Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a 2023 animated superhero film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, it is the sequel to the Academy Award-winning Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
Shameik Moore returns as Miles Morales, who is pulled across the multiverse and introduced to the Spider-Society — an interdimensional task force of Spider-People led by the severe Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac). When Miles learns the Society operates on a rigid doctrine about which tragedies must be allowed to happen, he finds himself at odds with hundreds of versions of himself. Hailee Steinfeld returns as Gwen Stacy, with Jason Schwartzman voicing the villainous Spot.
Released on June 2, 2023, the film grossed over $690 million worldwide and drew rapturous reviews, with critics calling its animation among the most ambitious ever committed to a mainstream feature. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature and ends on a cliffhanger leading into Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Niels Arden Oplev, who may be familiar to you by his movie The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo comes with his next keep-on-toes drama Dead Man Down. It's not a surprise, that his favorite Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, who played the leading role in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as Lisbeth Salander took the same level role in Dead Man Down. In this movie she plays Beatrice, a desperate, yet prudent and coldblooded woman on the warpath to accomplish the revenge by killing Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard), a mob boss of the New York. On her way she meets Alphonse's guard, Victor (Colin Farrell), who seems to share her thoughts about the boss. She tries to blackmail and use him, but later, the truth reveals, Victor claims that Alphonse is responsible for the death of his wife and daughter. The engrossing desire for revenge unites Beatrice and Victor. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that there are other strong feelings between them, the feelings that have grown in the shadow of vengeance.
You might remember the first of The Last Exorcism and its cam-shaking found-footage style. Thanks god, The Last Exorcism Part 2 is made in normal way without boring "real-footage" effects. Like in th previous one, Ashley Bell stars in this movie too as Nell Sweetzer, a terrified girl found lurking in the woods and latter rehabilitating after the previous exorcism which turns out be just an act of clearing the way for greater evil eager to settle in Nell's tiny body. Further, unlike the first movie directed by Daniel Stamm (The Darkness, Angry Little God, A Necessary Death), the second "Last Exorcism" is directed by the less known Ed Gass-Donnelly (Small Town Murder Songs, This Beautiful City) which may lead to some underestimating of the horrifying power of this movie, but watching the trailer will left you reassured. The filming is great, the horror scenes are powerful, and the evil is realistic. Thanks to the writer Damien Chazelle (Grand Piano, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench) the movie plot looks solid and scenario twists are plausible.
Few of us know Scott Charles Stewart as a man standing behind the visual effects of such the great movies of last decade: Red Cliff, Iron Man and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Live Free or Die Hard. In 2009 he debuted as director of horror movie Legion followed by awesome directorial work on action-horror film Priest in 2011. Dark Skies (2013) his forth directorial project and definitely most ambiguous one. The movie follows Barret family. They are quiet and inoffensive people living their insulated and isolated lives among suspicious neighbors in small American town. That's why they are left one-on-one with imminent threat. Gorgeous hottie Keri Russel (Austenland, Goats, Extraordinary Measures) is playing the main character in Dark Skies (2013) while Dakota Goyo (Noah, Real Steel, Thor) is playing her young brother, Jesse.
Snitch centers on a desperate father, who has his son being sentenced for decades, after being arrested for participating in drug dealing scheme. The father is played by Dwayne "Rock" Johnson, who is certainly familiar to you by his roles in Fast Five franchise and high-profile failure Journey to Mysterious Island. You may also remember his roles in Faster as Driver and in The Other Guys as Christopher Danson. In Snitch Johnson has to impersonate the kind of a guy, he does best: responsible and adamantine. His character decides to make a deal with U.S. Attorney to become a snitch, a whistleblower working undercover amidst top-ranked criminals. If he manages to expose the international drug lord, his son will got a chance to avoid the jail, if not he will lose his life and lives of loved ones, and his son will be jailed for the rest of the life.
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III stars Charlie Sheen as Charles Swan III a graphic designer who is popular among the ladies, successful in professional life and generally a lucky man. But in one unfortunate moment his life suddenly changes when Charles' girlfriend Ivana, breaks with him unexpectedly. Since that moment Charles life begins to slide by a tailspin-shaped curve. His manager Saul and best friend Kirby both try to help Charles but ineffectually. The movie's action takes place in the midst of 70s' when life was still full of "sex-drug-and-rock-and-roll things: which causes an ultimate influence on the filming style of A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. The movie is directed by Roman Coppola who has given us CQ. So, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the film is almost a directorial debut Roman Coppola as for big-screen movie. Nevertheless we shall pay a tribute to his actors' selection – the ensemble cast is splendid and full of chemistry between the characters. As we said before Charles is played by a top-ranked American comedian Charlie Sheen (a star of Two and a Half Men, She Wants Me, Due Date and Scary Movie franchise). His girlfriend Ivana is played by a gorgeous Katheryn Winnick (a star of Vikings, Stand Up Guys and Nikita). Charles friend Kirby is played by Jason Schwartzman (Saving Mr. Banks, Moonrise Kingdom, Bored to Death), while Saul is played by Bill Murray (Hyde Park on Hudson, Passion Play, Lost in Translation).
Baab is a technically and scientifically advanced planet located somewhere in the center of the galaxy. It's populated by the blue aliens, and among the aliens is a superhero, an astronaut Scorch Supernova, admired by children, young girls and woman across the planet. When new challenge is ahead, Scorch is the first to take it. The situation changes when BASA's (Baab Astronautically Space Agency) chief scientist Lena receives a SOS signal from nearby planet which is well-known by its hostile environment. Scorch departs to rescue those who send the signal despite of the intense warnings of Gary, his nerdy by-the rules brother. Upon arriving at dangerous planet Scorch gets into treacherous trap that making his escape unlikely event during the nearest couple of thousand years. So, it's time for Gary to rescue his heroic brother. Unfortunately his first attempt to change the situation to better makes it worse, much more badly. Now he has to prove himself like a true hero in order to rescue his family, which got into serious troubles. It's a story of Escape from Planet Earth, a 3D animated film directed by Cal Brunker, a man behind the Ninjamaica . Lena is voiced by Jessica Alba (A.C.O.D., Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Little Fockers, Machete, Valentine's Day), while Scorch Supernova is voiced by Brendan Fraser (The Legend of William Tell: 3D, Married and Cheating, The Nut Job. Rob Corddry (Pain & Gain, Hell Baby, Warm Bodies) has gave the voice to Gary Supernova, whilst the main antagonist, Shanker, who captured Scorch is voiced by James Gandolfini (Zero Dark Thirty, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Not Fade Away, Killing Them Softly.)
Sound City is a documentary movie about the legendary recording studio of the same name, located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. The film was directed by Dave Grohl, a man behind the Nevermind album of Nirvana, which was recorded at Sound City Studios. Upon the studio closing Dave Grohl purchased some equipment which was involved in albums recording of Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac and Foo Fighters. Among the equipment were rare analog mixing console which inspired some scenes for Dave Grohl. All the actors in Sound City are playing themselves: Trent Reznor (composer of many well-known soundtracks for Limitless, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network and other movies), Tom Petty (an actor and soundtrack composer behind such the masterpieces as Four Christmases, Home Alone, The Silence of the Lambs and Lethal Weapon) and Mick Fleetwood (musician and soundtrack composer of Glee and Heroes).
A dream team within a one movie - Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin -impress with the incredible chemistry between members of this trio. Stand Up Guys director Fisher Stevens climbed into the territory of crime-comedy thrillers about gangsters mocking gangsters. Nonetheless Stand Up Guys is not a spoof of Pulp-Fiction-like movies, it has its own tint, and there is the place for seriousness too. The story begins when Val (impersonated by Al Pacino, a well-known American author gained his fame by his memorable roles in The Devil's Advocate, Heat, Scent of a Woman, The Godfather, Scarface) is being released from "the big house" after serving 28-years sentence. His mate, Doc (played by Christopher Walken, previously starred in A Late Quartet, Seven Psychopaths, Balls of Fury and Man of the Year) is eager to meet him at the walls of the penitentiary. Doc has two reasons for cheery embraces for his old pal. Doc was given a task to kill Vic. The assignment was made by the local kingpin Claphands (played by Mark Margolis: Beneath, Noah, The Courier, Black Swan), who is dreaming about revenge for his son's accidental death accusing Vic for this. Nevertheless, Vic is aware about Doc assignment, and first thing buddies want do to is to visit the local cathouse ( it's a second reason), where the mess begins: alcohol, drugs and Viagra overdose ignites the chain of events buddies can't control.
John Dies at the End is not the first movie of Don Coscarelli, his horror movies have some distinctive features: Bubba Ho-Tep, Survival Quest, The Beastmaster and Phantasm franchise. John Dies at the End is loosely based on David Wong's novel of the same name initially published in the Internet but afterwards has got attention from publishers. It was printed in 2007 and got mostly positive reviews by critics. Don Coscarelli's big screen version features generally the same storyline slightly modified to give the movie some entertaining pitch. Little more action scenes with some dreadful CGI involved are not the fortes of the film. However, the actors' play saves John Dies at the End despite the lack of solid scenario and captivating action. Chase Williamson (Sparks, Never Fade Away, Mall Madness) plays Dave, one of the main characters who discover a strange drug named "Soy Sauce" which was sold to him by the weird "rastaman". Unfortunate chain of events leads Dave to the situation when he accidentally injects himself a dose of "Soy Sauce" dedicated to his friend, John played by Rob Mayes. Dave has a "bad trip" which could be expressed as unbelievable time and space traveling with one side effect: during his "trip" he meets people addicted to "Soy Sauce". They are not humans any more, turned into horrible creatures by the mysterious drug.
$ellebrity is the directorial debut of Kevin Mazur, a paparazzi and celebs photographer who managed to gather all the modern megastars together in one movie. Meet Maureen Orth, Salma Hayek, Dan Abrams, Darryn Lyons, Jennifer Aniston, Elton John, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Kid Rock, Michael Lewittes, Rosanna Arquette and Jonathan Klein playing themselves in this extraordinary film about a rapid changes occurring in the modern showbiz. From extinction of multilevel from-studio-to-studio career building to rise of free-for-all social-networked and youtube-powered world where every talented person could "sell" himself easily to mainstream buyers by just one click… And don't ask us what Kevin Mazur has done to arrange these highly acclaimed world-class celebs to participate in his weird project.