Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) decide to have a foster child as a matter of urgency. After going through a sort of briefing in an adoption company, the couple stops choosing 15-year-old Lizzie. Since the girl has a younger brother and sister, the newly minted parents automatically become large and have no idea what adventure they are embroiled in. On the one hand, Instant Family is a completely standard, largely predictable comedy about adoption. On the other hand, in the second half of the movie this is more of a drama than a comedy, the authors of which try to tell the audience several important things. (more…)
The stories about drug addicts are almost always the same story line. The once diligent hero tries drugs, and life suddenly turns into hell – and not so much for the character himself as for the people close to him. “Handsome Boy” (the English-language debut of the Belgian director Felix van Groeningen) was no exception – except that this story is more about those closest to you than about regular weekdays for drug addicts. (more…)
MacDonald (Matthew Modine) – the only survivor of a resonant robbery of a cash collector. We are talking about a big bag with money, and not even one. The problem is that under unclear circumstances, clearly related to the sharing of the loot, MacDonald suffered a head injury and now does not remember where the money is. Detective Sykes took up the business seriously – we know little about him, but his look is severe and Sylvester Stallone plays him, so it’s immediately clear that he’s not the last person and not least important for the plot. (more…)
When one of the university professors gave a lecture on other dimensions, the young man set about trying to use astral projection to connect with the spirit of the mother. In this movie “Astral” the authors try to talk about how to understand the traumas of the past, and show the willingness of the main character Alex to do it using very unusual means, using the poorly studied phenomenon of astral projection. (more…)
The plot focuses on a young and attractive man living on a small island in the Caribbean sea. He is a fisherman and spends all day at sea, earning a living catch. Until recently in my life everything was perfect for him. He had a woman he loved, a great job, and a beautiful home. And then everything suddenly collapsed when the wife said that she no longer wants to live in such poverty and wants to leave. It turned out little money, which earns husband and she has moved from fisherman. Later she married some millionaire. Time passed, and at some point the fisherman even resigned himself to his fate, trying to forget the past. And after a while the former spouse returned, but all in tears and asks to help her. And now once two people in love will have to defend themselves from an aggressive millionaire who does not like when someone dared to disobey him (more…)
Queen Maria returns to Scotland – she had just become a widow after marriage with the King of France. The motherland takes her quite warmly, but she does not want to confine herself to a declarative role, and she makes changes in parliament, coming into conflict with a part of the clergy and people who were very close to her once. At the same time, the paternal sister, Elizabeth I, is concerned about the emergence of a new contender for the throne, and failing to impose her candidate for a husband, inflaming popular unrest to destabilize Scotland. (more…)
This story “Holmes & Watson” is about the famous characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, only in this comedy they are “assholes”, moreover they are complete assholes. The movie is a parody of famous films. “Stupidity” phrases pour from the mouth of Sherlock and Watson every minute. There is a detective story here, but Sherlock investigates it by the most incomprehensible and strange path. (more…)
One young journalist decides to write an article on a religious topic and God himself appears to be the respondent. The story “An Interview with God” is about a journalist who has just returned from the war. No, he did not fight, but was an observer and saw many deaths, both enemies and acquaintances. In addition to such a psychological trauma (this is noticeable in his memoirs), the guy is still not in the order of a relationship with his wife. (more…)
The plot of the new German movie “303” will tell us about a pretty student of the Faculty of Biology, who decided on an old camper “Mercedes 303″ to go through the whole of Europe to meet her boyfriend Alex. Her random companion becomes a student, Jan, who wants to find his own father in Spain. And the main character conducts conversations with him on various subjects …This is a movie about two, about the origin of their feelings. (more…)
The director of the family cartoon was Leopoldo Aguilar, this is the first full-length work of the director. A creative duet worked on the script – Billy Frolik and Alicia Nuñez Puerto. An instructive story tells about a boy who finds out that he is not like the other guys at school, and his whole family is monsters, literally! The cartoon was produced by Ánima Estudios, a Mexican studio, and India Discreet Arts Production was responsible for the animation. (more…)
