The final news from the past Sundance was the film-winner of the festival – the visually verified horror “Nanny” (2022) from the debutant Nikiato Jusu, who also acted here as the scriptwriter. Unlike last year’s Sundance winner, Shan Hader’s touching CODA, the less audience-friendly The Babysitter was predictably lost among the festival’s other high-profile releases, […]
Jess (Lizette Oliviera) meets former FBI agent Peter Sadusky (Harvey Keitel), who is dying. He bequeaths to find the treasure of Montezuma, hidden by the women of the Mayan, Aztec and Inca tribes from the Spanish conquerors. The heroine and her friends are trying to find the location of the treasure, but the insidious collector […]
On the night of October 12-13, 2016, the French police of the Alpine Grenoble celebrate the resignation of the chief – his place is taken by the young but optimistic Yoan (Bastien Bouillon). A few hours later, in the provinces, an unidentified person will douse with gasoline and set fire to 21-year-old Clara (Lula Cotton-Frappier). […]
At the height of the Civil War, US President Abraham Lincoln abolishes slavery in the country. This does not prevent the guardians of the old order from separating a native of Haiti, Peter Gordon (Smith) from his family and forcing him to work for the army of the South. Hoping for God, Lincoln, and himself […]
The outgoing cinematic year surprised us with a non-trivial trend in gastronomy – following Hiro Murai’s brisk “The Bear” and Peter Strickland’s eccentric “Flux Gourmet”, Mark Mylod’s “The Menu” was released internationally. Probably the first thriller in the career of the British director, who for many years did not go beyond comedies – funny (“The […]
Aspiring musician Ha Dong-soo (Jung Hae-in) was walking around Seoul at night when the young man was attacked by an organ-trafficking gang. But on the operating table, to the surprise of the underground surgeon, the wounds on the “donor’s” open chest began to heal rapidly. Ha ran away from the bandits, but did not manage […]
Kim Som (Kang Hae-rim) was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome as a child. The girl from an early age knew how to program perfectly. In high school, Kim built an AI chatbot that later grew into the popular dating app Somebody with the help of an investor. Today, the developer holds the position of technical director […]
Always gloomy Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is expelled from a regular school for letting piranhas into the pool with a water polo team – so she takes revenge on her brother’s offenders. The girl is sent to Nevermore Academy, a place of accumulation of the same renegades as herself: here are vampires, and sirens, and […]
An 80-year-old waiter with Alzheimer’s disease and a brain tumor, Han Pil-joo (Lee Sung-min), buries his wife and digs up a revolver that has lain in the ground for more than half a century. An elderly person has nothing to lose, children and grandchildren live separately and will do without an old man. The waiter […]
De Roller (Benoit Magimel) – High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia. Able to negotiate anything with both locals and high-profile tourists, he enjoys playing the role of the best friend of everyone. It seemed that De Roller arranged an ideal life for himself and all his acquaintances, but paradise cracks when the military […]