Drop is a tightly wound Blumhouse thriller from director Christopher Landon, the filmmaker behind Happy Death Day and Freaky. Meghann Fahy, breaking out after The White Lotus, stars as Violet, a widowed single mother stepping back into the dating world for the first time in years. Her date at an upscale high-rise restaurant is meant to be a fresh start — until her phone begins to buzz.
As Violet sits across from her seemingly perfect date, Henry (Brandon Sklenar), she starts receiving anonymous, escalating messages through an AirDrop-style app. The sender can see her, is somewhere inside the restaurant, and threatens to have her young son killed at home unless she obeys — including a demand that she murder her date. Unfolding almost in real time within a single location, the film turns a candlelit dinner into an agonizing pressure cooker.
Written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach and produced under the Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes banners, Drop opened in April 2025 to an 83% Rotten Tomatoes score and strong word of mouth for Fahy, grossing roughly $28 million against an $11 million budget. Critics praised how Landon sustains tension almost entirely through a woman, a phone and a table she cannot leave.
There is nothing to judge in Astroboy. It is a colorful, light-footed and frivolous animated movie, which maintains the balance of the funny, childish, bright and exciting things. Plus, the director David Bowers, has a phenomenal talent for details. The second and the third plans of crowds showcase so much funny characters, ingenious vignettes and additional jokes that willy-nilly, you become distracted from the shortcomings of the plot. Bowers generally leads the viewer through the film, like all the time dancing. And this "dizzying ease" is very captivating. Maybe buzzwords like "brilliant", "phenomenal" and "stunning" will sound to loud for the Astroboy. But here's the epithet "good", which is no less worthy. And Astroboy has earned it."
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is the next stage of the conquest of the bloodsuckers for multiplexes: here they appear not only as the part of current reality, but as completely safe and miserable creatures. And once it comes to that, their fanged characters have become the part of common world. The witty and funny Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant just lifts the curtain in their world. But if the adventures of Bella Swan still evoke the angst on the out-of-puberty fans, after watching The Vampire's Assistant all those adults will have quite a dreamy smile.
(500) Days of Summer is not just a romantic comedy, it is what it should be, ideally, the unusual, even eccentric, and at the same time, air light. Moreover, this is a perfect romantic comedy of its time. It does not bore by a linear narrative, does not read the morals, and does not buried in the slop. Of course, we can say that the cartoon bird, The Graduate movie and The Seventh Seal parody is a somewhat wild combination, but generally it works in the film, the main idea of which is that "weather has no bad weather."
Talented Michael Moore directed another glorious documentary. Capitalism: A Love Story is bit less entertaining than the 9/11 Fahrenheit or Bowling for Columbine. But despite this, Moore is a man who knows what to cling to government. As always, he addresses important issues: the capitalism and the banking system.From the outset he greatly compared the social order of the Roman Empire and the United States. He also showcased his own autobiographical experiences (he was even filmed his father). Undoubtedly, it is worth mentioning a lot of interesting facts, which are unknown for the people inexperienced in politics. "In this film Michael Moore shows as who is in charge of the government, in whose hands, in fact, America is, who has the last word. There are lots Michael Moore's amusing humor, but everything is based on the serious accusations. This time he decided to make the citizen's arrests and return the money from banks in the U.S. treasury."
Hangover immediately knocks down by the hurricane humor. Is not always this sense of humor is bontone, but almost always successful. Hangover is a movie with a very clever composition and structure: there are amazing flash backing vocals, and the action that evolves backwards-ahead, there are a lot of plot quirks that did not tangle, but for sure amaze you. From the standpoint of the movie formal construction of the picture it's just brilliant. There is a very clear role differentiation: each character is an expression of a prejudice, a walking stereotype, which manifests itself in different situations so predictable and therefore all the film looks like parody.
All About Steve is the comedy about a girl Mary (played by Sandra Bullock), which makes crossword puzzles for the newspaper. She is very intelligent, but she is a real disaster. After a short blind date with an operator of CNN news Steve (Bradley Cooper), Mary decides that it is chemistry. She believes that she has found her soul mate. And to understand the correctness of this wisdom, the she had to run for Steve almost throughout the country. She tries to prove to him that they were meant to be fate. Getting the most ridiculous situations the main Mary makes many girls think what the bloopers they usually do in the relationships with men.
What similarities share nine strangers trapped in a dirty basement and handcuffed to a metal pole? Someone in a rubber mask suggested them to figure this out. And to help them perform this task as quickly as they can he promised to kill one of the abductees every 10 minutes. Here is a plot of the Nine Dead movie.
The Fourth Kind's storyline is based on pseudo-real recorded on the home camera by the psychoanalyst during his private practice. This archival video is the basic structural core of the movie, and the plot overlays it. It's quite an unusual approach, both components are so deftly and seamlessly woven together, that it produces a very bright effect. Olatunde Osunsanmi blurs the line between fiction and reality step by step and makes it so efficient that the atmosphere of shock, horror, mind clouding and painful dreaming completely fill the mind.
The movie Coco Before Chanel is about Gabrielle Chanel, who has been called the most influential of all fashion figures from the twentieth century clothing fashion world. The young Gabrielle starts out in an orphanage where she and her sister Adrienne have been dropped off by her father. Gabrielle grows up to be an ambitious woman who proves herself to be difficult to get along with as she forges a name for herself in the world of high fashion. Gabrielle and sister Adrienne eventually work as singers of bawdy songs, not wishing to be confused with the prostitutes also working there. Gabrielle gets the nickname Coco after a song she sings about a little lost dog and she becomes sarcastic and cynical, hardened by the lifestyle around her.Beginning her life in the fashion world as a seamstress, Ms Coco Chanel becomes the most influential name in style of the century, and perhaps of all time, as her flair for novelty and how women should look win the world over. This movie is "costume drama" at its highest form."
Whip Out! can be considered as the peak of thirty-year Barrymore's career: she finally got to the director's chair. Drew's debut is based on the memoirs of famous Los Angeles roller, who is was at war with parents who do not understand her fascination. And you will agree with them, while watching this movie. Shown in the best traditions of female colonies, broad-shouldered girls in short skirts are rolling in a circle at tremendous speed, giving kicks with heavy rollers, casting opponents of the playground. Fragile Ellen Page as a young skater-prodigy, causes an acute attack of sympathy, although her colleagues treat her delicately as far as possible.
