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.
Beastly" movie follows a good looking and conceited young man, Kyle Kingson, played by Alex Pettyfer. He feels the results of a curse that morphs him into the very things he hates the most in this yarn spun on the heels of Beauty and the Beast. The stereotypical rich teenage boy that has everything his heart could desire gets his kicks by tormenting and mocking those less fortunate (both financially and genetically) than himself. When he asks the odd, eccentric gothic girl Kendra, played by Mary-Kate Olsen, to a school rally and then spurns her, Kendra casts a spell on Kyle that turns him into something truly beastly. Now instead of being the envy of the school, he is feared and mocked. His only hope of returning to his former physical appearance is to find someone who will love him as he is. Kyle's father, played by Peter Krause, sends him away to Brooklyn where Kyle becomes friends with the housekeeper, played by Lisa Gay Hamilton and his sight impaired private tutor, played by Neil Patrick Harris. Kyle then intervenes in a drug deal gone bad and becomes the protector of the addict so long as he sends his daughter, Lindy, played by Vanessa Hudges, to live with the beastly Kyle. You can guess where the movie goes from there.
Dinner for Schmucks movie follows the common office "rat" Tim (Paul Rudd), who gives his boss promising business idea in timely manner. Boss, commending the zeal offers a guy to go to the big league managerial, but first Tim has to pass a little test and to invite some eccentric nerd to the private corporate dinner. It is a challenge: whose idiot would be the most ridiculous, that one gets the encouragement and recognition. Tim was lucky, by his Porsche he knocked Steve Carell, which is not that just looks like an idiot almost in every way, but enjoys taxidermy and collecting of dead mice dioramas compounding with them some sentimental scenes. As a result, mental stupidity, of course, wins managerial cynicism that is predictable. Dinner for Schmucks movie in some amarican manner landed and vulgarized comedy of 1998, filmed by one of the best French comedians of Francis Veber ("Toy", "Daddy", "Unlucky")…
Salt movie initially had a powerful charge of positive energy given by the director Philip Noyce, who is one of the best in the quite competitive market of the political thrillers. In "Salt," he managed to show off their skills in full force and create a frenzied pace in which the main character has to move. Another important component of the film perfectness is a vivid visual artwork. So, the Angelina Jolie's protagonist character forced to change appearance, as a result he consistently appears before us in different character types. It positively affects the dynamics of the film, bringing in scenes lots of action energy and bright colors. If we talk about the place of film in the Jolie filmography, it should be noted that the "Salt" is another milestone in the career of the actress in the field of action genre.
Despicable Me is the first 3D-animated Universal Studios movie, and certainly the best, what a hand in the former FOX's producer Chris Meledandri. A revolutionary solution for the animation to make the villain some sort of protagonist. Just say: a bold move, children may not appreciate. But, taking its mature, full of black humor movie, the creators do not forget the fact that the family audience bring a cash to box office - children and women will surely like pretty trio of orphans and a clutch of hilarious creatures named "minions" that are work for at Gru, as umpa-lumpy works for Willy Wonka. The movie features almost a spy story that represents the Gru as a sort of Lex Luther-like hero in the modern day form. Widely diluted by the psychoanalytic sketches about family values and the comic scenes involving the unbearably beautiful egg-headed minions Despicable Me will surely make you involved. And there is some sort of "bonus offer": 3D a ride on a roller coaster worth it to watch.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole showcases the world where people live no more. This world is ruled by civilization of owls. The movie story stars with Soren (Jim Sturgess) is a young owl who loves to hear the stories of their parents about legendary "The Guardians of Ga'Hoole," an alliance of owls dedicated to protect the kingdom of owls from the evil forces. His younger sister Eglantine (Adrienne deFaria) is fascinated by these stories, but his older brother, Kludd (Ryan Kwanten) does not. One night, while branching, they are attacked by a Tasmanian devil and then captured by two owls who work for the evil Metalbeak (Joel Edgerton) and his partner Nyra (Helen Mirren). Still caught in the clutches of the owls, they soon found a huge group of Metalbeak workers with other young owls in their clutches, Soren recognizes the Elf Owl Gylfi (Emily Barclay) who lived in the desert. They are taken to the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls, and Nyra arrives and makes a speech to the kidnapped owls, explaining that their families have abandoned them and that Metalbeak of "Pure" is their new family…
The Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps movie takes place 23 years after the events of the first film, in the second half of 2008. The intro shows us as in 2001, after eight years in prison, Gordon Gekko devotes a several years writing a book about shock that as he predicts will seriously affect financial markets. Gekko wants to restore relations with his distancing his daughter, Winnie. Due to the time before prison they used to live separately, mostly because of the fact that Winnie blamed Gekko in the suicide of his brother Rudy. As she avoids any communication with her father, her boyfriend Jacob meets Gekko. Jacob works as trader on Wall Street and enjoys the prosperity of the markets. However, the largest investment bank, Keller Zeybl where he works, suddenly appears on the verge of bankruptcy due to risky investments in securities backed by subprime mortgages. Bank manager, whose protégé Jacob is, commits suicide. Jacob wants to find the culprit in the events and to avenge the death of his mentor, and asks Gordon Gekko for help. Gordon offers him a deal: information in exchange for helping to improve relations with Winnie. Meanwhile the financial markets suffer the global financial crisis, and Gekko have their ambitious plans bring to a live...
Secretariat is a Walt Disney studio production movie released in 2010 and loosely based on real story of Penny Chenery (Diane Lane), a modest housewife who has a fate to become the first woman to win the Triple Crown and take a reputable place in the man-ruled world of horse races. Since her father becomes seriously ill Penny has to run his horse stables balancing on a bankruptcy edge. But very quickly she became interested in the world of horse racing and got into it, without any dreams about great professional success, but soon the fortune grants her the gift, a horse named Secretariat with outstanding racing talents matching the veteran horse trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich)…and the undreamed success comes true.
Megamind may become part of the film-schools' curriculum, because it proves two principles of animated film artisanship: First, as Roger Ebert emphasizes in his review of "Megamind," animation is "incomparably more suited for 3D than live action is." Second, excellent actors bring their on-screen avatars to life, adding depth and the "It" quality to a story and characters that, without the talents behind them, would barely earn a B-minus. Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and Brad Pitt literally and figuratively "make" this movie, and they drove it to number one at the box office for two weeks during the autumn of 2010."Based on the clever premise that a villain needs a hero to inspire his greatest evil doing, "Megamind" shows the world's most notorious and least successful villain feeling depressed and uninspired. "Megamind," clearly acknowledged as a criminal genius but just as clearly incompetent at carrying out his schemes, inadvertently has defeated his nemesis, "MetroMan," and the thrill is gone from evil-doing. Under the watchful eye of television reporter Roxanne Ritchi, Megamind creates Titan to cure his loneliness.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 is the sequel to the first solo movie from X-Men. It is a comic book love story that once again stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. However, this time Wolverine will head to Japan to dig into his roots and train to become a samurai warrior. While there something unexpected happens, Wolverine falls for a Japanese girl. Only she is already married and so Wolverine finds himself at odds with both her husband and her father while he tries to win her back. X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 is definitely a darker story than the first.
War Birds is a 2011 movie from TMU Pictures directed by Michael B. Chait with screenplay written by Bryan Binder, Josh Staman and Richard Jefferies. War Birds pictures World War II aviation ace-pilots in their deathly illegal air duels. War Birds movie presents splendid shooting dogfighting set at the highest level. This is a great film for fans of realistic scenes of air combats. For information: World War II led to the need for a sharp increase in the rate of improvement of aircraft production. All countries involved in the war developed, modernized and made aircraft and aviation equipment, with new types of aircraft, for example, long-range bombers. Fighter escorts were needed for the success of heavy bombers, dramatically reducing the losses in combat against enemy fighters. By the beginning of World War II fighter aircraft is a well-formed class of equipment. Typically, major world powers of that time had a few basic types of fighters, differing both in flight characteristics, and by tactical application. For example, Germany had a fighter Me-109 and Me-110 in different versions. The U.S. also made significant progress in building fighter aircrafts greatly pictured in War Birds movie.
