Category Years

Booksmart

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...

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Midsommar

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...

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The Secret Life of Pets 2

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...

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UglyDolls

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...

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Toy Story 4

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...

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Tolkien

At the beginning of the 20th century, J.R.R. Tolkien is a young man who is part of an exclusive group of friends with other writers and artists. As they mature and share their first experiences of love and loss, this alliance becomes practically brotherhood. The difficult years of the First World War, which threatens to separate them, and their stormy romance with Edith Bratt, will provide Tolkien with the courage and inspiration with which to write his famous novels about Middle-earth. Novelist, poet, philologist, linguist, teacher and soldier, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, passed to posterity for being the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, works of deep depth in popular culture In order to count those friendships, romances and life experiences that influenced crucially in his literary production, Dome Karukoski (Tom of Finland) tells in Tolkien the years in which this character took the leap of childhood (as a lonely orphan ) to maturity to become a young man who found in the loyalty, love and horrors of World War I the inspiration to create one of the best epic fantasy sagas of all time. Nicholas Hoult (The Favorite) puts himself in the skin of Tolkien in this academic biopic that, nevertheless, shows how his creative process was forged through almost surrealist images, where the brutality of the war fuses with the story of sword and witchcraft that is taking shape in your imagination...

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The Hustle

Josephine Chesterfield is an elegant and glamorous British woman who keeps her luxurious train of life by ripping off some of the richest men in the world. Everything changes when he meets Penny Rust, a classmate whose specialty is improvising in bars. Although they have completely different methods, these two experts in fleecing undesirables who have behaved badly with women will join forces to try to cheat a naive billionaire from the technology industry. After building a considerable television reputation that has led him to win two Emmy awards, Chris Addison (Veep) debuts as director of a feature film with compulsive timers, second remake of the 1964 comedy Two seducers after the starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin in 1988. The tricksters who starred in those now become two women of very different methods, but both experts in the art of lying and deception, who will join forces to carry out a master blow and, along the way, end up learning the one from the other. Beyond the change of gender in its main characters, the film gives a twist to the original material and proposes a completely new story full of gags and crazy situations that finds its best asset in the combination of physical humor of Rebel Wilson (Giving the note 3) and the elegance of Oscar-winning Anne Hathaway (Ocean’s 8)...

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Spider Man- Far from Home

Peter Parker decides to take a vacation and goes to Europe with MJ, Ned and his other school friends. But even there he will not find the necessary peace when he is contacted by Nick Fury, who will ask him for help to discover the mystery of the Elementals, immortal humanoids that dominate the four elements and have caused numerous natural disasters in the continent. Reluctant at first to use his Spider-Man suit again, Parker will agree and will have to collaborate with Mysterio, an enemy / friend. In 2016 Tom Holland put on the blue and red Mayan costume of Spider-Man for the first time thanks to his appearance in Captain America: Civil War, but it was not until a year later, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, when he starred in a film only focused on Spiderman. This sequel has also been directed by John Watts (Police Car), who has re-told for the occasion with Zendaya (The Great Showman) as MJ, Jacob Batalon (Avengers: Infinity War) as Peter Parker’s friend, Ned, and Marisa Tomei (The fighter) in the role of Aunt May. He also repeated Michael Keaton (Dumbo) as The Buzzard, although another classic villain of the comics, Mysterio, played by Jake Gyllenhaal (nocturnal animals) and who on this occasion will have to join forces with the hero, takes center stage. The other star signing for the sequel has been Samuel L. Jackson (The odious eight) in the skin of Nick Fury, who had already played in other films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as Iron Man 2 or Captain Marvel. Spider-Man: Far from home starts a few minutes after the end of Avengers: Endgame and it has been confirmed that it is the film that will close Phase 3 of the Infinity Saga, a maxi-saga that Marvel inaugurated in 2008 with Iron Man and whose The main villain has been Thanos...

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Serenity

A fishing boat captain lives peacefully on a Caribbean island until his ex-wife comes looking for help for herself and the son they both have in common and asks her to murder her violent and current husband. A psychological thriller that delves into the depths of couple relationships, the stormy past of its protagonists and emotional scars and pays tribute to the classic films of genre and literature, where the truth lies beneath the surface. The Oscar-winning Matthew McConaughey (The Dark Tower) and Anne Hathaway (Compulsive Thimbles) star in this obscure “Hitchcockian” thriller in which nothing is as it seems, with script and direction by Steven Knight, one of the great writers, writers and directors not only of the cinema (Locke), but also of the television (Peaky Blinders). In Serenity (Obsession), we will learn the story of an experienced fishing boat captain, Baker Dill, who lives on an island in the Caribbean and is obsessed with catching a fish. Her peaceful life will change when her ex-wife goes in search of him to ask her a particular favor: to murder her current husband and save her and her son in common from the clutches of the violent character played by Jason Clarke (The day to come) . Throughout the film, the past will torment the protagonists who will have to face disturbing situations with script twists and surprising plots. Dill will have to choose between doing good or doing evil, although sometimes he does not know how to distinguish them...

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Rocketman

Reginald Dwight is a shy boy from a small British town with a huge talent for the piano. In his struggle to achieve his dream of being a musician, little by little he becomes a rebellious young man who begins to put aside classical music and get into rock and roll. With the help of his usual composer, Bernie Taupin, and his first manager, John Reid, Reginald will experience a spectacular metamorphosis that will make him Elton John, one of the greatest pop icons of all time. Director in the shadow of Bohemian Rhapsody after the controversial dismissal of Bryan Singer, Dexter Fletcher (Eddie the Eagle) aspires to repeat the success of that with Rocketman, another musical biopic where he enters the turbulent years that led to a young British named Reginald Dwight to become the great pop rock star Elton John. Producer of the film, John himself assures that that era, extraordinary and surreal, deserved a film to match. In this way, the excesses, addictions and extravagances that have always surrounded the singer are reflected in the big screen without censorship and with an ironic sense of humor and festive spirit that is spread by the most iconic songs of the British genius, real protagonists of the film . Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) steps into the impossible platforms of Elton John in this surprising and unpredictable combination of musical; drama about love, family or friendship; and libertine parties...

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