Prima Fila Schedule
Satellite: Hotbird Position: 13 east
Frequency: 11996V, 12073V, 12341V, 12616H & 12635V
Programming hours: 24 Hours
Encryptions: Videoguard
June 19 to June 26
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
Deception (Sex List)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Drillbit Taylor
Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.
Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)
Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.
High School Musical 3
Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin, Kaycee Stroh, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, Matt Prokop and Justin Martin.
Disney's "High School Musical" phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High's talented ensemble.
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
The Lodger
Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.
L'uomo Che Ama
Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Mirrors (Riflessi Di Paura)
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng and Julian Glover.
A mall security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store¡s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Down through the ages, mirrors have always been gateways to other worlds; they have protected us from evil, they have told us the future, and they have told us the truth. Mirrors reflect back at the viewer a glimpse of the human soul. In stories handed down through folk beliefs of generations, and stitched into the fabric of fairy tales and myths worldwide, mirrors have been the gateways to other worlds. is this a realm inhabited by angels, demons, and spirits of the dead? Or, does it reflect back to the viewer a glimpse of the human soul?
No Problem
Con Vincenzo Salemme, Giorgio Panariello, Sergio Rubini, Aylin Prandi, Iaia Forte.
Arturo Cremisi è (o, meglio, era) il protagonista di una soap opera dal titolo 'Un bambino a metà'. ¡Era' perché Federico, il bambino che interpreta il ruolo di suo figlio, gli ruba costantemente la scena grazie anche agli appoggi ¡in alto' di cui gode la madre Barbara che nel passato ha avuto una breve relazione proprio con Arturo. Sul set la tensione è alle stelle ma la situazione si complica all'estremo quando negli studi di registrazione giunge il piccolo Mirko che, avendo perso il padre e vivendo con una madre sempre in tensione, si è identificato nel protagonista della soap e ha deciso che Arturo è il padre che gli manca. All'istintivo tentativo di liberarsi dell'importuno da parte dell'attore fa da scudo l'intraprendenza del suo agente Enrico Pignataro. Costui, naif quanto basta a storpiare una parola su cinque ma estremamente attento a tutto quanto può accrescere la sua parcella, vede in questo incontro un affare. I settimanali e le rubriche televisive andranno a nozze con la storia dell'attore che diventa ¡nella realtà' il padre dell'orfano. Ci sono però due ostacoli: la madre di Mirko che non vuole che il figlio venga sfruttato mediaticamente e uno zio del bambino simpaticamente alienato. A loro si aggiunge la rabbia di Barbara che rischia di vedere il proprio pupillo entrare in un cono d'ombra. Dopo l'incontestabile successo di SMS-Sotto mentite spoglie Salemme decide di conservare un elemento prezioso della squadra (Panariello a cui permette di svariare su più registri espressivi) e di farsi affiancare da due cavalli di razza dall'altrettanto indiscutibile e consolidata carriera come Sergio Rubini e Iaia Forte. Memore della lezione dei De Filippo (di Eduardo, certo, con cui ha a lungo lavorato ma anche di Peppino) sa che uno dei mezzi per far pensare è quello di far sorridere. Lo fa con delicatezza e misura per gran parte di un film che mette alla berlina il mondo della serialità televisiva nostrana con i suoi miti effimeri destinati a un'altrettanto effimera ascesa agli altari con spesso conseguente caduta nella polvere dei dati dell'Auditel e affini. Il suo Arturo è un ex essere umano ormai solo attento a chi gli ruba i primi piani e (cor)roso da una sterile lotta per uno pseudosuccesso. Il piccolo Mirko, che è sprofondato (come accade non solo al cinema ma anche nella patologia scientificamente studiata) nella commistione totale tra finzione e realtà nel tentativo di suturare una ferita troppo profonda, lo trascina con sé nel mondo di una realtà che è fatta di piccole meschinità (come quelle rappresentate con grottesca misura da Oreste Lionello e Gisella Sofio) che non sono poi troppo distanti da quelle che lui stesso si porta dentro. Tutto questo viene raccontato non dimenticando mai lo spettatore e le sue attese salvo in due casi. Il tormentone della degustazione di vini fa deviare il film sul piano della farsa di cui non si sentiva il bisogno e il finale (di cui ovviamente non anticipiamo il contenuto) rischia di rientrare proprio negli schemi narrativi di quella soap opera che così abilmente si era messa alla berlina. Peccato. Anzi due peccati. Veniali? Al pubblico l'ardua sentenza.
The Orphanage
Starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Caya, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla and Geraldine Chaplin.
Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon¢s imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games... A troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child¢s strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.
Reno 911!: Miami
Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.
The Rocker
Starring Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Will Arnett, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Howard Hesseman and Emma Stone.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (Rainn Wilson), was the drummer for an eighties hair band. He was living the rock 'n' roll dream... until he was kicked out of the group. Twenty years later, the desperate rocker joins his nephew's band, "A.D.D.," finally reclaiming the rock-god throne he's always thought he deserved - while taking his much younger bandmates along for the ride of their lives. When we first meet Fish, he and his bandmates from Vesuvius are in full '80s glory - knocking out headbanging songs and sporting big hair, scarves, and impossibly tight leather pants. Just as Vesuvius is about to break big, Fish is tossed out of the band. Flash-forward twenty years: the ex-drummer extraordinaire, who lived, ate, breathed, slept - and most of all, sweated - rock n' roll, works for an insurance company and is living with his sister, brother-in-law and nephew Matt. In short, Fish is a broken man, stuck in a mid-life crisis. But when he learns that Matt's band, A.D.D. is searching for a new drummer, Fish volunteers - well, really, he begs - for a shot. Fish is over two decades older than his bandmates, yet somehow he completes A.D.D.: the brooding, hair-in-the-face singer Curtis; the stiff-as-a-board supernerd Matt; the ironic post-modern punk girl Amelia - and now the ancient rocker, Fish. Spurred by Fish's habit of rehearsing in the buff (and hip new moniker "The Naked Drummer"), A.D.D. becomes an internet sensation. They hit the road for their first big tour - along with Curtis' mom, Kim, as a chaperon. But as Fish once again lives the rock and roll life he thought was almost a birthright, he begins a journey that will take him to a place even he never thought possible: adulthood.
Tropic Thunder
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn.
Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Woody Allen's funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations.
June 26 to July 3
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
Deception (Sex List)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Drillbit Taylor
Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.
Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)
Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
The Lodger
Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.
L'uomo Che Ama
Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
The Orphanage
Starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Caya, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla and Geraldine Chaplin.
Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon¢s imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games... A troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child¢s strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.
Qualcuno Con Cui Correre
Con Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar Or, Yuval Mendelson, Rinat Matatov, Tzahi Grad.
Assaf, un adolescente impiegato temporaneamente alla Protezione animali, ha una (com)missione da compiere: restituire un cane alla sua padrona e recapitare alla stessa una multa di centocinquanta shekel per la negligenza mostrata nella cura dell¢animale. Sarà proprio Dinka, un magnifico Labrador color miele a guidare Assaf per le strade di Gerusalemme alla ricerca di Tamar, una ragazzina fuggita da casa con un cane e una chitarra nel tentativo disperato di trovare il fratello tossicodipendente. I loro destini si incroceranno presto e sarà l¢ostinata volontà di Assaf a salvare i due fratelli da Pesach, un protettore criminale che sfrutta il talento artistico dei ragazzi di strada, nascondendo sotto le note loschi traffici di droga. Tratto dall¢omonimo libro di David Grossman, Qualcuno con cui correre è un romanzo di formazione dal sapore dickensiano, ambientato in uno spazio cittadino che grava sui protagonisti, imprigionandoli nell¢infelicità di un¢adolescenza maltrattata. I ragazzini allo sbando non sono un¢invenzione neppure a Gerusalemme e tutta la storia si concentra nella sfida di Assaf alla paura, all¢assenza e al disorientamento per l¢eclissarsi e il disfacimento della figura genitoriale. Il protagonista, correndo con un cane e una speranza mai sopita, prova a cambiare la vita di una sua coetanea. La sua è una lotta eroica normale che vorrebbe riconsegnare Tamar al tempo di un¢innocenza ancora possibile, una lotta sulla capacità e necessità di sopravvivere in un contesto di inarrestabile decadenza. Eppure lo sguardo di Oded Davidoff non appare mai sinceramente integrato nella prospettiva dei giovani protagonisti, mostrandosi piuttosto incline alla retorica del mondo salvato dai ragazzini. Ciò che risulta totalmente assente è l¢ineliminabile componente sociale, da intendere non tanto come ricognizione delle problematiche contemporanee, quanto come immersione in quella realtà dalla cui esperienza scaturisce la presa di consapevolezza dei protagonisti. Personaggi che oscillano fra la costipazione e la deflagrazione: l¢impossibilità di sopportare oltre e di esprimere appieno. Ma è il film stesso a coltivare questa indecisione al punto che la rabbia e il disagio rimangono in superficie, assunti senza essere indagati, ogni gesto è fine a se stesso, non facendosi rivelatore di nulla. Tamar mortifica se stessa in un continuo gioco di allontanamento da sé e dalla resa dei conti che sembra non arrivare mai. Certo, trattandosi di un film di formazione con incluso apologo morale, i cattivi vanno puniti a prescindere, anche se tardivamente, e così il film, che voleva stupire con una narrazione diluita a base di analessi e prolessi, si riconsegna ad una prevedibilità più generale. Qualcuno con cui correre paga lo scotto di una regia senza lampi (di genio) e, in Italia, di un doppiaggio che vanifica l¢espressività dei personaggi.
Reno 911!: Miami
Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.
Tropic Thunder
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn.
Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Woody Allen's funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations.
July 3 to July 10
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
Deception (Sex List)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Drillbit Taylor
Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.
Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)
Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
The Lodger
Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.
L'uomo Che Ama
Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Mirrors (Riflessi Di Paura)
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng and Julian Glover.
A mall security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store¡s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Down through the ages, mirrors have always been gateways to other worlds; they have protected us from evil, they have told us the future, and they have told us the truth. Mirrors reflect back at the viewer a glimpse of the human soul. In stories handed down through folk beliefs of generations, and stitched into the fabric of fairy tales and myths worldwide, mirrors have been the gateways to other worlds. is this a realm inhabited by angels, demons, and spirits of the dead? Or, does it reflect back to the viewer a glimpse of the human soul?
Qualcuno Con Cui Correre
Con Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar Or, Yuval Mendelson, Rinat Matatov, Tzahi Grad.
Assaf, un adolescente impiegato temporaneamente alla Protezione animali, ha una (com)missione da compiere: restituire un cane alla sua padrona e recapitare alla stessa una multa di centocinquanta shekel per la negligenza mostrata nella cura dell¢animale. Sarà proprio Dinka, un magnifico Labrador color miele a guidare Assaf per le strade di Gerusalemme alla ricerca di Tamar, una ragazzina fuggita da casa con un cane e una chitarra nel tentativo disperato di trovare il fratello tossicodipendente. I loro destini si incroceranno presto e sarà l¢ostinata volontà di Assaf a salvare i due fratelli da Pesach, un protettore criminale che sfrutta il talento artistico dei ragazzi di strada, nascondendo sotto le note loschi traffici di droga. Tratto dall¢omonimo libro di David Grossman, Qualcuno con cui correre è un romanzo di formazione dal sapore dickensiano, ambientato in uno spazio cittadino che grava sui protagonisti, imprigionandoli nell¢infelicità di un¢adolescenza maltrattata. I ragazzini allo sbando non sono un¢invenzione neppure a Gerusalemme e tutta la storia si concentra nella sfida di Assaf alla paura, all¢assenza e al disorientamento per l¢eclissarsi e il disfacimento della figura genitoriale. Il protagonista, correndo con un cane e una speranza mai sopita, prova a cambiare la vita di una sua coetanea. La sua è una lotta eroica normale che vorrebbe riconsegnare Tamar al tempo di un¢innocenza ancora possibile, una lotta sulla capacità e necessità di sopravvivere in un contesto di inarrestabile decadenza. Eppure lo sguardo di Oded Davidoff non appare mai sinceramente integrato nella prospettiva dei giovani protagonisti, mostrandosi piuttosto incline alla retorica del mondo salvato dai ragazzini. Ciò che risulta totalmente assente è l¢ineliminabile componente sociale, da intendere non tanto come ricognizione delle problematiche contemporanee, quanto come immersione in quella realtà dalla cui esperienza scaturisce la presa di consapevolezza dei protagonisti. Personaggi che oscillano fra la costipazione e la deflagrazione: l¢impossibilità di sopportare oltre e di esprimere appieno. Ma è il film stesso a coltivare questa indecisione al punto che la rabbia e il disagio rimangono in superficie, assunti senza essere indagati, ogni gesto è fine a se stesso, non facendosi rivelatore di nulla. Tamar mortifica se stessa in un continuo gioco di allontanamento da sé e dalla resa dei conti che sembra non arrivare mai. Certo, trattandosi di un film di formazione con incluso apologo morale, i cattivi vanno puniti a prescindere, anche se tardivamente, e così il film, che voleva stupire con una narrazione diluita a base di analessi e prolessi, si riconsegna ad una prevedibilità più generale. Qualcuno con cui correre paga lo scotto di una regia senza lampi (di genio) e, in Italia, di un doppiaggio che vanifica l¢espressività dei personaggi.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
Reno 911!: Miami
Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.
Tropic Thunder
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
July 10 to July 17
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Deception (Sex List)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Drillbit Taylor
Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.
Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)
Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
The Lodger
Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.
L'uomo Che Ama
Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Never Back Down
Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.
Qualcuno Con Cui Correre
Con Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar Or, Yuval Mendelson, Rinat Matatov, Tzahi Grad.
Assaf, un adolescente impiegato temporaneamente alla Protezione animali, ha una (com)missione da compiere: restituire un cane alla sua padrona e recapitare alla stessa una multa di centocinquanta shekel per la negligenza mostrata nella cura dell¢animale. Sarà proprio Dinka, un magnifico Labrador color miele a guidare Assaf per le strade di Gerusalemme alla ricerca di Tamar, una ragazzina fuggita da casa con un cane e una chitarra nel tentativo disperato di trovare il fratello tossicodipendente. I loro destini si incroceranno presto e sarà l¢ostinata volontà di Assaf a salvare i due fratelli da Pesach, un protettore criminale che sfrutta il talento artistico dei ragazzi di strada, nascondendo sotto le note loschi traffici di droga. Tratto dall¢omonimo libro di David Grossman, Qualcuno con cui correre è un romanzo di formazione dal sapore dickensiano, ambientato in uno spazio cittadino che grava sui protagonisti, imprigionandoli nell¢infelicità di un¢adolescenza maltrattata. I ragazzini allo sbando non sono un¢invenzione neppure a Gerusalemme e tutta la storia si concentra nella sfida di Assaf alla paura, all¢assenza e al disorientamento per l¢eclissarsi e il disfacimento della figura genitoriale. Il protagonista, correndo con un cane e una speranza mai sopita, prova a cambiare la vita di una sua coetanea. La sua è una lotta eroica normale che vorrebbe riconsegnare Tamar al tempo di un¢innocenza ancora possibile, una lotta sulla capacità e necessità di sopravvivere in un contesto di inarrestabile decadenza. Eppure lo sguardo di Oded Davidoff non appare mai sinceramente integrato nella prospettiva dei giovani protagonisti, mostrandosi piuttosto incline alla retorica del mondo salvato dai ragazzini. Ciò che risulta totalmente assente è l¢ineliminabile componente sociale, da intendere non tanto come ricognizione delle problematiche contemporanee, quanto come immersione in quella realtà dalla cui esperienza scaturisce la presa di consapevolezza dei protagonisti. Personaggi che oscillano fra la costipazione e la deflagrazione: l¢impossibilità di sopportare oltre e di esprimere appieno. Ma è il film stesso a coltivare questa indecisione al punto che la rabbia e il disagio rimangono in superficie, assunti senza essere indagati, ogni gesto è fine a se stesso, non facendosi rivelatore di nulla. Tamar mortifica se stessa in un continuo gioco di allontanamento da sé e dalla resa dei conti che sembra non arrivare mai. Certo, trattandosi di un film di formazione con incluso apologo morale, i cattivi vanno puniti a prescindere, anche se tardivamente, e così il film, che voleva stupire con una narrazione diluita a base di analessi e prolessi, si riconsegna ad una prevedibilità più generale. Qualcuno con cui correre paga lo scotto di una regia senza lampi (di genio) e, in Italia, di un doppiaggio che vanifica l¢espressività dei personaggi.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
Reno 911!: Miami
Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.
July 17 to July 24
Awake
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
The Code aka Thick As Thieves
Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Deception (Sex List)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Doubt (Il Dubbio)
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)
Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.
How She Move
Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
The Lodger
Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Never Back Down
Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
July 24 to July 31
Awake
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
The Code aka Thick As Thieves
Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Doubt (Il Dubbio)
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
Drillbit Taylor
Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.
How She Move
Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tre Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, fara girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Never Back Down
Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
Un Giorno Perfetto
Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo cosi a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonche ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana e in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale e asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale e complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilita che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiita che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilita dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarita che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo pero nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticita che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
July 31 to August 7
Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Awake
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Code aka Thick As Thieves
Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Doubt (Il Dubbio)
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
How She Move
Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Never Back Down
Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)
Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
Un Giorno Perfetto
Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
August 7 to August 14
Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Awake
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Code aka Thick As Thieves
Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Doubt (Il Dubbio)
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
How She Move
Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Max Payne
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Never Back Down
Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)
Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
Un Giorno Perfetto
Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
August 14 to August 21
Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Awake
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Starring Piper Perabo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Loretta Devine and Ali Hillis.
A pampered Beverly Hills Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a day spa or Rodeo Drive boutique anywhere in sight. Now alone for the first time in her spoiled life, she must rely on some unexpected new friends--including a street-hardened German Shepherd named Delgado (voice of Andy Garcia) and an amorous pup named Papi (voice of George Lopez) - to lend her a paw and help her to find her inner strength on their incredible journey back home.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (Il Bambino Con Il Pigiama A Righe)
Starring Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield and Sheila Hancock.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Schmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The Code aka Thick As Thieves
Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Doubt (Il Dubbio)
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
How She Move
Starring Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tré Armstrong, Brennan Gademans, Keyshia Cole, Shawn Desmon, DeRay Davis and Andrew Wagner.
An energetic, gritty and ultimately inspiring coming of age tale about a gifted young woman who defies all the rules as she step dances her heart out to achieve her dreams. Raya (Rutina Wesley) is a gifted student who grew up in Toronto's Jane-Finch Corridor, a community with a reputation for conflict. She's been attending a private school outside the city. But with family resources exhausted, Raya is forced to return to her old neighborhood. Realising she could win some serious prize money by entering underground dance competitions, Raya fights her way onto the all-male JSJ (Jane Street Junta) "step" crew, led by the charismatic Bishop (Dwain Murphy).
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Max Payne
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Never Back Down
Starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon Hounsou, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart. Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja (Amber Heard), Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline, willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at stake than mere victory. His decision will not just settle a score; it will define who he is.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
Revolutionary Road
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.
The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)
Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
Un Giorno Perfetto
Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
August 21 to August 28
Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Awake
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
The Code aka Thick As Thieves
Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)
Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Doubt (Il Dubbio)
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
Imago Mortis
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin and Alberto Amarilla.
In the 17th century, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema.
Max Payne
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
The Reader
Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.
Revolutionary Road
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.
The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)
Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
Un Giorno Perfetto
Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo cosi a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonche ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana e in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale e asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale e complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilita che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiita che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilita dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarita che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo pero nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticita che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
August 28 to September 4
Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Awake
Starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin and Christopher McDonald.
Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. A young man named Clay (Hayden Christensen) undergoes heart surgery while experiencing a common occurrence called "anaesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon which leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple.
Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)
Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.
The Code aka Thick As Thieves
Starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Radha Mitchell, Tom Hardy and Rade Serbedzija.
Master thief, Keith (Freeman), recruits a small-time hood, Gabriel (Banderas), to help him steal a pair of Faberge eggs in order to pay off a debt to a Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija, 24). But things aren't always what they seem in the criminal underworld, especially when Gabriel becomes involved with Keith's goddaughter (Radha Mitchell) and a persistent cop (Robert Forster) begins trailing the thieves' every move.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)
Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Doubt (Il Dubbio)
Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
Imago Mortis
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin and Alberto Amarilla.
In the 17th century, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema.
Max Payne
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Quantum Of Solace
Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jesper Christensen, Anatole Taubman and Rory Kinnear.
Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.
The Reader
Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.
Revolutionary Road
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.
The Savages (La Famiglia Savage)
Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco.
The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.
Un Giorno Perfetto
Con Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Monica Guerritore, Nicole Grimaudo.
Emma e Antonio, sposati e con due figli (Valentina e Kevin) sono separati da circa un anno. Antonio, che fa l'autista dell'onorevole Fioravanti, non ha per nulla riassorbito il trauma del distacco. Un giorno la polizia viene chiamata dalla sua vicina di casa che ha udito dei colpi di arma da fuoco. Passiamo così a conoscere le vicende della giornata precedente, non solo in relazione a questo nucleo familiare ma legate anche a moglie e figli dell'onorevole nonché ad altri personaggi. La tragedia umana è in agguato. Ferzan Ozpetek questa volta rinuncia a scrivere in proprio un oggetto affidandosi a un testo letterario di Melania Mazzucco. Stanno proprio in questa operazione i pregi e difetti del film. La parte iniziale è asciutta (colonna musicale a parte) e riesce a collocare narrativamente tutti i personaggi (che non sono pochi e la cui condizione psicologica ed esistenziale è complessa. L'interesse che il regista nutre per l'uso dei primi piani lo spinge a scavare nel loro animo, quasi tentando di scoprire il mistero profondo che sta alla base della relazione amorosa. Mentre gli adulti la vivono con grande tormento e con una fragilità che deborda nella patologia i giovani (per quell'eterno ciclo che presiede al dipanarsi della vita) provano, nonostante la negativiità che li circonda, a riaccendere un bagliore di speranza nella possibilità dell'amore. Ozpetek riesce a gestire il succedersi dei personaggi e l'intrecciarsi delle loro emozioni grazie anche a un casting particolarmente ben scelto. Le note di inconsapevole volgarità che Isabella Ferrari offre al personaggio di Emma o il tormento di Antonio che esplode nel tentativo di stupro sono solo due degli esempi possibili. Purtroppo però nella parte finale il film diventa 'letterario' e molto di quanto nella pagina scritta trovava una sua giustificazione finisce con l'essere didascalicamente sottolineato privandolo di quell'autenticità che l'inizio prometteva. Tre stelle nonostante.
September 4 to September 11
Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)
Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)
Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum Alla Terra)
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm and Kathy Bates.
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 science fiction classic in which renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. When forces beyond Helen's control treat the extraterrestrial as a hostile and deny his request to address the world's leaders, she and her estranged stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) quickly discover the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is 'a friend to the Earth'. Now Helen must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy us that mankind is worth saving - but it may be too late. The process has begun.
Defiance
Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner and Mark Feuerstein.
The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Three brothers turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential - a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. At first it is all they can do to stay alive. But gradually, as whispers of their daring spreads, they begin to attract others - men and women, young and old - willing to risk everything for the sake of even a moment's freedom. Tuvia (Daniel Craig) is a reluctant leader and his decisions are challenged by his brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber) who worries that Tuvia's idealistic plans will doom them all. Asael (Jamie Bell) is the youngest, caught between his brothers' fierce rivalry. As a brutal winter descends, they work to create a community, and to keep faith alive when all humanity appears to be lost.
Imago Mortis
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Oona Chaplin and Alberto Amarilla.
In the 17th century, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema.
Lies & Illusions
Starring Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Ann Schultz, Christa Campbell, Al Madrigal and Lochlyn Munro.
Best-selling author Wes Wilson (Christian Slater) has it all. But when menacing smuggler Isaac (Cuba Gooding Jr.) coolly insists that he take a chauffeured backseat ride, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence, espionage and stolen diamonds. As lies and illusions give way to a harsh reality, Wilson learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
Max Payne
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco and Olga Kurylenko.
Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a maverick cop, a mythic anti-hero, determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murders of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Sta Per Sposarsi)
Starring Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt.
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama - is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.
The Reader
Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.
Red Sands
Starring Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge, Callum Blue and Brendan Miller.
A group of U.S. soldiers encounter a powerful supernatural force in this taut psychological horror film from Dead Birds director Alex Turner. Afghanistan, present day: a U.S. military unit is dispatched to secure a strategic road. During the course of their mission, the soldiers notice an ancient stone statue nestled deep in a narrow gorge. When one of the soldiers takes a shot at the sculpture, a vengeful supernatural spirit is awakened from its centuries-long slumber. Now, as the ancient entity unleashes hell on the unsuspecting soldiers, a simple mission turns into a desperate struggle against a force that won't rest until the entire squadron is dead.
Revolutionary Road
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.
Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
jopidane 11-09-2009, 11:24 September 11 to September 18
Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)
Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.
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Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)
Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
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Defiance
Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner and Mark Feuerstein.
The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Three brothers turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential - a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. At first it is all they can do to stay alive. But gradually, as whispers of their daring spreads, they begin to attract others - men and women, young and old - willing to risk everything for the sake of even a moment's freedom. Tuvia (Daniel Craig) is a reluctant leader and his decisions are challenged by his brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber) who worries that Tuvia's idealistic plans will doom them all. Asael (Jamie Bell) is the youngest, caught between his brothers' fierce rivalry. As a brutal winter descends, they work to create a community, and to keep faith alive when all humanity appears to be lost.
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The Horsemen
Starring Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr. and Patrick Fugit.
Emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife, a troubled detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in this dark psychological thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi.
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Lies & Illusions
Starring Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Ann Schultz, Christa Campbell, Al Madrigal and Lochlyn Munro.
Best-selling author Wes Wilson (Christian Slater) has it all. But when menacing smuggler Isaac (Cuba Gooding Jr.) coolly insists that he take a chauffeured backseat ride, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence, espionage and stolen diamonds. As lies and illusions give way to a harsh reality, Wilson learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
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Pineapple Express (Strafumati)
Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr, Nora Dunn and Bobby Lee.
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul's primo product - a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it's traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives ... and they quickly discover that they're not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.
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Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Sta Per Sposarsi)
Starring Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt.
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama - is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.
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The Reader
Starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Linda Bassett.
In post-WWII Germany, teenager Michael Berg (David Kross) becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna (Kate Winslet), a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn," and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives.
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Red Sands
Starring Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge, Callum Blue and Brendan Miller.
A group of U.S. soldiers encounter a powerful supernatural force in this taut psychological horror film from Dead Birds director Alex Turner. Afghanistan, present day: a U.S. military unit is dispatched to secure a strategic road. During the course of their mission, the soldiers notice an ancient stone statue nestled deep in a narrow gorge. When one of the soldiers takes a shot at the sculpture, a vengeful supernatural spirit is awakened from its centuries-long slumber. Now, as the ancient entity unleashes hell on the unsuspecting soldiers, a simple mission turns into a desperate struggle against a force that won't rest until the entire squadron is dead.
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Revolutionary Road
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates.
The story of a young couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) trying to find fulfillment in an age of conformity. Trapped in a world of encoded convention, they dream without faith, as lies and self-deceptions build to explosive consequences.
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Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)
Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.
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Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
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Space Chimps
Starring Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci, Kenan Thompson, Jane Lynch and Kath Soucie.
When a $5 billion NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III, grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from an evil dictator.
September 18 to September 25
Bride Wars
Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Candice Bergen.
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not... When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)
Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
Defiance
Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner and Mark Feuerstein.
The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Three brothers turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential - a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. At first it is all they can do to stay alive. But gradually, as whispers of their daring spreads, they begin to attract others - men and women, young and old - willing to risk everything for the sake of even a moment's freedom. Tuvia (Daniel Craig) is a reluctant leader and his decisions are challenged by his brother, Zus (Liev Schreiber) who worries that Tuvia's idealistic plans will doom them all. Asael (Jamie Bell) is the youngest, caught between his brothers' fierce rivalry. As a brutal winter descends, they work to create a community, and to keep faith alive when all humanity appears to be lost.
Eagle Eye
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson and Michelle Monaghan.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening - and more importantly, why.
The Horsemen
Starring Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr. and Patrick Fugit.
Emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife, a troubled detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in this dark psychological thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi.
Lies & Illusions
Starring Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Ann Schultz, Christa Campbell, Al Madrigal and Lochlyn Munro.
Best-selling author Wes Wilson (Christian Slater) has it all. But when menacing smuggler Isaac (Cuba Gooding Jr.) coolly insists that he take a chauffeured backseat ride, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence, espionage and stolen diamonds. As lies and illusions give way to a harsh reality, Wilson learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
Pineapple Express (Strafumati)
Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr, Nora Dunn and Bobby Lee.
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul's primo product - a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it's traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives ... and they quickly discover that they're not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.
Quarantine (Quarantena)
Starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Steve Harris, Dania Ramirez, Rade Sherbedgia and Johnathon Schaech.
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.
Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Sta Per Sposarsi)
Starring Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt.
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama - is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.
Red Sands
Starring Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge, Callum Blue and Brendan Miller.
A group of U.S. soldiers encounter a powerful supernatural force in this taut psychological horror film from Dead Birds director Alex Turner. Afghanistan, present day: a U.S. military unit is dispatched to secure a strategic road. During the course of their mission, the soldiers notice an ancient stone statue nestled deep in a narrow gorge. When one of the soldiers takes a shot at the sculpture, a vengeful supernatural spirit is awakened from its centuries-long slumber. Now, as the ancient entity unleashes hell on the unsuspecting soldiers, a simple mission turns into a desperate struggle against a force that won't rest until the entire squadron is dead.
Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)
Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.
Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
Space Chimps
Starring Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci, Kenan Thompson, Jane Lynch and Kath Soucie.
When a $5 billion NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III, grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from an evil dictator.
September 25 to October 2
Bedtime Stories (Racconti Incantati)
Starring Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler and Jonathan Pryce.
Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is a hotel handyman whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down.
Bride Wars
Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Candice Bergen.
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not... When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)
Starring Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen and Julie Hagerty.
Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door - that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company. Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control ... and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
Eagle Eye
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson and Michelle Monaghan.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening - and more importantly, why.
The Horsemen
Starring Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr. and Patrick Fugit.
Emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife, a troubled detective investigates a series of murders that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in this dark psychological thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi.
Hotel For Dogs (Hotel Bau)
Starring Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle.
When their new guardians forbid 16-year old Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Jake T. Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday - and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."
The House Bunny (La Coniglietta Di Casa)
Starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis and Tyson Ritter.
Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) is a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex - only to learn that what boys really like is what's on the inside. Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
Iago
Starring Nicolas Vaporidis, Aurelien Gaya, Laura Chiatti, Gabriele Lavia, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Giulia Steigerwalt, Fabio Ghidoni, Luana Rossetti and Diome Mamadou.
As the title suggests, this film finds Italian helmer (Volfango de Biasi) giving Shakespeare's classic tragedy Othello a slightly unique spin, with a heightened emphasis on Iago; it also reverses the roles by turning Othello into the manipulative monster and Iago into the wronged party. The action unfurls in the early 21st century at the University of Venice, where student Iago (Nicolas Vaporidis) has risen above his financially limited origins and shows enormous promise in his chosen field of architecture. Othello (Aurelien Gaya), an aristocratic architect's son, stabs Iago in the back by manipulatively damaging his academic stature and usurping his place as the designer of a project on the Biennale. Othello also steals Iago's love, chancellor's daughter Desdemona (Laura Chiatti), with whom he himself has been smitten for ages. Iago responds by creating a series of elaborate deceptions, designed to pay Othello back for his thoughtless Machiavellian acts.
Pineapple Express (Strafumati)
Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Amber Heard, Ed Begley Jr, Nora Dunn and Bobby Lee.
Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul's primo product - a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it's traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives ... and they quickly discover that they're not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.
Quarantine (Quarantena)
Starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Greg Germann, Steve Harris, Dania Ramirez, Rade Sherbedgia and Johnathon Schaech.
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.
Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)
Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.
Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
Space Chimps
Starring Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci, Kenan Thompson, Jane Lynch and Kath Soucie.
When a $5 billion NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III, grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero gravity high jinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from an evil dictator.
The Spirit
Starring Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Eva Mendes, Dan Lauria, Paz Vega, Jaime King and Scarlett Johansson.
Adapted from the legendary graphic novels, Will Eisner's The Spirit is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister Frank Miller (creator of 300 and Sin City). It is the story of a former rookie-cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he's going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront ... all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan, the whip-smart girl-next-door; Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris, a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelai, a phantom siren; and Morganstern, a sexy young cop. In the vein of Batman Begins and Sin City, The Spirit takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.
usama2009 04-10-2009, 10:23 October 2 to October 9
Bride Wars
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (I Love Shopping)
Eagle Eye
Fontiere(s)
The Horsemen
Hotel For Dogs (Hotel Bau)
The House Bunny (La Coniglietta Di Casa)
Iago
Lies & Illusions
Max Payne
Quarantine (Quarantena)
Saw 4
Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)
Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
The Spirit
Taken (IO Trovero')
Untraceable (Nella Rete Del Serial Killer)
usama2009 09-10-2009, 13:40 October 9 to October 16
Albakiara
Babylon A.D.
Bride Wars
Eagle Eye
Fontiere(s)
The House Bunny (La Coniglietta Dicasa)
Iago
Saw 4
Seven pounds (Sette Anime)
Shrooms
Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
Space Chimps
The Spirit
Taken (IO Trovero')
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Untraceable (Nella Rete Del Serial Killer)
October 16 to October 23
Albakiara
Starring Raz Degan, Laura Gigante, Davide Rossi, Alessandro Haber, Dario Bandiera, Kelly Renee Potts, and Fabrizio Sabatucci.
Albakiara is the nickname of Chiara, whose angelic face makes her seem like the perfect little girl everyone wants as their daughter. She resembles the girl described by Vasco Rossi in Albachiara but looks deceive. Chiara is in high school, though, unlike Albachiara, she has no use for it. Her ignorance is endless, and she manages to move on to the next grade only by cheating and copying. What she does study is her look, paying attention to the latest fashions. She loves being the centre of attention... And she simply adores the gangster evenings (as she calls them) spent with her girlfriends in pursuit of sex and drugs and rock ¢n roll.
Babylon A.D.
Starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson and Mark Strong.
It is the not-too-distant future. Thousands of satellites scan, observe and monitor our every move. Much of the planet is a war zone; the rest, a collection of wretched way stations, teeming megalopolises, and vast wastelands punctuated by areas left radioactive from nuclear meltdowns. It is a world made for hardened warriors, one of whom, a mercenary known only as Toorop (Vin Diesel), lives by a simple survivor's code: kill... or be killed. His latest assignment has him smuggling a young woman named Aurora from a convent in Kazakhstan to New York City. Toorop, his new young charge Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) and Aurora's guardian Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh) embark on a 6,000 mile journey that takes them from Eastern Europe, through a refugee camp in "New Russia," across the Bering Straight in a pilfered submarine, then through the frozen tundra of Alaska and Canada, and finally to New York. Facing obstacles at every turn, Toorop, the killer for hire, is tested like never before, in ways he could never have imagined - as he comes to understand that he is the custodian of the only hope for the future of mankind. For the first time in his life, Toorop has to make a choice: to make a difference or walk away and save himself.
Eagle Eye
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Billy Bob Thornton, Rosario Dawson and Michelle Monaghan.
Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. As the situation escalates, these two ordinary people become the country's most wanted fugitives, who must work together to discover what is really happening - and more importantly, why.
Frontière(s)
Starring Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik and Patrick Ligardes.
As the banlieues of Paris burn due to riots protesting the election triumph of an extreme right-wing party, a group of youths use the chaos as cover for smash-and-grab robberies. For Yasmina (Karina Testa), the money is an escape from the slums she has known all her life. With the police on their tail, her gang splits up, planning to meet at an inn near the Luxembourg border. Arriving at their destination, they encounter their hosts, the Von Geisler clan, who seem to be stuck in time: a jackbooted patriarch, his savagely flirtatious daughters and his thuggish sons. Revealing themselves as neo-Nazi fanatics, they see Yasmina as a fresh bloodline for their fascistic fantasy of starting a new Aryan brotherhood. Her friends find themselves trapped in a grim abattoir as Yasmina fights against the Von Geisler¢s invitation to become ¡one of the family¢ in their twisted Gothic household.
Galantuomini
Con Donatella Finocchiaro, Fabrizio Gifuni, Beppe Fiorello, Giorgio Colangeli, Gioia Spaziani.
Ignazio, Lucia e Fabio sono stati bambini felici e inseparabili nel Salento degli anni Sessanta. Adesso sono adulti tormentati e divisi nel Salento della Sacra Corona Unita. Ignazio è diventato un giudice stimato, rientrato a Lecce dopo aver esercitato la professione nel Nord Italia, Lucia è madre di un ragazzino e braccio destro del boss Carmine Zà, Fabio un appassionato giocatore di biliardo col vizio della cocaina. Al funerale di Fabio, stroncato da un¢overdose, Lucia e Ignazio si ritrovano e si innamorano senza dichiararsi. Durante le indagini sul traffico di cocaina, Ignazio scopre il coinvolgimento di Lucia. Ferito e addolorato dalle bugie della donna e dalla rivelazione della sua vera natura, l¢affronta, spingendola suo malgrado alla latitanza. Ma il giudice sedotto e la dark lady hanno ancora un conto d¢amore da regolare e da consumare. Edoardo Winspeare, cognome inglese e cuore salentino, torna nei borghi antichi del Salento dopo il miracolo di Taranto, muovendosi lungo la frontiera tra noir e mélo. Dentro un ambiente luminoso e denso di umori abita un personaggio femminile di stupefacente bellezza, cupa e sgomenta davanti alla radicalità delle proprie decisioni: ispirare e guidare una squadra di criminali organizzati. Femmina folle e lupa tragica, Lucia è portatrice di un segreto sepolto che minaccia la sua vita apparentemente solare e l¢amore ancora imploso per il giudice Ignazio De Rao, l¢uomo che potrebbe forse permetterle di sottrarsi al disagio della sua condizione. Ma Winspeare non sceglie per i suoi amanti la redenzione. Rivedersi e scoprirsi nei rispettivi ruoli è per Lucia e Ignazio vertigine ulteriore, innamoramento sovrapposto a quello già esistente. Fuggiranno dentro una notte per amarsi. Si nasconderanno in quell¢unica notte per amarsi. Quando il giudice di Gifuni si trova di fronte alla donna, di cui conosce ormai il volto scellerato, il suo sentimento ne frena l¢azione, improntata altrimenti e altrove a grande sicurezza e condotta morale. L¢amore reciproco impedisce all¢uomo dietro al giudice di denunciarla e alla donna dietro alla criminale di comprometterlo. Agli amanti è possibile darsi e possedersi senza mai guardarsi negli occhi, fino all¢alba e a una telefonata che risveglierà Lucia dall¢evidenza dell¢impossibilità del loro amore e della messa fra parentesi del mondo, fondale lontano eppure presente.
The House Bunny (La Coniglietta Di Casa)
Starring Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis and Tyson Ritter.
Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) is a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex - only to learn that what boys really like is what's on the inside. Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
Iago
Starring Nicolas Vaporidis, Aurelien Gaya, Laura Chiatti, Gabriele Lavia, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Giulia Steigerwalt, Fabio Ghidoni, Luana Rossetti and Diome Mamadou.
As the title suggests, this film finds Italian helmer (Volfango de Biasi) giving Shakespeare's classic tragedy Othello a slightly unique spin, with a heightened emphasis on Iago; it also reverses the roles by turning Othello into the manipulative monster and Iago into the wronged party. The action unfurls in the early 21st century at the University of Venice, where student Iago (Nicolas Vaporidis) has risen above his financially limited origins and shows enormous promise in his chosen field of architecture. Othello (Aurelien Gaya), an aristocratic architect's son, stabs Iago in the back by manipulatively damaging his academic stature and usurping his place as the designer of a project on the Biennale. Othello also steals Iago's love, chancellor's daughter Desdemona (Laura Chiatti), with whom he himself has been smitten for ages. Iago responds by creating a series of elaborate deceptions, designed to pay Othello back for his thoughtless Machiavellian acts.
Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)
Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.
Shrooms
Starring Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen and Alice Greczyn.
When five American college students arrive in Ireland to go on camping trip with their old college buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the 'trip' of a lifetime because he claims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounded like it would be great fun. Now that they are tripping things don't seem so funny. Bluto, one of the gang is missing. Tara thinks he's dead because she feels she has seen his death before but nobody believes her they think she is just out of it. They're out of it too. That was the whole point of coming here, but there is something out there, something watching them, something that will kill them if they don't get out of the forest and get help.
Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
The Spirit
Starring Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Eva Mendes, Dan Lauria, Paz Vega, Jaime King and Scarlett Johansson.
Adapted from the legendary graphic novels, Will Eisner's The Spirit is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister Frank Miller (creator of 300 and Sin City). It is the story of a former rookie-cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as The Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he's going to wipe out Spirit's beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront ... all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan, the whip-smart girl-next-door; Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris, a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelai, a phantom siren; and Morganstern, a sexy young cop. In the vein of Batman Begins and Sin City, The Spirit takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.
Taken (Io Vi Trovero')
Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen.
When his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Liam Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and to rescue his daughter.
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Starring Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Larry Rew and Craig Parker.
The third film in the Underworld franchise delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.
Un Gioco Da Ragazze
Con Filippo Nigro, Chiara Chiti, Desiree Noferini, Nadir Caselli, Chiara Paoli.
Elena Chiantini e le sue amiche Michela e Alice sono le bad girl di un prestigioso liceo privato. Figlie viziate di ricchi imprenditori, hanno come modello Kate Moss e Paris Hilton e si atteggiano ad adulte assumendo pose spregiudicate sotto le strobo e l'effetto di ecstasy, cannabis e cocaina. Annoiate dalla quotidianità, dai genitori e dalle istituzioni, non accolgono di buon grado l'arrivo di un nuovo professore, un giovane idealista deciso ad aprire gli occhi e le menti dei suoi alunni con le letture di Philip Roth e J.D. Salinger. Elena, che del gruppetto è la leader indiscussa, decide di coinvolgere l'insegnante in un gioco pericoloso. Un gioco da ragazze, che sembra essere la risposta borghese al proletario Albakiara, si propone di analizzare il lato oscuro degli adolescenti contemporanei ma finisce per essere fuorviante. La condizione privilegiata delle giovani protagoniste ritratte a colpi di cliché - sono tutte ricche, belle, magre, stupide, tossiche e anoressiche - potrebbe indurre in tentazione le ragazzine che nel mondo reale sognano una vita diversa leggendo i gossip sulle stesse eroine di Elena, Michela e Alice. La realtà raccontata da Matteo Rovere rappresenta oltretutto una piccolissima percentuale dell'adolescenza italiana che non conosce il lusso di domestici, cani con pedigree, scuole private e feste inondate da champagne. La vita di borgata, quella che più spesso finisce sulla pagina della cronaca e in rete - con i filmati di violenze carnali, mobbing e atti vandalici - non sarebbe stata altrettanto cinematografica, probabilmente. La scelta di "imbellettare" la violenza e la perversione giovanile attraverso uno scenario sfarzoso della provincia benestante risulta perciò diseducativo e altamente pericoloso. Lontano dai crimini sessuali di John McNaughton, dalle cattive ragazze di Mark Waters e da quelle interrotte di James Mangold, lontano dalle crudeli intenzioni di Roger Kumble e dalle regole dell'attrazione di Roger Avary (che pure sembrano aver offerto un immaginario ideale al regista romano), il film di Rovere è un gioco fine a se stesso che si abbandona alla bellezza della fotografia e dell'elegante contorno scenico. Tingendo di nero le ultime battute lascia in sospeso le sorti delle protagoniste senza offrire alcuna soluzione al malessere sociale né l'ombra del pentimento sui volti acerbi delle tre ragazzacce.
October 23 to October 30
Bride Wars
Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Chris Pratt, Steve Howey and Candice Bergen.
Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after. Or maybe not... When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled. Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.
The Comebacks (Il Peggior Allenatore Del Mondo)
Starring David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy, George Back, Noureen DeWulf and Jesse Garcia.
As Coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) puts together Heartland State's new football team, he and his misfit squad manage to mock every sport movie of the last couple decades. As they hit the field on the way to the championship game, they take on the likes of Rocky, Field of Dreams, Seabiscuit, Blue Crush, Stick It and The Longest Yard among countless others. It all starts when a voice-in-the-sky tells Coach, "If you build it, he will come" - that is, the quarterback that will lead The Comebacks to victory. But the team will also need a kicker who can Bend It Like Beckham, an assistant coach with a love for the game and his Radio ... or rather iPod; and a little guy with heart whose name sounds a lot like Rudy. Once the team is in place, Coach Fields watches his team forget the Titans under the glaring Friday Night Lights, and leads them all the way to the state championship where they battle a Gridiron Gang of footballers and manage to turn out the biggest Miracle the little Texas town of Plainfolk has seen since that Invincible bartender from Philly tried out for the team and made it. Oh wait. In The Comebacks, he doesn't make it.
Friday The 13th (Venerdi' 13)
Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman and Arlen Escarpeta.
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that's not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), with the help of Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history, the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete ... Jason Voorhees.
Frontière(s)
Starring Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik and Patrick Ligardes.
As the banlieues of Paris burn due to riots protesting the election triumph of an extreme right-wing party, a group of youths use the chaos as cover for smash-and-grab robberies. For Yasmina (Karina Testa), the money is an escape from the slums she has known all her life. With the police on their tail, her gang splits up, planning to meet at an inn near the Luxembourg border. Arriving at their destination, they encounter their hosts, the Von Geisler clan, who seem to be stuck in time: a jackbooted patriarch, his savagely flirtatious daughters and his thuggish sons. Revealing themselves as neo-Nazi fanatics, they see Yasmina as a fresh bloodline for their fascistic fantasy of starting a new Aryan brotherhood. Her friends find themselves trapped in a grim abattoir as Yasmina fights against the Von Geisler¢s invitation to become ¡one of the family¢ in their twisted Gothic household.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.
Saw V
Starring Tobin Bell, Julie Benz and Meagan Good.
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) might be dead, but his traps live on in this fifth Saw entry, which finds the series' production designer David Hackl at the helm for his debut directing gig. Costas Mandylor reprises his role as Hoffman, the detective whose involvement in the string of grisly murders turns out to be more than meets the eye. Picking up where the fourth entry left off, Hoffman is revealed to be a hidden accomplice in Jigsaw's grisly games of death, which look to be continued by the lawman. The plot bounces back and forth from the beginning of their relationship to the present, as Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) delves farther into the case. Also in the cast are Dexter's Julie Benz and One Missed Call's Meagan Good as victims of another one of Jigsaw's lessons in morality.
Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)
Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.
Shrooms
Starring Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen and Alice Greczyn.
When five American college students arrive in Ireland to go on camping trip with their old college buddy Jake, they are in high spirits. Jake has promised them the 'trip' of a lifetime because he claims Ireland has the best magic mushrooms in the world. It sounded like it would be great fun. Now that they are tripping things don't seem so funny. Bluto, one of the gang is missing. Tara thinks he's dead because she feels she has seen his death before but nobody believes her they think she is just out of it. They're out of it too. That was the whole point of coming here, but there is something out there, something watching them, something that will kill them if they don't get out of the forest and get help.
Taken (Io Vi Trovero')
Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen.
When his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Liam Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and to rescue his daughter.
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Starring Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Larry Rew and Craig Parker.
The third film in the Underworld franchise delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.
Un Gioco Da Ragazze
Con Filippo Nigro, Chiara Chiti, Desiree Noferini, Nadir Caselli, Chiara Paoli.
Elena Chiantini e le sue amiche Michela e Alice sono le bad girl di un prestigioso liceo privato. Figlie viziate di ricchi imprenditori, hanno come modello Kate Moss e Paris Hilton e si atteggiano ad adulte assumendo pose spregiudicate sotto le strobo e l'effetto di ecstasy, cannabis e cocaina. Annoiate dalla quotidianità, dai genitori e dalle istituzioni, non accolgono di buon grado l'arrivo di un nuovo professore, un giovane idealista deciso ad aprire gli occhi e le menti dei suoi alunni con le letture di Philip Roth e J.D. Salinger. Elena, che del gruppetto è la leader indiscussa, decide di coinvolgere l'insegnante in un gioco pericoloso. Un gioco da ragazze, che sembra essere la risposta borghese al proletario Albakiara, si propone di analizzare il lato oscuro degli adolescenti contemporanei ma finisce per essere fuorviante. La condizione privilegiata delle giovani protagoniste ritratte a colpi di cliché - sono tutte ricche, belle, magre, stupide, tossiche e anoressiche - potrebbe indurre in tentazione le ragazzine che nel mondo reale sognano una vita diversa leggendo i gossip sulle stesse eroine di Elena, Michela e Alice. La realtà raccontata da Matteo Rovere rappresenta oltretutto una piccolissima percentuale dell'adolescenza italiana che non conosce il lusso di domestici, cani con pedigree, scuole private e feste inondate da champagne. La vita di borgata, quella che più spesso finisce sulla pagina della cronaca e in rete - con i filmati di violenze carnali, mobbing e atti vandalici - non sarebbe stata altrettanto cinematografica, probabilmente. La scelta di "imbellettare" la violenza e la perversione giovanile attraverso uno scenario sfarzoso della provincia benestante risulta perciò diseducativo e altamente pericoloso. Lontano dai crimini sessuali di John McNaughton, dalle cattive ragazze di Mark Waters e da quelle interrotte di James Mangold, lontano dalle crudeli intenzioni di Roger Kumble e dalle regole dell'attrazione di Roger Avary (che pure sembrano aver offerto un immaginario ideale al regista romano), il film di Rovere è un gioco fine a se stesso che si abbandona alla bellezza della fotografia e dell'elegante contorno scenico. Tingendo di nero le ultime battute lascia in sospeso le sorti delle protagoniste senza offrire alcuna soluzione al malessere sociale né l'ombra del pentimento sui volti acerbi delle tre ragazzacce.
Waltz With Bashir (Valzer Con Bashir)
Starring Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, ehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon, Ori Sivan and Zahava Solomon.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.
October 30 to November 6
The Comebacks (Il Peggior Allenatore Del Mondo)
Starring David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy, George Back, Noureen DeWulf and Jesse Garcia.
As Coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) puts together Heartland State's new football team, he and his misfit squad manage to mock every sport movie of the last couple decades. As they hit the field on the way to the championship game, they take on the likes of Rocky, Field of Dreams, Seabiscuit, Blue Crush, Stick It and The Longest Yard among countless others. It all starts when a voice-in-the-sky tells Coach, "If you build it, he will come" - that is, the quarterback that will lead The Comebacks to victory. But the team will also need a kicker who can Bend It Like Beckham, an assistant coach with a love for the game and his Radio ... or rather iPod; and a little guy with heart whose name sounds a lot like Rudy. Once the team is in place, Coach Fields watches his team forget the Titans under the glaring Friday Night Lights, and leads them all the way to the state championship where they battle a Gridiron Gang of footballers and manage to turn out the biggest Miracle the little Texas town of Plainfolk has seen since that Invincible bartender from Philly tried out for the team and made it. Oh wait. In The Comebacks, he doesn't make it.
Friday The 13th (Venerdi' 13)
Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman and Arlen Escarpeta.
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that's not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), with the help of Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history, the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete ... Jason Voorhees.
Giulia Non Esce La Sera
Con Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino, Sonia Bergamasco, Domiziana Cardinali, Jacopo Domenicucci.
Giulia è un'istruttrice di nuoto in libertà vigilata e compromessa col mondo, Guido uno scrittore con una debole vocazione che cerca un coinvolgimento col mondo. Si incontreranno ai bordi di una piscina: lui vuole imparare a nuotare, lei non vuole affondare. Giulia ha una figlia adolescente che rifiuta il suo affetto e non le perdona di averla abbandonata, Guido una ragazzina introversa che si accompagna a Filippo, un coetaneo compassato che legge Kafka e ascolta Richard Anthony. Autore di libri che nessuno conclude, Guido proverà a dare senso e intenzione ai personaggi di un romanzo soltanto abbozzato e alle persone che abitano la sua vita mai spesa. Sono passati cinque e lunghissimi anni dall'ultimo film di Giuseppe Piccioni, autore di un cinema sommesso e sempre discreto, luce degli occhi in una produzione nazionale (s)finita e prevedibile. È certamente ingiusto definire il valore di opere cinematografiche sulla base dello scarto che evidenziano nei confronti di altri film, eppure non si può negare che Giulia non esce la sera si imponga per la sua capacità di guardarsi attorno, di comprendere meglio ciò che accade (soprattutto) in Italia, di mettere in discussione l'identità dei personaggi e di uscire "dalla chiusura domestica". Giulia e Guido sono personaggi possibili che oscillano tra apertura e chiusura, sembrano sempre sul punto di aprirsi e di aprire ma poi ricadono nella "sicurezza" abitudinaria di una routine carica di solitudini e ostruzioni. Piccioni prova ad agevolare i rapporti e ad aprire varchi scegliendo, non a caso, un luogo-soglia liquido in bilico tra pubblico e privato. Le sue inquadrature privilegiano punti di vista che incorniciano Giulia e Guido davanti o dietro i vetri, fuori o dentro l'acqua, mettendo in contatto interno ed esterno. Ma la relazione si rivelerà per entrambi come un'occasione perduta, una tensione verso l'altro che si ripiega su se stessa e sul proprio inevitabile scacco. Il Guido in sospeso di Valerio Mastandrea non riesce a intervenire sul mondo con la sua arte, è insofferente alle pratiche dell'editoria ma ugualmente le asseconda. Il suo scrivere è fine a se stesso e produce un surrogato di esperienza, non riproduce mai la sostanza delle cose. Giulia sopravvive come antidoto a una perdita di libertà e di maternità. Due vite lontane, le loro, eppure adiacenti ai bordi di una piscina. Il caso, in forma di lezioni di nuoto, costringe i loro corpi nello stesso elemento e le loro anime a fare i conti con tutto ciò che non hanno mai saputo o immaginato. Piccioni scava con precisione e senza nessuna enfasi dentro la complessità della privazione (di maternità da una parte e di creatività dall'altra) di Giulia e di Guido, differentemente percepita, elaborata, disprezzata. Il film si insinua nei segni che dicono la difficoltà di una vita da vivere ancora e nonostante tutto. A raffreddare l'emozionalità calda del frangente e l'attimo della definitiva costrizione dei protagonisti a un destino che hanno volontariamente scelto per loro c'è l'acqua, l'acqua che fluidifica il rapporto dopo un lungo corteggiamento. Ma la loro storia, abortita o assoluta, non andrà oltre l'istantaneità dell'attimo e non si dibatterà contro la propria dissoluzione.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.
Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Viaggio Al Centro Della Terra)
Starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Jean-Michel Paré and Jane Wheeler.
During a scientific expedition in Iceland, visionary scientist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and their beautiful local guide, Hannah (Anita Briem), are unexpectedly trapped in a cave from which their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the depths of the Earth. Traveling through never-before-seen worlds, the trio comes face-to-face with surreal and unimaginable creatures - including man-eating plants, giant flying piranha, glow birds and terrifying dinosaurs from days past. The adventurers soon realize that as volcanic activity increases around them, they must find a way back to the Earth's surface before it is too late.
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Starring Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Alexis Dziena, Ari Graynor, Aaron Yoo and Jay Baruchel.
A comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick (Michael Cera) frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and a vague ability to play the bass. Norah (Kat Dennings) is questioning pretty much all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming the first date in a romance that could change both their lives.
Saw V
Starring Tobin Bell, Julie Benz and Meagan Good.
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) might be dead, but his traps live on in this fifth Saw entry, which finds the series' production designer David Hackl at the helm for his debut directing gig. Costas Mandylor reprises his role as Hoffman, the detective whose involvement in the string of grisly murders turns out to be more than meets the eye. Picking up where the fourth entry left off, Hoffman is revealed to be a hidden accomplice in Jigsaw's grisly games of death, which look to be continued by the lawman. The plot bounces back and forth from the beginning of their relationship to the present, as Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) delves farther into the case. Also in the cast are Dexter's Julie Benz and One Missed Call's Meagan Good as victims of another one of Jigsaw's lessons in morality.
Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire)
Starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Freida Pinto.
An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.
Taken (Io Vi Trovero')
Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen.
When his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Liam Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and to rescue his daughter.
Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans
Starring Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Larry Rew and Craig Parker.
The third film in the Underworld franchise delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves). A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years. Lucian is joined by his secret lover, the beautiful vampire Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle to free the Lycans from their brutal enslavement.
Waltz With Bashir (Valzer Con Bashir)
Starring Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, ehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon, Ori Sivan and Zahava Solomon.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can't remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.
November 6 to November 13
The Comebacks (Il Peggior Allenatore Del Mondo)
Starring David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy, George Back, Noureen DeWulf and Jesse Garcia.
As Coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) puts together Heartland State's new football team, he and his misfit squad manage to mock every sport movie of the last couple decades. As they hit the field on the way to the championship game, they take on the likes of Rocky, Field of Dreams, Seabiscuit, Blue Crush, Stick It and The Longest Yard among countless others. It all starts when a voice-in-the-sky tells Coach, "If you build it, he will come" - that is, the quarterback that will lead The Comebacks to victory. But the team will also need a kicker who can Bend It Like Beckham, an assistant coach with a love for the game and his Radio ... or rather iPod; and a little guy with heart whose name sounds a lot like Rudy. Once the team is in place, Coach Fields watches his team forget the Titans under the glaring Friday Night Lights, and leads them all the way to the state championship where they battle a Gridiron Gang of footballers and manage to turn out the biggest Miracle the little Texas town of Plainfolk has seen since that Invincible bartender from Philly tried out for the team and made it. Oh wait. In The Comebacks, he doesn't make it.
Friday The 13th (Venerdi' 13)
Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman and Arlen Escarpeta.
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that's not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), with the help of Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history, the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete ... Jason Voorhees.
Giulia Non Esce La Sera
Con Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino, Sonia Bergamasco, Domiziana Cardinali, Jacopo Domenicucci.
Giulia è un'istruttrice di nuoto in libertà vigilata e compromessa col mondo, Guido uno scrittore con una debole vocazione che cerca un coinvolgimento col mondo. Si incontreranno ai bordi di una piscina: lui vuole imparare a nuotare, lei non vuole affondare. Giulia ha una figlia adolescente che rifiuta il suo affetto e non le perdona di averla abbandonata, Guido una ragazzina introversa che si accompagna a Filippo, un coetaneo compassato che legge Kafka e ascolta Richard Anthony. Autore di libri che nessuno conclude, Guido proverà a dare senso e intenzione ai personaggi di un romanzo soltanto abbozzato e alle persone che abitano la sua vita mai spesa. Sono passati cinque e lunghissimi anni dall'ultimo film di Giuseppe Piccioni, autore di un cinema sommesso e sempre discreto, luce degli occhi in una produzione nazionale (s)finita e prevedibile. È certamente ingiusto definire il valore di opere cinematografiche sulla base dello scarto che evidenziano nei confronti di altri film, eppure non si può negare che Giulia non esce la sera si imponga per la sua capacità di guardarsi attorno, di comprendere meglio ciò che accade (soprattutto) in Italia, di mettere in discussione l'identità dei personaggi e di uscire "dalla chiusura domestica". Giulia e Guido sono personaggi possibili che oscillano tra apertura e chiusura, sembrano sempre sul punto di aprirsi e di aprire ma poi ricadono nella "sicurezza" abitudinaria di una routine carica di solitudini e ostruzioni. Piccioni prova ad agevolare i rapporti e ad aprire varchi scegliendo, non a caso, un luogo-soglia liquido in bilico tra pubblico e privato. Le sue inquadrature privilegiano punti di vista che incorniciano Giulia e Guido davanti o dietro i vetri, fuori o dentro l'acqua, mettendo in contatto interno ed esterno. Ma la relazione si rivelerà per entrambi come un'occasione perduta, una tensione verso l'altro che si ripiega su se stessa e sul proprio inevitabile scacco. Il Guido in sospeso di Valerio Mastandrea non riesce a intervenire sul mondo con la sua arte, è insofferente alle pratiche dell'editoria ma ugualmente le asseconda. Il suo scrivere è fine a se stesso e produce un surrogato di esperienza, non riproduce mai la sostanza delle cose. Giulia sopravvive come antidoto a una perdita di libertà e di maternità. Due vite lontane, le loro, eppure adiacenti ai bordi di una piscina. Il caso, in forma di lezioni di nuoto, costringe i loro corpi nello stesso elemento e le loro anime a fare i conti con tutto ciò che non hanno mai saputo o immaginato. Piccioni scava con precisione e senza nessuna enfasi dentro la complessità della privazione (di maternità da una parte e di creatività dall'altra) di Giulia e di Guido, differentemente percepita, elaborata, disprezzata. Il film si insinua nei segni che dicono la difficoltà di una vita da vivere ancora e nonostante tutto. A raffreddare l'emozionalità calda del frangente e l'attimo della definitiva costrizione dei protagonisti a un destino che hanno volontariamente scelto per loro c'è l'acqua, l'acqua che fluidifica il rapporto dopo un lungo corteggiamento. Ma la loro storia, abortita o assoluta, non andrà oltre l'istantaneità dell'attimo e non si dibatterà contro la propria dissoluzione.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.
Il Caso Dell'infedele Klara
Con Claudio Santamaria, Iain Glen, Laura Chiatti, Kierston Wareing, Paulina Bakarova.
Luca è un musicista ed insegnante di musica che vive a Praga da 5 anni e ha una relazione con Klara studentessa vicina alla laurea. Il giovane è decisamente geloso del tutor della ragazza, Pavel, e decide di rivolgersi a un'agenzia investigativa. Denis, il titolare sposato con una donna che ha palesi rapporti con altri uomini, si mette al lavoro con l'aiuto dell'assistente Nina. Non scopre nulla a favore della tesi del tradimento e occulta quei dettagli che potrebbero involontariamente favorire l'ossessione di Luca. Il ragazzo però non riesce più a credere a ciò che Klara gli dice e rischia di rompere definitivamente il rapporto con lei. Roberto Faenza nutre da sempre un rapporto intenso con la letteratura. In questa occasione si ispira a un romanzo di Michal Viewegh che gli offre l'occasione di lavorare su una serie di elementi che lo appassionano. Si regala ad esempio la possibilità di mostrare un aspetto diverso di Laura Chiatti e l'attrice è abile nel mettersi a disposizione con un'aderenza al personaggio capace di adattarsi alle volute variazioni di stile della narrazione. È poi senza dubbio curioso e interessante, ad esempio, che (così come in I giorni dell'abbandono) uno dei protagonisti maschili sia un musicista estremamente sensibile e attento alle 'vibrazioni' degli strumenti. La sensibilità paziente che dimostra verso le possibili elaborazioni sul pentagramma non si trasforma però nella capacità di trovare una varietà di toni sulla corda tesa della sua ossessione. Lì sa produrre una sola nota di cui l'unica variante è data dall'intensità. Nel rapporto con il piccolo allievo fisarmonicista sembra quasi voler cercare una risposta alla mono-tonia del suo esistere. Si trova poi a confrontarsi con chi crede di avere annullato il sentimento della gelosia grazie a quella che pensa sia un'apertura mentale pacificatoria: Denis, l'investigatore psicologo. Costui, complice delle relazioni extraconiugali della moglie, non si rende conto (o, meglio, tenta di farlo) di avere solamente cercato di mettere la sordina a uno strumento che altrimenti produrrebbe a sua volta delle note che lui ritiene sgradevoli. Sono due uomini deboli perché inizialmente incapaci di accettarsi e di lavorare su di sé. La tecnologia li aiuta a rendere vicino ciò che è distante finendo col fagocitare Luca mentre Denis la domina riuscendo a non farsene possedere. Così come la sua partner operativa Nina (la ben ritrovata Kierston Wareing lanciata da Ken Loach in In questo mondo libero) che, forse perché anche madre, non ha rinunciato alla sensualità ma sa viverla in modo maturo, con la consapevolezza che i luoghi comuni su uomini e donne conservano una parte di vero ma la complessità della vita non può mai consentire di assolutizzarli.
Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Viaggio Al Centro Della Terra)
Starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Jean-Michel Paré and Jane Wheeler.
During a scientific expedition in Iceland, visionary scientist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and their beautiful local guide, Hannah (Anita Briem), are unexpectedly trapped in a cave from which their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the depths of the Earth. Traveling through never-before-seen worlds, the trio comes face-to-face with surreal and unimaginable creatures - including man-eating plants, giant flying piranha, glow birds and terrifying dinosaurs from days past. The adventurers soon realize that as volcanic activity increases around them, they must find a way back to the Earth's surface before it is too late.
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Starring Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Alexis Dziena, Ari Graynor, Aaron Yoo and Jay Baruchel.
A comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick (Michael Cera) frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and a vague ability to play the bass. Norah (Kat Dennings) is questioning pretty much all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming the first date in a romance that could change both their lives.
Twilight
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, Ashley Greene and Nikki Reed.
When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a passionate relationship with a variety of significant setbacks, including Edward's special-needs diet (he doesn't eat humans, but Bella's scent inspires a nearly impossible to harness bloodlust) and the human girl's mortality. Though things proceed relatively smoothly at first (Edward even introduces Bella to his adoptive vampire family), a visiting vampire clan consisting of James (Cam Gigandet), Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), and Laurent (Edi Gathegi) catches Bella's unique scent and threatens the young couple's budding, if dangerous, happiness. James, known for his powerful tracking ability, becomes obsessed with making Bella his next victim. Fearing for Bella's safety and that of her loved ones, the Cullens must combine their collective talents in order to stop the highly predatory James before his goal is accomplished.
Valkyrie (Operazione Valchiria)
Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.
Watchmen
Starring Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino and Matt Frewer.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?
November 13 to November 20
The Duchess (La Duchessa)
Starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell and Simon McBurney.
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was the original "It Girl." Like her direct descendant Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out-gamble, out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded her. She helped usher in sweeping changes to England as a leader of the forward-thinking Whig Party. But even as her power and popularity grew, she was haunted by the fact that the only man in England she seemingly could not seduce was her very own husband, the Duke (Ralph Fiennes). And when she tried to find her own way to be true to her heart and loyal to her duty, the resulting controversies and convoluted liaisons would leave all of London talking.
Friday The 13th (Venerdi' 13)
Starring Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman and Arlen Escarpeta.
Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film Friday the 13th. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller (Jared Padalecki) heads up to the eerie woods of legendary Crystal Lake, where he stumbles on the creaky remains of rotting old cabins behind moss-covered trees. And that's not the only thing lying in wait under the brush. Against the advice of police and cautions from the locals, Clay pursues what few leads he has in the search for his missing sister, Whitney (Amanda Righetti), with the help of Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), a young woman he meets among a group of college kids up for an all-thrills weekend. But they are all about to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they've entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history, the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete ... Jason Voorhees.
Giulia Non Esce La Sera
Con Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino, Sonia Bergamasco, Domiziana Cardinali, Jacopo Domenicucci.
Giulia è un'istruttrice di nuoto in libertà vigilata e compromessa col mondo, Guido uno scrittore con una debole vocazione che cerca un coinvolgimento col mondo. Si incontreranno ai bordi di una piscina: lui vuole imparare a nuotare, lei non vuole affondare. Giulia ha una figlia adolescente che rifiuta il suo affetto e non le perdona di averla abbandonata, Guido una ragazzina introversa che si accompagna a Filippo, un coetaneo compassato che legge Kafka e ascolta Richard Anthony. Autore di libri che nessuno conclude, Guido proverà a dare senso e intenzione ai personaggi di un romanzo soltanto abbozzato e alle persone che abitano la sua vita mai spesa. Sono passati cinque e lunghissimi anni dall'ultimo film di Giuseppe Piccioni, autore di un cinema sommesso e sempre discreto, luce degli occhi in una produzione nazionale (s)finita e prevedibile. È certamente ingiusto definire il valore di opere cinematografiche sulla base dello scarto che evidenziano nei confronti di altri film, eppure non si può negare che Giulia non esce la sera si imponga per la sua capacità di guardarsi attorno, di comprendere meglio ciò che accade (soprattutto) in Italia, di mettere in discussione l'identità dei personaggi e di uscire "dalla chiusura domestica". Giulia e Guido sono personaggi possibili che oscillano tra apertura e chiusura, sembrano sempre sul punto di aprirsi e di aprire ma poi ricadono nella "sicurezza" abitudinaria di una routine carica di solitudini e ostruzioni. Piccioni prova ad agevolare i rapporti e ad aprire varchi scegliendo, non a caso, un luogo-soglia liquido in bilico tra pubblico e privato. Le sue inquadrature privilegiano punti di vista che incorniciano Giulia e Guido davanti o dietro i vetri, fuori o dentro l'acqua, mettendo in contatto interno ed esterno. Ma la relazione si rivelerà per entrambi come un'occasione perduta, una tensione verso l'altro che si ripiega su se stessa e sul proprio inevitabile scacco. Il Guido in sospeso di Valerio Mastandrea non riesce a intervenire sul mondo con la sua arte, è insofferente alle pratiche dell'editoria ma ugualmente le asseconda. Il suo scrivere è fine a se stesso e produce un surrogato di esperienza, non riproduce mai la sostanza delle cose. Giulia sopravvive come antidoto a una perdita di libertà e di maternità. Due vite lontane, le loro, eppure adiacenti ai bordi di una piscina. Il caso, in forma di lezioni di nuoto, costringe i loro corpi nello stesso elemento e le loro anime a fare i conti con tutto ciò che non hanno mai saputo o immaginato. Piccioni scava con precisione e senza nessuna enfasi dentro la complessità della privazione (di maternità da una parte e di creatività dall'altra) di Giulia e di Guido, differentemente percepita, elaborata, disprezzata. Il film si insinua nei segni che dicono la difficoltà di una vita da vivere ancora e nonostante tutto. A raffreddare l'emozionalità calda del frangente e l'attimo della definitiva costrizione dei protagonisti a un destino che hanno volontariamente scelto per loro c'è l'acqua, l'acqua che fluidifica il rapporto dopo un lungo corteggiamento. Ma la loro storia, abortita o assoluta, non andrà oltre l'istantaneità dell'attimo e non si dibatterà contro la propria dissoluzione.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.
Il Caso Dell'infedele Klara
Con Claudio Santamaria, Iain Glen, Laura Chiatti, Kierston Wareing, Paulina Bakarova.
Luca è un musicista ed insegnante di musica che vive a Praga da 5 anni e ha una relazione con Klara studentessa vicina alla laurea. Il giovane è decisamente geloso del tutor della ragazza, Pavel, e decide di rivolgersi a un'agenzia investigativa. Denis, il titolare sposato con una donna che ha palesi rapporti con altri uomini, si mette al lavoro con l'aiuto dell'assistente Nina. Non scopre nulla a favore della tesi del tradimento e occulta quei dettagli che potrebbero involontariamente favorire l'ossessione di Luca. Il ragazzo però non riesce più a credere a ciò che Klara gli dice e rischia di rompere definitivamente il rapporto con lei. Roberto Faenza nutre da sempre un rapporto intenso con la letteratura. In questa occasione si ispira a un romanzo di Michal Viewegh che gli offre l'occasione di lavorare su una serie di elementi che lo appassionano. Si regala ad esempio la possibilità di mostrare un aspetto diverso di Laura Chiatti e l'attrice è abile nel mettersi a disposizione con un'aderenza al personaggio capace di adattarsi alle volute variazioni di stile della narrazione. È poi senza dubbio curioso e interessante, ad esempio, che (così come in I giorni dell'abbandono) uno dei protagonisti maschili sia un musicista estremamente sensibile e attento alle 'vibrazioni' degli strumenti. La sensibilità paziente che dimostra verso le possibili elaborazioni sul pentagramma non si trasforma però nella capacità di trovare una varietà di toni sulla corda tesa della sua ossessione. Lì sa produrre una sola nota di cui l'unica variante è data dall'intensità. Nel rapporto con il piccolo allievo fisarmonicista sembra quasi voler cercare una risposta alla mono-tonia del suo esistere. Si trova poi a confrontarsi con chi crede di avere annullato il sentimento della gelosia grazie a quella che pensa sia un'apertura mentale pacificatoria: Denis, l'investigatore psicologo. Costui, complice delle relazioni extraconiugali della moglie, non si rende conto (o, meglio, tenta di farlo) di avere solamente cercato di mettere la sordina a uno strumento che altrimenti produrrebbe a sua volta delle note che lui ritiene sgradevoli. Sono due uomini deboli perché inizialmente incapaci di accettarsi e di lavorare su di sé. La tecnologia li aiuta a rendere vicino ciò che è distante finendo col fagocitare Luca mentre Denis la domina riuscendo a non farsene possedere. Così come la sua partner operativa Nina (la ben ritrovata Kierston Wareing lanciata da Ken Loach in In questo mondo libero) che, forse perché anche madre, non ha rinunciato alla sensualità ma sa viverla in modo maturo, con la consapevolezza che i luoghi comuni su uomini e donne conservano una parte di vero ma la complessità della vita non può mai consentire di assolutizzarli.
The International
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Ulrich Thomsen.
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Viaggio Al Centro Della Terra)
Starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Jean-Michel Paré and Jane Wheeler.
During a scientific expedition in Iceland, visionary scientist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and their beautiful local guide, Hannah (Anita Briem), are unexpectedly trapped in a cave from which their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the depths of the Earth. Traveling through never-before-seen worlds, the trio comes face-to-face with surreal and unimaginable creatures - including man-eating plants, giant flying piranha, glow birds and terrifying dinosaurs from days past. The adventurers soon realize that as volcanic activity increases around them, they must find a way back to the Earth's surface before it is too late.
Seven Pounds (Sette Anime)
Starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper and Madison Pettis.
Using his cell phone while driving, Ben Thomas' (Will Smith) car wandered across lanes. He became responsible for the deaths of seven others, including his beloved wife. Unable to forgive himself or raise the dead, Ben sets out to give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. He poses as brother Tim (Michael Ealy), who works for the IRS to gain access the IRS database and to find and meet people who he believes worthy of his gifts, including body organs and material possessions. Ben's plan threatens to unravel when he begins to fall in love with one of the people he is trying to help.
Twilight
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, Ashley Greene and Nikki Reed.
When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a passionate relationship with a variety of significant setbacks, including Edward's special-needs diet (he doesn't eat humans, but Bella's scent inspires a nearly impossible to harness bloodlust) and the human girl's mortality. Though things proceed relatively smoothly at first (Edward even introduces Bella to his adoptive vampire family), a visiting vampire clan consisting of James (Cam Gigandet), Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), and Laurent (Edi Gathegi) catches Bella's unique scent and threatens the young couple's budding, if dangerous, happiness. James, known for his powerful tracking ability, becomes obsessed with making Bella his next victim. Fearing for Bella's safety and that of her loved ones, the Cullens must combine their collective talents in order to stop the highly predatory James before his goal is accomplished.
Valkyrie (Operazione Valchiria)
Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.
Watchmen
Starring Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino and Matt Frewer.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?
The Wrestler
Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Ernest Miller.
Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the adoration of his fans. However, a heart attack forces him into retirement. As his sense of identity starts to slip away, he begins to evaluate the state of his life - trying to reconnect with his daughter, and strikes up a blossoming romance with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei). Yet all this cannot compare to the allure of the ring and passion for his art, which threatens to pull Randy "The Ram" back into his world of wrestling.
November 20 to November 27
Appaloosa
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Lance Henriksen, Tom Bower and Ariadna Gil.
Set in 1882 in the Old West territory of New Mexico, Appaloosa revolves around city marshal Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his deputy and partner Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), who have made their reputation as peacekeepers in the lawless towns springing up in the untamed land. In the small mining community of Appaloosa, a ruthless, powerful rancher named Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) has allowed his band of outlaws to run roughshod over the town. After the cold-blooded murder of Appaloosa's city marshal, Cole and Hitch are hired to bring the murderer to justice. While establishing new authority with equal parts grit and guns, Cole and Hitch meet provocative newcomer Allison French (Renée Zellweger), whose unconventional ways threaten to undermine their progress and to destroy the two lawmen's decade-old partnership.
Disaster Movie
Starring Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Gary "G-Thang" Johnson, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan, Kim Kardashian, Ike Barinholtz and Carmen Electra.
Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works - hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction. Taking aim at everything and everyone, from Indiana Jones and Iron Man to Amy Winehouse and High School Musical, Disaster Movie lampoons the blockbuster movie, pop culture icons and public figures along the way as Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer satirize everything as only they can.
Easy Virtue (Un Matrimonio All'inglese)
Starring Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes, Kris Marshall, Kimberley Nixon and Katherine Parkinson.
The twenties have roared... the thirties have yet to swing. John Whittaker (Ben Barnes), a young Englishman, falls madly in love with Larita (Jessica Biel), a sexy and glamorous American woman, and they marry impetuously. However, when the couple returns to the family home, his mother Mrs. Whittaker (Kristin Scott Thomas) has an instant allergic reaction to her new daughter-in-law. Larita tries her best to fit in but fails to tiptoe through the minefield laid by her mother-in-law. Larita quickly realizes Mrs Whittaker's game and sees that she must fight back if she's not going to lose John. A battle of wits ensues and sparks soon fly. Mrs. Whittaker manipulates every situation to undermine her, while Larita remains frustratingly calm and engineers sassy counter attacks. Before long, Mrs. Whittaker's manipulation starts to work on John and Larita feels their love is in danger of slipping away. In a grand finale, where the secrets from Larita's past are revealed, she finally makes a break for freedom from the suffocating house.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.
The International
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Ulrich Thomsen.
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Viaggio Al Centro Della Terra)
Starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Jean-Michel Paré and Jane Wheeler.
During a scientific expedition in Iceland, visionary scientist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and their beautiful local guide, Hannah (Anita Briem), are unexpectedly trapped in a cave from which their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the depths of the Earth. Traveling through never-before-seen worlds, the trio comes face-to-face with surreal and unimaginable creatures - including man-eating plants, giant flying piranha, glow birds and terrifying dinosaurs from days past. The adventurers soon realize that as volcanic activity increases around them, they must find a way back to the Earth's surface before it is too late.
Make It Happen (Ballare Per Un Sogno)
Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Riley Smith, Tessa Thompson and John Reardon.
Lauryn is a girl from small-town Indiana who moves to Chicago with dreams of entering the Chicago School of Music and Dance. But after rejection and a series of misfortunes she finds herself working in a burlesque club. The club proves to be a place of conflict and self-discovery, helping Lauryn to realize that even though plans may change, dreams never do.
Race To Witch Mountain (Corsa A Witch Mountain)
Starring Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Everett Scott, Christopher Marquette and Billy Brown.
For years, stories have circulated about a secret place in the middle of the Nevada desert, known for unexplained phenomena and strange sightings. It's called Witch Mountain, and when a Las Vegas cab driver (Dwayne Johnson) finds two teens with supernatural powers in his cab, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure he can't explain. They work together to discover that the only chance to save the world lies in unraveling the secrets of Witch Mountain, and the race begins.
Twilight
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Rachelle Lefevre, Edi Gathegi, Ashley Greene and Nikki Reed.
When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a passionate relationship with a variety of significant setbacks, including Edward's special-needs diet (he doesn't eat humans, but Bella's scent inspires a nearly impossible to harness bloodlust) and the human girl's mortality. Though things proceed relatively smoothly at first (Edward even introduces Bella to his adoptive vampire family), a visiting vampire clan consisting of James (Cam Gigandet), Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), and Laurent (Edi Gathegi) catches Bella's unique scent and threatens the young couple's budding, if dangerous, happiness. James, known for his powerful tracking ability, becomes obsessed with making Bella his next victim. Fearing for Bella's safety and that of her loved ones, the Cullens must combine their collective talents in order to stop the highly predatory James before his goal is accomplished.
Valkyrie (Operazione Valchiria)
Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.
Watchmen
Starring Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino and Matt Frewer.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?
What Just Happened? (Disastro A Hollywood)
Starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Stewart and Bruce Willis.
Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling movie producer who has just suffered through his second divorce, and slowly finds his soul being ground up in the machinations of the Hollywood machine. Ben (De Niro) is an aging producer whose career was already on a downward turn when his personal life went straight into the toilet. Not only is Ben juggling two ex-wives and a daughter who seems to have grown up overnight, but his colleagues seem to take pleasure in watching him suffer while he attempts to complete his latest film on an impossible schedule.
The Wrestler
Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Ernest Miller.
Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the adoration of his fans. However, a heart attack forces him into retirement. As his sense of identity starts to slip away, he begins to evaluate the state of his life - trying to reconnect with his daughter, and strikes up a blossoming romance with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei). Yet all this cannot compare to the allure of the ring and passion for his art, which threatens to pull Randy "The Ram" back into his world of wrestling.
November 27 to December 4
Appaloosa
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Lance Henriksen, Tom Bower and Ariadna Gil.
Set in 1882 in the Old West territory of New Mexico, Appaloosa revolves around city marshal Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his deputy and partner Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), who have made their reputation as peacekeepers in the lawless towns springing up in the untamed land. In the small mining community of Appaloosa, a ruthless, powerful rancher named Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) has allowed his band of outlaws to run roughshod over the town. After the cold-blooded murder of Appaloosa's city marshal, Cole and Hitch are hired to bring the murderer to justice. While establishing new authority with equal parts grit and guns, Cole and Hitch meet provocative newcomer Allison French (Renée Zellweger), whose unconventional ways threaten to undermine their progress and to destroy the two lawmen's decade-old partnership.
Dragonball: Evolution
Starring Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Chow Yun-Fat, James Marsters, Joon Park, Eriko, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson.
Goku (Justin Chatwin) is a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the Universe and controlling the mystical objects known as Dragonballs. Bulma (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful woman intent on retrieving the mystical Dragonballs for her own reasons; Chi Chi (Jamie Chung) is a young martial artist who captures Goku's eye; and Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) is Roshi, the Master who guides Goku on the young man's epic quest to save the Earth from the forces of darkness. Based on the popular Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama. Toriyama's work spawned best selling graphic novels, videogames and a phenomenally successful television series.
Easy Virtue (Un Matrimonio All'inglese)
Starring Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes, Kris Marshall, Kimberley Nixon and Katherine Parkinson.
The twenties have roared... the thirties have yet to swing. John Whittaker (Ben Barnes), a young Englishman, falls madly in love with Larita (Jessica Biel), a sexy and glamorous American woman, and they marry impetuously. However, when the couple returns to the family home, his mother Mrs. Whittaker (Kristin Scott Thomas) has an instant allergic reaction to her new daughter-in-law. Larita tries her best to fit in but fails to tiptoe through the minefield laid by her mother-in-law. Larita quickly realizes Mrs Whittaker's game and sees that she must fight back if she's not going to lose John. A battle of wits ensues and sparks soon fly. Mrs. Whittaker manipulates every situation to undermine her, while Larita remains frustratingly calm and engineers sassy counter attacks. Before long, Mrs. Whittaker's manipulation starts to work on John and Larita feels their love is in danger of slipping away. In a grand finale, where the secrets from Larita's past are revealed, she finally makes a break for freedom from the suffocating house.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, Moises Arias, Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale and Melora Hardin.
Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) life is out of balance. Taken under the wing of a gungho and glamorous publicist, Vita (Vanessa Williams), Miley's letting Hannah begin to dominate her life. When she keeps choosing Hannah over her commitments to family members - to say goodbye to Jackson (Jason Earles) as he leaves for college, to attend Lilly's (Emily Osment) long-anticipated sweet-16 party or her grandmother's birthday celebration - it is clear Miley's beginning to forget why the Hannah Montana secret was created in the first place. When Hannah Montana ends up in a paparazzi-captured fight with Tyra Banks over a pair of designer shoes, Miley's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) quietly takes control. Having attempted to reason with her to no avail, Robby Ray tricks Miley into thinking she's going to New York as Hannah to perform when he's really taking her from Los Angeles back home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee. Miley's double life becomes even more complicated when she returns to Crowley Corners. She discovers that a reporter has somehow managed to track Hannah Montana to her hometown and is asking lots of questions of the locals. She also meets up with an old childhood friend, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), and soon finds herself in her first serious romance. When Miley tries to impress Travis by telling him about her friend Hannah Montana, she suddenly finds her alter ego enlisted in a concert fundraiser to help save her hometown's pristine Crowley Meadows from developers. Once again, having taken on more than she can handle, Miley has to call on her best friend, Lilly, and ask her for help. When Lilly finally arrives in Crowley Corners pretending to be Hannah Montana, events really spin out of control.
He's Just Not That Into You (La Verità È Che Non Gli Piaci Abbastanza)
Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long.
A group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty and thirty-somethings navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex ... and hoping to be the exceptions to the "no-exceptions" rule. Gigi just wants a man who says he'll call - and does - while Alex advises her to stop sitting by the phone. Beth wonders if she should call it off after years of committed singlehood with her boyfriend, Neil, but he doesn't think there's a single thing wrong with their unmarried life. Janine's not sure if she can trust her husband, Ben, who can't quite trust himself around Anna. Anna can't decide between the sexy married guy, or her straightforward, no-sparks standby, Conor, who can't get over the fact that he can't have her. And Mary, who's found an entire network of loving, supportive men, just needs to find one who's straight.
The International
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Ulrich Thomsen.
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Viaggio Al Centro Della Terra)
Starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Jean-Michel Paré and Jane Wheeler.
During a scientific expedition in Iceland, visionary scientist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and their beautiful local guide, Hannah (Anita Briem), are unexpectedly trapped in a cave from which their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the depths of the Earth. Traveling through never-before-seen worlds, the trio comes face-to-face with surreal and unimaginable creatures - including man-eating plants, giant flying piranha, glow birds and terrifying dinosaurs from days past. The adventurers soon realize that as volcanic activity increases around them, they must find a way back to the Earth's surface before it is too late.
Make It Happen (Ballare Per Un Sogno)
Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Riley Smith, Tessa Thompson and John Reardon.
Lauryn is a girl from small-town Indiana who moves to Chicago with dreams of entering the Chicago School of Music and Dance. But after rejection and a series of misfortunes she finds herself working in a burlesque club. The club proves to be a place of conflict and self-discovery, helping Lauryn to realize that even though plans may change, dreams never do.
Race To Witch Mountain (Corsa A Witch Mountain)
Starring Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Everett Scott, Christopher Marquette and Billy Brown.
For years, stories have circulated about a secret place in the middle of the Nevada desert, known for unexplained phenomena and strange sightings. It's called Witch Mountain, and when a Las Vegas cab driver (Dwayne Johnson) finds two teens with supernatural powers in his cab, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure he can't explain. They work together to discover that the only chance to save the world lies in unraveling the secrets of Witch Mountain, and the race begins.
Valkyrie (Operazione Valchiria)
Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.
Watchmen
Starring Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino and Matt Frewer.
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?
What Just Happened? (Disastro A Hollywood)
Starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Stewart and Bruce Willis.
Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling movie producer who has just suffered through his second divorce, and slowly finds his soul being ground up in the machinations of the Hollywood machine. Ben (De Niro) is an aging producer whose career was already on a downward turn when his personal life went straight into the toilet. Not only is Ben juggling two ex-wives and a daughter who seems to have grown up overnight, but his colleagues seem to take pleasure in watching him suffer while he attempts to complete his latest film on an impossible schedule.
The Wrestler
Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Ernest Miller.
Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the adoration of his fans. However, a heart attack forces him into retirement. As his sense of identity starts to slip away, he begins to evaluate the state of his life - trying to reconnect with his daughter, and strikes up a blossoming romance with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei). Yet all this cannot compare to the allure of the ring and passion for his art, which threatens to pull Randy "The Ram" back into his world of wrestling.
December 4 to December 11
Dragonball: Evolution
Starring Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Chow Yun-Fat, James Marsters, Joon Park, Eriko, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson.
Goku (Justin Chatwin) is a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the Universe and controlling the mystical objects known as Dragonballs. Bulma (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful woman intent on retrieving the mystical Dragonballs for her own reasons; Chi Chi (Jamie Chung) is a young martial artist who captures Goku's eye; and Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) is Roshi, the Master who guides Goku on the young man's epic quest to save the Earth from the forces of darkness. Based on the popular Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama. Toriyama's work spawned best selling graphic novels, videogames and a phenomenally successful television series.
Earth
Feature length documentary of the BBC series 'Planet Earth'. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, the show follows the three main characters of a polar bear, an elephant and a humpback whale, while showing the challenges faced by migratory animals in our rapidly changing world.
He's Just Not That Into You (La Verità È Che Non Gli Piaci Abbastanza)
Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long.
A group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty and thirty-somethings navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex ... and hoping to be the exceptions to the "no-exceptions" rule. Gigi just wants a man who says he'll call - and does - while Alex advises her to stop sitting by the phone. Beth wonders if she should call it off after years of committed singlehood with her boyfriend, Neil, but he doesn't think there's a single thing wrong with their unmarried life. Janine's not sure if she can trust her husband, Ben, who can't quite trust himself around Anna. Anna can't decide between the sexy married guy, or her straightforward, no-sparks standby, Conor, who can't get over the fact that he can't have her. And Mary, who's found an entire network of loving, supportive men, just needs to find one who's straight.
The International
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Ulrich Thomsen.
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
Milk
Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross and Stephen Spinella.
Milk is a film about Gay rights and is a wonderful film based on true story. In 1970s, gays are discriminated and did not have equal civil rights. Homosexuals had been beaten, some were considered sick, the sufferings made some homosexuals suicide. Harvey Milk braved to stand up, opened their own homosexual identity and wanted to fight for gay equality in civil rights through legal way. After several years of efforts, in 1977, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisor becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. Harvey Milk persuaded other gays to open their identities, not hiding, and guided their legitimate protest marches. He openly debated with opponents, to change some people's view of homosexuality, to get more the equal rights of homosexuals. However, when everything was going better, Milk and Mayor his political allies, were assassinated by one opponent.
Race To Witch Mountain (Corsa A Witch Mountain)
Starring Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Everett Scott, Christopher Marquette and Billy Brown.
For years, stories have circulated about a secret place in the middle of the Nevada desert, known for unexplained phenomena and strange sightings. It's called Witch Mountain, and when a Las Vegas cab driver (Dwayne Johnson) finds two teens with supernatural powers in his cab, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure he can't explain. They work together to discover that the only chance to save the world lies in unraveling the secrets of Witch Mountain, and the race begins.
Uninvited
Starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel and David Strathairn.
Anna (Emily Browning) returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father (David Strathairn) has become engaged to her mother's former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks). That night, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her of Rachel's intentions. Together, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.
Valkyrie (Operazione Valchiria)
Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.
What Just Happened? (Disastro A Hollywood)
Starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Stewart and Bruce Willis.
Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling movie producer who has just suffered through his second divorce, and slowly finds his soul being ground up in the machinations of the Hollywood machine. Ben (De Niro) is an aging producer whose career was already on a downward turn when his personal life went straight into the toilet. Not only is Ben juggling two ex-wives and a daughter who seems to have grown up overnight, but his colleagues seem to take pleasure in watching him suffer while he attempts to complete his latest film on an impossible schedule.
Whisper (Il Respiro Del Diavolo)
Starring Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Blake Woodruff, Joel Edgerton, John Kapelos, Dulé Hill and Michael Rooker.
An ex-con looking to start life anew with his loving fiancée resorts to extreme measures as a means of funding his lifelong dream in director Stewart Hendler's dark supernatural thriller. Max Truemont (Josh Holloway) has served his debt to society, and now he is ready to make a fresh start alongside his faithful fiancée, Roxanne (Sarah Wayne Callies). When the bank takes umbrage to Max's manslaughter conviction and refuses to approve his loan application, the desperate recidivist soon joins forces with a pair of shady associates to carry out what promises to be a lucrative kidnapping. Upon abducting the eight-year-old son of the richest woman in the state, Max, Roxanne, and their criminal collaborators travel to a secluded and abandoned summer camp to await further instruction. Now, as loyalties begin to shift, suspicions arise, and the deteriorating situation appears to go into a menacing downward spiral, Max gradually begins to suspect that their young hostage may not be quite as innocent as outward appearances suggest.
The Wrestler
Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Ernest Miller.
Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the adoration of his fans. However, a heart attack forces him into retirement. As his sense of identity starts to slip away, he begins to evaluate the state of his life - trying to reconnect with his daughter, and strikes up a blossoming romance with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei). Yet all this cannot compare to the allure of the ring and passion for his art, which threatens to pull Randy "The Ram" back into his world of wrestling.
usama2009 11-12-2009, 17:14 December 11 to December 18
Che
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips and Demian Bichir.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero is documented. After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Dragonball: Evolution
Starring Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Chow Yun-Fat, James Marsters, Joon Park, Eriko, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson.
Goku (Justin Chatwin) is a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the Universe and controlling the mystical objects known as Dragonballs. Bulma (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful woman intent on retrieving the mystical Dragonballs for her own reasons; Chi Chi (Jamie Chung) is a young martial artist who captures Goku's eye; and Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) is Roshi, the Master who guides Goku on the young man's epic quest to save the Earth from the forces of darkness. Based on the popular Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama. Toriyama's work spawned best selling graphic novels, videogames and a phenomenally successful television series.
Earth
Feature length documentary of the BBC series 'Planet Earth'. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, the show follows the three main characters of a polar bear, an elephant and a humpback whale, while showing the challenges faced by migratory animals in our rapidly changing world.
He's Just Not That Into You (La Verità È Che Non Gli Piaci Abbastanza)
Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long.
A group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty and thirty-somethings navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex ... and hoping to be the exceptions to the "no-exceptions" rule. Gigi just wants a man who says he'll call - and does - while Alex advises her to stop sitting by the phone. Beth wonders if she should call it off after years of committed singlehood with her boyfriend, Neil, but he doesn't think there's a single thing wrong with their unmarried life. Janine's not sure if she can trust her husband, Ben, who can't quite trust himself around Anna. Anna can't decide between the sexy married guy, or her straightforward, no-sparks standby, Conor, who can't get over the fact that he can't have her. And Mary, who's found an entire network of loving, supportive men, just needs to find one who's straight.
Inkheart
Starring Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Sienna Guillory and Rafi Gavron.
Based on the best-selling German children's author Cornelia Funke book, Inkheart is an adventure story about a young girl whose father has the power to bring characters from books to life by reading those books aloud. When a power-hungry villain from a rare children‘s fable kidnaps the man, his daughter bands with a group of friends both real and imagined to set things right.
The International
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Ulrich Thomsen.
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
Milk
Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross and Stephen Spinella.
Milk is a film about Gay rights and is a wonderful film based on true story. In 1970s, gays are discriminated and did not have equal civil rights. Homosexuals had been beaten, some were considered sick, the sufferings made some homosexuals suicide. Harvey Milk braved to stand up, opened their own homosexual identity and wanted to fight for gay equality in civil rights through legal way. After several years of efforts, in 1977, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisor becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. Harvey Milk persuaded other gays to open their identities, not hiding, and guided their legitimate protest marches. He openly debated with opponents, to change some people's view of homosexuality, to get more the equal rights of homosexuals. However, when everything was going better, Milk and Mayor his political allies, were assassinated by one opponent.
My Bloody Valentine (San Valentino Di Sangue)
Starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Kevin Tighe, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Betsy Rue and Megan Boone.
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, Harry Warden woke up... and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Jaime King), who is now married to his best friend Axel (Kerr Smith), the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them.
Uninvited
Starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel and David Strathairn.
Anna (Emily Browning) returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father (David Strathairn) has become engaged to her mother's former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks). That night, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her of Rachel's intentions. Together, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.
Valkyrie (Operazione Valchiria)
Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler's own emergency plan - known as Operation Valkyrie - these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside. With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.
Whisper (Il Respiro Del Diavolo)
Starring Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Blake Woodruff, Joel Edgerton,
John Kapelos, Dulé Hill and Michael Rooker.
An ex-con looking to start life anew with his loving fiancée resorts to extreme measures as a means of funding his lifelong dream in director Stewart Hendler's dark supernatural thriller. Max Truemont (Josh Holloway) has served his debt to society, and now he is ready to make a fresh start alongside his faithful fiancée, Roxanne (Sarah Wayne Callies). When the bank takes umbrage to Max's manslaughter conviction and refuses to approve his loan application, the desperate recidivist soon joins forces with a pair of shady associates to carry out what promises to be a lucrative kidnapping. Upon abducting the eight-year-old son of the richest woman in the state, Max, Roxanne, and their criminal collaborators travel to a secluded and abandoned summer camp to await further instruction. Now, as loyalties begin to shift, suspicions arise, and the deteriorating situation appears to go into a menacing downward spiral, Max gradually begins to suspect that their young hostage may not be quite as innocent as outward appearances suggest.
The Wrestler
Starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Ernest Miller.
Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, 20 years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the adoration of his fans. However, a heart attack forces him into retirement. As his sense of identity starts to slip away, he begins to evaluate the state of his life - trying to reconnect with his daughter, and strikes up a blossoming romance with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei). Yet all this cannot compare to the allure of the ring and passion for his art, which threatens to pull Randy "The Ram" back into his world of wrestling.
December 18 to December 25
Che
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips and Demian Bichir.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero is documented. After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Dragonball: Evolution
Starring Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung, Chow Yun-Fat, James Marsters, Joon Park, Eriko, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson.
Goku (Justin Chatwin) is a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the Universe and controlling the mystical objects known as Dragonballs. Bulma (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful woman intent on retrieving the mystical Dragonballs for her own reasons; Chi Chi (Jamie Chung) is a young martial artist who captures Goku's eye; and Roshi (Chow Yun-Fat) is Roshi, the Master who guides Goku on the young man's epic quest to save the Earth from the forces of darkness. Based on the popular Japanese manga created by Akira Toriyama. Toriyama's work spawned best selling graphic novels, videogames and a phenomenally successful television series.
Earth
Feature length documentary of the BBC series 'Planet Earth'. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, the show follows the three main characters of a polar bear, an elephant and a humpback whale, while showing the challenges faced by migratory animals in our rapidly changing world.
Ghost Town
Starring Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig and Dana Ivey.
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).
He's Just Not That Into You (La Verità È Che Non Gli Piaci Abbastanza)
Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long.
A group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty and thirty-somethings navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex ... and hoping to be the exceptions to the "no-exceptions" rule. Gigi just wants a man who says he'll call - and does - while Alex advises her to stop sitting by the phone. Beth wonders if she should call it off after years of committed singlehood with her boyfriend, Neil, but he doesn't think there's a single thing wrong with their unmarried life. Janine's not sure if she can trust her husband, Ben, who can't quite trust himself around Anna. Anna can't decide between the sexy married guy, or her straightforward, no-sparks standby, Conor, who can't get over the fact that he can't have her. And Mary, who's found an entire network of loving, supportive men, just needs to find one who's straight.
Inkheart
Starring Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Sienna Guillory and Rafi Gavron.
Based on the best-selling German children's author Cornelia Funke book, Inkheart is an adventure story about a young girl whose father has the power to bring characters from books to life by reading those books aloud. When a power-hungry villain from a rare children‘s fable kidnaps the man, his daughter bands with a group of friends both real and imagined to set things right.
The Lucky Ones
Starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Peña, Molly Hagan, Mark L. Young, Howard Platt, Arden Myrin and Coburn Goss.
After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole (Michael Pena) is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancée. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever (Tim Robbins), an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee (Rachel McAdams), a naive private who's pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier's family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they've found might be what matters the most.
Milk
Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross and Stephen Spinella.
Milk is a film about Gay rights and is a wonderful film based on true story. In 1970s, gays are discriminated and did not have equal civil rights. Homosexuals had been beaten, some were considered sick, the sufferings made some homosexuals suicide. Harvey Milk braved to stand up, opened their own homosexual identity and wanted to fight for gay equality in civil rights through legal way. After several years of efforts, in 1977, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisor becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. Harvey Milk persuaded other gays to open their identities, not hiding, and guided their legitimate protest marches. He openly debated with opponents, to change some people's view of homosexuality, to get more the equal rights of homosexuals. However, when everything was going better, Milk and Mayor his political allies, were assassinated by one opponent.
Monsters Vs. Aliens (Mostri Contro Alieni)
Starring Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie and Rainn Wilson.
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.
My Bloody Valentine (San Valentino Di Sangue)
Starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Kevin Tighe, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Betsy Rue and Megan Boone.
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, Harry Warden woke up... and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Jaime King), who is now married to his best friend Axel (Kerr Smith), the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them.
The Punisher
Starring John Travolta, Samantha Mathis, Thomas Jane, Will Patton, Laura Elena Harring, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Rob Scheider.
Marvel's unstoppable vigilante, The Punisher, hits the screen in a new action thriller that introduces a comic book hero unlike any other. The Punisher brings to the screen one of Marvel's top-selling solo comic books and a marquee character whose popularity parallels that of Marvel stars X-Men, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. The Punisher walks through the world we all know, a world darkened by war, crime, cruelty, and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains.
Two Lovers
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini and Elias Koteas.
Following a suicide attempt, an attractive but troubled young man (Joaquin Phoenix) moves back into his parents' Brooklyn apartment. Two women enter his life - a beautiful but volatile neighbor (Gwyneth Paltrow) trapped in a toxic affair and the lovely daughter (Vinessa Shaw) of his father's new business partner.
Uninvited
Starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel and David Strathairn.
Anna (Emily Browning) returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father (David Strathairn) has become engaged to her mother's former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks). That night, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her of Rachel's intentions. Together, Anna and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother.
December 25 to January 1
Adventureland
Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader.
A funky, self-professedly "funtastic" Pennsylvania amusement park, Adventureland appears to be the bane of recent college graduate's James Brennan's (Jesse Eisenberg) existence. He previously had big plans to spend the summer on a life-altering trek through Europe that would initiate him into real adult life. But when his family suffers an economic downturn in the middle of the Reagan '80s, James' only summer trip is straight to a minimum wage job manning a game booth so existentially bankrupt, no one is even allowed to win the giant-ass stuffed panda. Yet Adventureland isn't quite what it seems on the surface. For behind the cloying cotton candy aroma, the grating disco songs and the near-pathological customers, there's a whole other world of misfit friends, hidden dreams and most incredibly, after-work encounters with the alluringly sharp-tongued arcade girl, Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart). And when James discovers the hard-won courage to go to battle for Em, the result is a savagely funny yet sweetly heart-felt and unexpected encounter with "real adult life."
Cadillac Records
Starring Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union and Tammy Blanchard.
In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Che
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips and Demian Bichir.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero is documented. After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Earth
Feature length documentary of the BBC series 'Planet Earth'. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, the show follows the three main characters of a polar bear, an elephant and a humpback whale, while showing the challenges faced by migratory animals in our rapidly changing world.
Ex
Con Alessandro Gassman, Claudia Gerini, Cécile Cassel, Cristiana Capotondi, Vincenzo Salemme, Angelo Infanti, Silvio Orlando.
Sono molte le storie che si incrociano nel nuovo film di Fausto Brizzi, in 620 sale dal 6 febbraio 2009. La cosa che hanno in comune dà il titolo al film stesso: EX. Si tratta infatti di una commedia che racconta di amori che nascono e che poi finiscono, per poi magari ricominciare. E ognuna a modo suo racconta cosa significhi rimanere da soli dopo la fine di una storia d'amore. Rimanere "ex", insomma. Claudio Bisio interpreta un professore di psicologia che perde l'ex moglie in un incidente. Fabio De Luigi è vessato dal violento Gassman, ex fidanzato della colorita DJ con cui esce. Cristiana Capotondi affronta un amore a distanza tra la Nuova Zelanda e Parigi: Ex è infatti una coproduzione con la Francia, dove uscirà tra un paio di mesi. Fabio Insinna è un prete che scopre di dover celebrare il matrimonio di Claudia Gerini, la ragazza che lasciandolo l'aveva convinto a vestire l'abito talare. E così via. Le storie sono ovviamente intrecciate tra di loro, facendone più un film corale che un film a episodi, almeno da un punto di vista della sceneggiatura, costruita con sapienza e professionalità. E Brizzi ci tiene a far sapere che il suo film vuole essere anche diverso dalle operazioni commerciali piene di volti noti, di cui è pieno il cinema italiano recente. "E' una sfida", racconta il regista "perché in Italia i generi sono molto divaricati: o si fa il comico o si fa il drammatico, film leggerissimo o film d'autore. Stavolta proviamo acrobaticamente una commistione". E ha ricordato che proprio i grandi del cinema italiano lo facevano spesso, ma che "questa cosa si è persa per strada". E aggiunge "io ci sto provando, in punta di piedi, facendo un genere che in Italia non si fa più: la commedia romantica". E il nutritissimo cast, che ha presentato il film al gran completo in un vero e proprio tour promozionale nelle maggiori città italiane, si dice entusiasta: oltre ai nomi già citati, ci sono Silvio Orlando, Carla Signoris, Giancarlo Tognazzi, e alcuni volti più giovani come Martina Pinto, Giorgia Würth e la francese Cécile Cassel. Claudio Bisio, per esempio, si è detto particolarmente felice di tornare a lavorare dopo tanti anni con Silvio Orlando, che nel film è un suo amico e paziente. "Ci eravamo un po' persi, non nella vita ma professionalmente, e Brizzi ci ha ricongiunti. In senso artistico". Cristiana Capotondi dice di sentirsi ormai a casa, sotto l'egida dei produttori Lucisano, dopo il successo di Notte prima degli esami. Anche Silvio Orlando ha parole d'ammirazione nei confronti del regista: "il film nella sua semplicità scatena molte riflessioni importanti sul cinema in generale", sottolineando come Ex rappresenti "la giusta mediazione tra le esigenze produttive e quelle autoriali di un regista". E senza dubbio, aggiungiamo noi, nonostante i limiti impliciti del cinema medio con la sua necessità di piacere a una grande massa di spettatori, EX ha una marcia in più rispetto ad altre commedie simili, coeve o "rivali".
Ghost Town
Starring Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig and Dana Ivey.
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).
Marley & Me (Io E Marley)
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Nathan Gamble and Haley Bennett.
As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family. Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. "There's nothing to it," says Sebastian. "You walk 'em. You feed 'em, you let 'em out now and then." Then came Marley. The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn't safe from Marley's voracious antics. Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life, through job and home changes, and most of all, through the myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny come to realize, Marleym - "the world's worst dog" - somehow brings out the best in them.
Milk
Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross and Stephen Spinella.
Milk is a film about Gay rights and is a wonderful film based on true story. In 1970s, gays are discriminated and did not have equal civil rights. Homosexuals had been beaten, some were considered sick, the sufferings made some homosexuals suicide. Harvey Milk braved to stand up, opened their own homosexual identity and wanted to fight for gay equality in civil rights through legal way. After several years of efforts, in 1977, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisor becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into public office in America. Harvey Milk persuaded other gays to open their identities, not hiding, and guided their legitimate protest marches. He openly debated with opponents, to change some people's view of homosexuality, to get more the equal rights of homosexuals. However, when everything was going better, Milk and Mayor his political allies, were assassinated by one opponent.
Monsters Vs. Aliens (Mostri Contro Alieni)
Starring Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie and Rainn Wilson.
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.
My Bloody Valentine (San Valentino Di Sangue)
Starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Kevin Tighe, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Betsy Rue and Megan Boone.
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, Harry Warden woke up... and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Jaime King), who is now married to his best friend Axel (Kerr Smith), the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them.
The Punisher
Starring John Travolta, Samantha Mathis, Thomas Jane, Will Patton, Laura Elena Harring, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Rob Scheider.
Marvel's unstoppable vigilante, The Punisher, hits the screen in a new action thriller that introduces a comic book hero unlike any other. The Punisher brings to the screen one of Marvel's top-selling solo comic books and a marquee character whose popularity parallels that of Marvel stars X-Men, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. The Punisher walks through the world we all know, a world darkened by war, crime, cruelty, and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains.
Two Lovers
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini and Elias Koteas.
Following a suicide attempt, an attractive but troubled young man (Joaquin Phoenix) moves back into his parents' Brooklyn apartment. Two women enter his life - a beautiful but volatile neighbor (Gwyneth Paltrow) trapped in a toxic affair and the lovely daughter (Vinessa Shaw) of his father's new business partner.
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January 1 to January 8
Adventureland
Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader.
A funky, self-professedly "funtastic" Pennsylvania amusement park, Adventureland appears to be the bane of recent college graduate's James Brennan's (Jesse Eisenberg) existence. He previously had big plans to spend the summer on a life-altering trek through Europe that would initiate him into real adult life. But when his family suffers an economic downturn in the middle of the Reagan '80s, James' only summer trip is straight to a minimum wage job manning a game booth so existentially bankrupt, no one is even allowed to win the giant-ass stuffed panda. Yet Adventureland isn't quite what it seems on the surface. For behind the cloying cotton candy aroma, the grating disco songs and the near-pathological customers, there's a whole other world of misfit friends, hidden dreams and most incredibly, after-work encounters with the alluringly sharp-tongued arcade girl, Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart). And when James discovers the hard-won courage to go to battle for Em, the result is a savagely funny yet sweetly heart-felt and unexpected encounter with "real adult life."
The Art Of War 3: Retribution (L'arte Della Guerra 3)
Starring Anthony 'Treach' Criss, Sung Hi Lee, Warren Derosa and Al Goto.
When international diplomacy comes up short, extreme measures must be taken. In the newest installment of The Art of War, Agent Neil Shaw, played by Naughty By Nature's sensation, Treach, is on a covert mission to stop North Korean terrorists from obtaining a nuclear bomb. But when the deal turns deadly, Shaw is drawn into the crossfire to save a beautiful facilitator (Playboy model Sung Hi Lee) and ends up framed for murder. Now a wanted man with only his newbie partner and the mysterious facilitator by his side, Shaw must rely on his kick-ass martial arts skills and bad-ass warrior code to fight through Korea's mean streets and find the terrorists before they detonate the bomb at a United Nations peace summit. This is war, and there is an art to it.
Cadillac Records
Starring Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union and Tammy Blanchard.
In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Crossing Over
Starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis, Alice Braga, Alice Eve, Justin Chon and Summer Bishil.
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. Crossing Over explores the allure of the American dream and the reality that immigrants find - and create - in 21st century Los Angeles.
Ex
Con Alessandro Gassman, Claudia Gerini, Cécile Cassel, Cristiana Capotondi, Vincenzo Salemme, Angelo Infanti, Silvio Orlando.
Sono molte le storie che si incrociano nel nuovo film di Fausto Brizzi, in 620 sale dal 6 febbraio 2009. La cosa che hanno in comune dà il titolo al film stesso: EX. Si tratta infatti di una commedia che racconta di amori che nascono e che poi finiscono, per poi magari ricominciare. E ognuna a modo suo racconta cosa significhi rimanere da soli dopo la fine di una storia d'amore. Rimanere "ex", insomma. Claudio Bisio interpreta un professore di psicologia che perde l'ex moglie in un incidente. Fabio De Luigi è vessato dal violento Gassman, ex fidanzato della colorita DJ con cui esce. Cristiana Capotondi affronta un amore a distanza tra la Nuova Zelanda e Parigi: Ex è infatti una coproduzione con la Francia, dove uscirà tra un paio di mesi. Fabio Insinna è un prete che scopre di dover celebrare il matrimonio di Claudia Gerini, la ragazza che lasciandolo l'aveva convinto a vestire l'abito talare. E così via. Le storie sono ovviamente intrecciate tra di loro, facendone più un film corale che un film a episodi, almeno da un punto di vista della sceneggiatura, costruita con sapienza e professionalità. E Brizzi ci tiene a far sapere che il suo film vuole essere anche diverso dalle operazioni commerciali piene di volti noti, di cui è pieno il cinema italiano recente. "E' una sfida", racconta il regista "perché in Italia i generi sono molto divaricati: o si fa il comico o si fa il drammatico, film leggerissimo o film d'autore. Stavolta proviamo acrobaticamente una commistione". E ha ricordato che proprio i grandi del cinema italiano lo facevano spesso, ma che "questa cosa si è persa per strada". E aggiunge "io ci sto provando, in punta di piedi, facendo un genere che in Italia non si fa più: la commedia romantica". E il nutritissimo cast, che ha presentato il film al gran completo in un vero e proprio tour promozionale nelle maggiori città italiane, si dice entusiasta: oltre ai nomi già citati, ci sono Silvio Orlando, Carla Signoris, Giancarlo Tognazzi, e alcuni volti più giovani come Martina Pinto, Giorgia Würth e la francese Cécile Cassel. Claudio Bisio, per esempio, si è detto particolarmente felice di tornare a lavorare dopo tanti anni con Silvio Orlando, che nel film è un suo amico e paziente. "Ci eravamo un po' persi, non nella vita ma professionalmente, e Brizzi ci ha ricongiunti. In senso artistico". Cristiana Capotondi dice di sentirsi ormai a casa, sotto l'egida dei produttori Lucisano, dopo il successo di Notte prima degli esami. Anche Silvio Orlando ha parole d'ammirazione nei confronti del regista: "il film nella sua semplicità scatena molte riflessioni importanti sul cinema in generale", sottolineando come Ex rappresenti "la giusta mediazione tra le esigenze produttive e quelle autoriali di un regista". E senza dubbio, aggiungiamo noi, nonostante i limiti impliciti del cinema medio con la sua necessità di piacere a una grande massa di spettatori, EX ha una marcia in più rispetto ad altre commedie simili, coeve o "rivali".
Marley & Me (Io E Marley)
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Nathan Gamble and Haley Bennett.
As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family. Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. "There's nothing to it," says Sebastian. "You walk 'em. You feed 'em, you let 'em out now and then." Then came Marley. The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn't safe from Marley's voracious antics. Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life, through job and home changes, and most of all, through the myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny come to realize, Marleym - "the world's worst dog" - somehow brings out the best in them.
Monsters Vs. Aliens (Mostri Contro Alieni)
Starring Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie and Rainn Wilson.
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.
My Bloody Valentine (San Valentino Di Sangue)
Starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Kevin Tighe, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Betsy Rue and Megan Boone.
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, Harry Warden woke up... and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Jaime King), who is now married to his best friend Axel (Kerr Smith), the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them.
Push
Starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou.
A shadowy government agency known as the Division is rounding up psychics for experiments designed to boost their powers and assemble the most commanding army the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, almost no one has ever survived these trials. Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a second-generation telekinetic, or "mover," has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong. Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), a 13-year-old clairvoyant, or "watcher," seeks his help in locating a briefcase that she claims holds $6 million. To find it, they will also have to find Kira (Camilla Belle), an escaped "pusher" who is the only person ever to live through the Division's experiments. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others' actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. But Cassie's presence soon attracts the attention of the Division's human bloodhounds, forcing Nick and Cassie to flee for their lives.
Sex & Lies In Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal (Sesso E Bugie A Las Vegas)
Starring Matthew Modine, Mena Suvari, Marcia Gay Harden and Johnathon Schaech.
Matthew Modine stars in director Peter Medak's look at one of the biggest scandals ever to rock Las Vegas. The owner of the world famous Horseshoe Casino, Ted Binion (Modine) was one of the most powerful men in Sin City. But sin got the best of Ted when he fell for scorching stripper Sandy Murphy (Mena Suvari). Caught up in a web of drugs and deception, noted heroin user Binion suffers a suspicious overdose that is quickly classified as a homicide. As Binion's sister Becky (Harden) works overtime to prevent the case from going cold, Sandy and her boyfriend (Johnathon Schaech) race to solve the mystery and prove their innocence.
Two Lovers
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini and Elias Koteas.
Following a suicide attempt, an attractive but troubled young man (Joaquin Phoenix) moves back into his parents' Brooklyn apartment. Two women enter his life - a beautiful but volatile neighbor (Gwyneth Paltrow) trapped in a toxic affair and the lovely daughter (Vinessa Shaw) of his father's new business partner.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am , Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand and Daniel Henney.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Hugh Jackman reprises the role that made him a superstar, as the fierce fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, adamantium claws, and a primal fury known as berserker rage. X-Men Origins: Wolverine stays true to the tone of the X-Men motion picture franchise, continuing the films' balance between spectacle and reality, while heightening the emotions and relationships. The film also introduces a team of mutants, including several whose appearances in the movie series have been long anticipated. Movie audiences will meet Team X, a covert military cadre comprised entirely of mutants. Its members are: Wolverine; his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), aka Sabretooth, a feral being of unimaginable power; Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), later to be known as Deadpool, a high-tech mercenary skilled at swordplay; Agent Zero (Daniel Henney), an expert tracker and lethal marksman; Wraith (Will.i.am), a teleporter; Fred J. Dukes (Kevin Durand), also known as The Blob, a morbidly obese and super-strong behemoth; and Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), who can manipulate electricity. Leading them is William Stryker (Danny Huston), a figure introduced in X2: X-Men United, but whose origins and motives are now fully explored, for it is Stryker's complex relationship with Wolverine that defines much of Logan's past... and future.
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January 8 to January 15
Angels & Demons (Angeli E Demoni)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
The Art Of War 3: Retribution (L'arte Della Guerra 3)
Starring Anthony 'Treach' Criss, Sung Hi Lee, Warren Derosa and Al Goto.
When international diplomacy comes up short, extreme measures must be taken. In the newest installment of The Art of War, Agent Neil Shaw, played by Naughty By Nature's sensation, Treach, is on a covert mission to stop North Korean terrorists from obtaining a nuclear bomb. But when the deal turns deadly, Shaw is drawn into the crossfire to save a beautiful facilitator (Playboy model Sung Hi Lee) and ends up framed for murder. Now a wanted man with only his newbie partner and the mysterious facilitator by his side, Shaw must rely on his kick-ass martial arts skills and bad-ass warrior code to fight through Korea's mean streets and find the terrorists before they detonate the bomb at a United Nations peace summit. This is war, and there is an art to it.
Cadillac Records
Starring Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Jeffrey Wright, Columbus Short, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union and Tammy Blanchard.
In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Che
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips and Demian Bichir.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero is documented. After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Crossing Over
Starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis, Alice Braga, Alice Eve, Justin Chon and Summer Bishil.
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. Crossing Over explores the allure of the American dream and the reality that immigrants find - and create - in 21st century Los Angeles.
Ex
Con Alessandro Gassman, Claudia Gerini, Cécile Cassel, Cristiana Capotondi, Vincenzo Salemme, Angelo Infanti, Silvio Orlando.
Sono molte le storie che si incrociano nel nuovo film di Fausto Brizzi, in 620 sale dal 6 febbraio 2009. La cosa che hanno in comune dà il titolo al film stesso: EX. Si tratta infatti di una commedia che racconta di amori che nascono e che poi finiscono, per poi magari ricominciare. E ognuna a modo suo racconta cosa significhi rimanere da soli dopo la fine di una storia d'amore. Rimanere "ex", insomma. Claudio Bisio interpreta un professore di psicologia che perde l'ex moglie in un incidente. Fabio De Luigi è vessato dal violento Gassman, ex fidanzato della colorita DJ con cui esce. Cristiana Capotondi affronta un amore a distanza tra la Nuova Zelanda e Parigi: Ex è infatti una coproduzione con la Francia, dove uscirà tra un paio di mesi. Fabio Insinna è un prete che scopre di dover celebrare il matrimonio di Claudia Gerini, la ragazza che lasciandolo l'aveva convinto a vestire l'abito talare. E così via. Le storie sono ovviamente intrecciate tra di loro, facendone più un film corale che un film a episodi, almeno da un punto di vista della sceneggiatura, costruita con sapienza e professionalità. E Brizzi ci tiene a far sapere che il suo film vuole essere anche diverso dalle operazioni commerciali piene di volti noti, di cui è pieno il cinema italiano recente. "E' una sfida", racconta il regista "perché in Italia i generi sono molto divaricati: o si fa il comico o si fa il drammatico, film leggerissimo o film d'autore. Stavolta proviamo acrobaticamente una commistione". E ha ricordato che proprio i grandi del cinema italiano lo facevano spesso, ma che "questa cosa si è persa per strada". E aggiunge "io ci sto provando, in punta di piedi, facendo un genere che in Italia non si fa più: la commedia romantica". E il nutritissimo cast, che ha presentato il film al gran completo in un vero e proprio tour promozionale nelle maggiori città italiane, si dice entusiasta: oltre ai nomi già citati, ci sono Silvio Orlando, Carla Signoris, Giancarlo Tognazzi, e alcuni volti più giovani come Martina Pinto, Giorgia Würth e la francese Cécile Cassel. Claudio Bisio, per esempio, si è detto particolarmente felice di tornare a lavorare dopo tanti anni con Silvio Orlando, che nel film è un suo amico e paziente. "Ci eravamo un po' persi, non nella vita ma professionalmente, e Brizzi ci ha ricongiunti. In senso artistico". Cristiana Capotondi dice di sentirsi ormai a casa, sotto l'egida dei produttori Lucisano, dopo il successo di Notte prima degli esami. Anche Silvio Orlando ha parole d'ammirazione nei confronti del regista: "il film nella sua semplicità scatena molte riflessioni importanti sul cinema in generale", sottolineando come Ex rappresenti "la giusta mediazione tra le esigenze produttive e quelle autoriali di un regista". E senza dubbio, aggiungiamo noi, nonostante i limiti impliciti del cinema medio con la sua necessità di piacere a una grande massa di spettatori, EX ha una marcia in più rispetto ad altre commedie simili, coeve o "rivali".
Marley & Me (Io E Marley)
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Nathan Gamble and Haley Bennett.
As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family. Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. "There's nothing to it," says Sebastian. "You walk 'em. You feed 'em, you let 'em out now and then." Then came Marley. The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn't safe from Marley's voracious antics. Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life, through job and home changes, and most of all, through the myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny come to realize, Marleym - "the world's worst dog" - somehow brings out the best in them.
Monsters Vs. Aliens (Mostri Contro Alieni)
Starring Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie and Rainn Wilson.
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.
My Bloody Valentine (San Valentino Di Sangue)
Starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Kevin Tighe, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Betsy Rue and Megan Boone.
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, Harry Warden woke up... and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Jaime King), who is now married to his best friend Axel (Kerr Smith), the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them.
Public Enemies (Nemico Pubblico No.1 - L'istinto Di Morte)
Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff and Stephen Lang.
The story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a folk hero to much of the public. No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone - from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang - later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi) - thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing 'Clark Gable of the FBI'. However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of lawmen from the Dallas bureau and orchestrating epic betrayals - from the infamous 'Lady in Red' to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti - were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.
Push
Starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou.
A shadowy government agency known as the Division is rounding up psychics for experiments designed to boost their powers and assemble the most commanding army the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, almost no one has ever survived these trials. Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a second-generation telekinetic, or "mover," has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong. Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), a 13-year-old clairvoyant, or "watcher," seeks his help in locating a briefcase that she claims holds $6 million. To find it, they will also have to find Kira (Camilla Belle), an escaped "pusher" who is the only person ever to live through the Division's experiments. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others' actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. But Cassie's presence soon attracts the attention of the Division's human bloodhounds, forcing Nick and Cassie to flee for their lives.
Sex & Lies In Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal (Sesso E Bugie A Las Vegas)
Starring Matthew Modine, Mena Suvari, Marcia Gay Harden and Johnathon Schaech.
Matthew Modine stars in director Peter Medak's look at one of the biggest scandals ever to rock Las Vegas. The owner of the world famous Horseshoe Casino, Ted Binion (Modine) was one of the most powerful men in Sin City. But sin got the best of Ted when he fell for scorching stripper Sandy Murphy (Mena Suvari). Caught up in a web of drugs and deception, noted heroin user Binion suffers a suspicious overdose that is quickly classified as a homicide. As Binion's sister Becky (Harden) works overtime to prevent the case from going cold, Sandy and her boyfriend (Johnathon Schaech) race to solve the mystery and prove their innocence.
Star Trek
Starring John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy and Ben Cross.
The incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. On a journey filled with action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
Two Lovers
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini and Elias Koteas.
Following a suicide attempt, an attractive but troubled young man (Joaquin Phoenix) moves back into his parents' Brooklyn apartment. Two women enter his life - a beautiful but volatile neighbor (Gwyneth Paltrow) trapped in a toxic affair and the lovely daughter (Vinessa Shaw) of his father's new business partner.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am , Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand and Daniel Henney.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Hugh Jackman reprises the role that made him a superstar, as the fierce fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, adamantium claws, and a primal fury known as berserker rage. X-Men Origins: Wolverine stays true to the tone of the X-Men motion picture franchise, continuing the films' balance between spectacle and reality, while heightening the emotions and relationships. The film also introduces a team of mutants, including several whose appearances in the movie series have been long anticipated. Movie audiences will meet Team X, a covert military cadre comprised entirely of mutants. Its members are: Wolverine; his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), aka Sabretooth, a feral being of unimaginable power; Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), later to be known as Deadpool, a high-tech mercenary skilled at swordplay; Agent Zero (Daniel Henney), an expert tracker and lethal marksman; Wraith (Will.i.am), a teleporter; Fred J. Dukes (Kevin Durand), also known as The Blob, a morbidly obese and super-strong behemoth; and Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), who can manipulate electricity. Leading them is William Stryker (Danny Huston), a figure introduced in X2: X-Men United, but whose origins and motives are now fully explored, for it is Stryker's complex relationship with Wolverine that defines much of Logan's past... and future.
January 15 to January 22
Angels & Demons (Angeli E Demoni)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
Brideshead Revisited (Ritorno A Brideshead)
Starring Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Greta Scacchi, Hayley Atwell, Felicity Jones, Patrick Malahide and Joseph Beattie.
The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.
Che
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips and Demian Bichir.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero is documented. After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Ghost Town
Starring Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig and Dana Ivey.
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).
Marley & Me (Io E Marley)
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Nathan Gamble and Haley Bennett.
As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family. Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. "There's nothing to it," says Sebastian. "You walk 'em. You feed 'em, you let 'em out now and then." Then came Marley. The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn't safe from Marley's voracious antics. Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life, through job and home changes, and most of all, through the myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny come to realize, Marleym - "the world's worst dog" - somehow brings out the best in them.
Monsters Vs. Aliens (Mostri Contro Alieni)
Starring Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie and Rainn Wilson.
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.
Public Enemies (Nemico Pubblico No.1 - L'istinto Di Morte)
Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff and Stephen Lang.
The story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a folk hero to much of the public. No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone - from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang - later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi) - thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing 'Clark Gable of the FBI'. However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of lawmen from the Dallas bureau and orchestrating epic betrayals - from the infamous 'Lady in Red' to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti - were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.
The Punisher
Starring John Travolta, Samantha Mathis, Thomas Jane, Will Patton, Laura Elena Harring, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Rob Scheider.
Marvel's unstoppable vigilante, The Punisher, hits the screen in a new action thriller that introduces a comic book hero unlike any other. The Punisher brings to the screen one of Marvel's top-selling solo comic books and a marquee character whose popularity parallels that of Marvel stars X-Men, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. The Punisher walks through the world we all know, a world darkened by war, crime, cruelty, and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains.
Push
Starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle and Djimon Hounsou.
A shadowy government agency known as the Division is rounding up psychics for experiments designed to boost their powers and assemble the most commanding army the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, almost no one has ever survived these trials. Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a second-generation telekinetic, or "mover," has been in hiding since the Division murdered his father more than a decade earlier. He has found sanctuary in densely populated Hong Kong. Nick is forced out of hiding when Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), a 13-year-old clairvoyant, or "watcher," seeks his help in locating a briefcase that she claims holds $6 million. To find it, they will also have to find Kira (Camilla Belle), an escaped "pusher" who is the only person ever to live through the Division's experiments. Pushers possess the most dangerous of all psychic powers: the ability to influence others' actions by implanting thoughts in their minds. But Cassie's presence soon attracts the attention of the Division's human bloodhounds, forcing Nick and Cassie to flee for their lives.
Sex & Lies In Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal (Sesso E Bugie A Las Vegas)
Starring Matthew Modine, Mena Suvari, Marcia Gay Harden and Johnathon Schaech.
Matthew Modine stars in director Peter Medak's look at one of the biggest scandals ever to rock Las Vegas. The owner of the world famous Horseshoe Casino, Ted Binion (Modine) was one of the most powerful men in Sin City. But sin got the best of Ted when he fell for scorching stripper Sandy Murphy (Mena Suvari). Caught up in a web of drugs and deception, noted heroin user Binion suffers a suspicious overdose that is quickly classified as a homicide. As Binion's sister Becky (Harden) works overtime to prevent the case from going cold, Sandy and her boyfriend (Johnathon Schaech) race to solve the mystery and prove their innocence.
Star Trek
Starring John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy and Ben Cross.
The incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. On a journey filled with action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.
Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth. National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it ... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless. Same does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am , Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand and Daniel Henney.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Hugh Jackman reprises the role that made him a superstar, as the fierce fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, adamantium claws, and a primal fury known as berserker rage. X-Men Origins: Wolverine stays true to the tone of the X-Men motion picture franchise, continuing the films' balance between spectacle and reality, while heightening the emotions and relationships. The film also introduces a team of mutants, including several whose appearances in the movie series have been long anticipated. Movie audiences will meet Team X, a covert military cadre comprised entirely of mutants. Its members are: Wolverine; his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), aka Sabretooth, a feral being of unimaginable power; Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), later to be known as Deadpool, a high-tech mercenary skilled at swordplay; Agent Zero (Daniel Henney), an expert tracker and lethal marksman; Wraith (Will.i.am), a teleporter; Fred J. Dukes (Kevin Durand), also known as The Blob, a morbidly obese and super-strong behemoth; and Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), who can manipulate electricity. Leading them is William Stryker (Danny Huston), a figure introduced in X2: X-Men United, but whose origins and motives are now fully explored, for it is Stryker's complex relationship with Wolverine that defines much of Logan's past... and future.
usama2009 24-01-2010, 08:35 Primafila TV Listing
January 22 to January 29
Adventureland
Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader.
A funky, self-professedly "funtastic" Pennsylvania amusement park, Adventureland appears to be the bane of recent college graduate's James Brennan's (Jesse Eisenberg) existence. He previously had big plans to spend the summer on a life-altering trek through Europe that would initiate him into real adult life. But when his family suffers an economic downturn in the middle of the Reagan '80s, James' only summer trip is straight to a minimum wage job manning a game booth so existentially bankrupt, no one is even allowed to win the giant-ass stuffed panda. Yet Adventureland isn't quite what it seems on the surface. For behind the cloying cotton candy aroma, the grating disco songs and the near-pathological customers, there's a whole other world of misfit friends, hidden dreams and most incredibly, after-work encounters with the alluringly sharp-tongued arcade girl, Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart). And when James discovers the hard-won courage to go to battle for Em, the result is a savagely funny yet sweetly heart-felt and unexpected encounter with "real adult life."
Angels & Demons (Angeli E Demoni)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
Brideshead Revisited (Ritorno A Brideshead)
Starring Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Greta Scacchi, Hayley Atwell, Felicity Jones, Patrick Malahide and Joseph Beattie.
The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.
Che
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips and Demian Bichir.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero is documented. After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Complici Del Silenzio
Con Alessio Boni, Giuseppe Battiston, Jorge Marrale, Juan Leyrado, Daniele Tedeschi, Florencia Raggi, Rita Terrenova.
Maurizio Gallo, un giornalista sportivo italiano e Ugo, il suo fotoreporter sbarcano a Buenos Aires come inviati al Mundial di Calcio del 1978. L’evento sportivo, su cui si stanno accendendo i riflettori di tutto il mondo, è l’occasione per la Giunta militare di Videla per far cadere nell’ombra le gravissime violazioni dei diritti umani che va perpetrando: abrogazione dei diritti costituzionali, sospensione delle attività politiche e di associazione, proibizione dei sindacati, dei giornali, sequestro di attivisti politici sociali e sindacalisti oltre che di alcuni guerriglieri, utilizzo della tortura come forma sistematica per estorcere informazioni e l’avvio dell’applicazione del metodo della sparizione di massa. Maurizio Gallo è anche latore di una busta contenente del denaro per Ana, ex moglie di un argentino emigrato in Italia. L’incontro tra i due, il giorno dell’inaugurazione del Mundial, è amore a prima vista. Ma Ana è membro clandestino di una formazione guerrigliera che si oppone alla dittatura. Involontariamente Maurizio diventa complice e nel contempo strumento dell’esercito e delle squadre della morte per mettersi sulle tracce della donna e dei suoi compagni.
Marley & Me (Io E Marley)
Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Nathan Gamble and Haley Bennett.
As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family. Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. "There's nothing to it," says Sebastian. "You walk 'em. You feed 'em, you let 'em out now and then." Then came Marley. The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn't safe from Marley's voracious antics. Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life, through job and home changes, and most of all, through the myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny come to realize, Marleym - "the world's worst dog" - somehow brings out the best in them.
Monsters Vs. Aliens (Mostri Contro Alieni)
Starring Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie and Rainn Wilson.
When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. Alerted to the threat of this new monster, the military jumps into action and Susan is captured and secreted away to a covert government compound. There, she is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of other monsters: the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. In a moment of desperation, The President is persuaded by General W.R. Monger to enlist the motley crew of Monsters to combat the Alien Robot and save the world from imminent destruction.
My Bloody Valentine (San Valentino Di Sangue)
Starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Kevin Tighe, Edi Gathegi, Tom Atkins, Betsy Rue and Megan Boone.
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine's Day, Harry Warden woke up... and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine's Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Jaime King), who is now married to his best friend Axel (Kerr Smith), the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony's dark past has returned. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who's come back to claim them.
Public Enemies (Nemico Pubblico No.1 - L'istinto Di Morte)
Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff and Stephen Lang.
The story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a folk hero to much of the public. No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone - from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang - later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi) - thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing 'Clark Gable of the FBI'. However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of lawmen from the Dallas bureau and orchestrating epic betrayals - from the infamous 'Lady in Red' to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti - were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.
Soul Men
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sharon Leal, Jennifer Coolidge, Sean Hayes, Adam Herschman, Affion Crockett, Isaac Hayes and John Legend.
Two former backup soul singers, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) and Floyd (Bernie Mac) travel cross country to perform at a tribute concert in honor of their famous former band leader. They haven't spoken to each other in 20 years but reluctantly agree to travel together for the tribute performance.
Star Trek
Starring John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy and Ben Cross.
The incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. On a journey filled with action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.
Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth. National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it ... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless. Same does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good.
Un Estate Ai Caraibi
Con Gigi Proietti, Enrico Brignano, Martina Stella, Maurizio Mattioli, Alena Seredova, Carlo Buccirosso, Biagio Izzo, Paolo Ruffini.
Roby è un bancario meridionale, single, che lavora a Pavia. E' ipocondriaco ed ogni sei mesi va in ospedale, dal suo amico medico Giacomo che gli diagnostica un male incurabile. Gli resta un solo mese di vita e Roby decide di spenderlo nel miglior modo possibile partendo alla volta dei Caraibi, destinazione Antigua... Vincenzo è un dentista napoletano sposato con una donna gelosissima che lo marca stretto circondandolo di infermiere bruttissime. Vincenzo ha un'amante bellissima, Anna che decide di portare con sè in vacanza ad Antigua... Angelo fa l'autista per un ricco e cafone palazzinaro romano, Remo che a ridosso delle vacanze estive gli chiede di accompagnarlo ad Antigua, dove ha appena comprato, con dei guadagni truffaldini in Russia, una villa sfarzosissima... Max lavora in una radio privata di Livorno. Fa il disc jockey, in coppia con un simpatico coetaneo, Tommy ed è fidanzato con Laura, una giovane e bellissima commessa. Proprio nel giorno del loro primo anniversario, Max scopre che Laura ha un altro e ha deciso di lasciarlo. Per dimenticarla Max decide di partire per i Caraibi; anche lui si ritrova ad Antigua... Alberto è un romano trapiantato ad Antigua, costretto anni prima a scappare da Roma perchè oberato dai debiti. Anche adesso non se la passa per niente bene. Per sbarcare il lunario fa delle piccole truffe ai danni dei turisti di passaggio. Il suo compare è Morgan, un bambino di colore, orfano, con il quale Alberto divide una misera casetta in un quartiere di poveracci.
Videocracy
This penetrating documentary look at the media empire of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi reveals how his reality TV shows full of bikini-clad women enriched his friends and beguiled a nation.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am , Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand and Daniel Henney.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Hugh Jackman reprises the role that made him a superstar, as the fierce fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, adamantium claws, and a primal fury known as berserker rage. X-Men Origins: Wolverine stays true to the tone of the X-Men motion picture franchise, continuing the films' balance between spectacle and reality, while heightening the emotions and relationships. The film also introduces a team of mutants, including several whose appearances in the movie series have been long anticipated. Movie audiences will meet Team X, a covert military cadre comprised entirely of mutants. Its members are: Wolverine; his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), aka Sabretooth, a feral being of unimaginable power; Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), later to be known as Deadpool, a high-tech mercenary skilled at swordplay; Agent Zero (Daniel Henney), an expert tracker and lethal marksman; Wraith (Will.i.am), a teleporter; Fred J. Dukes (Kevin Durand), also known as The Blob, a morbidly obese and super-strong behemoth; and Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), who can manipulate electricity. Leading them is William Stryker (Danny Huston), a figure introduced in X2: X-Men United, but whose origins and motives are now fully explored, for it is Stryker's complex relationship with Wolverine that defines much of Logan's past... and future.
January 29 to February 5
Angels & Demons (Angeli E Demoni)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
Complici Del Silenzio
Con Alessio Boni, Giuseppe Battiston, Jorge Marrale, Juan Leyrado, Daniele Tedeschi, Florencia Raggi, Rita Terrenova.
Maurizio Gallo, un giornalista sportivo italiano e Ugo, il suo fotoreporter sbarcano a Buenos Aires come inviati al Mundial di Calcio del 1978. L’evento sportivo, su cui si stanno accendendo i riflettori di tutto il mondo, è l’occasione per la Giunta militare di Videla per far cadere nell’ombra le gravissime violazioni dei diritti umani che va perpetrando: abrogazione dei diritti costituzionali, sospensione delle attività politiche e di associazione, proibizione dei sindacati, dei giornali, sequestro di attivisti politici sociali e sindacalisti oltre che di alcuni guerriglieri, utilizzo della tortura come forma sistematica per estorcere informazioni e l’avvio dell’applicazione del metodo della sparizione di massa. Maurizio Gallo è anche latore di una busta contenente del denaro per Ana, ex moglie di un argentino emigrato in Italia. L’incontro tra i due, il giorno dell’inaugurazione del Mundial, è amore a prima vista. Ma Ana è membro clandestino di una formazione guerrigliera che si oppone alla dittatura. Involontariamente Maurizio diventa complice e nel contempo strumento dell’esercito e delle squadre della morte per mettersi sulle tracce della donna e dei suoi compagni.
The Proposal (Ricatto D'amore)
Starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O'Hare and Malin Akerman.
When high-powered book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.
Public Enemies (Nemico Pubblico No.1 - L'istinto Di Morte)
Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff and Stephen Lang.
The story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a folk hero to much of the public. No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone - from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang - later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi) - thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing 'Clark Gable of the FBI'. However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of lawmen from the Dallas bureau and orchestrating epic betrayals - from the infamous 'Lady in Red' to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti - were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.
Soul Men
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sharon Leal, Jennifer Coolidge, Sean Hayes, Adam Herschman, Affion Crockett, Isaac Hayes and John Legend.
Two former backup soul singers, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) and Floyd (Bernie Mac) travel cross country to perform at a tribute concert in honor of their famous former band leader. They haven't spoken to each other in 20 years but reluctantly agree to travel together for the tribute performance.
Star Trek
Starring John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy and Ben Cross.
The incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. On a journey filled with action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.
Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth. National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it ... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless. Same does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good.
Un Estate Ai Caraibi
Con Gigi Proietti, Enrico Brignano, Martina Stella, Maurizio Mattioli, Alena Seredova, Carlo Buccirosso, Biagio Izzo, Paolo Ruffini. Roby è un bancario meridionale, single, che lavora a Pavia. E' ipocondriaco ed ogni sei mesi va in ospedale, dal suo amico medico Giacomo che gli diagnostica un male incurabile. Gli resta un solo mese di vita e Roby decide di spenderlo nel miglior modo possibile partendo alla volta dei Caraibi, destinazione Antigua... Vincenzo è un dentista napoletano sposato con una donna gelosissima che lo marca stretto circondandolo di infermiere bruttissime. Vincenzo ha un'amante bellissima, Anna che decide di portare con sè in vacanza ad Antigua... Angelo fa l'autista per un ricco e cafone palazzinaro romano, Remo che a ridosso delle vacanze estive gli chiede di accompagnarlo ad Antigua, dove ha appena comprato, con dei guadagni truffaldini in Russia, una villa sfarzosissima... Max lavora in una radio privata di Livorno. Fa il disc jockey, in coppia con un simpatico coetaneo, Tommy ed è fidanzato con Laura, una giovane e bellissima commessa. Proprio nel giorno del loro primo anniversario, Max scopre che Laura ha un altro e ha deciso di lasciarlo. Per dimenticarla Max decide di partire per i Caraibi; anche lui si ritrova ad Antigua... Alberto è un romano trapiantato ad Antigua, costretto anni prima a scappare da Roma perchè oberato dai debiti. Anche adesso non se la passa per niente bene. Per sbarcare il lunario fa delle piccole truffe ai danni dei turisti di passaggio. Il suo compare è Morgan, un bambino di colore, orfano, con il quale Alberto divide una misera casetta in un quartiere di poveracci.
Videocracy
This penetrating documentary look at the media empire of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi reveals how his reality TV shows full of bikini-clad women enriched his friends and beguiled a nation.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am , Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand and Daniel Henney.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Hugh Jackman reprises the role that made him a superstar, as the fierce fighting machine who possesses amazing healing powers, adamantium claws, and a primal fury known as berserker rage. X-Men Origins: Wolverine stays true to the tone of the X-Men motion picture franchise, continuing the films' balance between spectacle and reality, while heightening the emotions and relationships. The film also introduces a team of mutants, including several whose appearances in the movie series have been long anticipated. Movie audiences will meet Team X, a covert military cadre comprised entirely of mutants. Its members are: Wolverine; his brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber), aka Sabretooth, a feral being of unimaginable power; Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), later to be known as Deadpool, a high-tech mercenary skilled at swordplay; Agent Zero (Daniel Henney), an expert tracker and lethal marksman; Wraith (Will.i.am), a teleporter; Fred J. Dukes (Kevin Durand), also known as The Blob, a morbidly obese and super-strong behemoth; and Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), who can manipulate electricity. Leading them is William Stryker (Danny Huston), a figure introduced in X2: X-Men United, but whose origins and motives are now fully explored, for it is Stryker's complex relationship with Wolverine that defines much of Logan's past... and future.
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February 5 to February 12
Angels & Demons (Angeli E Demoni)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
The Bank Job (La Rapina Perfetta)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
Cash
Starring Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Alice Taglioni and Valeria Golino.
It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this slick, densely plotted thriller from France. Cash (Jean Dujardin) is a suave and well-mannered outlaw who specializes in grand-scale heists that turn on carefully constructed confidence games as much as muscle. When Cash's brother and partner in crime Solal (Clovis Cornillac) is killed by members of a rival outfit who try to force their way into a carefully planned heist, Cash assembles a new crew to rob the gunmen for their ill-gotten gains. Cash joins forces with Maxime Dubreuil (Jean Reno), a gifted veteran thief who brings along his beautiful protégé Garance (Alice Taglioni). As Cash, Maxime and Garance map out plans for the robbery of a lifetime, they're joined by Julia (Valeria Golino), a beautiful woman with a full compliment of criminal skills. But what they don't know is that Julia is actually an undercover police officer who is looking to shut down Cash's operation from the inside. Cash was written and directed by Eric Besnard; it was his second feature as director after establishing himself as one of France's leading screenwriters.
Che
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Lou Diamond Phillips and Demian Bichir.
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people. Che's rise in the Cuban Revolution, from doctor to commander to revolutionary hero is documented. After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.
Death Defying Acts (Houdini - L'ultimo Mago)
Starring Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan.
While on tour in Scotland, the world’s most famous magician, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce), sets out to prove whether psychics can really communicate with the dead. He still mourns the death of his beloved mother, and offers $10,000 to anyone who can contact her from beyond the grave. His offer catches the attention of a beautiful psychic named Mary McGregor (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her young daughter, Benji (Saoirse Ronan).
Frozen River
Starring Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O’Keefe and Mark Boone Jr.
In a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between New York State and Quebec, the lure of fast money presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be making minimum wage. Strapped for money and deserted by her husband, working class Ray (Melissa Leo) reluctantly teams up with Lila (Misty Upham), a widowed Mohawk Indian, to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada to the U.S. in the trunk of a Dodge Spirit. Both women swear each trip will be their last, but one final run across the river leads to a showdown with the law on all sides.
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
Starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal and Bill Hader.
Night has fallen upon the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds, yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum. Now, Larry must try to save his formerly inanimate friends from what could be their last stand amid the wonders of the Smithsonian, all of which, from the famous paintings on the walls to the rocket ships in the halls, suddenly have a mind of their own.
The Proposal (Ricatto D'amore)
Starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O'Hare and Malin Akerman.
When high-powered book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.
Public Enemies (Nemico Pubblico No.1 - L'istinto Di Morte)
Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff and Stephen Lang.
The story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a folk hero to much of the public. No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone - from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang - later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi) - thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing 'Clark Gable of the FBI'. However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of lawmen from the Dallas bureau and orchestrating epic betrayals - from the infamous 'Lady in Red' to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti - were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.
Star Trek
Starring John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy and Ben Cross.
The incredible story of a young crew's maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. On a journey filled with action, comedy and cosmic peril, the new recruits must find a way to stop an evil being whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk (Chris Pine), is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock (Zachary Quinto), was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.
Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth. National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it ... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless. Same does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good.
Un Estate Ai Caraibi
Con Gigi Proietti, Enrico Brignano, Martina Stella, Maurizio Mattioli, Alena Seredova, Carlo Buccirosso, Biagio Izzo, Paolo Ruffini.
Roby è un bancario meridionale, single, che lavora a Pavia. E' ipocondriaco ed ogni sei mesi va in ospedale, dal suo amico medico Giacomo che gli diagnostica un male incurabile. Gli resta un solo mese di vita e Roby decide di spenderlo nel miglior modo possibile partendo alla volta dei Caraibi, destinazione Antigua... Vincenzo è un dentista napoletano sposato con una donna gelosissima che lo marca stretto circondandolo di infermiere bruttissime. Vincenzo ha un'amante bellissima, Anna che decide di portare con sè in vacanza ad Antigua... Angelo fa l'autista per un ricco e cafone palazzinaro romano, Remo che a ridosso delle vacanze estive gli chiede di accompagnarlo ad Antigua, dove ha appena comprato, con dei guadagni truffaldini in Russia, una villa sfarzosissima... Max lavora in una radio privata di Livorno. Fa il disc jockey, in coppia con un simpatico coetaneo, Tommy ed è fidanzato con Laura, una giovane e bellissima commessa. Proprio nel giorno del loro primo anniversario, Max scopre che Laura ha un altro e ha deciso di lasciarlo. Per dimenticarla Max decide di partire per i Caraibi; anche lui si ritrova ad Antigua... Alberto è un romano trapiantato ad Antigua, costretto anni prima a scappare da Roma perchè oberato dai debiti. Anche adesso non se la passa per niente bene. Per sbarcare il lunario fa delle piccole truffe ai danni dei turisti di passaggio. Il suo compare è Morgan, un bambino di colore, orfano, con il quale Alberto divide una misera casetta in un quartiere di poveracci.
Videocracy
This penetrating documentary look at the media empire of Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi reveals how his reality TV shows full of bikini-clad women enriched his friends and beguiled a nation.
February 12 to February 19
Angels & Demons (Angeli E Demoni)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
The Bank Job (La Rapina Perfetta)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
Cash
Starring Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Alice Taglioni and Valeria Golino.
It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this slick, densely plotted thriller from France. Cash (Jean Dujardin) is a suave and well-mannered outlaw who specializes in grand-scale heists that turn on carefully constructed confidence games as much as muscle. When Cash's brother and partner in crime Solal (Clovis Cornillac) is killed by members of a rival outfit who try to force their way into a carefully planned heist, Cash assembles a new crew to rob the gunmen for their ill-gotten gains. Cash joins forces with Maxime Dubreuil (Jean Reno), a gifted veteran thief who brings along his beautiful protégé Garance (Alice Taglioni). As Cash, Maxime and Garance map out plans for the robbery of a lifetime, they're joined by Julia (Valeria Golino), a beautiful woman with a full compliment of criminal skills. But what they don't know is that Julia is actually an undercover police officer who is looking to shut down Cash's operation from the inside. Cash was written and directed by Eric Besnard; it was his second feature as director after establishing himself as one of France's leading screenwriters.
Death Defying Acts (Houdini - L'ultimo Mago)
Starring Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan.
While on tour in Scotland, the world’s most famous magician, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce), sets out to prove whether psychics can really communicate with the dead. He still mourns the death of his beloved mother, and offers $10,000 to anyone who can contact her from beyond the grave. His offer catches the attention of a beautiful psychic named Mary McGregor (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her young daughter, Benji (Saoirse Ronan).
Frozen River
Starring Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O’Keefe and Mark Boone Jr.
In a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between New York State and Quebec, the lure of fast money presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be making minimum wage. Strapped for money and deserted by her husband, working class Ray (Melissa Leo) reluctantly teams up with Lila (Misty Upham), a widowed Mohawk Indian, to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada to the U.S. in the trunk of a Dodge Spirit. Both women swear each trip will be their last, but one final run across the river leads to a showdown with the law on all sides.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans and Dennis Quaid.
From the Central Asian mountains to the deserts of Egypt, through the crowded streets of Paris to beneath the ice cap of the North Pole, the elite team of operatives known as G.I. JOE journeys on a non-stop adventure as they use the latest in next-generation spy technology and military equipment to fight the duplicitous arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization from plunging the world into chaos.
Italians
Starring Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kseniya Rappoport, Dario Bandiera, Remo Girone.
Fortunato è un camionista che trasporta Ferrari rubate negli Emirati Arabi per conto di una ditta romana. Ma quello che sta per compiere sarà il suo ultimo viaggio. E' ora di passare il testimone al giovane Marcello. Per due giorni e due notti attraversano il deserto e, tra avventure e surreali posti di blocco, tra loro nasce una vera amicizia. Giulio è un dentista cinquantenne, con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che si deve recare a San Pietroburgo per un convegno. Un suo collega lo mette in contatto con Vito Calzone, organizzatore di viaggi a sfondo sessuale.
New In Town
Starring Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick, Jr., J.K. Simmons, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Frances Conroy.
Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment - in the middle of nowhere - to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight-forward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams (Harry Connick, Jr.).
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
Starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal and Bill Hader.
Night has fallen upon the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds, yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum. Now, Larry must try to save his formerly inanimate friends from what could be their last stand amid the wonders of the Smithsonian, all of which, from the famous paintings on the walls to the rocket ships in the halls, suddenly have a mind of their own.
The Proposal (Ricatto D'amore)
Starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O'Hare and Malin Akerman.
When high-powered book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.
Shutter (Ombre Dal Passato)
Starring Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman, James Kyson Lee and John Hensley.
For photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor), his new assignment - a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo - was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan. But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car. Shaken by the accident and by the girl's disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment. Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues. Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city. Ben, meanwhile, has discovered mysterious white blurs - eerily evocative of a human form - that have materialized on an entire day's work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane's concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben's photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.
Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth. National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it ... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless. Same does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good.
Un Estate Ai Caraibi
Con Gigi Proietti, Enrico Brignano, Martina Stella, Maurizio Mattioli, Alena Seredova, Carlo Buccirosso, Biagio Izzo, Paolo Ruffini. Roby è un bancario meridionale, single, che lavora a Pavia. E' ipocondriaco ed ogni sei mesi va in ospedale, dal suo amico medico Giacomo che gli diagnostica un male incurabile. Gli resta un solo mese di vita e Roby decide di spenderlo nel miglior modo possibile partendo alla volta dei Caraibi, destinazione Antigua... Vincenzo è un dentista napoletano sposato con una donna gelosissima che lo marca stretto circondandolo di infermiere bruttissime. Vincenzo ha un'amante bellissima, Anna che decide di portare con sè in vacanza ad Antigua... Angelo fa l'autista per un ricco e cafone palazzinaro romano, Remo che a ridosso delle vacanze estive gli chiede di accompagnarlo ad Antigua, dove ha appena comprato, con dei guadagni truffaldini in Russia, una villa sfarzosissima... Max lavora in una radio privata di Livorno. Fa il disc jockey, in coppia con un simpatico coetaneo, Tommy ed è fidanzato con Laura, una giovane e bellissima commessa. Proprio nel giorno del loro primo anniversario, Max scopre che Laura ha un altro e ha deciso di lasciarlo. Per dimenticarla Max decide di partire per i Caraibi; anche lui si ritrova ad Antigua... Alberto è un romano trapiantato ad Antigua, costretto anni prima a scappare da Roma perchè oberato dai debiti. Anche adesso non se la passa per niente bene. Per sbarcare il lunario fa delle piccole truffe ai danni dei turisti di passaggio. Il suo compare è Morgan, un bambino di colore, orfano, con il quale Alberto divide una misera casetta in un quartiere di poveracci.
February 19 to February 26
Aliens In The Attic (Alieni In Soffitta)
Starring Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Kevin Nealon, Robert Hoffman, Doris Roberts, Tim Meadows, Andy Richter, Gillian Vigman, Ashley Boettcher, Henri Young, Regan Young and Ashley Tisdale.
Kids on a family vacation must fight off an attack by knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions. At the same time, the youngsters work hard to keep their parents in the dark about the battle upstairs. It's the Pearsons versus the aliens who "came from upstairs," in an all-out battle that will decide the fate of the Earth - and kick-off the ultimate summer vacation.
Angels & Demons (Angeli E Demoni)
Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfranco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
Diverso Da Chi?
Con Luca Argentero, Claudia Gerini, Filippo Nigro, Antonio Catania, Francesco Pannofino.
Piero è fidanzato da quattordici anni con Remo, col quale convive in una città del nord-est. Impegnato in politica e attivista gay, per un errore di calcolo dei suoi compagni di partito e un intervento della sorte, si ritrova candidato sindaco per il centrosinistra. Per la campagna elettorale, gli viene affiancata Adele, ultramoderata antidivorzista, incapace di parlare senza inserire la parola "famiglia" in ogni singola frase. L'inizio del rapporto di lavoro è disastroso ma, quando Remo suggerisce a Piero di smetterla di attaccarla e di cercare di ingraziarsela, le cose cambiano radicalmente e la frequentazione tra uomo e donna porta alla conoscenza che porta all'amore. Che ne sarà ora della sua immagine di simbolo gay? E come dirlo a Remo senza rischiare di farsi lasciare? "This is a man's world" canta James Brown sui titoli di testa, mentre la canoa dei due protagonisti fila dritta sull'acqua liscia e la forza dell'amore gonfia i bicipiti e porta alla vittoria. "This is a man's world but it would be nothing without a woman to care": ed eccola la donna che viene a rimestare ed increspare le acque, a fare un po' di confusione, insomma, tra le certezze di Piero, che si credeva "stragay" ma non può non arrendersi al nuovo sentimento. Adele, da buona "centrista sincera" ha meno problemi di lui ad ammetterlo, d'altronde le sue convinzioni le ha già rivoltate come un calzino. E così il bacchettone finisce quasi per apparire lui, che non ha il coraggio di dirsi diverso dai diversi, bisessuale. Il film di esordio di Umberto Carteni, Diverso da chi? , scritto in tempi non politicamente sospetti da Fabio Bonifacci, fa del ribaltamento la figura retorica al centro della propria costruzione, assicurandosi un ritmo indiscutibile e una piacevole e salubre libertà ideologica.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans and Dennis Quaid.
From the Central Asian mountains to the deserts of Egypt, through the crowded streets of Paris to beneath the ice cap of the North Pole, the elite team of operatives known as G.I. JOE journeys on a non-stop adventure as they use the latest in next-generation spy technology and military equipment to fight the duplicitous arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization from plunging the world into chaos.
Italians
Starring Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kseniya Rappoport, Dario Bandiera, Remo Girone.
Fortunato è un camionista che trasporta Ferrari rubate negli Emirati Arabi per conto di una ditta romana. Ma quello che sta per compiere sarà il suo ultimo viaggio. E' ora di passare il testimone al giovane Marcello. Per due giorni e due notti attraversano il deserto e, tra avventure e surreali posti di blocco, tra loro nasce una vera amicizia. Giulio è un dentista cinquantenne, con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che si deve recare a San Pietroburgo per un convegno. Un suo collega lo mette in contatto con Vito Calzone, organizzatore di viaggi a sfondo sessuale.
My Best Friend's Girl (La Ragazza Del Mio Migliore Amico)
Starring Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Alec Baldwin, Jason Biggs, Lizzy Caplan and Andrew Caldwell.
A master at seducing - and offending - women, Tank (Dane Cook) is a professional My Best Friend's Girl. When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives - an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank's best friend, Dustin (Jason Biggs), is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out ... and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis (Kate Hudson) is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend's girl.
Natale A Rio
Con Michelle Hunziker, Massimo Ghini, Ludovico Fremont, Paolo Conticini, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Christian DeSica.
Due divorziati (Ghini e De Sica), molto diversi tra loro (uno e un professore di etica e l'altro un palazzinaro) finiscono insieme in vacanza a Rio, all'insaputa dei reciproci figli i quali, a loro volta, mentono ai genitori fingendo di andare in Spagna e recandosi invece a... Rio. Citta in cui, vedi caso, si trovano le ex mogli dei due che si sono incontrate nella clinica in cui si sono fatte rifare il seno facendo invece sapere ai familiari di essere altrove...
New In Town
Starring Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick, Jr., J.K. Simmons, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Frances Conroy.
Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment - in the middle of nowhere - to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight-forward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams (Harry Connick, Jr.).
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
Starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal and Bill Hader.
Night has fallen upon the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds, yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum. Now, Larry must try to save his formerly inanimate friends from what could be their last stand amid the wonders of the Smithsonian, all of which, from the famous paintings on the walls to the rocket ships in the halls, suddenly have a mind of their own.
The Proposal (Ricatto D'amore)
Starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O'Hare and Malin Akerman.
When high-powered book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.
Shutter (Ombre Dal Passato)
Starring Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman, James Kyson Lee and John Hensley.
For photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor), his new assignment - a lucrative fashion shoot in Tokyo - was supposed to be a kind of working honeymoon. With this exotic professional opportunity and the limitless possibilities of a new marriage, Ben and Jane arrive in Japan. But as they make their way on a mountain road leading to Mt. Fuji, their new life together comes to, literally, a crashing halt. Their car smashes into a woman standing in the middle of the road, who has materialized out of nowhere. Upon regaining consciousness after the accident, Ben and Jane cannot find any trace of the girl Jane believes she hit with the car. Shaken by the accident and by the girl's disappearance, Ben and Jane arrive in Tokyo, where Ben begins his glamorous assignment. Having worked in Japan before and fluent in the language, Ben is comfortable there, and he eagerly reunites with old friends and colleagues. Jane, a newcomer to the city, feels very much like a stranger in a strange land as she makes tentative, unsettling forays through the city. Ben, meanwhile, has discovered mysterious white blurs - eerily evocative of a human form - that have materialized on an entire day's work from the expensive photo shoot. Jane's concerns escalate as she believes the blurs in Ben's photos are the dead girl from the road, who is now seeking vengeance for them leaving her to die.
The Taking Of Pelham 123
Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli, James Gandolfini and Ramon Rodriguez.
New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber's (Denzel Washington) ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder (John Travolta), a criminal mastermind and leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.
Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth. National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it ... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless. Same does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good.
February 26 to March 5
Aliens In The Attic (Alieni In Soffitta)
Starring Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Kevin Nealon, Robert Hoffman, Doris Roberts, Tim Meadows, Andy Richter, Gillian Vigman, Ashley Boettcher, Henri Young, Regan Young and Ashley Tisdale.
Kids on a family vacation must fight off an attack by knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions. At the same time, the youngsters work hard to keep their parents in the dark about the battle upstairs. It's the Pearsons versus the aliens who "came from upstairs," in an all-out battle that will decide the fate of the Earth - and kick-off the ultimate summer vacation.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans and Dennis Quaid.
From the Central Asian mountains to the deserts of Egypt, through the crowded streets of Paris to beneath the ice cap of the North Pole, the elite team of operatives known as G.I. JOE journeys on a non-stop adventure as they use the latest in next-generation spy technology and military equipment to fight the duplicitous arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization from plunging the world into chaos.
Imagine That (Immagina Che)
Starring Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Yara Shahidi, Nicole Ari Parker, Ronny Cox and Martin Sheen.
A successful financial executive (Eddie Murphy) has more time for his BlackBerry than his seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi). When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter's imaginary world.
Italians
Starring Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kseniya Rappoport, Dario Bandiera, Remo Girone.
Fortunato è un camionista che trasporta Ferrari rubate negli Emirati Arabi per conto di una ditta romana. Ma quello che sta per compiere sarà il suo ultimo viaggio. E' ora di passare il testimone al giovane Marcello. Per due giorni e due notti attraversano il deserto e, tra avventure e surreali posti di blocco, tra loro nasce una vera amicizia. Giulio è un dentista cinquantenne, con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che si deve recare a San Pietroburgo per un convegno. Un suo collega lo mette in contatto con Vito Calzone, organizzatore di viaggi a sfondo sessuale.
My Best Friend's Girl (La Ragazza Del Mio Migliore Amico)
Starring Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Alec Baldwin, Jason Biggs, Lizzy Caplan and Andrew Caldwell.
A master at seducing - and offending - women, Tank (Dane Cook) is a professional My Best Friend's Girl. When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives - an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank's best friend, Dustin (Jason Biggs), is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out ... and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis (Kate Hudson) is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend's girl.
Natale A Rio
Con Michelle Hunziker, Massimo Ghini, Ludovico Fremont, Paolo Conticini, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Christian DeSica.
Due divorziati (Ghini e De Sica), molto diversi tra loro (uno e un professore di etica e l'altro un palazzinaro) finiscono insieme in vacanza a Rio, all'insaputa dei reciproci figli i quali, a loro volta, mentono ai genitori fingendo di andare in Spagna e recandosi invece a... Rio. Citta in cui, vedi caso, si trovano le ex mogli dei due che si sono incontrate nella clinica in cui si sono fatte rifare il seno facendo invece sapere ai familiari di essere altrove...
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
Starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal and Bill Hader.
Night has fallen upon the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds, yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum. Now, Larry must try to save his formerly inanimate friends from what could be their last stand amid the wonders of the Smithsonian, all of which, from the famous paintings on the walls to the rocket ships in the halls, suddenly have a mind of their own.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Il Superpoliziotto Del Supermercato)
Starring Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keir O'Donnell, Bobby Cannavale, Stephen Rannazzisi and Shirley Knight.
Paul Blart (Kevin James) is a single, suburban dad trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. It's a job he takes very seriously, though no one else does. When Santa's helpers at the mall stage a coup, shutting down the megaplex and taking hostages (Paul's daughter and sweetheart among them), Jersey's most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day.
The Proposal (Ricatto D'amore)
Starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O'Hare and Malin Akerman.
When high-powered book editor Margaret (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.
The Taking Of Pelham 123
Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli, James Gandolfini and Ramon Rodriguez.
New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber's (Denzel Washington) ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder (John Travolta), a criminal mastermind and leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?
Terminator Salvation
Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jadagrace and Helena Bonham Carter.
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro.
Two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he's preparing to leave home for college. Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about separating from his parents for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Leaving home is something the Autobots understand. The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron is unhabitable and the Autobots make the best of their lives on earth, working in league with the military as part of a Top Secret team called NEST. The NEST Team seeks to hunt down whatever remaining Decepticons are still hiding on earth. National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway, driven to prove that all Transformers should be banished from earth, endeavors to terminate NEST. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, agrees to leave if the governments of the world wish it ... but he warns Galloway to consider what happens if the Autobots leave earth defenseless. Same does his best to navigate college life, until suddenly he's besieged by visions. The Decepticons soon learn what Sam doesn't know; that he alone holds the key to the outcome of the struggle between evil and the ultimate power of good.
March 5 to March 12
Aliens In The Attic (Alieni In Soffitta)
Starring Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Kevin Nealon, Robert Hoffman, Doris Roberts, Tim Meadows, Andy Richter, Gillian Vigman, Ashley Boettcher, Henri Young, Regan Young and Ashley Tisdale.
Kids on a family vacation must fight off an attack by knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions. At the same time, the youngsters work hard to keep their parents in the dark about the battle upstairs. It's the Pearsons versus the aliens who "came from upstairs," in an all-out battle that will decide the fate of the Earth - and kick-off the ultimate summer vacation.
Anamorph
Starring Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare and Clea DuVall.
When reclusive Detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is called in to investigate a series of increasingly spectacular murders, he is thrust into a dark and unsettling underworld that threatens to reveal the secrets of his tormented past. As elaborate as they are gruesome, the murders are a paean to the mysteries of anamorphosis, where different perspectives reveal hidden meanings, clues to the crime, and, for Aubray, something more... personal. For the crime scenes resemble those of a previous serial killer who terrorized New York City before being tracked down and killed by Aubray and his men five years before. That case has haunted Aubray ever since, and something about these eerie copycat killings - seemingly planned and executed with him in mind-force him to reexamine the questions he's tried so hard to bury. Besieged on all sides - by an ambitious young detective (Scott Speedman) with his own take on the killings; by a troubled young woman (Clea Duvall) with a dangerous link to his past; and by his own paralyzing sense of guilt - Aubray must finally confront the possibility he's been dreading - and denying - all along.
The Ballad Of Jack And Rose (La Storia di Jack e Rose)
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Paul Dano, Ryan McDonald, Jena Malone, Beau Bridges, Jason Lee and Susanna Thompson.
Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world, but now his fatal illness and Rose's emerging womanhood pose troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism, Jack now rages at those who do not share his aesthetic, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action.
Generazione 1000 Euro
Con Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, Carolina Crescentini, Paolo Villaggio, Francesco Mandelli.
A Milano un gruppo di giovani neolaureati galleggia nell'orbita dell'instabilità esistenziale. Matteo, che si definisce un luogo comune, è un genio della matematica; nelle vesti di "cultore della materia" tiene lezioni sull'insostenibilità di Gödel, ma per tirare a campare lavora nel reparto marketing di un'azienda in odore di taglio del personale. L'amico e coinquilino Francesco mette in pratica la sua passione per la settima arte facendo il proiezionista in un cinema d'essay e osserva la vita come se fosse un film, dando un voto alle cose. Lasciato dalla fidanzata tirocinante in attesa di asportare il suo primo pancreas, e perse le sicurezze economiche di un terzo inquilino che li ha appena abbandonati con un debito, Matteo si trova diviso tra la passione e la ragione - e tra due donne che entrano con impeto nella sua vita - nell'eterna sospensione d'animo. Se nel 2001, con Santa Maradona, Marco Ponti metteva in scena il precariato in quel di Torino e sette anni dopo Paolo Virzì ribatteva da Roma con il grottesco Tutta la vita davanti, Massimo Venier trova a Milano - e nel libro omonimo di Antonio Incorvaia e Alessandro Rimassa - l'ambientazione ideale per far luce su un tema che affligge la generazione mille euro. Armato della sua solita delicatezza e di uno sguardo partecipe e insieme leggero, il regista di Chiedimi se sono felice s'incarica di raccogliere le esperienze comuni dei precari d'oggi convogliandole in una commedia pura, priva di quelle tinte nere che avevano contraddistinto gli impiegati senza contratto di Virzì. La trama articolata e godibile su più fronti offre agli interpreti lo spazio per caratterizzare i loro personaggi e renderli verosimili all'interno di una fiction che traduce la realtà alterandola in favore dell'impianto narrativo. Nell'utilizzare la matematica e i personaggi secondari come valore aggiunto, Venier trova una formula fatta di piccoli dettagli, di battute e puntuali osservazioni capaci di divertire e allo stesso tempo descrivere l'attuale panorama italiano avvolto dall'incertezza del futuro professionale e sentimentale dei giovani.
G-Force
Starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Tyler Patrick Jones and Justin Mentell.
A comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of Tracy Morgan), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of Penelope Cruz), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a starnosed mole, Speckles (voice of Nicolas Cage), the computer and information specialist. Along the way, the G-Force encounters myriad other members of the animal kingdom, including pet shop layabout Hurley (voice of Jon Favreau) and the rabidly territorial hamster Bucky (voice of Steve Buscemi).
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans and Dennis Quaid.
From the Central Asian mountains to the deserts of Egypt, through the crowded streets of Paris to beneath the ice cap of the North Pole, the elite team of operatives known as G.I. JOE journeys on a non-stop adventure as they use the latest in next-generation spy technology and military equipment to fight the duplicitous arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization from plunging the world into chaos.
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Imagine That (Immagina Che)
Starring Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Yara Shahidi, Nicole Ari Parker, Ronny Cox and Martin Sheen.
A successful financial executive (Eddie Murphy) has more time for his BlackBerry than his seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi). When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter's imaginary world.
Italians
Starring Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kseniya Rappoport, Dario Bandiera, Remo Girone.
Fortunato è un camionista che trasporta Ferrari rubate negli Emirati Arabi per conto di una ditta romana. Ma quello che sta per compiere sarà il suo ultimo viaggio. E' ora di passare il testimone al giovane Marcello. Per due giorni e due notti attraversano il deserto e, tra avventure e surreali posti di blocco, tra loro nasce una vera amicizia. Giulio è un dentista cinquantenne, con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che si deve recare a San Pietroburgo per un convegno. Un suo collega lo mette in contatto con Vito Calzone, organizzatore di viaggi a sfondo sessuale.
My Best Friend's Girl (La Ragazza Del Mio Migliore Amico)
Starring Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Alec Baldwin, Jason Biggs, Lizzy Caplan and Andrew Caldwell.
A master at seducing - and offending - women, Tank (Dane Cook) is a professional My Best Friend's Girl. When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives - an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank's best friend, Dustin (Jason Biggs), is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out ... and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis (Kate Hudson) is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend's girl.
Natale A Rio
Con Michelle Hunziker, Massimo Ghini, Ludovico Fremont, Paolo Conticini, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Christian DeSica.
Due divorziati (Ghini e De Sica), molto diversi tra loro (uno e un professore di etica e l'altro un palazzinaro) finiscono insieme in vacanza a Rio, all'insaputa dei reciproci figli i quali, a loro volta, mentono ai genitori fingendo di andare in Spagna e recandosi invece a... Rio. Citta in cui, vedi caso, si trovano le ex mogli dei due che si sono incontrate nella clinica in cui si sono fatte rifare il seno facendo invece sapere ai familiari di essere altrove...
Neverwas
Starring Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, William Hurt, Bill Bellamy, Alan Cumming and Michael Moriarty.
Weaving together fantasy and reality, past and present, Neverwas is an enchantment-filled, life-affirming tale about a young man (Aaron Eckhart) who finds out his childhood fantasyland may really exist. Searching for insight into his father's (Nick Nolte) life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley (Eckhart) takes a job at the institution where he lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel (Sir Ian McKellen), a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created.
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
Starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal and Bill Hader.
Night has fallen upon the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds, yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum. Now, Larry must try to save his formerly inanimate friends from what could be their last stand amid the wonders of the Smithsonian, all of which, from the famous paintings on the walls to the rocket ships in the halls, suddenly have a mind of their own.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Il Superpoliziotto Del Supermercato)
Starring Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Keir O'Donnell, Bobby Cannavale, Stephen Rannazzisi and Shirley Knight.
Paul Blart (Kevin James) is a single, suburban dad trying to make ends meet as a security officer at a New Jersey mall. It's a job he takes very seriously, though no one else does. When Santa's helpers at the mall stage a coup, shutting down the megaplex and taking hostages (Paul's daughter and sweetheart among them), Jersey's most formidable mall cop will have to become a real cop to save the day.
The Taking Of Pelham 123
Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli, James Gandolfini and Ramon Rodriguez.
New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber's (Denzel Washington) ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder (John Travolta), a criminal mastermind and leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?
Terminator Salvation
Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jadagrace and Helena Bonham Carter.
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
March 12 to March 19
Anamorph
Starring Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare and Clea DuVall.
When reclusive Detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is called in to investigate a series of increasingly spectacular murders, he is thrust into a dark and unsettling underworld that threatens to reveal the secrets of his tormented past. As elaborate as they are gruesome, the murders are a paean to the mysteries of anamorphosis, where different perspectives reveal hidden meanings, clues to the crime, and, for Aubray, something more... personal. For the crime scenes resemble those of a previous serial killer who terrorized New York City before being tracked down and killed by Aubray and his men five years before. That case has haunted Aubray ever since, and something about these eerie copycat killings - seemingly planned and executed with him in mind-force him to reexamine the questions he's tried so hard to bury. Besieged on all sides - by an ambitious young detective (Scott Speedman) with his own take on the killings; by a troubled young woman (Clea Duvall) with a dangerous link to his past; and by his own paralyzing sense of guilt - Aubray must finally confront the possibility he's been dreading - and denying - all along.
The Ballad Of Jack And Rose (La Storia di Jack e Rose)
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Paul Dano, Ryan McDonald, Jena Malone, Beau Bridges, Jason Lee and Susanna Thompson.
Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world, but now his fatal illness and Rose's emerging womanhood pose troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism, Jack now rages at those who do not share his aesthetic, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action.
Crank 2: High Voltage
Starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Corey Haim, Bai Ling, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Clifton Collins Jr., Reno Wilson, Simone Bargetze and Danna Hansen.
The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank 2: High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off - except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping.
Generazione 1000 Euro
Con Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, Carolina Crescentini, Paolo Villaggio, Francesco Mandelli.
A Milano un gruppo di giovani neolaureati galleggia nell'orbita dell'instabilità esistenziale. Matteo, che si definisce un luogo comune, è un genio della matematica; nelle vesti di "cultore della materia" tiene lezioni sull'insostenibilità di Gödel, ma per tirare a campare lavora nel reparto marketing di un'azienda in odore di taglio del personale. L'amico e coinquilino Francesco mette in pratica la sua passione per la settima arte facendo il proiezionista in un cinema d'essay e osserva la vita come se fosse un film, dando un voto alle cose. Lasciato dalla fidanzata tirocinante in attesa di asportare il suo primo pancreas, e perse le sicurezze economiche di un terzo inquilino che li ha appena abbandonati con un debito, Matteo si trova diviso tra la passione e la ragione - e tra due donne che entrano con impeto nella sua vita - nell'eterna sospensione d'animo. Se nel 2001, con Santa Maradona, Marco Ponti metteva in scena il precariato in quel di Torino e sette anni dopo Paolo Virzì ribatteva da Roma con il grottesco Tutta la vita davanti, Massimo Venier trova a Milano - e nel libro omonimo di Antonio Incorvaia e Alessandro Rimassa - l'ambientazione ideale per far luce su un tema che affligge la generazione mille euro. Armato della sua solita delicatezza e di uno sguardo partecipe e insieme leggero, il regista di Chiedimi se sono felice s'incarica di raccogliere le esperienze comuni dei precari d'oggi convogliandole in una commedia pura, priva di quelle tinte nere che avevano contraddistinto gli impiegati senza contratto di Virzì. La trama articolata e godibile su più fronti offre agli interpreti lo spazio per caratterizzare i loro personaggi e renderli verosimili all'interno di una fiction che traduce la realtà alterandola in favore dell'impianto narrativo. Nell'utilizzare la matematica e i personaggi secondari come valore aggiunto, Venier trova una formula fatta di piccoli dettagli, di battute e puntuali osservazioni capaci di divertire e allo stesso tempo descrivere l'attuale panorama italiano avvolto dall'incertezza del futuro professionale e sentimentale dei giovani.
G-Force
Starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Tyler Patrick Jones and Justin Mentell.
A comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of Tracy Morgan), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of Penelope Cruz), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a starnosed mole, Speckles (voice of Nicolas Cage), the computer and information specialist. Along the way, the G-Force encounters myriad other members of the animal kingdom, including pet shop layabout Hurley (voice of Jon Favreau) and the rabidly territorial hamster Bucky (voice of Steve Buscemi).
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Italians
Starring Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kseniya Rappoport, Dario Bandiera, Remo Girone.
Fortunato è un camionista che trasporta Ferrari rubate negli Emirati Arabi per conto di una ditta romana. Ma quello che sta per compiere sarà il suo ultimo viaggio. E' ora di passare il testimone al giovane Marcello. Per due giorni e due notti attraversano il deserto e, tra avventure e surreali posti di blocco, tra loro nasce una vera amicizia. Giulio è un dentista cinquantenne, con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che si deve recare a San Pietroburgo per un convegno. Un suo collega lo mette in contatto con Vito Calzone, organizzatore di viaggi a sfondo sessuale.
Little Fish
Starring Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson, Noni Hazlehurst and Dustin Nguyen.
Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett) is an ex-junkie who swims, works, sleeps and lives with her mother in Sydney’s Little Saigon, dreaming of a better life. But the unexpected return of her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen), the criminal aspirations of her brother Ray (Martin Henderson) and the emotional draw of troubled family friend Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving), creates friction for Tracy. Her dream soon becomes entangled with criminal boss Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson (Sam Neill) with shattering consequences.
Natale A Rio
Con Michelle Hunziker, Massimo Ghini, Ludovico Fremont, Paolo Conticini, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Christian DeSica.
Due divorziati (Ghini e De Sica), molto diversi tra loro (uno e un professore di etica e l'altro un palazzinaro) finiscono insieme in vacanza a Rio, all'insaputa dei reciproci figli i quali, a loro volta, mentono ai genitori fingendo di andare in Spagna e recandosi invece a... Rio. Citta in cui, vedi caso, si trovano le ex mogli dei due che si sono incontrate nella clinica in cui si sono fatte rifare il seno facendo invece sapere ai familiari di essere altrove...
Neverwas
Starring Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, William Hurt, Bill Bellamy, Alan Cumming and Michael Moriarty.
Weaving together fantasy and reality, past and present, Neverwas is an enchantment-filled, life-affirming tale about a young man (Aaron Eckhart) who finds out his childhood fantasyland may really exist. Searching for insight into his father's (Nick Nolte) life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley (Eckhart) takes a job at the institution where he lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel (Sir Ian McKellen), a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created.
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
Starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal and Bill Hader.
Night has fallen upon the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds, yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum. Now, Larry must try to save his formerly inanimate friends from what could be their last stand amid the wonders of the Smithsonian, all of which, from the famous paintings on the walls to the rocket ships in the halls, suddenly have a mind of their own.
Questione Di Cuore
Con Antonio Albanese, Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Calligari.
Angelo è un giovane carrozziere che accumula beni, Alberto uno sceneggiatore di successo che spreca parole. Colpiti al cuore da un infarto e dalla vita, vengono ricoverati nella stessa notte e nella stessa clinica. Vicini di letto e lontani di mondi, Angelo e Alberto scoprono una zona franca, dove scambiarsi emozioni, ricaricare il cuore e risollevare lo spirito. Angelo, padre di due figli e marito innamorato di Rossana, organizza il disagio seguito alla malattia, Alberto, fidanzato senza più voglie di Carla, esplora la sua infelicità e cerca parole per raccontarla. Dimessi dalla clinica, la casa di Angelo diventerà l'officina in cui mettere a punto il motore, il ricovero dove il Pigneto incontra la prima circoscrizione, il laboratorio dove lo scrittore ritrova la curiosità sincera di un'osservazione partecipe. Se Mignon è partita, Verso sera, L'albero delle pere e Lezioni di volo misuravano gli intervalli fra generazioni e le irriducibili incomprensioni fra padri/madri e figli/figlie, Questione di cuore confronta e incontra la stessa età. Da una parte il disagio agiato di uno sceneggiatore gaudente, dall'altra l'accomodante accomodare di un carrozziere familista. Francesca Archibugi, impartita la lezione a due acerbi sprovveduti che hanno rinunciato volontariamente a ogni impegno intellettuale, "rientra" dall'India nel paesaggio italiano, più peculiarmente romano e ampiamente frequentato dalla sua filmografia. Rincasa con un un'amicizia al maschile che diventa il pretesto per interrogarsi e indagare il rapporto tra realtà e scrittura. Esplorando la storia di due uomini di diversa estrazione culturale, attaccati ai reciproci pregiudizi di classe ma uniti dall'esperienza drammatica trascorsa nel reparto di terapia intensiva di un ospedale romano, la regista affronta le sue personali inquietudini riguardo alla crisi sociale e culturale del nostro paese. Storia e cronaca non entrano nel film se non attraverso "finestre aperte" sulla borgata e finiscono per riflettersi in maniera decisiva sulle esistenze e sui vincoli affettivi (e di classe) dei protagonisti. La vita colpita al cuore abbatte il rapporto di asimmetria sociale, determina un cambio o una liberazione nel modo in cui i "soggetti a rischio" si relazionano col mondo: l'aria da divo di Alberto, che consuma nel suo grande appartamento gli ultimi scampoli di un'ormai tramontata agiatezza, e il proletario senso pratico di Angelo, che ha cresciuto due figli e farà amorevolmente fronte all'inettitudine dell'amico. Nonostante la società abbia costruito fra di loro una barriera invalicabile, la necrosi del cuore li ha uniti, allentando i ruoli, aprendo la possibilità di guardarsi in modo diverso e progredendo verso una reciproca comprensione. Se l'Archibugi è indubbiamente abile a descrivere le sfumature del comportamento dei suoi personaggi, la raffinatezza di Questione di cuore si deve in grande misura all'interpretazione di Antonio Albanese e di Kim Rossi Stuart. Il primo mostrando la vulnerabilità che si cela sotto la superficie caustica, il secondo mantenendo una presenza più discreta e distaccata, ma non meno capace di suscitare venature di intenso sentimento. La storia di Alberto e Angelo invita lo spettatore a contemplare, nel contesto di due vite (stra)ordinarie, i paradossi dell'amicizia, il vincolo di necessità e di affetto sincero che la patologia cardiovascolare e la malattia esistenziale hanno stabilito.
Termination Point
Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Jason Priestley, Michael Eklund, Gary Hudson, Stefanie Von Pfetten and Garwin Sanford.
When his time-travel experiment is deemed too dangerous and shut down, a scientist steals the technology and escapes on a commercial flight that disappears from radar. Believing he's jumped to the past, government agents must scramble to track him down before irreparable damage is done to the timeline.
Terminator Salvation
Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jadagrace and Helena Bonham Carter.
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Vincere
Con Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Siamo agli inizi del secolo e un giovane socialista rivoluzionario incontra casualmente una donna passionale come lui, Ida Dalser. Quel giovane si chiama Benito Mussolini. Lei lo seguirà nella sua azione politica, assecondandone i cambiamenti di rotta e giungendo fino a spogliarsi di tutto per consentirgli di fondare il proprio giornale, «Il Popolo d'Italia». Gli darà anche un figlio che verrà chiamato Benito Albino e sarà riconosciuto dal padre. Ida però dovrà scoprire che il suo matrimonio, avvenuto in chiesa, ha molto meno valore di quello che Mussolini ha contratto civilmente con Rachele Guidi da cui ha avuto la figlia Edda. L'ascesa dell'uomo politico è inarrestabile così come la sua decisione di escludere dalla propria vita sia Ida che il bambino. La donna cercherà di autoconvincersi che si tratti solo di una messa alla prova che non potrà che risolversi in senso positivo. Invece significherà per lei e suo figlio la morte in ospedale psichiatrico circondati da una cortina di oblio. Marco Bellocchio affronta una pagina di storia italiana misconosciuta. La notizia era apparsa negli anni Cinquanta su «La Settimana INCOM Illustrata» ma pochi vi avevano prestato credito perchè in quell'epoca i falsi memoriali su malefatte degli esponenti del fascismo inondavano le redazioni. Due giornalisti Rai, Novelli e Laurenti, riprendono di recente le ricerche e realizzano un documentario che va in onda su RaiTre nel gennaio 2005. Da esso emerge una fitta serie di testimonianze sulla veridicità di quanto all'epoca denunciato. Si può affermare che Bellocchio non poteva non essere attratto da una vicenda che coniugava il tema del potere con le dinamiche della psiche. Ne emerge un film come al solito molto personale che denuncia però una costrizione in cui il regista non si trova a suo agio. La camicia di forza della Storia, con le sue date e i suoi avvenimenti, vincola la narrazione che tenta di liberarsene non riuscendovi sempre. Certo Bellocchio aveva già affrontato di recente la Storia con Buongiorno, notte ma lì aveva potuto lavorare da Maestro ri-costruendo. Qui non può farlo liberamente e se ne avverte la consapevolezza nella scelta stilistica di ricorrere a una modalità narrativa che gli sta particolarmente a cuore: l'opera lirica. L'intero film è costruito come un melodramma sia sul piano musicale che su quello della struttura, con la passione dominante all'inizio a cui seguono la disillusione e la morte. Su tutto questo prevale però una lettura decisamente interessante e che mette in gioco la psichiatria e, ancor più, la psicoanalisi che studia il rapporto tra il potere e le masse. Mentre la follia diviene sempre più collettiva e partecipata nel Paese, ci suggerisce Bellocchio, diviene quasi indispensabile che la normalità (Ida) venga trattata come devianza. Mentre l'Italia corre verso il baratro della Seconda Guerra Mondiale la Dalser e suo figlio vengono fatti precipitare nella clausura degli Istituti. Dove non basterà l'ammonimento dello psichiatra: Questo non è il tempo di gridare la verità. È il tempo di tacere, di recitare una parte. Chi non è disposto a piegarsi non può che essere stroncato oppure, come accade nell'immagine più intensa del film, non può che arrampicarsi su sbarre senza via d'uscita per gettare nella neve lettere che mai nessuno leggerà.
March 19 to March 26
Borderland
Starring Brian Presley, Rider Strong and Zev Berman.
A trip to the Mexican border quickly goes wrong for a group of Texas college students in this horror film. With its roots in reality, BORDERLAND follows the trio as they evade a bloodthirsty cult intent on human sacrifice.
Crank 2: High Voltage
Starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Corey Haim, Bai Ling, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Clifton Collins Jr., Reno Wilson, Simone Bargetze and Danna Hansen.
The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank 2: High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off - except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping.
Dark Storm
Starring Stephen Baldwin, Rob LaBelle, Nickolas Baric and Michele Byrne.
When a device more powerful than a nuclear bomb starts a chain reaction that threatens to destroy the entire world, the same scientists responsible for creating it must now figure out how to reign in it's power in this apocalyptic sci-fi action film starring Stephen Baldwin and William B. Davis. Dr. Daniel Gray (Baldwin) works in a top-secret military base alongside some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Recently, this crack team of scientists has created the ultimate weapon: something so revolutionary that it could give unlimited power to the military that wields it. But the weapon is experimental and unstable, and the destructive power unleashed when it soon fails threatens to consume entire continents. Now, with time running short and eager weapons dealers determined to unlock the secrets of this diabolical device, the same scientists who created it must shut it down before it's secrets are leaked and more lives are lost.
Generazione 1000 Euro
Con Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, Carolina Crescentini, Paolo Villaggio, Francesco Mandelli.
A Milano un gruppo di giovani neolaureati galleggia nell'orbita dell'instabilità esistenziale. Matteo, che si definisce un luogo comune, è un genio della matematica; nelle vesti di "cultore della materia" tiene lezioni sull'insostenibilità di Gödel, ma per tirare a campare lavora nel reparto marketing di un'azienda in odore di taglio del personale. L'amico e coinquilino Francesco mette in pratica la sua passione per la settima arte facendo il proiezionista in un cinema d'essay e osserva la vita come se fosse un film, dando un voto alle cose. Lasciato dalla fidanzata tirocinante in attesa di asportare il suo primo pancreas, e perse le sicurezze economiche di un terzo inquilino che li ha appena abbandonati con un debito, Matteo si trova diviso tra la passione e la ragione - e tra due donne che entrano con impeto nella sua vita - nell'eterna sospensione d'animo. Se nel 2001, con Santa Maradona, Marco Ponti metteva in scena il precariato in quel di Torino e sette anni dopo Paolo Virzì ribatteva da Roma con il grottesco Tutta la vita davanti, Massimo Venier trova a Milano - e nel libro omonimo di Antonio Incorvaia e Alessandro Rimassa - l'ambientazione ideale per far luce su un tema che affligge la generazione mille euro. Armato della sua solita delicatezza e di uno sguardo partecipe e insieme leggero, il regista di Chiedimi se sono felice s'incarica di raccogliere le esperienze comuni dei precari d'oggi convogliandole in una commedia pura, priva di quelle tinte nere che avevano contraddistinto gli impiegati senza contratto di Virzì. La trama articolata e godibile su più fronti offre agli interpreti lo spazio per caratterizzare i loro personaggi e renderli verosimili all'interno di una fiction che traduce la realtà alterandola in favore dell'impianto narrativo. Nell'utilizzare la matematica e i personaggi secondari come valore aggiunto, Venier trova una formula fatta di piccoli dettagli, di battute e puntuali osservazioni capaci di divertire e allo stesso tempo descrivere l'attuale panorama italiano avvolto dall'incertezza del futuro professionale e sentimentale dei giovani.
G-Force
Starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Tyler Patrick Jones and Justin Mentell.
A comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of Tracy Morgan), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of Penelope Cruz), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a starnosed mole, Speckles (voice of Nicolas Cage), the computer and information specialist. Along the way, the G-Force encounters myriad other members of the animal kingdom, including pet shop layabout Hurley (voice of Jon Favreau) and the rabidly territorial hamster Bucky (voice of Steve Buscemi).
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Italians
Starring Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kseniya Rappoport, Dario Bandiera, Remo Girone.
Fortunato è un camionista che trasporta Ferrari rubate negli Emirati Arabi per conto di una ditta romana. Ma quello che sta per compiere sarà il suo ultimo viaggio. E' ora di passare il testimone al giovane Marcello. Per due giorni e due notti attraversano il deserto e, tra avventure e surreali posti di blocco, tra loro nasce una vera amicizia. Giulio è un dentista cinquantenne, con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che si deve recare a San Pietroburgo per un convegno. Un suo collega lo mette in contatto con Vito Calzone, organizzatore di viaggi a sfondo sessuale.
Kaw
Starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Stephen McHattie, Kristin Booth and Rod Taylor.
Sean Patrick Flannery and Rod Taylor star in this horrific tale of a small town overrun by a conspiracy of flesh eating ravens. Middletown sheriff Wayne Merkle (Flannery) has grown used to the quiet life over the years, and like the other citizens of his bustling community he could have never suspected what horrors were about to unfold during his last day before moving to the city with his pretty new bride Cynthia (Kristin Booth). The first sign that something was amiss in the skies over Middletown occurred when outcast farmer Clyde (Stephen McHattie) was attacked. But the locals have all grown tired of Clyde's bizarre exploits over the years, so when he comes into town claiming that he was attacked by ravens most folks simply laugh him off. Their guffaws soon turn to blood-curdling screams, however, when the local girl's soccer team comes under attack and the citizens are forced to barricade themselves in the town diner. While Sheriff Merkle and his good friend Doc (Taylor) do their best to board up the diner and ensure the safety of the citizens, they quickly discover how futile their efforts were when the flesh-eating fowls make quick work of the flimsy shelter. It seems that local farmer Oskar (John Ralston) has been hiding some particularly unsettling developments from his fellow townspeople as of late, leaving the average citizens easy pickings for the razor-talon terror that circles above. As the day turns to night and the jet-black feathers of death become indistinguishable from the darkened sky, the few remaining survivors will wage one last, desperate stand against the army of merciless killers that circle overhead.
Little Fish
Starring Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson, Noni Hazlehurst and Dustin Nguyen.
Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett) is an ex-junkie who swims, works, sleeps and lives with her mother in Sydney’s Little Saigon, dreaming of a better life. But the unexpected return of her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen), the criminal aspirations of her brother Ray (Martin Henderson) and the emotional draw of troubled family friend Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving), creates friction for Tracy. Her dream soon becomes entangled with criminal boss Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson (Sam Neill) with shattering consequences.
Natale A Rio
Con Michelle Hunziker, Massimo Ghini, Ludovico Fremont, Paolo Conticini, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Christian DeSica.
Due divorziati (Ghini e De Sica), molto diversi tra loro (uno e un professore di etica e l'altro un palazzinaro) finiscono insieme in vacanza a Rio, all'insaputa dei reciproci figli i quali, a loro volta, mentono ai genitori fingendo di andare in Spagna e recandosi invece a... Rio. Citta in cui, vedi caso, si trovano le ex mogli dei due che si sono incontrate nella clinica in cui si sono fatte rifare il seno facendo invece sapere ai familiari di essere altrove...
Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian
Starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal and Bill Hader.
Night has fallen upon the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The guides have gone home, the lights are out, the school kids are tucked in their beds, yet something incredible is stirring as former night guard Larry Daley finds himself lured into his biggest, most imagination-boggling adventure yet in which history truly comes alive. In this second installment of the Night at the Museum saga, Larry faces a battle so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum. Now, Larry must try to save his formerly inanimate friends from what could be their last stand amid the wonders of the Smithsonian, all of which, from the famous paintings on the walls to the rocket ships in the halls, suddenly have a mind of their own.
Questione Di Cuore
Con Antonio Albanese, Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Calligari.
Angelo è un giovane carrozziere che accumula beni, Alberto uno sceneggiatore di successo che spreca parole. Colpiti al cuore da un infarto e dalla vita, vengono ricoverati nella stessa notte e nella stessa clinica. Vicini di letto e lontani di mondi, Angelo e Alberto scoprono una zona franca, dove scambiarsi emozioni, ricaricare il cuore e risollevare lo spirito. Angelo, padre di due figli e marito innamorato di Rossana, organizza il disagio seguito alla malattia, Alberto, fidanzato senza più voglie di Carla, esplora la sua infelicità e cerca parole per raccontarla. Dimessi dalla clinica, la casa di Angelo diventerà l'officina in cui mettere a punto il motore, il ricovero dove il Pigneto incontra la prima circoscrizione, il laboratorio dove lo scrittore ritrova la curiosità sincera di un'osservazione partecipe. Se Mignon è partita, Verso sera, L'albero delle pere e Lezioni di volo misuravano gli intervalli fra generazioni e le irriducibili incomprensioni fra padri/madri e figli/figlie, Questione di cuore confronta e incontra la stessa età. Da una parte il disagio agiato di uno sceneggiatore gaudente, dall'altra l'accomodante accomodare di un carrozziere familista. Francesca Archibugi, impartita la lezione a due acerbi sprovveduti che hanno rinunciato volontariamente a ogni impegno intellettuale, "rientra" dall'India nel paesaggio italiano, più peculiarmente romano e ampiamente frequentato dalla sua filmografia. Rincasa con un un'amicizia al maschile che diventa il pretesto per interrogarsi e indagare il rapporto tra realtà e scrittura. Esplorando la storia di due uomini di diversa estrazione culturale, attaccati ai reciproci pregiudizi di classe ma uniti dall'esperienza drammatica trascorsa nel reparto di terapia intensiva di un ospedale romano, la regista affronta le sue personali inquietudini riguardo alla crisi sociale e culturale del nostro paese. Storia e cronaca non entrano nel film se non attraverso "finestre aperte" sulla borgata e finiscono per riflettersi in maniera decisiva sulle esistenze e sui vincoli affettivi (e di classe) dei protagonisti. La vita colpita al cuore abbatte il rapporto di asimmetria sociale, determina un cambio o una liberazione nel modo in cui i "soggetti a rischio" si relazionano col mondo: l'aria da divo di Alberto, che consuma nel suo grande appartamento gli ultimi scampoli di un'ormai tramontata agiatezza, e il proletario senso pratico di Angelo, che ha cresciuto due figli e farà amorevolmente fronte all'inettitudine dell'amico. Nonostante la società abbia costruito fra di loro una barriera invalicabile, la necrosi del cuore li ha uniti, allentando i ruoli, aprendo la possibilità di guardarsi in modo diverso e progredendo verso una reciproca comprensione. Se l'Archibugi è indubbiamente abile a descrivere le sfumature del comportamento dei suoi personaggi, la raffinatezza di Questione di cuore si deve in grande misura all'interpretazione di Antonio Albanese e di Kim Rossi Stuart. Il primo mostrando la vulnerabilità che si cela sotto la superficie caustica, il secondo mantenendo una presenza più discreta e distaccata, ma non meno capace di suscitare venature di intenso sentimento. La storia di Alberto e Angelo invita lo spettatore a contemplare, nel contesto di due vite (stra)ordinarie, i paradossi dell'amicizia, il vincolo di necessità e di affetto sincero che la patologia cardiovascolare e la malattia esistenziale hanno stabilito.
Termination Point
Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Jason Priestley, Michael Eklund, Gary Hudson, Stefanie Von Pfetten and Garwin Sanford.
When his time-travel experiment is deemed too dangerous and shut down, a scientist steals the technology and escapes on a commercial flight that disappears from radar. Believing he's jumped to the past, government agents must scramble to track him down before irreparable damage is done to the timeline.
Terminator Salvation
Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jadagrace and Helena Bonham Carter.
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
Vincere
Con Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Siamo agli inizi del secolo e un giovane socialista rivoluzionario incontra casualmente una donna passionale come lui, Ida Dalser. Quel giovane si chiama Benito Mussolini. Lei lo seguirà nella sua azione politica, assecondandone i cambiamenti di rotta e giungendo fino a spogliarsi di tutto per consentirgli di fondare il proprio giornale, «Il Popolo d'Italia». Gli darà anche un figlio che verrà chiamato Benito Albino e sarà riconosciuto dal padre. Ida però dovrà scoprire che il suo matrimonio, avvenuto in chiesa, ha molto meno valore di quello che Mussolini ha contratto civilmente con Rachele Guidi da cui ha avuto la figlia Edda. L'ascesa dell'uomo politico è inarrestabile così come la sua decisione di escludere dalla propria vita sia Ida che il bambino. La donna cercherà di autoconvincersi che si tratti solo di una messa alla prova che non potrà che risolversi in senso positivo. Invece significherà per lei e suo figlio la morte in ospedale psichiatrico circondati da una cortina di oblio. Marco Bellocchio affronta una pagina di storia italiana misconosciuta. La notizia era apparsa negli anni Cinquanta su «La Settimana INCOM Illustrata» ma pochi vi avevano prestato credito perchè in quell'epoca i falsi memoriali su malefatte degli esponenti del fascismo inondavano le redazioni. Due giornalisti Rai, Novelli e Laurenti, riprendono di recente le ricerche e realizzano un documentario che va in onda su RaiTre nel gennaio 2005. Da esso emerge una fitta serie di testimonianze sulla veridicità di quanto all'epoca denunciato. Si può affermare che Bellocchio non poteva non essere attratto da una vicenda che coniugava il tema del potere con le dinamiche della psiche. Ne emerge un film come al solito molto personale che denuncia però una costrizione in cui il regista non si trova a suo agio. La camicia di forza della Storia, con le sue date e i suoi avvenimenti, vincola la narrazione che tenta di liberarsene non riuscendovi sempre. Certo Bellocchio aveva già affrontato di recente la Storia con Buongiorno, notte ma lì aveva potuto lavorare da Maestro ri-costruendo. Qui non può farlo liberamente e se ne avverte la consapevolezza nella scelta stilistica di ricorrere a una modalità narrativa che gli sta particolarmente a cuore: l'opera lirica. L'intero film è costruito come un melodramma sia sul piano musicale che su quello della struttura, con la passione dominante all'inizio a cui seguono la disillusione e la morte. Su tutto questo prevale però una lettura decisamente interessante e che mette in gioco la psichiatria e, ancor più, la psicoanalisi che studia il rapporto tra il potere e le masse. Mentre la follia diviene sempre più collettiva e partecipata nel Paese, ci suggerisce Bellocchio, diviene quasi indispensabile che la normalità (Ida) venga trattata come devianza. Mentre l'Italia corre verso il baratro della Seconda Guerra Mondiale la Dalser e suo figlio vengono fatti precipitare nella clausura degli Istituti. Dove non basterà l'ammonimento dello psichiatra: Questo non è il tempo di gridare la verità. È il tempo di tacere, di recitare una parte. Chi non è disposto a piegarsi non può che essere stroncato oppure, come accade nell'immagine più intensa del film, non può che arrampicarsi su sbarre senza via d'uscita per gettare nella neve lettere che mai nessuno leggerà.
March 26 to April 2
Borderland
Starring Brian Presley, Rider Strong and Zev Berman.
A trip to the Mexican border quickly goes wrong for a group of Texas college students in this horror film. With its roots in reality, BORDERLAND follows the trio as they evade a bloodthirsty cult intent on human sacrifice.
District 9
Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi and Devlin Brown.
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Generazione 1000 Euro
Con Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, Carolina Crescentini, Paolo Villaggio, Francesco Mandelli.
A Milano un gruppo di giovani neolaureati galleggia nell'orbita dell'instabilità esistenziale. Matteo, che si definisce un luogo comune, è un genio della matematica; nelle vesti di "cultore della materia" tiene lezioni sull'insostenibilità di Gödel, ma per tirare a campare lavora nel reparto marketing di un'azienda in odore di taglio del personale. L'amico e coinquilino Francesco mette in pratica la sua passione per la settima arte facendo il proiezionista in un cinema d'essay e osserva la vita come se fosse un film, dando un voto alle cose. Lasciato dalla fidanzata tirocinante in attesa di asportare il suo primo pancreas, e perse le sicurezze economiche di un terzo inquilino che li ha appena abbandonati con un debito, Matteo si trova diviso tra la passione e la ragione - e tra due donne che entrano con impeto nella sua vita - nell'eterna sospensione d'animo. Se nel 2001, con Santa Maradona, Marco Ponti metteva in scena il precariato in quel di Torino e sette anni dopo Paolo Virzì ribatteva da Roma con il grottesco Tutta la vita davanti, Massimo Venier trova a Milano - e nel libro omonimo di Antonio Incorvaia e Alessandro Rimassa - l'ambientazione ideale per far luce su un tema che affligge la generazione mille euro. Armato della sua solita delicatezza e di uno sguardo partecipe e insieme leggero, il regista di Chiedimi se sono felice s'incarica di raccogliere le esperienze comuni dei precari d'oggi convogliandole in una commedia pura, priva di quelle tinte nere che avevano contraddistinto gli impiegati senza contratto di Virzì. La trama articolata e godibile su più fronti offre agli interpreti lo spazio per caratterizzare i loro personaggi e renderli verosimili all'interno di una fiction che traduce la realtà alterandola in favore dell'impianto narrativo. Nell'utilizzare la matematica e i personaggi secondari come valore aggiunto, Venier trova una formula fatta di piccoli dettagli, di battute e puntuali osservazioni capaci di divertire e allo stesso tempo descrivere l'attuale panorama italiano avvolto dall'incertezza del futuro professionale e sentimentale dei giovani.
G-Force
Starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Tyler Patrick Jones and Justin Mentell.
A comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of Tracy Morgan), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of Penelope Cruz), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a starnosed mole, Speckles (voice of Nicolas Cage), the computer and information specialist. Along the way, the G-Force encounters myriad other members of the animal kingdom, including pet shop layabout Hurley (voice of Jon Favreau) and the rabidly territorial hamster Bucky (voice of Steve Buscemi).
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Italians
Starring Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kseniya Rappoport, Dario Bandiera, Remo Girone.
Fortunato è un camionista che trasporta Ferrari rubate negli Emirati Arabi per conto di una ditta romana. Ma quello che sta per compiere sarà il suo ultimo viaggio. E' ora di passare il testimone al giovane Marcello. Per due giorni e due notti attraversano il deserto e, tra avventure e surreali posti di blocco, tra loro nasce una vera amicizia. Giulio è un dentista cinquantenne, con un matrimonio fallito alle spalle, che si deve recare a San Pietroburgo per un convegno. Un suo collega lo mette in contatto con Vito Calzone, organizzatore di viaggi a sfondo sessuale.
Natale A Rio
Con Michelle Hunziker, Massimo Ghini, Ludovico Fremont, Paolo Conticini, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Christian DeSica.
Due divorziati (Ghini e De Sica), molto diversi tra loro (uno e un professore di etica e l'altro un palazzinaro) finiscono insieme in vacanza a Rio, all'insaputa dei reciproci figli i quali, a loro volta, mentono ai genitori fingendo di andare in Spagna e recandosi invece a... Rio. Citta in cui, vedi caso, si trovano le ex mogli dei due che si sono incontrate nella clinica in cui si sono fatte rifare il seno facendo invece sapere ai familiari di essere altrove...
Obsessed
Starring Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell and Christine Lahti.
Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.
Outlander
Starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders and Aidan Devine.
A space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world, Kainan, and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster ... before it destroys them all.
Questione Di Cuore
Con Antonio Albanese, Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Calligari.
Angelo è un giovane carrozziere che accumula beni, Alberto uno sceneggiatore di successo che spreca parole. Colpiti al cuore da un infarto e dalla vita, vengono ricoverati nella stessa notte e nella stessa clinica. Vicini di letto e lontani di mondi, Angelo e Alberto scoprono una zona franca, dove scambiarsi emozioni, ricaricare il cuore e risollevare lo spirito. Angelo, padre di due figli e marito innamorato di Rossana, organizza il disagio seguito alla malattia, Alberto, fidanzato senza più voglie di Carla, esplora la sua infelicità e cerca parole per raccontarla. Dimessi dalla clinica, la casa di Angelo diventerà l'officina in cui mettere a punto il motore, il ricovero dove il Pigneto incontra la prima circoscrizione, il laboratorio dove lo scrittore ritrova la curiosità sincera di un'osservazione partecipe. Se Mignon è partita, Verso sera, L'albero delle pere e Lezioni di volo misuravano gli intervalli fra generazioni e le irriducibili incomprensioni fra padri/madri e figli/figlie, Questione di cuore confronta e incontra la stessa età. Da una parte il disagio agiato di uno sceneggiatore gaudente, dall'altra l'accomodante accomodare di un carrozziere familista. Francesca Archibugi, impartita la lezione a due acerbi sprovveduti che hanno rinunciato volontariamente a ogni impegno intellettuale, "rientra" dall'India nel paesaggio italiano, più peculiarmente romano e ampiamente frequentato dalla sua filmografia. Rincasa con un un'amicizia al maschile che diventa il pretesto per interrogarsi e indagare il rapporto tra realtà e scrittura. Esplorando la storia di due uomini di diversa estrazione culturale, attaccati ai reciproci pregiudizi di classe ma uniti dall'esperienza drammatica trascorsa nel reparto di terapia intensiva di un ospedale romano, la regista affronta le sue personali inquietudini riguardo alla crisi sociale e culturale del nostro paese. Storia e cronaca non entrano nel film se non attraverso "finestre aperte" sulla borgata e finiscono per riflettersi in maniera decisiva sulle esistenze e sui vincoli affettivi (e di classe) dei protagonisti. La vita colpita al cuore abbatte il rapporto di asimmetria sociale, determina un cambio o una liberazione nel modo in cui i "soggetti a rischio" si relazionano col mondo: l'aria da divo di Alberto, che consuma nel suo grande appartamento gli ultimi scampoli di un'ormai tramontata agiatezza, e il proletario senso pratico di Angelo, che ha cresciuto due figli e farà amorevolmente fronte all'inettitudine dell'amico. Nonostante la società abbia costruito fra di loro una barriera invalicabile, la necrosi del cuore li ha uniti, allentando i ruoli, aprendo la possibilità di guardarsi in modo diverso e progredendo verso una reciproca comprensione. Se l'Archibugi è indubbiamente abile a descrivere le sfumature del comportamento dei suoi personaggi, la raffinatezza di Questione di cuore si deve in grande misura all'interpretazione di Antonio Albanese e di Kim Rossi Stuart. Il primo mostrando la vulnerabilità che si cela sotto la superficie caustica, il secondo mantenendo una presenza più discreta e distaccata, ma non meno capace di suscitare venature di intenso sentimento. La storia di Alberto e Angelo invita lo spettatore a contemplare, nel contesto di due vite (stra)ordinarie, i paradossi dell'amicizia, il vincolo di necessità e di affetto sincero che la patologia cardiovascolare e la malattia esistenziale hanno stabilito.
The Taking Of Pelham 123
Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli, James Gandolfini and Ramon Rodriguez.
New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber's (Denzel Washington) ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder (John Travolta), a criminal mastermind and leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?
Terminator Salvation
Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jadagrace and Helena Bonham Carter.
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
Vincere
Con Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Siamo agli inizi del secolo e un giovane socialista rivoluzionario incontra casualmente una donna passionale come lui, Ida Dalser. Quel giovane si chiama Benito Mussolini. Lei lo seguirà nella sua azione politica, assecondandone i cambiamenti di rotta e giungendo fino a spogliarsi di tutto per consentirgli di fondare il proprio giornale, «Il Popolo d'Italia». Gli darà anche un figlio che verrà chiamato Benito Albino e sarà riconosciuto dal padre. Ida però dovrà scoprire che il suo matrimonio, avvenuto in chiesa, ha molto meno valore di quello che Mussolini ha contratto civilmente con Rachele Guidi da cui ha avuto la figlia Edda. L'ascesa dell'uomo politico è inarrestabile così come la sua decisione di escludere dalla propria vita sia Ida che il bambino. La donna cercherà di autoconvincersi che si tratti solo di una messa alla prova che non potrà che risolversi in senso positivo. Invece significherà per lei e suo figlio la morte in ospedale psichiatrico circondati da una cortina di oblio. Marco Bellocchio affronta una pagina di storia italiana misconosciuta. La notizia era apparsa negli anni Cinquanta su «La Settimana INCOM Illustrata» ma pochi vi avevano prestato credito perchè in quell'epoca i falsi memoriali su malefatte degli esponenti del fascismo inondavano le redazioni. Due giornalisti Rai, Novelli e Laurenti, riprendono di recente le ricerche e realizzano un documentario che va in onda su RaiTre nel gennaio 2005. Da esso emerge una fitta serie di testimonianze sulla veridicità di quanto all'epoca denunciato. Si può affermare che Bellocchio non poteva non essere attratto da una vicenda che coniugava il tema del potere con le dinamiche della psiche. Ne emerge un film come al solito molto personale che denuncia però una costrizione in cui il regista non si trova a suo agio. La camicia di forza della Storia, con le sue date e i suoi avvenimenti, vincola la narrazione che tenta di liberarsene non riuscendovi sempre. Certo Bellocchio aveva già affrontato di recente la Storia con Buongiorno, notte ma lì aveva potuto lavorare da Maestro ri-costruendo. Qui non può farlo liberamente e se ne avverte la consapevolezza nella scelta stilistica di ricorrere a una modalità narrativa che gli sta particolarmente a cuore: l'opera lirica. L'intero film è costruito come un melodramma sia sul piano musicale che su quello della struttura, con la passione dominante all'inizio a cui seguono la disillusione e la morte. Su tutto questo prevale però una lettura decisamente interessante e che mette in gioco la psichiatria e, ancor più, la psicoanalisi che studia il rapporto tra il potere e le masse. Mentre la follia diviene sempre più collettiva e partecipata nel Paese, ci suggerisce Bellocchio, diviene quasi indispensabile che la normalità (Ida) venga trattata come devianza. Mentre l'Italia corre verso il baratro della Seconda Guerra Mondiale la Dalser e suo figlio vengono fatti precipitare nella clausura degli Istituti. Dove non basterà l'ammonimento dello psichiatra: Questo non è il tempo di gridare la verità. È il tempo di tacere, di recitare una parte. Chi non è disposto a piegarsi non può che essere stroncato oppure, come accade nell'immagine più intensa del film, non può che arrampicarsi su sbarre senza via d'uscita per gettare nella neve lettere che mai nessuno leggerà.
April 2 to April 9
Borderland
Starring Brian Presley, Rider Strong and Zev Berman.
A trip to the Mexican border quickly goes wrong for a group of Texas college students in this horror film. With its roots in reality, BORDERLAND follows the trio as they evade a bloodthirsty cult intent on human sacrifice.
Christie's Revenge (La Vendetta di Christie)
Starring Dani Kind, Cynthia Gibb, John Wesley Shipp, Anastasia Phillips and Anne Bovaird.
A disturned nineteen year old girl sets out to take revenge on the uncle she deems responsible for her father's recent suicide in this thriller from prolific Perfect Marriage director Douglas Jackson. Christie Coleman (Dani Kind)'s father is gone, and now the directionless teen will be forced to find her own way in a cruel and uncaring world. But Christie won't have to wander aimlessly for long, because now she's crafter a plan to make her Uncle Ray pay for the transgressions that drove her dad to suicide. Innocently moving in with Ray, his wife Miranda (Cynthia Gibb), and their teenage daughter Haley, Christie gradually ingratiates herself with the family while setting into motion a diabolical plan. They say we only hurt the ones we love, and in Christie's case that sentiment couldn't ring any truer.
Crank 2: High Voltage
Starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Corey Haim, Bai Ling, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Clifton Collins Jr., Reno Wilson, Simone Bargetze and Danna Hansen.
The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank 2: High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off - except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping.
District 9
Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi and Devlin Brown.
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Framed For Murder (Killer Diabolico)
Starring Mark Camacho, Lisa Langlois, Susan Walters and Elisa Donovan.
Released from prison after serving eight years for the murder of her philandering husband, an innocent woman eager to start a new life discovers that the same person who previously framed her for murder is about to strike again. With little time to lose before she is once again placed behind bars for a crime she didn't commit, the determined amateur sleuth sets out to ensure that the real killer is captured and justice is finally served.
Generazione 1000 Euro
Con Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, Carolina Crescentini, Paolo Villaggio, Francesco Mandelli.
A Milano un gruppo di giovani neolaureati galleggia nell'orbita dell'instabilità esistenziale. Matteo, che si definisce un luogo comune, è un genio della matematica; nelle vesti di "cultore della materia" tiene lezioni sull'insostenibilità di Gödel, ma per tirare a campare lavora nel reparto marketing di un'azienda in odore di taglio del personale. L'amico e coinquilino Francesco mette in pratica la sua passione per la settima arte facendo il proiezionista in un cinema d'essay e osserva la vita come se fosse un film, dando un voto alle cose. Lasciato dalla fidanzata tirocinante in attesa di asportare il suo primo pancreas, e perse le sicurezze economiche di un terzo inquilino che li ha appena abbandonati con un debito, Matteo si trova diviso tra la passione e la ragione - e tra due donne che entrano con impeto nella sua vita - nell'eterna sospensione d'animo. Se nel 2001, con Santa Maradona, Marco Ponti metteva in scena il precariato in quel di Torino e sette anni dopo Paolo Virzì ribatteva da Roma con il grottesco Tutta la vita davanti, Massimo Venier trova a Milano - e nel libro omonimo di Antonio Incorvaia e Alessandro Rimassa - l'ambientazione ideale per far luce su un tema che affligge la generazione mille euro. Armato della sua solita delicatezza e di uno sguardo partecipe e insieme leggero, il regista di Chiedimi se sono felice s'incarica di raccogliere le esperienze comuni dei precari d'oggi convogliandole in una commedia pura, priva di quelle tinte nere che avevano contraddistinto gli impiegati senza contratto di Virzì. La trama articolata e godibile su più fronti offre agli interpreti lo spazio per caratterizzare i loro personaggi e renderli verosimili all'interno di una fiction che traduce la realtà alterandola in favore dell'impianto narrativo. Nell'utilizzare la matematica e i personaggi secondari come valore aggiunto, Venier trova una formula fatta di piccoli dettagli, di battute e puntuali osservazioni capaci di divertire e allo stesso tempo descrivere l'attuale panorama italiano avvolto dall'incertezza del futuro professionale e sentimentale dei giovani.
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Natale A Rio
Con Michelle Hunziker, Massimo Ghini, Ludovico Fremont, Paolo Conticini, Vittorio Emanuele Propizio, Christian DeSica.
Due divorziati (Ghini e De Sica), molto diversi tra loro (uno e un professore di etica e l'altro un palazzinaro) finiscono insieme in vacanza a Rio, all'insaputa dei reciproci figli i quali, a loro volta, mentono ai genitori fingendo di andare in Spagna e recandosi invece a... Rio. Citta in cui, vedi caso, si trovano le ex mogli dei due che si sono incontrate nella clinica in cui si sono fatte rifare il seno facendo invece sapere ai familiari di essere altrove...
Nat e il segreto di Eleonora
Nat riceve in dono una biblioteca e tutti i libri che questa contiene... un'eredità davvero bizzarra lasciatagli da sua zia Eleonora! In effetti, ogni opera è un pezzo originale, e la notte, gli eroi della letteratura per bambini escono dai loro libri... Nat cominca a fare la conoscenza e si vede designato a succedere alla sua antenata: dovrà proteggerli. Se, per disgrazia, dovessero lasciare quella biblioteca, le loro storeie verrebbero dimenticate per sempre e perfino loro sparirebbero... Ed è proprio quando i suoi genitori decidono di vedere i libri, che l'avventura comincia! Nat, accidentalmente ridotto alla stessa dimensione dei piccoli eroi, farà tutto il possibile per salvare i suoi amici e le loro storie. Alice, Gulliver, Cappuccetto Rosso... saranno loro ad aiutarlo a portare a buon fine questa missione!
Obsessed
Starring Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell and Christine Lahti.
Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.
Outlander
Starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders and Aidan Devine.
A space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world, Kainan, and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster ... before it destroys them all.
Questione Di Cuore
Con Antonio Albanese, Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Calligari.
Angelo è un giovane carrozziere che accumula beni, Alberto uno sceneggiatore di successo che spreca parole. Colpiti al cuore da un infarto e dalla vita, vengono ricoverati nella stessa notte e nella stessa clinica. Vicini di letto e lontani di mondi, Angelo e Alberto scoprono una zona franca, dove scambiarsi emozioni, ricaricare il cuore e risollevare lo spirito. Angelo, padre di due figli e marito innamorato di Rossana, organizza il disagio seguito alla malattia, Alberto, fidanzato senza più voglie di Carla, esplora la sua infelicità e cerca parole per raccontarla. Dimessi dalla clinica, la casa di Angelo diventerà l'officina in cui mettere a punto il motore, il ricovero dove il Pigneto incontra la prima circoscrizione, il laboratorio dove lo scrittore ritrova la curiosità sincera di un'osservazione partecipe. Se Mignon è partita, Verso sera, L'albero delle pere e Lezioni di volo misuravano gli intervalli fra generazioni e le irriducibili incomprensioni fra padri/madri e figli/figlie, Questione di cuore confronta e incontra la stessa età. Da una parte il disagio agiato di uno sceneggiatore gaudente, dall'altra l'accomodante accomodare di un carrozziere familista. Francesca Archibugi, impartita la lezione a due acerbi sprovveduti che hanno rinunciato volontariamente a ogni impegno intellettuale, "rientra" dall'India nel paesaggio italiano, più peculiarmente romano e ampiamente frequentato dalla sua filmografia. Rincasa con un un'amicizia al maschile che diventa il pretesto per interrogarsi e indagare il rapporto tra realtà e scrittura. Esplorando la storia di due uomini di diversa estrazione culturale, attaccati ai reciproci pregiudizi di classe ma uniti dall'esperienza drammatica trascorsa nel reparto di terapia intensiva di un ospedale romano, la regista affronta le sue personali inquietudini riguardo alla crisi sociale e culturale del nostro paese. Storia e cronaca non entrano nel film se non attraverso "finestre aperte" sulla borgata e finiscono per riflettersi in maniera decisiva sulle esistenze e sui vincoli affettivi (e di classe) dei protagonisti. La vita colpita al cuore abbatte il rapporto di asimmetria sociale, determina un cambio o una liberazione nel modo in cui i "soggetti a rischio" si relazionano col mondo: l'aria da divo di Alberto, che consuma nel suo grande appartamento gli ultimi scampoli di un'ormai tramontata agiatezza, e il proletario senso pratico di Angelo, che ha cresciuto due figli e farà amorevolmente fronte all'inettitudine dell'amico. Nonostante la società abbia costruito fra di loro una barriera invalicabile, la necrosi del cuore li ha uniti, allentando i ruoli, aprendo la possibilità di guardarsi in modo diverso e progredendo verso una reciproca comprensione. Se l'Archibugi è indubbiamente abile a descrivere le sfumature del comportamento dei suoi personaggi, la raffinatezza di Questione di cuore si deve in grande misura all'interpretazione di Antonio Albanese e di Kim Rossi Stuart. Il primo mostrando la vulnerabilità che si cela sotto la superficie caustica, il secondo mantenendo una presenza più discreta e distaccata, ma non meno capace di suscitare venature di intenso sentimento. La storia di Alberto e Angelo invita lo spettatore a contemplare, nel contesto di due vite (stra)ordinarie, i paradossi dell'amicizia, il vincolo di necessità e di affetto sincero che la patologia cardiovascolare e la malattia esistenziale hanno stabilito.
S. Darko
Starring Justin Chatwin, Ed Westwick, Briana Evigan, Daveigh Chase and Elizabeth Berkley.
Daveigh Chase reprises her role as Samantha Darko in this sequel set seven years after the events of director Richard Kelly's acclaimed cult hit. The day Donnie Darko died, his family died too. Almost a decade later, eighteen year old Sam still feels the loss every day. She longs to become a professional dancer, and decides to take a road trip to California with her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan). When their car breaks down just outside the dusty small town of Conejo Springs, carefree Corey bides her time waiting for a new water pump to arrive by striking up a friendship with local bad boy Randy Holt (Ed Westwick). The following morning, a meteor crashes to the ground nearby, destroying a local farmer's windmill and leaving a gaping crater in the ground. In the aftermath of that unsettling incident, Sam's disturbing prophetic dreams seem to start spilling over into the real world. Could the people around her prove the key to unlocking this unearthly mystery? Unfortunately for Sam, religious fanatics Trudy Potter (Elizabeth Berkley) and Pastor John Mellit (Matthew Davis) seem more interested in spouting religious clichés that pondering the end of the world, and Randy and the locals are too busy partying to notice that events are coming to a head. When the locals begin to gossip, Sam and Corey's friendship starts to suffer, and the pair have a bitter falling out. Unaware of the fact that they have become inexorably bound by fate to a missing child, an unstable Gulf War veteran, and a mysterious rift in the time-space continuum, the former friends discover that the world will soon perish unless a substantial sacrifice is made.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
Vincere
Con Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Siamo agli inizi del secolo e un giovane socialista rivoluzionario incontra casualmente una donna passionale come lui, Ida Dalser. Quel giovane si chiama Benito Mussolini. Lei lo seguirà nella sua azione politica, assecondandone i cambiamenti di rotta e giungendo fino a spogliarsi di tutto per consentirgli di fondare il proprio giornale, «Il Popolo d'Italia». Gli darà anche un figlio che verrà chiamato Benito Albino e sarà riconosciuto dal padre. Ida però dovrà scoprire che il suo matrimonio, avvenuto in chiesa, ha molto meno valore di quello che Mussolini ha contratto civilmente con Rachele Guidi da cui ha avuto la figlia Edda. L'ascesa dell'uomo politico è inarrestabile così come la sua decisione di escludere dalla propria vita sia Ida che il bambino. La donna cercherà di autoconvincersi che si tratti solo di una messa alla prova che non potrà che risolversi in senso positivo. Invece significherà per lei e suo figlio la morte in ospedale psichiatrico circondati da una cortina di oblio. Marco Bellocchio affronta una pagina di storia italiana misconosciuta. La notizia era apparsa negli anni Cinquanta su «La Settimana INCOM Illustrata» ma pochi vi avevano prestato credito perchè in quell'epoca i falsi memoriali su malefatte degli esponenti del fascismo inondavano le redazioni. Due giornalisti Rai, Novelli e Laurenti, riprendono di recente le ricerche e realizzano un documentario che va in onda su RaiTre nel gennaio 2005. Da esso emerge una fitta serie di testimonianze sulla veridicità di quanto all'epoca denunciato. Si può affermare che Bellocchio non poteva non essere attratto da una vicenda che coniugava il tema del potere con le dinamiche della psiche. Ne emerge un film come al solito molto personale che denuncia però una costrizione in cui il regista non si trova a suo agio. La camicia di forza della Storia, con le sue date e i suoi avvenimenti, vincola la narrazione che tenta di liberarsene non riuscendovi sempre. Certo Bellocchio aveva già affrontato di recente la Storia con Buongiorno, notte ma lì aveva potuto lavorare da Maestro ri-costruendo. Qui non può farlo liberamente e se ne avverte la consapevolezza nella scelta stilistica di ricorrere a una modalità narrativa che gli sta particolarmente a cuore: l'opera lirica. L'intero film è costruito come un melodramma sia sul piano musicale che su quello della struttura, con la passione dominante all'inizio a cui seguono la disillusione e la morte. Su tutto questo prevale però una lettura decisamente interessante e che mette in gioco la psichiatria e, ancor più, la psicoanalisi che studia il rapporto tra il potere e le masse. Mentre la follia diviene sempre più collettiva e partecipata nel Paese, ci suggerisce Bellocchio, diviene quasi indispensabile che la normalità (Ida) venga trattata come devianza. Mentre l'Italia corre verso il baratro della Seconda Guerra Mondiale la Dalser e suo figlio vengono fatti precipitare nella clausura degli Istituti. Dove non basterà l'ammonimento dello psichiatra: Questo non è il tempo di gridare la verità. È il tempo di tacere, di recitare una parte. Chi non è disposto a piegarsi non può che essere stroncato oppure, come accade nell'immagine più intensa del film, non può che arrampicarsi su sbarre senza via d'uscita per gettare nella neve lettere che mai nessuno leggerà.
April 9 to April 16
Christie's Revenge (La Vendetta di Christie)
Starring Dani Kind, Cynthia Gibb, John Wesley Shipp, Anastasia Phillips and Anne Bovaird.
A disturned nineteen year old girl sets out to take revenge on the uncle she deems responsible for her father's recent suicide in this thriller from prolific Perfect Marriage director Douglas Jackson. Christie Coleman (Dani Kind)'s father is gone, and now the directionless teen will be forced to find her own way in a cruel and uncaring world. But Christie won't have to wander aimlessly for long, because now she's crafter a plan to make her Uncle Ray pay for the transgressions that drove her dad to suicide. Innocently moving in with Ray, his wife Miranda (Cynthia Gibb), and their teenage daughter Haley, Christie gradually ingratiates herself with the family while setting into motion a diabolical plan. They say we only hurt the ones we love, and in Christie's case that sentiment couldn't ring any truer.
District 9
Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi and Devlin Brown.
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Elegy (Lezioni D'amore)
Starring Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry.
Charismatic professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz) enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh declares her body a perfect work of art, Consuela is more than an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges his preconceptions. Kepesh's need for Consuela becomes an obsession, but ultimately his jealous fantasies of betrayal drive her away. Shattered, Kepesh faces up to the ravages of time, immersing himself in work and confronting the loss of old friends. Then, two years later, Consuela comes back into his life - with an urgent, desperate request that will change everything.
Fired Up
Starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Adhir Kalyan, Annalynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall and John Michael Higgins.
Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team... both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school's most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls' historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer), the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals.
Framed For Murder (Killer Diabolico)
Starring Mark Camacho, Lisa Langlois, Susan Walters and Elisa Donovan.
Released from prison after serving eight years for the murder of her philandering husband, an innocent woman eager to start a new life discovers that the same person who previously framed her for murder is about to strike again. With little time to lose before she is once again placed behind bars for a crime she didn't commit, the determined amateur sleuth sets out to ensure that the real killer is captured and justice is finally served.
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
I Love You, Man
Starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau and Jaime Pressly.
Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey (Rashida Jones), discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates,' before meeting Sydney Fife (Jason Segel), a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter's relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancée and his newfound 'bro,' in a story that comically explores what it truly means to be a 'friend.'
Nat e il segreto di Eleonora
Nat riceve in dono una biblioteca e tutti i libri che questa contiene... un'eredità davvero bizzarra lasciatagli da sua zia Eleonora! In effetti, ogni opera è un pezzo originale, e la notte, gli eroi della letteratura per bambini escono dai loro libri... Nat cominca a fare la conoscenza e si vede designato a succedere alla sua antenata: dovrà proteggerli. Se, per disgrazia, dovessero lasciare quella biblioteca, le loro storeie verrebbero dimenticate per sempre e perfino loro sparirebbero... Ed è proprio quando i suoi genitori decidono di vedere i libri, che l'avventura comincia! Nat, accidentalmente ridotto alla stessa dimensione dei piccoli eroi, farà tutto il possibile per salvare i suoi amici e le loro storie. Alice, Gulliver, Cappuccetto Rosso... saranno loro ad aiutarlo a portare a buon fine questa missione!
Obsessed
Starring Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell and Christine Lahti.
Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he's worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy.
Outlander
Starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders and Aidan Devine.
A space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world, Kainan, and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster ... before it destroys them all.
Questione Di Cuore
Con Antonio Albanese, Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Calligari.
Angelo è un giovane carrozziere che accumula beni, Alberto uno sceneggiatore di successo che spreca parole. Colpiti al cuore da un infarto e dalla vita, vengono ricoverati nella stessa notte e nella stessa clinica. Vicini di letto e lontani di mondi, Angelo e Alberto scoprono una zona franca, dove scambiarsi emozioni, ricaricare il cuore e risollevare lo spirito. Angelo, padre di due figli e marito innamorato di Rossana, organizza il disagio seguito alla malattia, Alberto, fidanzato senza più voglie di Carla, esplora la sua infelicità e cerca parole per raccontarla. Dimessi dalla clinica, la casa di Angelo diventerà l'officina in cui mettere a punto il motore, il ricovero dove il Pigneto incontra la prima circoscrizione, il laboratorio dove lo scrittore ritrova la curiosità sincera di un'osservazione partecipe. Se Mignon è partita, Verso sera, L'albero delle pere e Lezioni di volo misuravano gli intervalli fra generazioni e le irriducibili incomprensioni fra padri/madri e figli/figlie, Questione di cuore confronta e incontra la stessa età. Da una parte il disagio agiato di uno sceneggiatore gaudente, dall'altra l'accomodante accomodare di un carrozziere familista. Francesca Archibugi, impartita la lezione a due acerbi sprovveduti che hanno rinunciato volontariamente a ogni impegno intellettuale, "rientra" dall'India nel paesaggio italiano, più peculiarmente romano e ampiamente frequentato dalla sua filmografia. Rincasa con un un'amicizia al maschile che diventa il pretesto per interrogarsi e indagare il rapporto tra realtà e scrittura. Esplorando la storia di due uomini di diversa estrazione culturale, attaccati ai reciproci pregiudizi di classe ma uniti dall'esperienza drammatica trascorsa nel reparto di terapia intensiva di un ospedale romano, la regista affronta le sue personali inquietudini riguardo alla crisi sociale e culturale del nostro paese. Storia e cronaca non entrano nel film se non attraverso "finestre aperte" sulla borgata e finiscono per riflettersi in maniera decisiva sulle esistenze e sui vincoli affettivi (e di classe) dei protagonisti. La vita colpita al cuore abbatte il rapporto di asimmetria sociale, determina un cambio o una liberazione nel modo in cui i "soggetti a rischio" si relazionano col mondo: l'aria da divo di Alberto, che consuma nel suo grande appartamento gli ultimi scampoli di un'ormai tramontata agiatezza, e il proletario senso pratico di Angelo, che ha cresciuto due figli e farà amorevolmente fronte all'inettitudine dell'amico. Nonostante la società abbia costruito fra di loro una barriera invalicabile, la necrosi del cuore li ha uniti, allentando i ruoli, aprendo la possibilità di guardarsi in modo diverso e progredendo verso una reciproca comprensione. Se l'Archibugi è indubbiamente abile a descrivere le sfumature del comportamento dei suoi personaggi, la raffinatezza di Questione di cuore si deve in grande misura all'interpretazione di Antonio Albanese e di Kim Rossi Stuart. Il primo mostrando la vulnerabilità che si cela sotto la superficie caustica, il secondo mantenendo una presenza più discreta e distaccata, ma non meno capace di suscitare venature di intenso sentimento. La storia di Alberto e Angelo invita lo spettatore a contemplare, nel contesto di due vite (stra)ordinarie, i paradossi dell'amicizia, il vincolo di necessità e di affetto sincero che la patologia cardiovascolare e la malattia esistenziale hanno stabilito.
School For Scoundrels (Scuola Per Canaglie)
Starring Jon Heder, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacinda Barrett, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Fogler, Luis Guzman, Horatio Sanz and Jessica Stroup.
Roger (Jon Heder), a beleaguered New York City meter maid, is plagued by anxiety and low self esteem. In order to overcome his feelings of inadequacy, Roger enrolls in a confidence-building class taught by the suavely underhanded Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton). Aided by his assistant, Lesher (Michael Clarke Duncan), Dr. P uses unorthodox, often dangerous methods, but he guarantees results: Employ his techniques and you will unleash your inner lion. Surrounded by a band of misfit classmates, Roger's confidence grows and he makes his way to the head of the class, even finding the courage to ask our his longtime crush, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett). But Roger quickly discovers that star students have a way of catapulting Dr. P's competitive side into high gear. Soon enough, the teacher sets out to infiltrate and destroy Roger's personal and professional life. Nothing is off limits for Dr. P, not even the object of Roger's affection. In order to show Amanda Dr. P's true colors, Roger must rally his new friends and find a way to beat the master at his own game.
S. Darko
Starring Justin Chatwin, Ed Westwick, Briana Evigan, Daveigh Chase and Elizabeth Berkley.
Daveigh Chase reprises her role as Samantha Darko in this sequel set seven years after the events of director Richard Kelly's acclaimed cult hit. The day Donnie Darko died, his family died too. Almost a decade later, eighteen year old Sam still feels the loss every day. She longs to become a professional dancer, and decides to take a road trip to California with her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan). When their car breaks down just outside the dusty small town of Conejo Springs, carefree Corey bides her time waiting for a new water pump to arrive by striking up a friendship with local bad boy Randy Holt (Ed Westwick). The following morning, a meteor crashes to the ground nearby, destroying a local farmer's windmill and leaving a gaping crater in the ground. In the aftermath of that unsettling incident, Sam's disturbing prophetic dreams seem to start spilling over into the real world. Could the people around her prove the key to unlocking this unearthly mystery? Unfortunately for Sam, religious fanatics Trudy Potter (Elizabeth Berkley) and Pastor John Mellit (Matthew Davis) seem more interested in spouting religious clichés that pondering the end of the world, and Randy and the locals are too busy partying to notice that events are coming to a head. When the locals begin to gossip, Sam and Corey's friendship starts to suffer, and the pair have a bitter falling out. Unaware of the fact that they have become inexorably bound by fate to a missing child, an unstable Gulf War veteran, and a mysterious rift in the time-space continuum, the former friends discover that the world will soon perish unless a substantial sacrifice is made.
Terminator Salvation
Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Jadagrace and Helena Bonham Carter.
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
Vincere
Con Filippo Timi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Siamo agli inizi del secolo e un giovane socialista rivoluzionario incontra casualmente una donna passionale come lui, Ida Dalser. Quel giovane si chiama Benito Mussolini. Lei lo seguirà nella sua azione politica, assecondandone i cambiamenti di rotta e giungendo fino a spogliarsi di tutto per consentirgli di fondare il proprio giornale, «Il Popolo d'Italia». Gli darà anche un figlio che verrà chiamato Benito Albino e sarà riconosciuto dal padre. Ida però dovrà scoprire che il suo matrimonio, avvenuto in chiesa, ha molto meno valore di quello che Mussolini ha contratto civilmente con Rachele Guidi da cui ha avuto la figlia Edda. L'ascesa dell'uomo politico è inarrestabile così come la sua decisione di escludere dalla propria vita sia Ida che il bambino. La donna cercherà di autoconvincersi che si tratti solo di una messa alla prova che non potrà che risolversi in senso positivo. Invece significherà per lei e suo figlio la morte in ospedale psichiatrico circondati da una cortina di oblio. Marco Bellocchio affronta una pagina di storia italiana misconosciuta. La notizia era apparsa negli anni Cinquanta su «La Settimana INCOM Illustrata» ma pochi vi avevano prestato credito perchè in quell'epoca i falsi memoriali su malefatte degli esponenti del fascismo inondavano le redazioni. Due giornalisti Rai, Novelli e Laurenti, riprendono di recente le ricerche e realizzano un documentario che va in onda su RaiTre nel gennaio 2005. Da esso emerge una fitta serie di testimonianze sulla veridicità di quanto all'epoca denunciato. Si può affermare che Bellocchio non poteva non essere attratto da una vicenda che coniugava il tema del potere con le dinamiche della psiche. Ne emerge un film come al solito molto personale che denuncia però una costrizione in cui il regista non si trova a suo agio. La camicia di forza della Storia, con le sue date e i suoi avvenimenti, vincola la narrazione che tenta di liberarsene non riuscendovi sempre. Certo Bellocchio aveva già affrontato di recente la Storia con Buongiorno, notte ma lì aveva potuto lavorare da Maestro ri-costruendo. Qui non può farlo liberamente e se ne avverte la consapevolezza nella scelta stilistica di ricorrere a una modalità narrativa che gli sta particolarmente a cuore: l'opera lirica. L'intero film è costruito come un melodramma sia sul piano musicale che su quello della struttura, con la passione dominante all'inizio a cui seguono la disillusione e la morte. Su tutto questo prevale però una lettura decisamente interessante e che mette in gioco la psichiatria e, ancor più, la psicoanalisi che studia il rapporto tra il potere e le masse. Mentre la follia diviene sempre più collettiva e partecipata nel Paese, ci suggerisce Bellocchio, diviene quasi indispensabile che la normalità (Ida) venga trattata come devianza. Mentre l'Italia corre verso il baratro della Seconda Guerra Mondiale la Dalser e suo figlio vengono fatti precipitare nella clausura degli Istituti. Dove non basterà l'ammonimento dello psichiatra: Questo non è il tempo di gridare la verità. È il tempo di tacere, di recitare una parte. Chi non è disposto a piegarsi non può che essere stroncato oppure, come accade nell'immagine più intensa del film, non può che arrampicarsi su sbarre senza via d'uscita per gettare nella neve lettere che mai nessuno leggerà.
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Christie's Revenge (La Vendetta di Christie)
Starring Dani Kind, Cynthia Gibb, John Wesley Shipp, Anastasia Phillips and Anne Bovaird.
A disturned nineteen year old girl sets out to take revenge on the uncle she deems responsible for her father's recent suicide in this thriller from prolific Perfect Marriage director Douglas Jackson. Christie Coleman (Dani Kind)'s father is gone, and now the directionless teen will be forced to find her own way in a cruel and uncaring world. But Christie won't have to wander aimlessly for long, because now she's crafter a plan to make her Uncle Ray pay for the transgressions that drove her dad to suicide. Innocently moving in with Ray, his wife Miranda (Cynthia Gibb), and their teenage daughter Haley, Christie gradually ingratiates herself with the family while setting into motion a diabolical plan. They say we only hurt the ones we love, and in Christie's case that sentiment couldn't ring any truer.
District 9
Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi and Devlin Brown.
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Elegy (Lezioni D'amore)
Starring Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry.
Charismatic professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz) enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh declares her body a perfect work of art, Consuela is more than an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges his preconceptions. Kepesh's need for Consuela becomes an obsession, but ultimately his jealous fantasies of betrayal drive her away. Shattered, Kepesh faces up to the ravages of time, immersing himself in work and confronting the loss of old friends. Then, two years later, Consuela comes back into his life - with an urgent, desperate request that will change everything.
Fired Up
Starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Adhir Kalyan, Annalynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall and John Michael Higgins.
Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team... both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school's most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls' historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer), the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals.
Framed For Murder (Killer Diabolico)
Starring Mark Camacho, Lisa Langlois, Susan Walters and Elisa Donovan.
Released from prison after serving eight years for the murder of her philandering husband, an innocent woman eager to start a new life discovers that the same person who previously framed her for murder is about to strike again. With little time to lose before she is once again placed behind bars for a crime she didn't commit, the determined amateur sleuth sets out to ensure that the real killer is captured and justice is finally served.
Halloween II
Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danielle Harris and Brea Grant.
Rob Zombie's Halloween II picks up at the exact moment that 2007's box-office smash, Halloween, stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers's (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton). Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie's visionary re-imagining of Halloween which grossed almost $80 million worldwide. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Julie & Julia
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina and Linda Emond.
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
I Love You, Man
Starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau and Jaime Pressly.
Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey (Rashida Jones), discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates,' before meeting Sydney Fife (Jason Segel), a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter's relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancée and his newfound 'bro,' in a story that comically explores what it truly means to be a 'friend.'
The Longshots
Starring Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Dash Mihok and Matt Craven.
When Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube), a down on his luck former high school football star, takes the only job he can find - babysitting his misfit niece Jasmine (Keke Palmer), he discovers that she has the skills that once made him a great quarterback. The only place these two opposites get along is on the field, so Curtis is determined to turn Jasmine into the star of the local team, The Minden Browns, and get his own stride back by becoming the coach. The boys on the team don't want her but when this girl quarterback shows them she's got the skills, she'll turn their whole world upside down.
Nat e il segreto di Eleonora
Nat riceve in dono una biblioteca e tutti i libri che questa contiene... un'eredità davvero bizzarra lasciatagli da sua zia Eleonora! In effetti, ogni opera è un pezzo originale, e la notte, gli eroi della letteratura per bambini escono dai loro libri... Nat cominca a fare la conoscenza e si vede designato a succedere alla sua antenata: dovrà proteggerli. Se, per disgrazia, dovessero lasciare quella biblioteca, le loro storeie verrebbero dimenticate per sempre e perfino loro sparirebbero... Ed è proprio quando i suoi genitori decidono di vedere i libri, che l'avventura comincia! Nat, accidentalmente ridotto alla stessa dimensione dei piccoli eroi, farà tutto il possibile per salvare i suoi amici e le loro storie. Alice, Gulliver, Cappuccetto Rosso... saranno loro ad aiutarlo a portare a buon fine questa missione!
Outlander
Starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders and Aidan Devine.
A space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world, Kainan, and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster ... before it destroys them all.
School For Scoundrels (Scuola Per Canaglie)
Starring Jon Heder, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacinda Barrett, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Fogler, Luis Guzman, Horatio Sanz and Jessica Stroup.
Roger (Jon Heder), a beleaguered New York City meter maid, is plagued by anxiety and low self esteem. In order to overcome his feelings of inadequacy, Roger enrolls in a confidence-building class taught by the suavely underhanded Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton). Aided by his assistant, Lesher (Michael Clarke Duncan), Dr. P uses unorthodox, often dangerous methods, but he guarantees results: Employ his techniques and you will unleash your inner lion. Surrounded by a band of misfit classmates, Roger's confidence grows and he makes his way to the head of the class, even finding the courage to ask our his longtime crush, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett). But Roger quickly discovers that star students have a way of catapulting Dr. P's competitive side into high gear. Soon enough, the teacher sets out to infiltrate and destroy Roger's personal and professional life. Nothing is off limits for Dr. P, not even the object of Roger's affection. In order to show Amanda Dr. P's true colors, Roger must rally his new friends and find a way to beat the master at his own game.
S. Darko
Starring Justin Chatwin, Ed Westwick, Briana Evigan, Daveigh Chase and Elizabeth Berkley.
Daveigh Chase reprises her role as Samantha Darko in this sequel set seven years after the events of director Richard Kelly's acclaimed cult hit. The day Donnie Darko died, his family died too. Almost a decade later, eighteen year old Sam still feels the loss every day. She longs to become a professional dancer, and decides to take a road trip to California with her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan). When their car breaks down just outside the dusty small town of Conejo Springs, carefree Corey bides her time waiting for a new water pump to arrive by striking up a friendship with local bad boy Randy Holt (Ed Westwick). The following morning, a meteor crashes to the ground nearby, destroying a local farmer's windmill and leaving a gaping crater in the ground. In the aftermath of that unsettling incident, Sam's disturbing prophetic dreams seem to start spilling over into the real world. Could the people around her prove the key to unlocking this unearthly mystery? Unfortunately for Sam, religious fanatics Trudy Potter (Elizabeth Berkley) and Pastor John Mellit (Matthew Davis) seem more interested in spouting religious clichés that pondering the end of the world, and Randy and the locals are too busy partying to notice that events are coming to a head. When the locals begin to gossip, Sam and Corey's friendship starts to suffer, and the pair have a bitter falling out. Unaware of the fact that they have become inexorably bound by fate to a missing child, an unstable Gulf War veteran, and a mysterious rift in the time-space continuum, the former friends discover that the world will soon perish unless a substantial sacrifice is made.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
April 23 to April 30
2012
Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that predict it, geologists say the earth is overdue for it, and even government scientists cannot deny the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012. A prophecy that began with the Mayans has now been well-chronicled, discussed, taken apart and examined. By 2012, we'll know we were warned...
Elegy (Lezioni D'amore)
Starring Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry.
Charismatic professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz) enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh declares her body a perfect work of art, Consuela is more than an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges his preconceptions. Kepesh's need for Consuela becomes an obsession, but ultimately his jealous fantasies of betrayal drive her away. Shattered, Kepesh faces up to the ravages of time, immersing himself in work and confronting the loss of old friends. Then, two years later, Consuela comes back into his life - with an urgent, desperate request that will change everything.
Fired Up
Starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Adhir Kalyan, Annalynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall and John Michael Higgins.
Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team... both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school's most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls' historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer), the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals.
Halloween II
Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danielle Harris and Brea Grant.
Rob Zombie's Halloween II picks up at the exact moment that 2007's box-office smash, Halloween, stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers's (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton). Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie's visionary re-imagining of Halloween which grossed almost $80 million worldwide. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.
Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (L'era Glaciale 3 - L'alba dei Dinosauri)
The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meldown are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too "soft" hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck - and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.
Julie & Julia
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina and Linda Emond.
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
I Love You, Beth Cooper (Una Notte Con Beth Cooper)
Starring Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack T. Carpenter, Lauren London, Lauren Storm, Shawn Roberts, Alan Ruck and Cynthia Stevenson.
Based on Larry Doyle's book about a nerdy high school valedictorian who decides to declare his love for a popular cheerleader during the graduation speech.
I Love You, Man
Starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jon Favreau and Jaime Pressly.
Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey (Rashida Jones), discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates,' before meeting Sydney Fife (Jason Segel), a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly bonds. But the closer the two men get, the more Peter's relationship with Zooey suffers, ultimately forcing him to choose between his fiancée and his newfound 'bro,' in a story that comically explores what it truly means to be a 'friend.'
The Longshots
Starring Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Dash Mihok and Matt Craven.
When Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube), a down on his luck former high school football star, takes the only job he can find - babysitting his misfit niece Jasmine (Keke Palmer), he discovers that she has the skills that once made him a great quarterback. The only place these two opposites get along is on the field, so Curtis is determined to turn Jasmine into the star of the local team, The Minden Browns, and get his own stride back by becoming the coach. The boys on the team don't want her but when this girl quarterback shows them she's got the skills, she'll turn their whole world upside down.
Nat e il segreto di Eleonora
Nat riceve in dono una biblioteca e tutti i libri che questa contiene... un'eredità davvero bizzarra lasciatagli da sua zia Eleonora! In effetti, ogni opera è un pezzo originale, e la notte, gli eroi della letteratura per bambini escono dai loro libri... Nat cominca a fare la conoscenza e si vede designato a succedere alla sua antenata: dovrà proteggerli. Se, per disgrazia, dovessero lasciare quella biblioteca, le loro storeie verrebbero dimenticate per sempre e perfino loro sparirebbero... Ed è proprio quando i suoi genitori decidono di vedere i libri, che l'avventura comincia! Nat, accidentalmente ridotto alla stessa dimensione dei piccoli eroi, farà tutto il possibile per salvare i suoi amici e le loro storie. Alice, Gulliver, Cappuccetto Rosso... saranno loro ad aiutarlo a portare a buon fine questa missione!
School For Scoundrels (Scuola Per Canaglie)
Starring Jon Heder, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacinda Barrett, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Fogler, Luis Guzman, Horatio Sanz and Jessica Stroup.
Roger (Jon Heder), a beleaguered New York City meter maid, is plagued by anxiety and low self esteem. In order to overcome his feelings of inadequacy, Roger enrolls in a confidence-building class taught by the suavely underhanded Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton). Aided by his assistant, Lesher (Michael Clarke Duncan), Dr. P uses unorthodox, often dangerous methods, but he guarantees results: Employ his techniques and you will unleash your inner lion. Surrounded by a band of misfit classmates, Roger's confidence grows and he makes his way to the head of the class, even finding the courage to ask our his longtime crush, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett). But Roger quickly discovers that star students have a way of catapulting Dr. P's competitive side into high gear. Soon enough, the teacher sets out to infiltrate and destroy Roger's personal and professional life. Nothing is off limits for Dr. P, not even the object of Roger's affection. In order to show Amanda Dr. P's true colors, Roger must rally his new friends and find a way to beat the master at his own game.
Surrogates (Il Mondo Dei Replicanti)
Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames.
FBI agents (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves - fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles - enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who's real and who can you trust?
S. Darko
Starring Justin Chatwin, Ed Westwick, Briana Evigan, Daveigh Chase and Elizabeth Berkley.
Daveigh Chase reprises her role as Samantha Darko in this sequel set seven years after the events of director Richard Kelly's acclaimed cult hit. The day Donnie Darko died, his family died too. Almost a decade later, eighteen year old Sam still feels the loss every day. She longs to become a professional dancer, and decides to take a road trip to California with her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan). When their car breaks down just outside the dusty small town of Conejo Springs, carefree Corey bides her time waiting for a new water pump to arrive by striking up a friendship with local bad boy Randy Holt (Ed Westwick). The following morning, a meteor crashes to the ground nearby, destroying a local farmer's windmill and leaving a gaping crater in the ground. In the aftermath of that unsettling incident, Sam's disturbing prophetic dreams seem to start spilling over into the real world. Could the people around her prove the key to unlocking this unearthly mystery? Unfortunately for Sam, religious fanatics Trudy Potter (Elizabeth Berkley) and Pastor John Mellit (Matthew Davis) seem more interested in spouting religious clichés that pondering the end of the world, and Randy and the locals are too busy partying to notice that events are coming to a head. When the locals begin to gossip, Sam and Corey's friendship starts to suffer, and the pair have a bitter falling out. Unaware of the fact that they have become inexorably bound by fate to a missing child, an unstable Gulf War veteran, and a mysterious rift in the time-space continuum, the former friends discover that the world will soon perish unless a substantial sacrifice is made.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
April 30 to May 6
2012
Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that predict it, geologists say the earth is overdue for it, and even government scientists cannot deny the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012. A prophecy that began with the Mayans has now been well-chronicled, discussed, taken apart and examined. By 2012, we'll know we were warned...
Cheri
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Harriet Walter and Anita Pallenberg.
Léa de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer) realizes that the time has come for her to retire as Paris's most envied seductress of the rich and famous. After all, though she's still breathtaking, she's not getting any younger. Just as she starts wondering what her future holds, along comes her archrival Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates), a notoriously manipulative gossip, with an unusual proposition. It seems that Charlotte's 19-year-old son - a bon vivant nicknamed Chéri (Rupert Friend) - is gorgeous, charming and a complete disappointment to her. Fed up with his petulance, Charlotte slyly suspects Léa can knock some sense into the boy with her worldly ways. But Léa does far more than that and six years later, she and Chéri are still living together in a most outrageous fashion. Naturally, they know this state of affairs can't go on forever. But when Charlotte Peloux returns to match Chéri to a girl his own age for marriage and break up their adventuresome tryst, no one is prepared for what truly lies beneath their frivolous affair.
Crank 2: High Voltage
Starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Corey Haim, Bai Ling, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Clifton Collins Jr., Reno Wilson, Simone Bargetze and Danna Hansen.
The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank 2: High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off - except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one that needs to be jolted with an electric charge to stay pumping.
Dance Flick
Starring Damon Wayans, Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins and Affion Crockett.
A young street dancer, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.), from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman, Megan White (Shoshana Bush), are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles.
Elegy (Lezioni D'amore)
Starring Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Deborah Harry.
Charismatic professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz) enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh declares her body a perfect work of art, Consuela is more than an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges his preconceptions. Kepesh's need for Consuela becomes an obsession, but ultimately his jealous fantasies of betrayal drive her away. Shattered, Kepesh faces up to the ravages of time, immersing himself in work and confronting the loss of old friends. Then, two years later, Consuela comes back into his life - with an urgent, desperate request that will change everything.
Fired Up
Starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Adhir Kalyan, Annalynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall and John Michael Higgins.
Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team... both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school's most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls' historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer), the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals.
Halloween II
Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danielle Harris and Brea Grant.
Rob Zombie's Halloween II picks up at the exact moment that 2007's box-office smash, Halloween, stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers's (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton). Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie's visionary re-imagining of Halloween which grossed almost $80 million worldwide. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.
Julie & Julia
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina and Linda Emond.
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
I Love You, Beth Cooper (Una Notte Con Beth Cooper)
Starring Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack T. Carpenter, Lauren London, Lauren Storm, Shawn Roberts, Alan Ruck and Cynthia Stevenson.
Based on Larry Doyle's book about a nerdy high school valedictorian who decides to declare his love for a popular cheerleader during the graduation speech.
The Longshots
Starring Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Dash Mihok and Matt Craven.
When Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube), a down on his luck former high school football star, takes the only job he can find - babysitting his misfit niece Jasmine (Keke Palmer), he discovers that she has the skills that once made him a great quarterback. The only place these two opposites get along is on the field, so Curtis is determined to turn Jasmine into the star of the local team, The Minden Browns, and get his own stride back by becoming the coach. The boys on the team don't want her but when this girl quarterback shows them she's got the skills, she'll turn their whole world upside down.
Michael Jackson's This is It
'Michael Jackson's This Is It' offers Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson up close and personal. In raw and candid detail, 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show.
Nat e il segreto di Eleonora
Nat riceve in dono una biblioteca e tutti i libri che questa contiene... un'eredità davvero bizzarra lasciatagli da sua zia Eleonora! In effetti, ogni opera è un pezzo originale, e la notte, gli eroi della letteratura per bambini escono dai loro libri... Nat cominca a fare la conoscenza e si vede designato a succedere alla sua antenata: dovrà proteggerli. Se, per disgrazia, dovessero lasciare quella biblioteca, le loro storeie verrebbero dimenticate per sempre e perfino loro sparirebbero... Ed è proprio quando i suoi genitori decidono di vedere i libri, che l'avventura comincia! Nat, accidentalmente ridotto alla stessa dimensione dei piccoli eroi, farà tutto il possibile per salvare i suoi amici e le loro storie. Alice, Gulliver, Cappuccetto Rosso... saranno loro ad aiutarlo a portare a buon fine questa missione!
Surrogates (Il Mondo Dei Replicanti)
Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames.
FBI agents (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves - fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles - enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who's real and who can you trust?
S. Darko
Starring Justin Chatwin, Ed Westwick, Briana Evigan, Daveigh Chase and Elizabeth Berkley.
Daveigh Chase reprises her role as Samantha Darko in this sequel set seven years after the events of director Richard Kelly's acclaimed cult hit. The day Donnie Darko died, his family died too. Almost a decade later, eighteen year old Sam still feels the loss every day. She longs to become a professional dancer, and decides to take a road trip to California with her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan). When their car breaks down just outside the dusty small town of Conejo Springs, carefree Corey bides her time waiting for a new water pump to arrive by striking up a friendship with local bad boy Randy Holt (Ed Westwick). The following morning, a meteor crashes to the ground nearby, destroying a local farmer's windmill and leaving a gaping crater in the ground. In the aftermath of that unsettling incident, Sam's disturbing prophetic dreams seem to start spilling over into the real world. Could the people around her prove the key to unlocking this unearthly mystery? Unfortunately for Sam, religious fanatics Trudy Potter (Elizabeth Berkley) and Pastor John Mellit (Matthew Davis) seem more interested in spouting religious clichés that pondering the end of the world, and Randy and the locals are too busy partying to notice that events are coming to a head. When the locals begin to gossip, Sam and Corey's friendship starts to suffer, and the pair have a bitter falling out. Unaware of the fact that they have become inexorably bound by fate to a missing child, an unstable Gulf War veteran, and a mysterious rift in the time-space continuum, the former friends discover that the world will soon perish unless a substantial sacrifice is made.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
May 7 to May 14
2012
Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that predict it, geologists say the earth is overdue for it, and even government scientists cannot deny the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012. A prophecy that began with the Mayans has now been well-chronicled, discussed, taken apart and examined. By 2012, we'll know we were warned...
Cheri
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Harriet Walter and Anita Pallenberg.
Léa de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer) realizes that the time has come for her to retire as Paris's most envied seductress of the rich and famous. After all, though she's still breathtaking, she's not getting any younger. Just as she starts wondering what her future holds, along comes her archrival Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates), a notoriously manipulative gossip, with an unusual proposition. It seems that Charlotte's 19-year-old son - a bon vivant nicknamed Chéri (Rupert Friend) - is gorgeous, charming and a complete disappointment to her. Fed up with his petulance, Charlotte slyly suspects Léa can knock some sense into the boy with her worldly ways. But Léa does far more than that and six years later, she and Chéri are still living together in a most outrageous fashion. Naturally, they know this state of affairs can't go on forever. But when Charlotte Peloux returns to match Chéri to a girl his own age for marriage and break up their adventuresome tryst, no one is prepared for what truly lies beneath their frivolous affair.
Dance Flick
Starring Damon Wayans, Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins and Affion Crockett.
A young street dancer, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.), from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman, Megan White (Shoshana Bush), are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles.
District 9
Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi and Devlin Brown.
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Fired Up
Starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Adhir Kalyan, Annalynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall and John Michael Higgins.
Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team... both on and off the field. When they hatch a scheme to trade their footballs for pom poms and join the school's most beautiful girls at cheer camp, the new team members actually give the girls' historically awful cheer squad a chance at success. And when Shawn falls for the head cheerleader (Sarah Roemer), the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals.
Halloween II
Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danielle Harris and Brea Grant.
Rob Zombie's Halloween II picks up at the exact moment that 2007's box-office smash, Halloween, stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers's (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton). Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie's visionary re-imagining of Halloween which grossed almost $80 million worldwide. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.
Julie & Julia
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina and Linda Emond.
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
I Love You, Beth Cooper (Una Notte Con Beth Cooper)
Starring Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack T. Carpenter, Lauren London, Lauren Storm, Shawn Roberts, Alan Ruck and Cynthia Stevenson.
Based on Larry Doyle's book about a nerdy high school valedictorian who decides to declare his love for a popular cheerleader during the graduation speech.
Julie & Julia
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina and Linda Emond.
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Knowing (Segnali Dal Futuro)
A time capsule containing a cryptic message about the coming apocalypse sends a concerned father on a race to prevent the horrific events from unfolding as predicted in this sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and starring Nicolas Cage. 1958: As the dedication ceremony for a newly constructed elementary school gets under way, a time capsule containing student drawings of the future is buried on the grounds and scheduled to be unearthed on the school's 50th anniversary. Instead of submitting a drawing, however, one little girl scribbles a series of seemingly random numbers on her paper before it is buried. Fifty years later, the time capsule is unearthed for a new generation of students to examine. Young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is one of those students. The mysterious sequence of numbers falling into his possession, Caleb takes the paper to his father, Professor John Koestler (Cage), for examination. Studying the numbers, Professor Koestler soon discovers that they aren't random at all, but an encoded message containing the precise dates, death tolls, and coordinates of every major disaster since the time capsule was buried. Not only that, but the document also indicates that there will be three more such events, the last of which indicates a doomsday scenario that appears directly tied to Professor Koestler and Caleb. His desperate plea to authorities falling on deaf ears, Professor Koestler realizes that his only hope for preventing more lives from being lost is to take personal action. Though the author of the prophecies is no longer living, Professor Koestler is eventually able to track down her daughter Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne), and granddaughter Abby, who reluctantly agree to aid in the investigation. As the final date on the list draws near, Professor Koestler enters into a frantic race against time to prevent destruction on a global scale, in the process realizing that in order to save millions of lives, he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
L'ultimo Ultras
Con Stefano Calvagna, Francesca Antonelli, Mauro Meconi, Rossella Infanti, Giancarlo Lombardi.
Il gioco del calcio: ultima vera epopea epica contemporanea, oppio del popolo e riscatto degli umili, spettacolo, teatro, sogno di soldi ed evasione. Negli ultimi anni il gioco del pallone ha perso quella patina poetica ed eroica che aveva nell'Italia della ricostruzione e del boom. Ricorda Alessandro Baricco le partite sognate alla radio e le immagini in bianco e nero trasmesse dalla rai a domenica già finita: emozioni sfasate, sfuocate, vissute fuori sincro. Il calcio come luogo dell’immaginario in cui elevare al rango di avventura nazionale le partitelle nei campi di terra, le ginocchia sbucciate, gli amici che vanno e quelli che restano. Canta Francesco De Gregori l'ansia di crescere di un ragazzino dalle spalle strette, le sconfitte e i successi di tante vite comuni che appendono, o non si arrendono ad appendere, le scarpette a "qualche tipo di muro". Disegna il fumettista italiano Davide Previati la concitazione di un gruppo di figli di operai del petrolchimico Anic di Ravenna: le fabbriche incombenti sullo sfondo, il cuore a sussultare per un tiro sbagliato, una parata impossibile e le narici che inalano sudore e malinconia presto sovrastati dal sapore dei prodotti della raffinazione. Il calcio in Italia è stato quello che prima fu il ciclismo, retorica popolare, pulita, sana, palcoscenico privilegiato per la messa in scena dei nostri sogni. Il gioco del pallone oggi non è più lo schermo da proiezione su cui animare aspirazioni e metafore di un paese in subbuglio. Il calcio oggi è intrattenimento fine a se stesso, discussione sterile, pretesto per facinorosi, distrazione pericolosa dai pericoli di un paese che vacilla. Nella tifoseria organizzata si può leggere ancora l'ansia di riscoprire un senso di appartenenza ormai perduto, l'espressione di un disagio che non riesce a placarsi nell'assoluta mancanza di punti di riferimento o nella preponderante presenza di punti di riferimento sbagliati: ecco quindi la violenza, la strumentalizzazione politica, la volgarità e, inaccettabile, l'omicidio.
Michael Jackson's This is It
'Michael Jackson's This Is It' offers Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson up close and personal. In raw and candid detail, 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show.
Outlander
Starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders and Aidan Devine.
A space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world, Kainan, and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster ... before it destroys them all.
Surrogates (Il Mondo Dei Replicanti)
Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames.
FBI agents (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves - fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles - enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who's real and who can you trust?
S. Darko
Starring Justin Chatwin, Ed Westwick, Briana Evigan, Daveigh Chase and Elizabeth Berkley.
Daveigh Chase reprises her role as Samantha Darko in this sequel set seven years after the events of director Richard Kelly's acclaimed cult hit. The day Donnie Darko died, his family died too. Almost a decade later, eighteen year old Sam still feels the loss every day. She longs to become a professional dancer, and decides to take a road trip to California with her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan). When their car breaks down just outside the dusty small town of Conejo Springs, carefree Corey bides her time waiting for a new water pump to arrive by striking up a friendship with local bad boy Randy Holt (Ed Westwick). The following morning, a meteor crashes to the ground nearby, destroying a local farmer's windmill and leaving a gaping crater in the ground. In the aftermath of that unsettling incident, Sam's disturbing prophetic dreams seem to start spilling over into the real world. Could the people around her prove the key to unlocking this unearthly mystery? Unfortunately for Sam, religious fanatics Trudy Potter (Elizabeth Berkley) and Pastor John Mellit (Matthew Davis) seem more interested in spouting religious clichés that pondering the end of the world, and Randy and the locals are too busy partying to notice that events are coming to a head. When the locals begin to gossip, Sam and Corey's friendship starts to suffer, and the pair have a bitter falling out. Unaware of the fact that they have become inexorably bound by fate to a missing child, an unstable Gulf War veteran, and a mysterious rift in the time-space continuum, the former friends discover that the world will soon perish unless a substantial sacrifice is made.
Up
A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbors by tying thousands of balloons to his home and finally taking flight. But Carl isn't alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the world's second largest continent, Carl and his unlikely traveling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.
May 14 to May 21
2012
Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that predict it, geologists say the earth is overdue for it, and even government scientists cannot deny the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012. A prophecy that began with the Mayans has now been well-chronicled, discussed, taken apart and examined. By 2012, we'll know we were warned...
Cheri
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Harriet Walter and Anita Pallenberg.
Léa de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer) realizes that the time has come for her to retire as Paris's most envied seductress of the rich and famous. After all, though she's still breathtaking, she's not getting any younger. Just as she starts wondering what her future holds, along comes her archrival Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates), a notoriously manipulative gossip, with an unusual proposition. It seems that Charlotte's 19-year-old son - a bon vivant nicknamed Chéri (Rupert Friend) - is gorgeous, charming and a complete disappointment to her. Fed up with his petulance, Charlotte slyly suspects Léa can knock some sense into the boy with her worldly ways. But Léa does far more than that and six years later, she and Chéri are still living together in a most outrageous fashion. Naturally, they know this state of affairs can't go on forever. But when Charlotte Peloux returns to match Chéri to a girl his own age for marriage and break up their adventuresome tryst, no one is prepared for what truly lies beneath their frivolous affair.
Dance Flick
Starring Damon Wayans, Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins and Affion Crockett.
A young street dancer, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.), from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman, Megan White (Shoshana Bush), are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles.
District 9
Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka, William Allen Young, Vanessa Haywood, Kenneth Nkosi and Devlin Brown.
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Halloween II
Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danielle Harris and Brea Grant.
Rob Zombie's Halloween II picks up at the exact moment that 2007's box-office smash, Halloween, stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers's (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton). Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie's visionary re-imagining of Halloween which grossed almost $80 million worldwide. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable.
Julie & Julia
Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina and Linda Emond.
Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's "Julie & Julia" and "My Life in France," by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Knowing (Segnali Dal Futuro)
A time capsule containing a cryptic message about the coming apocalypse sends a concerned father on a race to prevent the horrific events from unfolding as predicted in this sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and starring Nicolas Cage. 1958: As the dedication ceremony for a newly constructed elementary school gets under way, a time capsule containing student drawings of the future is buried on the grounds and scheduled to be unearthed on the school's 50th anniversary. Instead of submitting a drawing, however, one little girl scribbles a series of seemingly random numbers on her paper before it is buried. Fifty years later, the time capsule is unearthed for a new generation of students to examine. Young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is one of those students. The mysterious sequence of numbers falling into his possession, Caleb takes the paper to his father, Professor John Koestler (Cage), for examination. Studying the numbers, Professor Koestler soon discovers that they aren't random at all, but an encoded message containing the precise dates, death tolls, and coordinates of every major disaster since the time capsule was buried. Not only that, but the document also indicates that there will be three more such events, the last of which indicates a doomsday scenario that appears directly tied to Professor Koestler and Caleb. His desperate plea to authorities falling on deaf ears, Professor Koestler realizes that his only hope for preventing more lives from being lost is to take personal action. Though the author of the prophecies is no longer living, Professor Koestler is eventually able to track down her daughter Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne), and granddaughter Abby, who reluctantly agree to aid in the investigation. As the final date on the list draws near, Professor Koestler enters into a frantic race against time to prevent destruction on a global scale, in the process realizing that in order to save millions of lives, he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
L'ultimo Ultras
Con Stefano Calvagna, Francesca Antonelli, Mauro Meconi, Rossella Infanti, Giancarlo Lombardi.
Il gioco del calcio: ultima vera epopea epica contemporanea, oppio del popolo e riscatto degli umili, spettacolo, teatro, sogno di soldi ed evasione. Negli ultimi anni il gioco del pallone ha perso quella patina poetica ed eroica che aveva nell'Italia della ricostruzione e del boom. Ricorda Alessandro Baricco le partite sognate alla radio e le immagini in bianco e nero trasmesse dalla rai a domenica già finita: emozioni sfasate, sfuocate, vissute fuori sincro. Il calcio come luogo dell’immaginario in cui elevare al rango di avventura nazionale le partitelle nei campi di terra, le ginocchia sbucciate, gli amici che vanno e quelli che restano. Canta Francesco De Gregori l'ansia di crescere di un ragazzino dalle spalle strette, le sconfitte e i successi di tante vite comuni che appendono, o non si arrendono ad appendere, le scarpette a "qualche tipo di muro". Disegna il fumettista italiano Davide Previati la concitazione di un gruppo di figli di operai del petrolchimico Anic di Ravenna: le fabbriche incombenti sullo sfondo, il cuore a sussultare per un tiro sbagliato, una parata impossibile e le narici che inalano sudore e malinconia presto sovrastati dal sapore dei prodotti della raffinazione. Il calcio in Italia è stato quello che prima fu il ciclismo, retorica popolare, pulita, sana, palcoscenico privilegiato per la messa in scena dei nostri sogni. Il gioco del pallone oggi non è più lo schermo da proiezione su cui animare aspirazioni e metafore di un paese in subbuglio. Il calcio oggi è intrattenimento fine a se stesso, discussione sterile, pretesto per facinorosi, distrazione pericolosa dai pericoli di un paese che vacilla. Nella tifoseria organizzata si può leggere ancora l'ansia di riscoprire un senso di appartenenza ormai perduto, l'espressione di un disagio che non riesce a placarsi nell'assoluta mancanza di punti di riferimento o nella preponderante presenza di punti di riferimento sbagliati: ecco quindi la violenza, la strumentalizzazione politica, la volgarità e, inaccettabile, l'omicidio.
Michael Jackson's This is It
'Michael Jackson's This Is It' offers Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson up close and personal. In raw and candid detail, 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show.
Outlander
Starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders and Aidan Devine.
A space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world, Kainan, and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster ... before it destroys them all.
Polar Storm (Tempesta Polare)
Starring Jack Coleman, Holly Elissa Dignard, Terry David Mulligan and Roger R. Cross.
A massive comet fragment sends planet Earth spinning off its axis, prompting a series of unprecedented natural disasters that threaten the very future of mankind. With his wife and teenage so in mortal danger, Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) calls on his crack research team to help realign the planet's axis before the effects of the catastrophe are irreversible.
Questione Di Punti Di Vista
Con Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé, Julie-Marie Parmentier.
Dopo quindici anni di assenza, Kate ritorna al mondo circense, abbandonato da giovane dopo la tragedia di un grave incidente. Il padre, direttore del piccolo circo in tournée, è morto da poco tempo e gli acrobati rimasti, scioccati dalla perdita, devono fare i conti con l’insuccesso del loro spettacolo itinerante. Bloccati in un piccolo paesino alle porte di Parigi, cercano di riavvicinarsi lentamente a Kate. Durante la preparazione dei nuovi sketch, arriva Vittorio, misterioso viaggiatore italiano, che, affascinato dall’eccentricità del gruppo e dall’animo tormentato di Kate, decide di fermarsi per qualche tempo. L’incontro tra le due anime solitarie costringerà tutti a fermarsi e riflettere sui traumi del passato. Rivette è ossessionato dal legame tra arte e vita. Dopo aver sviscerato il topos ne La bella scontrosa, enigmatica riflessione sulla pittura come sintesi intellettuale di creazione artistica e ricerca esistenziale, ora continua a srotolare quel filo, ambientando una nuova storia d’amore nel mondo del circo. Sceglie un piccolo tendone rudimentale, lo arricchisce di luci e colori e lo sveste del carattere esagerato da baraccone ambulante. Il non-luogo sospeso del circo viene così rappresentato nella sua essenzialità: non ci sono elefanti addestrati né tigri o cavalli ma solo un gruppetto di clown e qualche acrobata. L’assenza totale di musica e la presenza algida e apatica dell’esiguo pubblico pagante, ammanta la costruzione silenziosa dei sentimenti di un’aria triste e desolante. Se i drammi del cuore affrontano con gravità la ricerca di un senso compiuto, le scenette teatrali dei clown e l’estrosità di Vittorio (che ride quando gli altri non lo fanno e si intromette negli affari degli sconosciuti con picchi buffi di petulanza), temperano i tormenti interiori. Vittorio è impacciato e ‘fuori tempo’ nell’avvicinamento a Kate; tra i due nasce però una strana complicità che li unisce e separa continuamente, in un ballo di emozioni sussurrate e mai vissute carnalmente. Lei è bloccata dai ricordi e vive imponendosi la sofferenza della rimozione di una parte di se stessa, quella legata al mondo del circo dov’è cresciuta.. Accetta le incombenze quotidiane del presente, pensa al futuro ma non vuole fermarsi a guardare indietro. Il ritorno al circo ‘ambulante’ la blocca in un luogo magico, dove la commistione tra creatività e gioia di vivere creano il posto ideale per pensare. Lo stesso accade a Vittorio, nomade anomalo che vede, prima nello spettacolo circense, poi in Kate, l’occasione di aggrapparsi alla vita.
Surrogates (Il Mondo Dei Replicanti)
Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames.
FBI agents (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves - fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles - enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who's real and who can you trust?
Tris Di Donne E Abiti Nuziali
Con Sergio Castellitto, Martina Gedeck, Paolo Briguglia, Raffaella Rea, Salvatore Cantalupo.
Franco Campanella è un ex impiegato delle poste che non arriva ai mille euro al mese di pensione, devoto alla propria famiglia e dedito al vizio del gioco. Alla vigilia delle nozze della figlia maggiore Luisa, giovane insegnante appassionata di poesia, Franco promette alla moglie Josephine di impegnarsi a fare economia per sostenere personalmente le spese del matrimonio. Ma dopo che gli viene rifiutato un fido bancario, Franco ricomincia a scommettere e a frequentare ogni bisca del napoletano, perdendo fino a indebitarsi con strozzini e camorristi per una cifra da decine di migliaia di euro. Dietro ad un titolo da commedia dei "telefoni bianchi" si cela un tentativo di recupero di quelle agrodolci modalità di raccontare una parte anonima e sotterranea della società che hanno fatto grande il passato della commedia italiana. Un recupero che sa quasi di una riflessione sul genere, prendendo avvio da tre elementi ricorrenti nella commedia del dopoguerra: povertà, matrimonio e carte da gioco, raccontati attraverso la storia di un personaggio tipicamente zavattiniano: Franco Campanella. Alcuni momenti del film parrebbero innalzare questo pensionato ingenuo e sciagurato, schiavo dell'affetto della famiglia e dei suoi stessi vizi, nella tradizione romantica e solitaria del viandante di Friederich o nel crepuscolarismo di Camillo Sbarbaro. Grazie invece a Castellitto, Franco resta un mediocre, un personaggio troppo piccolo e meschino per poter aspirare ad un'aura di tragicità. Un contrasto fra grandezza e grettezza che scorre fra i saliscendi del Vomero napoletano e gli arpeggi musicali di Nicola Piovani, vagabondando incerto come il suo protagonista fra il semplice ritratto neorealista, il tentativo di descrizione di una realtà sotterranea come quella dei giocatori compulsivi e i toni della commedia edificante. Se Terracciano incappa in un problema che non apparteneva alla commedia all'italiana, è perché rispetto a questa grande tradizione, dimentica di costruire un ambiente complesso e sfaccettato. Il reale si costruisce a partire dall'intorno, da un microuniverso di personaggi che contribuiscono a dare spessore e credibilità alla quotidianità del protagonista. Il regista napoletano sembra invece concentrarsi solo sulla performance del suo eroe mediocre, così che gli altri personaggi non hanno spazio o forza necessaria a caricare di attese o di pathos la caduta verso il basso di Franco.
Year One (Anno Uno)
Starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Hank Azaria, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Vinnie Jones.
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black, Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
May 21 to May 28
2012
Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that predict it, geologists say the earth is overdue for it, and even government scientists cannot deny the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012. A prophecy that began with the Mayans has now been well-chronicled, discussed, taken apart and examined. By 2012, we'll know we were warned...
Dance Flick
Starring Damon Wayans, Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins and Affion Crockett.
A young street dancer, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.), from the wrong side of the tracks and a beautiful young woman, Megan White (Shoshana Bush), are brought together by their passion for dancing and put to the test in the mother of all dance battles.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Starring Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Verne Troyer, Andrew Garfield, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law.
Fantastical morality tale, set in the present day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Many centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his first-born reached its 16th birthday he or she would become the property of Mr. Nick. Valentina is now rapidly approaching this 'coming of age' milestone and Dr. Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr. Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr. Parnassus promises his daughter's hand in marriage to the man that helps him win. In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles - and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all.
Knowing (Segnali Dal Futuro)
A time capsule containing a cryptic message about the coming apocalypse sends a concerned father on a race to prevent the horrific events from unfolding as predicted in this sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and starring Nicolas Cage. 1958: As the dedication ceremony for a newly constructed elementary school gets under way, a time capsule containing student drawings of the future is buried on the grounds and scheduled to be unearthed on the school's 50th anniversary. Instead of submitting a drawing, however, one little girl scribbles a series of seemingly random numbers on her paper before it is buried. Fifty years later, the time capsule is unearthed for a new generation of students to examine. Young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is one of those students. The mysterious sequence of numbers falling into his possession, Caleb takes the paper to his father, Professor John Koestler (Cage), for examination. Studying the numbers, Professor Koestler soon discovers that they aren't random at all, but an encoded message containing the precise dates, death tolls, and coordinates of every major disaster since the time capsule was buried. Not only that, but the document also indicates that there will be three more such events, the last of which indicates a doomsday scenario that appears directly tied to Professor Koestler and Caleb. His desperate plea to authorities falling on deaf ears, Professor Koestler realizes that his only hope for preventing more lives from being lost is to take personal action. Though the author of the prophecies is no longer living, Professor Koestler is eventually able to track down her daughter Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne), and granddaughter Abby, who reluctantly agree to aid in the investigation. As the final date on the list draws near, Professor Koestler enters into a frantic race against time to prevent destruction on a global scale, in the process realizing that in order to save millions of lives, he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Lo Spazio Bianco
Con Margherita Buy, Salvatore Cantalupo, Guido Caprino, Maria Paiato, Gaetano Bruno, Antonia Truppo, Giovanni Ludeno.
Maria aspetta una bambina, non è incinta più ma aspetta lo stesso. Aspetta che sua figlia nasca, o muoia. E se c'è una cosa che Maria non sa fare è aspettare. E' per questo che i tre mesi che deve affrontare, sola, nell'attesa che sua figlia Irene esca dall'incubatrice, la colgono impreparata. Abituata a fare affidamento esclusivamente sulle proprie forze e a decidere con piena autonomia della propria vita, Maria si costringe ad un'apnea passiva che esclude il mondo intero, si imprigiona nello spazio bianco dell'attesa. Ma questo sforzo di isolamento doloroso consuma anche l'ultimo filo di energia a disposizione: la bolla di solitudine in cui Maria si è rinchiusa è messa a dura prova e alla fine esplode. E' necessario che Maria salvi se stessa per riuscire a salvare la bambina. Non c'è che una soluzione: consentire al mondo di irrompere nella propria esistenza e concedersi il privilegio di ritornare a vivere. E così inventarsi la forza per accompagnare Irene alla nascita.
L'ultimo Ultras
Con Stefano Calvagna, Francesca Antonelli, Mauro Meconi, Rossella Infanti, Giancarlo Lombardi.
Il gioco del calcio: ultima vera epopea epica contemporanea, oppio del popolo e riscatto degli umili, spettacolo, teatro, sogno di soldi ed evasione. Negli ultimi anni il gioco del pallone ha perso quella patina poetica ed eroica che aveva nell'Italia della ricostruzione e del boom. Ricorda Alessandro Baricco le partite sognate alla radio e le immagini in bianco e nero trasmesse dalla rai a domenica già finita: emozioni sfasate, sfuocate, vissute fuori sincro. Il calcio come luogo dell¢immaginario in cui elevare al rango di avventura nazionale le partitelle nei campi di terra, le ginocchia sbucciate, gli amici che vanno e quelli che restano. Canta Francesco De Gregori l'ansia di crescere di un ragazzino dalle spalle strette, le sconfitte e i successi di tante vite comuni che appendono, o non si arrendono ad appendere, le scarpette a "qualche tipo di muro". Disegna il fumettista italiano Davide Previati la concitazione di un gruppo di figli di operai del petrolchimico Anic di Ravenna: le fabbriche incombenti sullo sfondo, il cuore a sussultare per un tiro sbagliato, una parata impossibile e le narici che inalano sudore e malinconia presto sovrastati dal sapore dei prodotti della raffinazione. Il calcio in Italia è stato quello che prima fu il ciclismo, retorica popolare, pulita, sana, palcoscenico privilegiato per la messa in scena dei nostri sogni. Il gioco del pallone oggi non è più lo schermo da proiezione su cui animare aspirazioni e metafore di un paese in subbuglio. Il calcio oggi è intrattenimento fine a se stesso, discussione sterile, pretesto per facinorosi, distrazione pericolosa dai pericoli di un paese che vacilla. Nella tifoseria organizzata si può leggere ancora l'ansia di riscoprire un senso di appartenenza ormai perduto, l'espressione di un disagio che non riesce a placarsi nell'assoluta mancanza di punti di riferimento o nella preponderante presenza di punti di riferimento sbagliati: ecco quindi la violenza, la strumentalizzazione politica, la volgarità e, inaccettabile, l'omicidio.
Michael Jackson's This is It
'Michael Jackson's This Is It' offers Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson up close and personal. In raw and candid detail, 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show.
Outlander
Starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders and Aidan Devine.
A space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world, Kainan, and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster ... before it destroys them all.
Polar Storm (Tempesta Polare)
Starring Jack Coleman, Holly Elissa Dignard, Terry David Mulligan and Roger R. Cross.
A massive comet fragment sends planet Earth spinning off its axis, prompting a series of unprecedented natural disasters that threaten the very future of mankind. With his wife and teenage so in mortal danger, Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) calls on his crack research team to help realign the planet's axis before the effects of the catastrophe are irreversible.
Questione Di Punti Di Vista
Con Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé, Julie-Marie Parmentier.
Dopo quindici anni di assenza, Kate ritorna al mondo circense, abbandonato da giovane dopo la tragedia di un grave incidente. Il padre, direttore del piccolo circo in tournée, è morto da poco tempo e gli acrobati rimasti, scioccati dalla perdita, devono fare i conti con l¢insuccesso del loro spettacolo itinerante. Bloccati in un piccolo paesino alle porte di Parigi, cercano di riavvicinarsi lentamente a Kate. Durante la preparazione dei nuovi sketch, arriva Vittorio, misterioso viaggiatore italiano, che, affascinato dall¢eccentricità del gruppo e dall¢animo tormentato di Kate, decide di fermarsi per qualche tempo. L¢incontro tra le due anime solitarie costringerà tutti a fermarsi e riflettere sui traumi del passato. Rivette è ossessionato dal legame tra arte e vita. Dopo aver sviscerato il topos ne La bella scontrosa, enigmatica riflessione sulla pittura come sintesi intellettuale di creazione artistica e ricerca esistenziale, ora continua a srotolare quel filo, ambientando una nuova storia d¢amore nel mondo del circo. Sceglie un piccolo tendone rudimentale, lo arricchisce di luci e colori e lo sveste del carattere esagerato da baraccone ambulante. Il non-luogo sospeso del circo viene così rappresentato nella sua essenzialità: non ci sono elefanti addestrati né tigri o cavalli ma solo un gruppetto di clown e qualche acrobata. L¢assenza totale di musica e la presenza algida e apatica dell¢esiguo pubblico pagante, ammanta la costruzione silenziosa dei sentimenti di un¢aria triste e desolante. Se i drammi del cuore affrontano con gravità la ricerca di un senso compiuto, le scenette teatrali dei clown e l¢estrosità di Vittorio (che ride quando gli altri non lo fanno e si intromette negli affari degli sconosciuti con picchi buffi di petulanza), temperano i tormenti interiori. Vittorio è impacciato e ¡fuori tempo¢ nell¢avvicinamento a Kate; tra i due nasce però una strana complicità che li unisce e separa continuamente, in un ballo di emozioni sussurrate e mai vissute carnalmente. Lei è bloccata dai ricordi e vive imponendosi la sofferenza della rimozione di una parte di se stessa, quella legata al mondo del circo dov¢è cresciuta.. Accetta le incombenze quotidiane del presente, pensa al futuro ma non vuole fermarsi a guardare indietro. Il ritorno al circo ¡ambulante¢ la blocca in un luogo magico, dove la commistione tra creatività e gioia di vivere creano il posto ideale per pensare. Lo stesso accade a Vittorio, nomade anomalo che vede, prima nello spettacolo circense, poi in Kate, l¢occasione di aggrapparsi alla vita.
Surrogates (Il Mondo Dei Replicanti)
Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames.
FBI agents (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves - fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles - enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who's real and who can you trust?
The Time Traveler's Wife (Un¢Amore All¢Improvviso)
Starring Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston, Stephen Tobolowsky and Jane McLean.
Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.
Tris Di Donne E Abiti Nuziali
Con Sergio Castellitto, Martina Gedeck, Paolo Briguglia, Raffaella Rea, Salvatore Cantalupo.
Franco Campanella è un ex impiegato delle poste che non arriva ai mille euro al mese di pensione, devoto alla propria famiglia e dedito al vizio del gioco. Alla vigilia delle nozze della figlia maggiore Luisa, giovane insegnante appassionata di poesia, Franco promette alla moglie Josephine di impegnarsi a fare economia per sostenere personalmente le spese del matrimonio. Ma dopo che gli viene rifiutato un fido bancario, Franco ricomincia a scommettere e a frequentare ogni bisca del napoletano, perdendo fino a indebitarsi con strozzini e camorristi per una cifra da decine di migliaia di euro. Dietro ad un titolo da commedia dei "telefoni bianchi" si cela un tentativo di recupero di quelle agrodolci modalità di raccontare una parte anonima e sotterranea della società che hanno fatto grande il passato della commedia italiana. Un recupero che sa quasi di una riflessione sul genere, prendendo avvio da tre elementi ricorrenti nella commedia del dopoguerra: povertà, matrimonio e carte da gioco, raccontati attraverso la storia di un personaggio tipicamente zavattiniano: Franco Campanella. Alcuni momenti del film parrebbero innalzare questo pensionato ingenuo e sciagurato, schiavo dell'affetto della famiglia e dei suoi stessi vizi, nella tradizione romantica e solitaria del viandante di Friederich o nel crepuscolarismo di Camillo Sbarbaro. Grazie invece a Castellitto, Franco resta un mediocre, un personaggio troppo piccolo e meschino per poter aspirare ad un'aura di tragicità. Un contrasto fra grandezza e grettezza che scorre fra i saliscendi del Vomero napoletano e gli arpeggi musicali di Nicola Piovani, vagabondando incerto come il suo protagonista fra il semplice ritratto neorealista, il tentativo di descrizione di una realtà sotterranea come quella dei giocatori compulsivi e i toni della commedia edificante. Se Terracciano incappa in un problema che non apparteneva alla commedia all'italiana, è perché rispetto a questa grande tradizione, dimentica di costruire un ambiente complesso e sfaccettato. Il reale si costruisce a partire dall'intorno, da un microuniverso di personaggi che contribuiscono a dare spessore e credibilità alla quotidianità del protagonista. Il regista napoletano sembra invece concentrarsi solo sulla performance del suo eroe mediocre, così che gli altri personaggi non hanno spazio o forza necessaria a caricare di attese o di pathos la caduta verso il basso di Franco.
The Ugly Truth (La Dura Verità)
Starring Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, John Michael Higgins, Nick Searcy, Kevin Connolly and Cheryl Hines.
Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is an ambitious morning talk show producer on "A.M. Sacramento" who prides herself on being able to find an instant solution to any problem - any problem that is except her own unhappily single status. When it comes to dating, the always-in-control Abby has a flawless track record of failure. When her show suffers a ratings slump, Abby is forced to team with the newly recruited special correspondent Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a man who couldn't push more of her buttons. His "The Ugly Truth" segment promises to spill the beans on what makes men really tick. But his outrageously racy, gleefully chauvinistic, "shock jock" style rubs Abby in all the wrong ways and to make matters worse, becomes an instant ratings bonanza, sealing his network status. Then Abby meets Colin, her neighbor, and he's a single doctor! He's everything Mike Chadway isn't - suave, polite, not remotely into jello wrestling - and this time, Abby doesn't want to blow it. She hates to admit it, but she needs Mike's insight into the male mind to make the right moves. Now, as Mike coaches Abby and Abby puts Mike's provocative seduction theories to the test, they are both about to discover an ironic truth: as different as we might be, men and women share some of our most secret feelings in common.
Year One (Anno Uno)
Starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Hank Azaria, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Vinnie Jones.
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black, Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
May 28 to June 4
12 Rounds
Starring John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris and Brian White.
When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) stops a brilliant thief, Miles, from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks...12 rounds...that Danny must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancée. Ranging from tests of intelligence to Sisyphean tasks of endurance, Miles keeps Danny guessing at every treacherous turn. Each new round sends Danny hurtling through the city at a breakneck pace. As Miles toys with Danny, innocent citizens are threatened. Automobiles, streetcars and ferryboats are transformed into potential weapons of mass destruction. With the violent rounds mounting, one wrong move may take the match closer to a deadly conclusion.
2012
Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that predict it, geologists say the earth is overdue for it, and even government scientists cannot deny the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012. A prophecy that began with the Mayans has now been well-chronicled, discussed, taken apart and examined. By 2012, we'll know we were warned...
Bandslam
Starring Aly Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelan Connell, Scott Porter and Lisa Kudrow.
When gifted singer-songwriter Charlotte Banks (Aly Michalka) asks new kid in town Will Burton (Gaelan Connell) to manage her fledgling rock band, she appears to have just one goal in mind: go head-to-head against her egotistical musician ex-boyfriend, Ben (Scott Porter), at the biggest event of the year, a battle of the bands. Against all odds, their band develops a sound all its own with a real shot at success in the contest. Meanwhile, romance brews between Will and Sam (Vanessa Hudgens), who plays a mean guitar and has a voice to die for. When disaster strikes, it's time for the band to make a choice: Do they admit defeat, or face the music and stand up for what they believe in?
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Peter Haber, Lena Endre and Marika Lagercrantz.
A discredited journalist and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder. Inspired by late author Stieg Larsson's successful trilogy of books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo gets under way as Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are briefed in the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, whose uncle suspects she may have been killed by a member of their own family. The deeper Mikael and Lisbeth dig for the truth, however, the greater the risk of being buried alive by members of the family who will go to great lengths to keep their secrets tightly sealed.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Starring Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Verne Troyer, Andrew Garfield, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law.
Fantastical morality tale, set in the present day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Many centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his first-born reached its 16th birthday he or she would become the property of Mr. Nick. Valentina is now rapidly approaching this 'coming of age' milestone and Dr. Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr. Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr. Parnassus promises his daughter's hand in marriage to the man that helps him win. In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles - and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all.
Knowing (Segnali Dal Futuro)
A time capsule containing a cryptic message about the coming apocalypse sends a concerned father on a race to prevent the horrific events from unfolding as predicted in this sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and starring Nicolas Cage. 1958: As the dedication ceremony for a newly constructed elementary school gets under way, a time capsule containing student drawings of the future is buried on the grounds and scheduled to be unearthed on the school's 50th anniversary. Instead of submitting a drawing, however, one little girl scribbles a series of seemingly random numbers on her paper before it is buried. Fifty years later, the time capsule is unearthed for a new generation of students to examine. Young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is one of those students. The mysterious sequence of numbers falling into his possession, Caleb takes the paper to his father, Professor John Koestler (Cage), for examination. Studying the numbers, Professor Koestler soon discovers that they aren't random at all, but an encoded message containing the precise dates, death tolls, and coordinates of every major disaster since the time capsule was buried. Not only that, but the document also indicates that there will be three more such events, the last of which indicates a doomsday scenario that appears directly tied to Professor Koestler and Caleb. His desperate plea to authorities falling on deaf ears, Professor Koestler realizes that his only hope for preventing more lives from being lost is to take personal action. Though the author of the prophecies is no longer living, Professor Koestler is eventually able to track down her daughter Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne), and granddaughter Abby, who reluctantly agree to aid in the investigation. As the final date on the list draws near, Professor Koestler enters into a frantic race against time to prevent destruction on a global scale, in the process realizing that in order to save millions of lives, he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Lo Spazio Bianco
Con Margherita Buy, Salvatore Cantalupo, Guido Caprino, Maria Paiato, Gaetano Bruno, Antonia Truppo, Giovanni Ludeno.
Maria aspetta una bambina, non è incinta più ma aspetta lo stesso. Aspetta che sua figlia nasca, o muoia. E se c'è una cosa che Maria non sa fare è aspettare. E' per questo che i tre mesi che deve affrontare, sola, nell'attesa che sua figlia Irene esca dall'incubatrice, la colgono impreparata. Abituata a fare affidamento esclusivamente sulle proprie forze e a decidere con piena autonomia della propria vita, Maria si costringe ad un'apnea passiva che esclude il mondo intero, si imprigiona nello spazio bianco dell'attesa. Ma questo sforzo di isolamento doloroso consuma anche l'ultimo filo di energia a disposizione: la bolla di solitudine in cui Maria si è rinchiusa è messa a dura prova e alla fine esplode. E' necessario che Maria salvi se stessa per riuscire a salvare la bambina. Non c'è che una soluzione: consentire al mondo di irrompere nella propria esistenza e concedersi il privilegio di ritornare a vivere. E così inventarsi la forza per accompagnare Irene alla nascita.
Polar Storm (Tempesta Polare)
Starring Jack Coleman, Holly Elissa Dignard, Terry David Mulligan and Roger R. Cross.
A massive comet fragment sends planet Earth spinning off its axis, prompting a series of unprecedented natural disasters that threaten the very future of mankind. With his wife and teenage so in mortal danger, Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) calls on his crack research team to help realign the planet's axis before the effects of the catastrophe are irreversible.
The Princess And The Frog (La Principessa e Il Ranocchio)
Starring Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, Jim Cummings, Michael-Leon Wooley, John Goodman, Jennifer Cody, Terrence Howard and Oprah Winfrey.
A modern twist on a classic tale, set in the great city of New Orleans, where a beautiful girl named Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) meets a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again. A fateful kiss leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.
Questione Di Punti Di Vista
Con Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé, Julie-Marie Parmentier.
Dopo quindici anni di assenza, Kate ritorna al mondo circense, abbandonato da giovane dopo la tragedia di un grave incidente. Il padre, direttore del piccolo circo in tournée, è morto da poco tempo e gli acrobati rimasti, scioccati dalla perdita, devono fare i conti con l¢insuccesso del loro spettacolo itinerante. Bloccati in un piccolo paesino alle porte di Parigi, cercano di riavvicinarsi lentamente a Kate. Durante la preparazione dei nuovi sketch, arriva Vittorio, misterioso viaggiatore italiano, che, affascinato dall¢eccentricità del gruppo e dall¢animo tormentato di Kate, decide di fermarsi per qualche tempo. L¢incontro tra le due anime solitarie costringerà tutti a fermarsi e riflettere sui traumi del passato. Rivette è ossessionato dal legame tra arte e vita. Dopo aver sviscerato il topos ne La bella scontrosa, enigmatica riflessione sulla pittura come sintesi intellettuale di creazione artistica e ricerca esistenziale, ora continua a srotolare quel filo, ambientando una nuova storia d¢amore nel mondo del circo. Sceglie un piccolo tendone rudimentale, lo arricchisce di luci e colori e lo sveste del carattere esagerato da baraccone ambulante. Il non-luogo sospeso del circo viene così rappresentato nella sua essenzialità: non ci sono elefanti addestrati né tigri o cavalli ma solo un gruppetto di clown e qualche acrobata. L¢assenza totale di musica e la presenza algida e apatica dell¢esiguo pubblico pagante, ammanta la costruzione silenziosa dei sentimenti di un¢aria triste e desolante. Se i drammi del cuore affrontano con gravità la ricerca di un senso compiuto, le scenette teatrali dei clown e l¢estrosità di Vittorio (che ride quando gli altri non lo fanno e si intromette negli affari degli sconosciuti con picchi buffi di petulanza), temperano i tormenti interiori. Vittorio è impacciato e ¡fuori tempo¢ nell¢avvicinamento a Kate; tra i due nasce però una strana complicità che li unisce e separa continuamente, in un ballo di emozioni sussurrate e mai vissute carnalmente. Lei è bloccata dai ricordi e vive imponendosi la sofferenza della rimozione di una parte di se stessa, quella legata al mondo del circo dov¢è cresciuta.. Accetta le incombenze quotidiane del presente, pensa al futuro ma non vuole fermarsi a guardare indietro. Il ritorno al circo ¡ambulante¢ la blocca in un luogo magico, dove la commistione tra creatività e gioia di vivere creano il posto ideale per pensare. Lo stesso accade a Vittorio, nomade anomalo che vede, prima nello spettacolo circense, poi in Kate, l¢occasione di aggrapparsi alla vita.
Surrogates (Il Mondo Dei Replicanti)
Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames.
FBI agents (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves - fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles - enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who's real and who can you trust?
The Time Traveler's Wife (Un Amore All¢Improvviso)
Starring Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston, Stephen Tobolowsky and Jane McLean.
Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.
Tris Di Donne E Abiti Nuziali
Con Sergio Castellitto, Martina Gedeck, Paolo Briguglia, Raffaella Rea, Salvatore Cantalupo.
Franco Campanella è un ex impiegato delle poste che non arriva ai mille euro al mese di pensione, devoto alla propria famiglia e dedito al vizio del gioco. Alla vigilia delle nozze della figlia maggiore Luisa, giovane insegnante appassionata di poesia, Franco promette alla moglie Josephine di impegnarsi a fare economia per sostenere personalmente le spese del matrimonio. Ma dopo che gli viene rifiutato un fido bancario, Franco ricomincia a scommettere e a frequentare ogni bisca del napoletano, perdendo fino a indebitarsi con strozzini e camorristi per una cifra da decine di migliaia di euro. Dietro ad un titolo da commedia dei "telefoni bianchi" si cela un tentativo di recupero di quelle agrodolci modalità di raccontare una parte anonima e sotterranea della società che hanno fatto grande il passato della commedia italiana. Un recupero che sa quasi di una riflessione sul genere, prendendo avvio da tre elementi ricorrenti nella commedia del dopoguerra: povertà, matrimonio e carte da gioco, raccontati attraverso la storia di un personaggio tipicamente zavattiniano: Franco Campanella. Alcuni momenti del film parrebbero innalzare questo pensionato ingenuo e sciagurato, schiavo dell'affetto della famiglia e dei suoi stessi vizi, nella tradizione romantica e solitaria del viandante di Friederich o nel crepuscolarismo di Camillo Sbarbaro. Grazie invece a Castellitto, Franco resta un mediocre, un personaggio troppo piccolo e meschino per poter aspirare ad un'aura di tragicità. Un contrasto fra grandezza e grettezza che scorre fra i saliscendi del Vomero napoletano e gli arpeggi musicali di Nicola Piovani, vagabondando incerto come il suo protagonista fra il semplice ritratto neorealista, il tentativo di descrizione di una realtà sotterranea come quella dei giocatori compulsivi e i toni della commedia edificante. Se Terracciano incappa in un problema che non apparteneva alla commedia all'italiana, è perché rispetto a questa grande tradizione, dimentica di costruire un ambiente complesso e sfaccettato. Il reale si costruisce a partire dall'intorno, da un microuniverso di personaggi che contribuiscono a dare spessore e credibilità alla quotidianità del protagonista. Il regista napoletano sembra invece concentrarsi solo sulla performance del suo eroe mediocre, così che gli altri personaggi non hanno spazio o forza necessaria a caricare di attese o di pathos la caduta verso il basso di Franco.
The Ugly Truth (La Dura Verità)
Starring Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, John Michael Higgins, Nick Searcy, Kevin Connolly and Cheryl Hines.
Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is an ambitious morning talk show producer on "A.M. Sacramento" who prides herself on being able to find an instant solution to any problem - any problem that is except her own unhappily single status. When it comes to dating, the always-in-control Abby has a flawless track record of failure. When her show suffers a ratings slump, Abby is forced to team with the newly recruited special correspondent Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a man who couldn't push more of her buttons. His "The Ugly Truth" segment promises to spill the beans on what makes men really tick. But his outrageously racy, gleefully chauvinistic, "shock jock" style rubs Abby in all the wrong ways and to make matters worse, becomes an instant ratings bonanza, sealing his network status. Then Abby meets Colin, her neighbor, and he's a single doctor! He's everything Mike Chadway isn't - suave, polite, not remotely into jello wrestling - and this time, Abby doesn't want to blow it. She hates to admit it, but she needs Mike's insight into the male mind to make the right moves. Now, as Mike coaches Abby and Abby puts Mike's provocative seduction theories to the test, they are both about to discover an ironic truth: as different as we might be, men and women share some of our most secret feelings in common.
Year One (Anno Uno)
Starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Hank Azaria, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Vinnie Jones.
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black, Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
June 4 to June 11
12 Rounds
Starring John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris and Brian White.
When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) stops a brilliant thief, Miles, from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks...12 rounds...that Danny must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancée. Ranging from tests of intelligence to Sisyphean tasks of endurance, Miles keeps Danny guessing at every treacherous turn. Each new round sends Danny hurtling through the city at a breakneck pace. As Miles toys with Danny, innocent citizens are threatened. Automobiles, streetcars and ferryboats are transformed into potential weapons of mass destruction. With the violent rounds mounting, one wrong move may take the match closer to a deadly conclusion.
2012
Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that predict it, geologists say the earth is overdue for it, and even government scientists cannot deny the cataclysm of epic proportions that awaits the earth in 2012. A prophecy that began with the Mayans has now been well-chronicled, discussed, taken apart and examined. By 2012, we'll know we were warned...
Alice In Wonderland
Starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Marton Csokas and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Johnny Depp stars as The Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting her with childhood friends: The White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Dormouse, The Caterpillar, The Cheshire Cat, and of course, The Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end The Red Queen's reign of terror.
Baarìa
Con Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Nicole Grimaudo, Angela Molina, Lina Sastri.
La storia di una famiglia siciliana che prende le mosse dal ventennio fascista in cui Cicco, sin da bambino apertamente contestatore, è un pastore che ha la passione per la letteratura epica. Suo figlio Peppino, cresciuto durante la guerra, entrerà nelle file del Partito Comunista divenendone un esponente di spicco sul piano locale e riuscendo a sposare, nonostante la più assoluta opposizione della famiglia di lei, Mannina che diventerà madre dei loro numerosi figli che saranno comunque considerati da alcuni sempre e comunque ¡figli del comunista'. Tornatore riprende a narrare della terra che ama, la Sicilia, e lo fa con un affresco collettivo che abbraccia numerosi decenni della storia del secolo scorso. Lo fa con quel piglio che a tratti travalica nell'enfasi che ormai gli è proprio quando torna cinematograficamente a varcare lo Stretto di Messina (e che gli procura tante critiche) ma anche con la sincera voglia di fare cinema a tutto campo. Fare cinema si traduce per lui in un omaggio consapevole e dichiarato a quanti lo hanno preceduto (qui in modo particolare a Sergio Leone ma non solo) senza però rinunciare a un proprio stile narrativo che procede per accumulo di immagini e di situazioni. È una corsa contro il tempo quella che ci viene proposta sin dall'inizio con la figura del bambino che apre il film. Corsa contro il tempo che cancella una memoria collettiva che sembra progressivamente non esistere più e che Tornatore vuole restituirci scegliendo la via della spettacolarità rivolta al pubblico più vasto possibile. C'è una scena in cui Peppino torna a Bagheria dopo essere emigrato per lavoro a Parigi. Ha ancora in mano la valigia e un gruppo di suoi conoscenti, incontrandolo, gli chiede per dove stia partendo. Nessuno di loro si è accorto della sua assenza. Oggi ben pochi sembrano accorgersi della perdita della conoscenza di un passato recente in cui umiliazioni, lotte e parziali vittorie lasciavano segni profondi nella collettività. Segni che, come l'affresco sulla volta della chiesa, 'dovevano' essere cancellati. Ma ciò che al regista sembra premere ancor di più è il mostrare come il retaggio di un passato di tradizioni ormai incancrenite nella società non sia stato ancora superato nella realtà sociale siciliana e non solo. La sequenza dell'assessore all'urbanistica non vedente che si fa portare i piani regolatori in plastico e li apprezza solo dopo aver intascato l'ineludibile mazzetta è di quelle che si ricordano. Così come (pur nel caleidoscopio a tratti pensoso e a tratti decisamente macchiettistico della miriade di personaggi che attraversano la scena) resta presente, nello scorrere degli anni e delle vicende, la pessimistica sensazione di una sorta di atavica maledizione a causa della quale le uova rotte e i serpenti neri finiscono col far parte del passato, del presente e del futuro di una terra che ha bisogno di una frattura traumatica per poter liberare una volta per tutte una vitalità creativa che certo non le manca.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Peter Haber, Lena Endre and Marika Lagercrantz.
A discredited journalist and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder. Inspired by late author Stieg Larsson's successful trilogy of books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo gets under way as Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are briefed in the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, whose uncle suspects she may have been killed by a member of their own family. The deeper Mikael and Lisbeth dig for the truth, however, the greater the risk of being buried alive by members of the family who will go to great lengths to keep their secrets tightly sealed.
Il Grande Sogno
Con Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Luca Argentero, Massimo Popolizio, Alessandra Acciai.
Nicola è un giovane poliziotto che ama il teatro e vorrebbe diventare attore. Laura è una studentessa universitaria di matrice cattolica pronta a lottare contro l'ingiustizia. Libero è un leader del movimento studentesco. Gli anni sono quelli che precedono, attraversano e seguono il 1968 e i suoi rivolgimenti. Nicola, infiltrato dai suoi superiori nel movimento, si innamorerà di Laura e cercherà anche di comprendere un mondo che gli è al contempo congeniale e lontano. Michele Placido decide di raccontare se stesso e la sua gioventù. Lo fa cercando di descrivere mondi differenti che si incontrano/scontrano in un periodo di fermenti sociali e culturali. L'operazione riesce a metà perché il dato personale e autobiografico al contempo frena e fagocita lo sguardo complessivo. Placido non è il primo a farsi in qualche modo condizionare dalla narrazione di se stesso. È sufficiente citare l'Almodovar de La mala educacion per ricordare come il regista spagnolo abbia costruito il suo film più algido proprio quando basava il soggetto su esperienze personali adolescenziali. Placido qui non sembra essere stato il regista di Romanzo criminale, in cui pure narrava della relativamente recente storia sociale e politica dell'Italia. La tensione che percorreva quel film, offrendoci una lucida lettura di fatti più o meno noti, finisce qua con il disperdersi. Il grande sogno si ritrova con il dire di più del complesso rapporto con la liberazione sessuale dei suoi protagonisti di estrazione sociale diversa che non del complessivo ¡grande sogno' di una generazione. Anche se i paragoni sono sempre azzardati non si può non pensare a La meglio gioventù di Marco Tullio Giordana in cui, quasi rileggendo uno degli slogan dell'epoca, il privato si faceva politico e viceversa. Qui è come se ci fossero due film in uno. L'uno narra delle vicende amorose di Nicola, Laura e Libero e l'altro delinea un ritratto di quegli anni esplorato con uno sguardo forse inconsciamente unilaterale. Uno sguardo che, e in questo Placido è scopertamente sincero, è ancora quello del poliziotto Michele che osserva, senza davvero comprenderlo fino in fondo, un tentativo di cambiare il mondo per lui tanto confuso quanto in fondo velleitario perché dai sogni ci si risveglia. In giorni poi di rinnovata polemica sul ¡cattocomunismo' il personaggio di Laura (che resta positivo nonostante le sue contraddizioni e ha una matrice cattolico progressista) finisce col far nascere quesiti sul ¡chi produce cosa' nel nostro sempre più complicato Paese.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Starring Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Verne Troyer, Andrew Garfield, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law.
Fantastical morality tale, set in the present day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Many centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his first-born reached its 16th birthday he or she would become the property of Mr. Nick. Valentina is now rapidly approaching this 'coming of age' milestone and Dr. Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr. Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr. Parnassus promises his daughter's hand in marriage to the man that helps him win. In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles - and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all.
Lo Spazio Bianco
Con Margherita Buy, Salvatore Cantalupo, Guido Caprino, Maria Paiato, Gaetano Bruno, Antonia Truppo, Giovanni Ludeno.
Maria aspetta una bambina, non è incinta più ma aspetta lo stesso. Aspetta che sua figlia nasca, o muoia. E se c'è una cosa che Maria non sa fare è aspettare. E' per questo che i tre mesi che deve affrontare, sola, nell'attesa che sua figlia Irene esca dall'incubatrice, la colgono impreparata. Abituata a fare affidamento esclusivamente sulle proprie forze e a decidere con piena autonomia della propria vita, Maria si costringe ad un'apnea passiva che esclude il mondo intero, si imprigiona nello spazio bianco dell'attesa. Ma questo sforzo di isolamento doloroso consuma anche l'ultimo filo di energia a disposizione: la bolla di solitudine in cui Maria si è rinchiusa è messa a dura prova e alla fine esplode. E' necessario che Maria salvi se stessa per riuscire a salvare la bambina. Non c'è che una soluzione: consentire al mondo di irrompere nella propria esistenza e concedersi il privilegio di ritornare a vivere. E così inventarsi la forza per accompagnare Irene alla nascita.
Oggi Sposi
Con Luca Argentero, Moran Atias, Michele Placido, Dario Bandiera, Isabella Ragonese.
Nel medesimo periodo e nella medesima città quattro coppie si devono sposare. Ci sono gli squattrinati che per non rivelare la loro indigenza ai parenti meridionali imbucheranno settantadue invitati al gigantesco e coattissimo matrimonio tra il mago della finanza (con annessi impicci mafiosi) e la giovane stellina televisiva e c'è la coppia multietnica composta dalla figlia dell'ambasciatore indiano e il pugliese di origini contadine che lavora nel commissariato in cui un PM tutto casa e lavoro si innamora della giovane promessa sposa di suo padre. Oggi sposi non va liquidato come l'ennesima commedia a sfondo matrimoniale e non va nemmeno considerato un prodotto mediocre del nostro cinema simile a tanta commedia sentimentale ma un ottimo prodotto medio di quelli che andrebbero imitati, replicati e fatti girare. Il nuovo film di Luca Lucini è infatti uno splendido esempio di quel cinema industriale che non riusciamo ad avere, un film che si appoggia a tutti gli elementi più in voga (dal sentimentalismo comico sempre buono al trend bollywoodiano fino al fenomeno Argentero) orchestrandoli in un racconto non solo estremamente divertente ma anche raccontato e soprattutto diretto con una bravura eccezionale. Oggi sposi non è per nulla cinema autoriale ma fieramente commerciale capace di offrire al grande pubblico un prodotto d'intrattenimento di vera qualità, ce ne fossero di film così! A scrivere ci sono, oltre a Fabio Bonifacci, anche Fausto Brizzi e Marco Martani (premiata ditta già responsabile di buoni exploit) mentre a recitare un cast di attori di primo piano e grandi caratteristi per i ruoli secondari. Su tutti però regna Luca Lucini, il più grande (anche perché purtroppo l'unico) mestierante del cinema italiano. L'unico che vuole lavorare con sceneggiature altrui, l'unico che non aspira ad essere autore, l'unico ad avere un'idea di cinema come arte commerciale del racconto e l'unico infine a pensare i suoi film come prodotti internazionali. A differenza di tanti registucoli che fanno commedia in Italia Lucini si occupa davvero di "mettere in scena", non punta l'obiettivo verso chi parla ma cerca di trasportare la parola scritta in immagini, suoni e musica senza timore di tradire la tradizione italiana alla ricerca di una visione personale. Usa con sapienza tutti gli strumenti del cinema per mettere in scena una perfezione formale fatta di ambienti luminosi, personaggi leccati, colori splendenti e città immacolate, alla quale corrisponde sempre la vittoria dell'individualismo di uomini e donne che dietro i buoni sentimenti nascondono l'ansia di prevaricare e il gusto di ingannare gli altri per affermare se stessi.
The Princess And The Frog (La Principessa e Il Ranocchio)
Starring Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, Jim Cummings, Michael-Leon Wooley, John Goodman, Jennifer Cody, Terrence Howard and Oprah Winfrey.
A modern twist on a classic tale, set in the great city of New Orleans, where a beautiful girl named Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) meets a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again. A fateful kiss leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.
The Time Traveler's Wife (Un Amore All¢Improvviso)
Starring Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston, Stephen Tobolowsky and Jane McLean.
Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.
The Ugly Truth (La Dura Verità)
Starring Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, John Michael Higgins, Nick Searcy, Kevin Connolly and Cheryl Hines.
Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is an ambitious morning talk show producer on "A.M. Sacramento" who prides herself on being able to find an instant solution to any problem - any problem that is except her own unhappily single status. When it comes to dating, the always-in-control Abby has a flawless track record of failure. When her show suffers a ratings slump, Abby is forced to team with the newly recruited special correspondent Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a man who couldn't push more of her buttons. His "The Ugly Truth" segment promises to spill the beans on what makes men really tick. But his outrageously racy, gleefully chauvinistic, "shock jock" style rubs Abby in all the wrong ways and to make matters worse, becomes an instant ratings bonanza, sealing his network status. Then Abby meets Colin, her neighbor, and he's a single doctor! He's everything Mike Chadway isn't - suave, polite, not remotely into jello wrestling - and this time, Abby doesn't want to blow it. She hates to admit it, but she needs Mike's insight into the male mind to make the right moves. Now, as Mike coaches Abby and Abby puts Mike's provocative seduction theories to the test, they are both about to discover an ironic truth: as different as we might be, men and women share some of our most secret feelings in common.
Whatever Works (Basta Che Funzioni)
Starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr., Conleth Hill, Michael McKean and Henry Cavill.
Woody Allen writes and directs this "blackish comedy" about an eccentric, upper class New Yorker (Larry David) who abandons his comfortable lifestyle in favor of leading a more bohemian existence. After meeting a young Southern girl and her family, he discovers that life among the nonconformists isn't quite as carefree as he'd envisioned it to be.
Year One (Anno Uno)
Starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Hank Azaria, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Vinnie Jones.
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black, Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
July 16 to July 23
12 Rounds
Starring John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris and Brian White.
When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) stops a brilliant thief, Miles, from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks...12 rounds...that Danny must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancée. Ranging from tests of intelligence to Sisyphean tasks of endurance, Miles keeps Danny guessing at every treacherous turn. Each new round sends Danny hurtling through the city at a breakneck pace. As Miles toys with Danny, innocent citizens are threatened. Automobiles, streetcars and ferryboats are transformed into potential weapons of mass destruction. With the violent rounds mounting, one wrong move may take the match closer to a deadly conclusion.
Alice In Wonderland
Starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Marton Csokas and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Johnny Depp stars as The Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting her with childhood friends: The White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Dormouse, The Caterpillar, The Cheshire Cat, and of course, The Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end The Red Queen's reign of terror.
An Education
Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Williams, Sally Hawkins and Cara Seymour.
A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her adult life. She's grown tired of the familiar adolescent routine, so when urbane newcomer David (Peter Sarsgaard) appears in town, Jenny senses a rare opportunity to shake things up a bit. Quickly falling under David's spell, the impressionable Jenny begins accompanying her newfound beau to classical concerts, art auctions, crowded pubs, and dinners that stretch into the small hours of the night. But Jenny is brighter than most kids her age, and her parents always dreamt of getting their exceptional daughter into Oxford. These days it seems like she's headed in a different direction -- will David ultimately be her undoing, or the person who helps her finally realize her true potential?
A Serious Man
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Adam Arkin, Sari Lennick, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolff and Jessica McManus.
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (Un Alibi Perfetto)
Starring Michael Douglas, Jesse Metcalfe, Amber Tamblyn, Joel David Moore and Orlando Jones.
High profile lawyer Martin Hunter (Michael Douglas) has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist C.J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney's perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with Hunter, C.J. frames himself as a murder suspect to catch the corrupt D.A. in the act. Romantically involved with C.J. but unaware of his assignment, assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) becomes caught between her boss's political ambitions and C.J.'s dangerous exposé. As mounting evidence stacks up against both men, Ella's own life becomes threatened when she discovers incriminating proof that puts the fate of both Nicholas's innocence and Hunter's reputation in her hands.
Cado Dalle Nubi
Con Checco Zalone, Dino Abbrescia, Giulia Michelini, Fabio Troiano, Raul Cremona.
Checco vive in Puglia e coltiva il sogno di fare il musicista neomelodico ma la sua ragazza, Angela, non lo prende sul serio e, stanca del suo disimpegno, lo abbandona. Addolorato, Checco lascia Polignano a mare e va dal cugino a Milano. Qui conosce la bella Marika, figlia di un leghista convinto, alla quale sembra non interessare che come amico, buffone di corte. Affranto, Checco decide allora di tentare il provino per il programma "I want you", che seleziona talenti musicali per la tv. Luca Medici, alias Checco Zalone, come tanti suoi colleghi s'imbarca sul volo che dal piccolo schermo, dal palcoscenico dei comici televisivi, porta al cinema, dentro un film. Con sé non ha una valigia di cartone ma un bagaglio più solido, che resiste al tragitto: un copione estremamente lineare, talora sbrigativo, ma mai volgare, e un gruppo di attori di contorno - su cui svetta Dino Abbrescia - che non si accontentano di offrire una spalla ma creano un piccolo mondo in una stanza. Finisce alla pari, dunque, il confronto tra Checco Zalone e lo spettatore accorto. A svantaggio dell'attore, il fatto che, nonostante non si tratti di una sequela di gag ma di un film in tutto autosufficiente, non per questo Cado dalle nubi si potrà vedere con lo stesso piacere più di una volta: è un umorismo one shot, occorre accontentarsi; a suo merito, che la risata è certa, incontenibile. Si riconfermano i punti forti dell'interprete: l'abilità nella scrittura della canzonetta demenziale nel contenuto e credibile nell'esecuzione e l'uso di un italiano storpiato dall'ignoranza, vergognosamente vicino a quello di tanta gente, giù dallo schermo. Gaffeur nato, "fenomeno" di stoltezza, il corpo comico di Checco Zalone è quello del modello sacrificale, che mette alla berlina in prima linea se stesso per costringere i suoi interlocutori al riesame di sé, alla fuoriuscita delle contraddizioni.
Ce n'è per tutti
Con Lorenzo Balducci, Ambra Angiolini, Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Aceti, Francesco De Vito, Arnoldo Foà, Sandro Giordano, Stefania Sandrelli, Micaela Ramazzotti.
Un ragazzo, Gianluca, incapace di reggere le contraddizioni della vita e il dolore del mondo, sale sul Colosseo con la volontà di estraniarsi da tutto. Sotto, la realtà invadente, l'indifferenza e il cinismo dei mass-media lo assediano mentre gli amici confusi e superficiali si producono, involontariamente, in performance esilaranti nel tentativo di raggiungerlo. L'arrivo lassù della nonna di Gianluca che gli ricorda la giocosità dell'infanzia e che gli comunica la leggerezza di chi ha vissuto tanto e ha imparato ad accettare la vita per com'è, sembrerebbe la chiave risolutiva per salvarlo. Un mondo di sopravvissuti, smarrito. Ragazzi e ragazze che, grazie all'amico, rallentano per la prima volta la propria inutile corsa. Per guardarsi dentro. Forse.
Dieci Inverni
Con Isabella Ragonese, Michele Riondino, Sergei Zhigunov, Valerio Mieli, Glen Blackhall, Sergei Niconenko, Liuba Zaizeva.
È l¢inverno del 1999. Un vaporetto attraversa la laguna di Venezia. Camilla, diciottenne schiva, appena arrivata dal paese per studiare letteratura russa, nota tra la folla un ragazzo. Anche lui porta con sé una valigia, anche lui è appena arrivato. I due iniziano a guardarsi: lei è timida, lui più sfacciato. Silvestro ha la stessa età di Camilla, ma diversamente da lei, nasconde la sua inesperienza dietro un¢ingenua spavalderia. E quando il vaporetto attracca, decide di seguire la ragazza per le calli nebbiose di un¢isola della laguna... Così comincia un¢avventura lunga dieci anni che porterà i due ragazzi dalla Venezia quotidiana degli studenti fino alla straniante frenesia di Mosca, con i suoi teatri e le enormi strade trafficate.
Jennifer¢s Body
Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, J.K. Simmons, Adam Brody and Amy Sedaris.
Demon possession, devilish cheerleaders, and Satanic rock stars are all on the chopping block with this horror comedy from the production team behind Juno. Screenwriter Diablo Cody provides the script, with producing duties handled by Jason Reitman and Dan Dubiecki. The story centers on an impish high-school student (Amanda Seyfried) who has to protect her town against her best friend, Jennifer (Megan Fox), who after being bedeviled by an evil rock band, develops a taste for human flesh.
L'uomo nero
Con Valeria Golino, Margherita Buy, Riccardo Scamarcio, Sergio Rubini, Anna Falchi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maurizio Micheli, Vito Signorile.
Gabriele Rossetti (Fabrizio Gifuni) torna in un paesino della Puglia per l¢estremo saluto al padre morente, Ernesto (Sergio Rubini). Le ultime parole dell¢anziano risvegliano in lui il ricordo di un episodio lontano nel tempo di quando era bambino negli anni '60 e viveva con il padre, capostazione della ferrovia locale con aspirazioni artistiche, la madre Franca (Valeria Golino), insegnante, e lo zio Pinuccio (Riccardo Scamarcio), giovane fratello di Franca. Solo quando il Gabriele adulto dovrà occuparsi della sepoltura del vecchio genitore e passerà la notte nella casa della sua infanzia, scoprirà una verità fino ad allora inimmaginata che modificherà profondamente la prospettiva da cui ha sempre guardato suo padre.
The Men Who Stare At Goats (L'uomo che fissa le capre)
Starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Nick Offerman, Tim Griffin, Waleed F. Zuaiter and Robert Patrick.
Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of "Warrior Monks" with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program's founder, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady's mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance's far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to accompany him on the search. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey), the reporter is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django's New Earth Army and Hooper's personal militia of super soldiers. In order to survive this wild adventure, Bob will have to outwit an enemy he never thought possible.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Starring Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Anna Kendrick, Christian Serratos, Michael Welch, Justin Chon and Christina Jastrzembska. The supernatural tale of star-crossed lovers continues as the Cullen family flees Forks in order to protect Bella (Kristen Stewart), and the heartbroken high-school senior discovers that vampires aren't the only creatures in town. Realizing that Bella will never be safe as long as he's around, Edward (Robert Pattinson) makes the difficult decision to leave his beloved behind shortly after her 18th birthday. Reeling from her loss, Bella embraces self-destruction after being comforted by Edward's image during a moment of mortal peril. But as heavy-hearted as Bella may be, her old friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) distracts her from her sorrows by helping her renovate a weather-beaten motorbike. When Bella encounters a former adversary with a sizable grudge, she's rescued from harm at the last second by pack of enormous, ferocious wolves. Subsequently delving into the history of the Quileutes, Bella discovers the secrets of Jacob's tribe while looking forward to a reunion with Edward that may have deadly consequences.
Up In The Air (Tra Le Nuvole)
Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman and Anna Kendrick.
The timely odyssey of Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), a corporate downsizer and consummate modern business traveler who, after years of staying happily airborne, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection. Ryan has long been contented with his unencumbered lifestyle lived out across America in airports, hotels and rental cars. He can carry all he needs in one wheel-away case; he's a pampered, elite member of every travel loyalty program in existence and he's close to attaining his lifetime goal of 10 million frequent flier miles - and yet... Ryan has nothing real to hold onto. When he falls for a simpatico fellow traveler (Vera Farmiga), Ryan's boss (Jason Bateman), inspired by a young, upstart efficiency expert (Anna Kendrick), threatens to permanently call him in from the road. Faced with the prospect, at once terrifying and exhilarating, of being grounded, Ryan begins to contemplate what it might actually mean to have a home.
July 23 to July 30
Alice In Wonderland
Starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Marton Csokas and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Johnny Depp stars as The Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting her with childhood friends: The White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The Dormouse, The Caterpillar, The Cheshire Cat, and of course, The Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end The Red Queen's reign of terror.
Alza La Testa
Con Sergio Castellitto, Gabriele Campanelli, Giorgio Colangeli, Anita Kravos, Augusto Fornari, Duccio Camerini, Pia Lanciotti, Gabriel Spahiu.
Mero, operaio specializzato in un cantiere nautico, è un padre single. Lorenzo, il figlio nato da una relazione con una ragazza albanese, è la sua unica ragione di vita e il sogno dell'uomo è che il ragazzo diventi un campione di boxe, riscattando così la sua anonima carriera da dilettante. Per questo lo allena duramente, insegnandogli giorno dopo giorno a tirar pugni e a proteggersi dai colpi bassi della vita. L'equilibrio di questo rapporto è sconvolto dal ritorno di Denisa, la madre di Lorenzo, e dall'incontro tra il figlio e la giovane Ana. Le prove per Mero non sono finite e dovrà confrontarsi con il dolore, con i propri pregiudizi e ocn la lontananza del nostro Nord Est.
An Education
Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Williams, Sally Hawkins and Cara Seymour.
A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her adult life. She's grown tired of the familiar adolescent routine, so when urbane newcomer David (Peter Sarsgaard) appears in town, Jenny senses a rare opportunity to shake things up a bit. Quickly falling under David's spell, the impressionable Jenny begins accompanying her newfound beau to classical concerts, art auctions, crowded pubs, and dinners that stretch into the small hours of the night. But Jenny is brighter than most kids her age, and her parents always dreamt of getting their exceptional daughter into Oxford. These days it seems like she's headed in a different direction -- will David ultimately be her undoing, or the person who helps her finally realize her true potential?
A Serious Man
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Adam Arkin, Sari Lennick, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolff and Jessica McManus.
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job.
Brothers
Starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard and Clifton Collins, Jr.
Jim Sheridan's film, adapted from Susanne Bier's 2004 movie, concerns Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire), a Marine who receives orders to ship out for yet another tour of duty in Afghanistan. But before he leaves his supportive wife, Grace (Natalie Portman), and his two elementary-school-age daughters, Sam picks up his black sheep brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal), who has finished a prison stretch for robbing a bank. While overseas, Sam's aircraft gets shot down and he's thought dead. Back home, irresponsible Tommy gets his act together in order to be an anchor for Grace and the girls, and the two grow emotionally - though not physically - close. As the family finally begins to make peace with their grief, soldiers rescue POW Sam and he returns home. Sam's experiences overseas have caused him such emotional turmoil, he has a difficult time adjusting to civilian life, and soon his fear and paranoia manifest themselves in the form of jealousy for his brother's relationship with his wife.
Cado Dalle Nubi
Con Checco Zalone, Dino Abbrescia, Giulia Michelini, Fabio Troiano, Raul Cremona.
Checco vive in Puglia e coltiva il sogno di fare il musicista neomelodico ma la sua ragazza, Angela, non lo prende sul serio e, stanca del suo disimpegno, lo abbandona. Addolorato, Checco lascia Polignano a mare e va dal cugino a Milano. Qui conosce la bella Marika, figlia di un leghista convinto, alla quale sembra non interessare che come amico, buffone di corte. Affranto, Checco decide allora di tentare il provino per il programma "I want you", che seleziona talenti musicali per la tv. Luca Medici, alias Checco Zalone, come tanti suoi colleghi s'imbarca sul volo che dal piccolo schermo, dal palcoscenico dei comici televisivi, porta al cinema, dentro un film. Con sé non ha una valigia di cartone ma un bagaglio più solido, che resiste al tragitto: un copione estremamente lineare, talora sbrigativo, ma mai volgare, e un gruppo di attori di contorno - su cui svetta Dino Abbrescia - che non si accontentano di offrire una spalla ma creano un piccolo mondo in una stanza. Finisce alla pari, dunque, il confronto tra Checco Zalone e lo spettatore accorto. A svantaggio dell'attore, il fatto che, nonostante non si tratti di una sequela di gag ma di un film in tutto autosufficiente, non per questo Cado dalle nubi si potrà vedere con lo stesso piacere più di una volta: è un umorismo one shot, occorre accontentarsi; a suo merito, che la risata è certa, incontenibile. Si riconfermano i punti forti dell'interprete: l'abilità nella scrittura della canzonetta demenziale nel contenuto e credibile nell'esecuzione e l'uso di un italiano storpiato dall'ignoranza, vergognosamente vicino a quello di tanta gente, giù dallo schermo. Gaffeur nato, "fenomeno" di stoltezza, il corpo comico di Checco Zalone è quello del modello sacrificale, che mette alla berlina in prima linea se stesso per costringere i suoi interlocutori al riesame di sé, alla fuoriuscita delle contraddizioni.
Ce n'è per tutti
Con Lorenzo Balducci, Ambra Angiolini, Giorgio Colangeli, Marco Aceti, Francesco De Vito, Arnoldo Foà, Sandro Giordano, Stefania Sandrelli, Micaela Ramazzotti.
Un ragazzo, Gianluca, incapace di reggere le contraddizioni della vita e il dolore del mondo, sale sul Colosseo con la volontà di estraniarsi da tutto. Sotto, la realtà invadente, l'indifferenza e il cinismo dei mass-media lo assediano mentre gli amici confusi e superficiali si producono, involontariamente, in performance esilaranti nel tentativo di raggiungerlo. L'arrivo lassù della nonna di Gianluca che gli ricorda la giocosità dell'infanzia e che gli comunica la leggerezza di chi ha vissuto tanto e ha imparato ad accettare la vita per com'è, sembrerebbe la chiave risolutiva per salvarlo. Un mondo di sopravvissuti, smarrito. Ragazzi e ragazze che, grazie all'amico, rallentano per la prima volta la propria inutile corsa. Per guardarsi dentro. Forse.
Dieci Inverni
Con Isabella Ragonese, Michele Riondino, Sergei Zhigunov, Valerio Mieli, Glen Blackhall, Sergei Niconenko, Liuba Zaizeva.
È l¢inverno del 1999. Un vaporetto attraversa la laguna di Venezia. Camilla, diciottenne schiva, appena arrivata dal paese per studiare letteratura russa, nota tra la folla un ragazzo. Anche lui porta con sé una valigia, anche lui è appena arrivato. I due iniziano a guardarsi: lei è timida, lui più sfacciato. Silvestro ha la stessa età di Camilla, ma diversamente da lei, nasconde la sua inesperienza dietro un¢ingenua spavalderia. E quando il vaporetto attracca, decide di seguire la ragazza per le calli nebbiose di un¢isola della laguna... Così comincia un¢avventura lunga dieci anni che porterà i due ragazzi dalla Venezia quotidiana degli studenti fino alla straniante frenesia di Mosca, con i suoi teatri e le enormi strade trafficate.
Jack And Jill Vs The World
Starring Freddie Prinze Jr, Taryn Manning, Kelly Rowan, Vanessa Parise and Robert Forster.
Jack is a NYC advertising exec with a life as glossy as the ads he spins. Jill is new to the city, with nothing to stand on but her fiery personality and romantic ideals. Opposites attract, and together they author their own manifesto of rules to live by. But Jill betrays Jack by violating rule one - Be Honest.
Jennifer¢s Body
Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, J.K. Simmons, Adam Brody and Amy Sedaris.
Demon possession, devilish cheerleaders, and Satanic rock stars are all on the chopping block with this horror comedy from the production team behind Juno. Screenwriter Diablo Cody provides the script, with producing duties handled by Jason Reitman and Dan Dubiecki. The story centers on an impish high-school student (Amanda Seyfried) who has to protect her town against her best friend, Jennifer (Megan Fox), who after being bedeviled by an evil rock band, develops a taste for human flesh.
The Men Who Stare At Goats (L'uomo che fissa le capre)
Starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Nick Offerman, Tim Griffin, Waleed F. Zuaiter and Robert Patrick.
Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of "Warrior Monks" with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program's founder, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady's mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance's far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to accompany him on the search. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey), the reporter is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django's New Earth Army and Hooper's personal militia of super soldiers. In order to survive this wild adventure, Bob will have to outwit an enemy he never thought possible.
Planet 51
Animated sci-fi tale set on "Planet 51," whose inhabitants live in fear of an alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when astronaut Capt. Charles "Chuck" Baker arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, the astronaut has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and return home.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Starring Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Anna Kendrick, Christian Serratos, Michael Welch, Justin Chon and Christina Jastrzembska. The supernatural tale of star-crossed lovers continues as the Cullen family flees Forks in order to protect Bella (Kristen Stewart), and the heartbroken high-school senior discovers that vampires aren't the only creatures in town. Realizing that Bella will never be safe as long as he's around, Edward (Robert Pattinson) makes the difficult decision to leave his beloved behind shortly after her 18th birthday. Reeling from her loss, Bella embraces self-destruction after being comforted by Edward's image during a moment of mortal peril. But as heavy-hearted as Bella may be, her old friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) distracts her from her sorrows by helping her renovate a weather-beaten motorbike. When Bella encounters a former adversary with a sizable grudge, she's rescued from harm at the last second by pack of enormous, ferocious wolves. Subsequently delving into the history of the Quileutes, Bella discovers the secrets of Jacob's tribe while looking forward to a reunion with Edward that may have deadly consequences.
Up In The Air (Tra Le Nuvole)
Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman and Anna Kendrick.
The timely odyssey of Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), a corporate downsizer and consummate modern business traveler who, after years of staying happily airborne, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection. Ryan has long been contented with his unencumbered lifestyle lived out across America in airports, hotels and rental cars. He can carry all he needs in one wheel-away case; he's a pampered, elite member of every travel loyalty program in existence and he's close to attaining his lifetime goal of 10 million frequent flier miles - and yet... Ryan has nothing real to hold onto. When he falls for a simpatico fellow traveler (Vera Farmiga), Ryan's boss (Jason Bateman), inspired by a young, upstart efficiency expert (Anna Kendrick), threatens to permanently call him in from the road. Faced with the prospect, at once terrifying and exhilarating, of being grounded, Ryan begins to contemplate what it might actually mean to have a home.
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