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 are reasons to watch Precious and not just because of Mo `Nick received for her Oscar for the second plan role, and Gabouri Sidibe got the nomination for Best Actress. Precious is not just a history of trouble, not even "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for feminine or manifest of inhabitants of the ghetto. Lee Daniels goes in the footsteps of Sapphire to explore the girl's life, which no one has ever loved. She unexpectedly transforms when she found people taking part in her life. In this case, the default is it that love is very opposite to the sex. Cinema rarely takes a task to prove that there is the love which can rise up people from the bestial thoughtless existence in the pre-human ghettos, believing that the Sermon on the Mount was already held. As it turned out, there are exceptions…
Hurt Locker was perhaps the first film about Iraq with absolutely no political motivation that gives the movie a special status. It tells a simple story of ordinary madness that under certain circumstances becomes the norm, and in this sense, Hurt Locker is as much about war as Apocalypse Now. In an ecstasy of contemplation Bigelow took off her best films, but Hurt Locker, perhaps, reached its peak, virtually eliminating the plot and are entirely focused on determining the concentration of adrenaline in the blood of experimental characters.
A film by Robert Schwentke is not even trying to step into the territory of melodrama: the protagonist played by Rachel McAdams is so in love with that there are no other characteristics can be found in her person. Her partner, Eric Bana plays just a handsome man, imbued with positive as with chloroform, next to whom dreamy lonely woman wished to be. Of course, Bana is not shining, as Patrick Swayze, while parting with Demi Moore, but it crumbles in the arms McAdams, like sand in the sandglass tears. Confrontation and the unity of love and time was already fully embodied on the screen by Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain), and for this pathos it was actually destroyed by the critics in Venice and the audience at the box office. Schwentke choked with the same feelings, but he also significantly reduced the degree of expressiveness.
George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey play a comedy about Americans fighting in Iraq. They scream "We're Americans, we can help!" and accidentally knocked the car the one who wanted to help. They arrange a shooting in the queue for gasoline, and then write off the victims for Al-Qaeda. They send light-tortured prisoners in a camp at Guantánamo with children's songs. No, of course, Clooney, with sparkling eyes, welcoming the sun, and Bridges in uniform, with the Aum-sound on the T-shirt and a bouquet of daisies, and McGregor's Spacey, cautiously wondered if there something that makes him the Jedi - they are all gorgeous. But it is like thus Heslov's lamb - it's unlikely to work.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the most anticipated animated films of 2009. The interest to the project arose long before its world premiere - even with the same time, as in the information leaked that Wes Anderson will be a new director the cartoon. This news was received as a sensation by the majority of moviegoers. Still, after all, Anderson owns an awesome reputation in Hollywood, as talented director of a new generation; the one who made Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Darjeeling Limited a success, even in the most severe critics, and gathered a number of prestigious awards and nominations at various film festivals . Nobody could quite believe that the director, qualified for his art-house cinema projects, with all the seriousness decides to go into animation. "Fantastic Mr. Fox had planned to start in 2004, and there were two in the director's chair, in addition to Anderson's there was Henry Selick, the author of the notorious Nightmare Before Christmas. But Revolution Studios, whicj was responsible for the film suddenly collapsed, and the project had to be frozen for years. Nudge Mr. Fox a dead-vouched by studio namesake Twentieth Century Fox; they made some reoffer to Anderson. And, despite the fact that Selick was unable to participate in the project, Anderson, acted as a professional who bravely took up his first step in the animation film career. "Decided not to reinvent the wheel, at least in terms of voice acting, Wes invited to cast those he has worked with before - Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe. Thanks to the participation these stars, cartoon attracted attention and has got very sweet recognizable voices. "Among others new faces, not previously worked with Anderson on the set, George Clooney was spotted. He voiced the main character in this movie - the insidious Mr Fox, whose regular raids on the nearby chicken coops have long been standing in the throat of local farmers which wanted to, by all means, take revenge on the elusive thief. "However, after the birth of her son Lee decides to engage with the past and bring income families more legal way. But, working as a reporter in the newspaper and leading a boring life, make him wishing one thing only: go back to bygone days. And when on the horizon, there are three very prosperous farmer, whose estate just chock full of all living creatures, a cunning fox decides to not miss his opportunity….
Imagine a world where mankind has not yet learned to lie. People have work, home and family; they run a normal life, but they are telling the truth only. In this world there is no deceit, flattery, hypocrisy and deceit; everybody speaks only what he thinks. Sometimes the truth is harsh and cruel, but nothing can be done about it, they used to live in that way. And even here, in this seemingly perfect world are the poor and the rich, prosperous and unfortunate. In some city, there is a loser, Mark, who lives his normal live of unremarkable middle-aged man. He is fat to his 40-odd years, he has not made any financial achievements. He enjoys a quiet family life and works as a script writer at the film studio; he is forced to eke out his existence, being hopelessly in love with the beautiful Anna. One day, he is fired from his job, an apartment owner, gives him one day to either pay rent or move out. Once on the brink of the bottom, to Mark plants in the head his first lie.
In the second part, which came up for a great name: Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. All the action revolves around the vocal talents of the chipmunks' trio. Chipmunks are still in an exemplary self-confident, dynamic, wonderful, although sometimes vulgarly joking. It is not surprising that two years ago, they were the real heroes and idols for young audience. At this time we can confidently predict that the audience of fans of Alvin, Theodore and Simon will increase considerably.
There is no unique conflict in Did You Hear About the Morgans? movie and rather expected gags: Hugh Grant is trying to chop wood, Parker is trying to milk the cow, together they shoot a gun, etc. Nevertheless, the golden rule of romantic comedy - that Hugh Grant will pull out any film in this genre continues to operate, despite his imminent fiftieth anniversary. And with fresh American female partners with whom Hugh seems to work best: Sarah Jessica Parker, the one who was missing in a row with Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bullock, Renee Zellweger and others. There is no chemistry between the actors, but there is no need in this, that's another story…
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second part of the "Twilight" appeared to be more exciting, vibrant and interesting. There are new secrets, new characters, igniting incredible passion. The action moves from gloomy Forks to sunny Italy, where a clan of vampires Volturi sitting in the marble interior of the temples of the Renaissance. Probably because the Cullens are aesthetic vampires the film strikes with the elegance. David Brisbin, the production designer of the movie worked on color in the film, based on a rich color palette of pre-Raphaelite artists. Forks lush greenery, red hair vampire, red cloak and eyes of vampires are creating an incredible fairy-tale atmosphere.
You can threat Zombieland as the horror movie in the relative manner only. With all its hordes of walking dead, with frenzied Woody Harrelson's shears at the ready, gallons of blood and rolls of intestines, horror can only be relative. This is a great, ingenious, cruel comedy, where, however, shifted all the genre framework, where the twelve year old girl is playing with firearm and harsh zombie fighter sweetly bathe children and puppies in the bath; where the main comic is stupid and ridiculous to die. And if the comedian was killed - hence, in general, everything is permitted.