On August 8 and 9, 1969, members of the Charlie Manson Family sect killed the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her guests, as well as a couple of entrepreneurs Leno and Rosemary La Bianca. Three years later, the killer girls who had fulfilled the will of Charles Manson and are now serving a life sentence in the California Women’s Prison are being visited by graduate student volunteer Karlin Faith. Carlin deals with literature, philosophy and journalism with local prisoners, and Leslie, Patricia and Susan become her new charges. Faith is trying to prove (with the help of progressive – feminist first of all – literature) to girls that real life has nothing to do with the Manson mirror, and those in return share with her memories of the days spent on Span’s ranch. (more…)
The plot unfolds 5 years after the events of the first part of the franchise. Godzilla: The King of Monsters, a sequel to the 2014 Godzilla movie, is part of the MonsterVerse franchise. The director and screenwriter is Michael Doherty. A group of scientists from the agency “Monarch” found 17 giant reptiles, later named Titans. Titans are in hibernation, and supervision is established behind them. Government and citizens fear dangerous reptiles, however, Dr. Serizawa believes that the Titans are the defenders of our planet. Everything gets out of control when a group of eco-terrorists decide to wake up a giant three-headed dragon. (more…)
The cruel world of the Wild West with the life vicissitudes of local thieves murderers and lawyers … The movie tells about the times when in the West, human life meant nothing, unless you are not a man and not with a weapon. This exciting, well-structured and superbly-played “The Kid” movie about facts and fabrications is mainly told through the eyes of a 14-year-old child named Rio, who runs home with his elder sister after killing their father. (more…)
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The famous American choreographer, dancer, director, screenwriter and actor Bob Fosse, who staged some cult movies, could not have achieved world-wide fame without his wife, partner and muse Gwen Verdon. She was a talented dancer and creative director who invented the unique style of Fosse and made him a real star. The series “Fosse/Verdon” tells about the life and work of two creative people who had a great influence on American cinema and theater.
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1872 Scholars from Oxford, desperate to compile a comprehensive and comprehensive English dictionary, entrust this overwhelming task to Professor James Murray (Mel Gibson), a self-taught enthusiast from Scotland. He, assessing the scale of the enterprise, decides to resort to the help of the collective mind and throws the cry to all parts of Britain with a call to send him the words written out from the books explaining their meaning and origin. The most valuable assistant of Murray is a certain William Minor (Sean Penn), whose letters are delivered literally in bags. Having decided to get acquainted with the mysterious correspondent, the professor discovers that Minor is a former American military doctor, now imprisoned in the infamous Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. (more…)
6 episodes
The mother had three sons: the oldest talented, but lazy; the middle one – of a close mind, but also lazy; and the youngest is on his own mind. Plus to the sons there was a daughter, 16 years old. “The Durrells “series is an autobiographical story centered on the younger Durrell, who was notable for his increased love for the animal world. The events unfold in 1938 and the action takes place in Greece, where the Durrells moved from England, where life for them, to put it mildly, had no luck, for many reasons. (more…)
The main character of the movie “A Private War” is the world-famous war correspondent Marie Colvin. She visited many hot spots of our planet and, despite all the horror she saw there, she was drawn there again and again. Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka. In the last place the heroine lost her eyes and was forced to put on a black bandage. But even this did not stop Marie and now she is going to the most dangerous place on the planet – the besieged Syrian city of Homs. (more…)
After graduating from high school, the main heroine of the movie “On the Basis of Sex” Ruth, and the former best student of the course, became a law school professor and would hold this position for many years. It is because no one law firm wants to take her: it’s not a woman’s job to go through the courts. Everything will change when her husband, Martin, a successful lawyer in tax law, suddenly stumbles upon an interesting case. (more…)
The movie introduces you to the deft American politician Dick Cheney, who resurrected many times after “political death” (he left the top leadership posts in the state and re-conquered them), and once managed to deceive physical death. After watching the movie “Vice” you will learn how Cheney managed to fool his contemporaries and make the world much more dangerous than he had been just recently. But this movie is not only about Cheney, but about his era. (more…)
The movie sheds light on the legendary friendship of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the last years of their career and will show the final segment of the life and work of popular comedy film actors, who have lost their place in the film industry at the request of time, and who are forced to earn on tour and live concerts. While the “Stan & Ollie” introductory prologue shows the team at its peak in 1937, most of the story takes place in 1953, during a tour of a couple’s music hall in the UK, at a time when their future in the comedy was uncertain, and the partnership, both on stage and beyond, has been severely tested. (more…)
