The protagonist of this trip is an arrogant dog accustomed to the pomp and pageantry that will go from being the favorite of the queen to fall into disgrace after an unfortunate incident with President Trump. As the film progresses, this cute character will learn from his mistakes and help from the love and friendship that arises with his kennel companions to try to return home. Along the way you will have to avoid all kinds of dangers and crazy situations that will delight the youngest of the house...

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Pet Sematary

Dr. Louis Creed moves with his wife Rachel and their two young children to a house in the most rural area of ​​Maine. They soon discover that, deep in the forest, a short distance from their new home, there is a small and mysterious animal cemetery that makes the animals buried there come back to life. When the tragedy hits the Creed, Louis will ask for help from his neighbor, unwittingly initiating a chain of events that will release an ancestral evil. Still in the top 5 of Stephen King’s most blockbuster film adaptations, the classic Animal Graveyard comes alive in this remake directed by Kevin Kölsh and Dennis Widmyer (Starry Eyes). As it happened in the novel and in the film that precedes it, this film talks about death and family love through great doses of terror both in the form of scares based on paranormal phenomena, and when it deepens into a much more real fear and threatening: that of parents willing to do anything, even flirt with demonic forces, for the welfare of their children. In line with other recent successes based on the work of the writer from Maine (like It), this film offers a dark and spooky plot where an evil presence terrorizes the inhabitants of a small American town...

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Long Shot

Charlotte Field is a great diplomat and one of the most influential women on the planet. Fred is an idealistic and unconventional journalist. Nothing unites them, except that she was his first love. After a fortuitous reunion, his sense of humor will captivate Charlotte, who will hire him to write his speeches. Against all odds, the chemistry between a Fred misplaced by luxury and the spotlights, and a Charlotte who aspires to the US presidency. It will become a risky romance. As if it were a modern fairy tale, the new comedy by Jonathan Levine (The Three Bad Kings) proposes a more than unlikely romance between an intelligent, influential woman with ample capacity to be president of the United States, and a Free-spirited journalist, who can hardly take the reins of his own life, of which in his youth he was a nanny and first love. Despite being light years away in any classification of power, success or attractiveness, the sense of humor and the idealistic spirit and fighter that share will end up distilling a chemistry that, inevitably, will lead them to live an intense relationship while traveling all over the world. The Oscar-winning Charlize Theron (Tully) and Seth Rogen (The Disaster Artist) waste complicity while unleashing their comic talent in a fun and irreverent film that rightly combines emotions and a political background...

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Captain Marvel

Carol Danvers is a former Air Force pilot recruited by the kree, an alien race, to be part of their elite military unit. Unable to discern which of her memories are real and which are implanted, Carol returns to Earth, now the center of the war between the kree and the skrull. Along with a few allies, she will have to solve the mystery of her past and fight to become one of the most powerful heroines in the galaxy: Captain Marvel. The Marvel Cinematic Universe receives a new and powerful tenant: Captain Marvel. The character created by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan in 1968 becomes the first superheroine of the House of Ideas to star in a solo movie. Also new is the era, a decade of the 1990s unprecedented in the UCM where the Earth has become the battlefield of a devastating interplanetary war that could reduce it to ashes. The duo formed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, responsible for indie hits such as Half Nelson and The Last Stand, are at the controls of this fast-paced action-packed tape and stunning special effects that also sheds light on the past of well-known characters like Nick Fury, Phil Coulson or the villain of Guardians of the galaxy Ronan The Accuser. The Oscar-winning Brie Larson (Kong: The Skull Island) puts herself in the shoes of one of the most powerful characters in Marvel mythology in this film that talks about learning from the past to know oneself. He is joined in the cast by Oscar nominees Samuel L...

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Ma

Sue Ann is a lonely woman from a small town in Ohio who, one day, finds the opportunity to have company, even if she is not of her same age. When Maggie, a teenage newcomer, asks her to buy alcohol for her and her younger friends, Sue offers to drink quietly in her basement if they follow simple rules and call her Ma. When hospitality becomes obsession, these young people will discover that leaving Ma’s house unharmed is much more complicated than entering. Friends who have been inseparable for more than twenty years, the director Tate Taylor (The girl in the train) and the Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer (The form of water) come back to join forces after Maids and ladies or I Feel Good in this disturbing thriller. In order to broaden their horizons and get out of the box that Hollywood had submitted them to, Taylor and Spencer (also producers) formulate a spooky story where a group of teenagers who believe they have found the perfect place for their revelry will end up living the worst experience of their lifes. The culprit of this nightmare will be a woman who, beyond the ruthless villain archetype, becomes a character with traumas of the past still to be solved and a twisted sense of humor. The maternal relationships and adolescent initiation rites typical of high school movies are found in The Basement of Ma with a psychological terror heir to the Misery of Stephen King...

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