Movies

The events of the movie “The House with a Clock in Its Walls” take place in 1955. After the sudden death of their parents, ten-year-old Lewis Barnewelt moves in with Uncle Jonathan in a small town in Michigan. An extravagant relative is a lover of bright robes and a good magician living in a monster house full of different wonders. His best friend lives next to him – the equally eccentric witch Florence Zimmerman. Once in the abode of Jonathan there lived an evil sorcerer Isaac Izzard (Kyle MacLachlen), hidden in the walls of the building magic clock that can control time. Foolishly resurrecting a villain, the boy launches a chain of events that threatens to destroy the whole world.
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The action in the movie “The Happytime Murders” takes place in Los Angeles. We see a world in which people and toys live nearby, and there is a clear condescension towards toys from society. The protagonist is the “blue man”, who was a policeman in the past, and now an unlucky detective story. He takes on a new case, and here begins a series of murders, in which he is suspected … How to prove your innocence and where to look for the killer?
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The action of the movie “The Bookshop” takes place in the late 1950s. It is based on the novel of the same name by the famous English writer Penelope Fitzgerald. The plot of the movie offers the viewer to go back many years ago, in the late 1950s. The main character is a woman named Florence Green. Most recently, she had to go through a terrible grief. The woman lost her husband and remained a widow. Having no one else from close relatives in this world, the woman does not understand what to do next and why to live. Being in a confused state, the head of the main character suddenly dawned on one thought. Florence decided to open her own bookstore, which she dreamed of almost since childhood.
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American comedy melodrama “Crazy Rich Asians” tells about the relationship of a simple girl and a rich man from a Singaporean family. Rachel Chu is a professor of economics and Chinese born in America. She goes along with her best friend’s wedding with her boyfriend Nick to Singapore, where she finds out that her companion is actually from an insanely rich family, and almost all local women hunt him.
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The new movie starring with Keanu Reeves “Siberia” begins with a certain Lucas Hill arrives at St. Petersburg. Who he is and why he flew, we can only guess. One thing is clear – he is immediately substituted by a certain Peter, disrupting the diamond deal with the gangster Volkov and lying on the bottom somewhere in Siberia. The main character goes to Yakutia, where he meets the girl Katya and returns with her again to St.Petersburg.
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All the action of the movie “Searching” takes place in ScreenLife format. This is a detective thriller with elements of serious drama. Our acquaintance with the Kim family begins with viewing their photos and video archives, from which we learn that the once full and happy family has suffered a loss not so long ago. Due to a long and difficult struggle with cancer, the wife of the protagonist David died, leaving him with the 16-year-old daughter Margo.
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The movie “Papillon” is based on the biographical novel of the same name of the former prisoner, but is not a decent film adaptation. The young thief, Henri Charriere meets with a beautiful woman and gets a good income from his work – theft in Paris of the early 30s of the twentieth century. But overnight, everything changes: he is accused of killing a pimp, sentenced to life imprisonment. But even in hard labor in French Guiana, he is not deprived of his love of life and hope, in every way trying to break free.
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A terrible misfortune struck the United Kingdom: someone declassified all the secret agents MI5, MI6 at once on the eve of the important Big Dozen summit. And he didn’t limit himself to this, but continues to spoil the lives of ordinary British people – for example, he switches all traffic lights in London to red. Of the remaining options – only a few old people and Johnny English, now from the practitioners who turned into theorists. He now teaches kids spy wisdom.
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The movie “A Prayer Before Dawn” will tell the true story of William Moore. It is known, he is a real person. He lives, or rather, burns life in Thailand: underground Muay Thai fights, liters of alcohol, local drug trafficking. The end comes when Billy is arrested and sent to the colony. In addition to the terrible conditions of Thai prisons (overcrowding, unsanitary conditions), Moore’s position is complicated by drug addiction and language ignorance.
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Scotland, 1304 The English king Edward I finally broke the Scottish nobility, the rebel William Wallace runs through the woods and will soon be caught. Robert the Bruce and his father swear allegiance to Edward, who in return gives Bruce his god-daughter Elizabeth. Meanwhile, the English soldiers are doing outrage all over Scotland. People begin to grumble, and when the parts of the body of the executed Wallace are hanged out in different Scottish cities, a stabbing breaks out in some places. Bruce, who observed all this and accumulated anger, decides: it is impossible to live this way. He openly opposes the king of England, is crowned and is trying to attract allies.
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