"Bull Durham" is a 1988 sports romantic comedy film directed by Ron Shelton. The story revolves around the world of minor league baseball and follows the lives of three main characters: Crash Davis, a veteran catcher; "Nuke" LaLoosh, a talented but inexperienced pitcher; and Annie Savoy, a passionate baseball groupie who chooses one player each season to mentor.
As the baseball season progresses, Crash takes Nuke under his wing, teaching him not just about the game but also about life and love. Meanwhile, Annie finds herself caught in a love triangle between Crash and Nuke, leading to amusing and heartfelt moments of romance and rivalry.
The film explores themes of love, loyalty, and the pursuit of dreams. It has been praised for its witty dialogue, authentic portrayal of the baseball world, and the chemistry between the lead actors. "Bull Durham" is often considered one of the best sports films ever made and has become a cult classic. It stars Kevin Costner as Crash Davis, Tim Robbins as "Nuke" LaLoosh, and Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy.
Filmed in 2012 and released in 2013, A Haunted House is a comedy spoof on A Paranormal Activity franchise series of movies. It uses the same technique as the original film that can be described as "found footage". Footage of the events that encountered in a house where a married couple moved in. The parody's couple is Malcolm and Keisha, and their new house is haunted in pretty much similar way to the one depicted in Paranormal Activity. And, of course, this "just married" couple is unaware about this fact. The drama unfolds after Keisha becomes haunted, and Malcolm decides to rescue their sexual life by inviting for consultation the various specialists: psychotherapists, ghost hunters, exorcists and priests.The film is directed by Michael Tiddes and stars Marlon Wayans (Dance Flick, Norbit, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) as Malcolm and Essence Atkins (Act Like You Love Me, Another Stateside, Dysfunctional Friends) as Keisha.
Filmed in 2011 during Glee hiatus; premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 then released worldwide in January 2013, Struck by Lightning is the second film produced by the Glee idol, Chris Colfer after his directorial debut The Little Leftover Witch made under the contract with Disney. Chris has written a screenplay for Struck by Lightning and played the leading role. The movie revolves around the flashbacks of main character, Carson Phillips who was stricken by the deathly lightning bolt. Before he dies he experiences the colorful memories about the last years of his life. He ran a literary magazine at Clover High School and in order to get a material constantly blackmailed his classmates – in most cases very successfully. Besides the genuine Chris Colfer's play we enjoy the performances of Sarah Hyland (April Apocalypse, Conception, Gay Dude) and Christina Hendricks (Seconds of Pleasure, How to Catch a Monster, Ginger & Rosa) accompanied by spontaneous Bachelorette star Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect, Pain & Gain, What to Expect When You're Expecting). Carson's parents are portrayed by Allison Janney (Lucky Them, Bad Words, Trust Me) and Dermot Mulroney (Space Warriors, Jobs, Stoker).
Giuseppe Verdi, a genial Italian composer, the author of eternal "Grand March" from Aida, was born 10 October 1813. Since that time all the progressive society of musicians and opera lovers are celebrating Verdi's birthday each year. Quartet, a movie filmed in 2012 by Dustin Hoffman, follows the most recognized event of annual Verdi's birthday – a concert in Beecham House, a fictional retirement house for gifted musicians and concertmasters. Every year everything is going smoothly on this solemnity, but not this time. A wife of one of the quartet members, Jean joins the party to make a fuss around the celebration and summons the old spirits of rivalry between her husband Reg and rest of the quartet contributors Cissy, Wilf and Cedric. The ensembly cast of Quartet time and again consists of well matured actors and actress: Billy Connolly (The Hobbit, The X Files: I Want to Believe, The Last Samurai) is playing Wilf while Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , Harry Potter franchise, Becoming Jane) is playing Jean, a Reg's wife. Reginald is portrayed by Tom Courtenay (The Golden Compass, Last Orders, Let Him Have It) while Michael Gambon (Brideshead Revisited, The King's Speech, The Book of Eli) is playing Cedric. The next Quartet member Cissy is portrayed by Pauline Collins, which may be familiar to you by her roles in Albert Nobbs as Margaret 'Madge' Baker and in Paradise Road as Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond.
Star Trek into Darkness is the twelfth film in the Star Trek franchise, and the second one in the contemporary saga of Star Trek directed by J.J. Abrams. The movie plot follows the story that has begun in 2009's Star Trek. Crew of the Enterprise makes its journey back home after the series of epic events that has been taken place in the first movie. When Captain Kirk and his team approach the Earth they see unspeakable destruction made by the invaders of internal origin. The Starfleet is under a violent attack and the real purpose of the attackers' interests is unknown. Star Trek into Darkness is shot as a 2D movie, and then converted to 3D format. The film also features 9 minutes of the high-end action scenes that were shot by IMAX cameras. As for ensemble cast – in 2013's Star Trek into Darkness we enjoy the play of all the actors of previous Star Trek, excluding the villain roles, of course. The leading antagonistic role of Khan, was taken by Benedict Cumberbatch who may be known to you by his roles in The Hobbit saga of 2012-2014 as Necromancer and, what is more remarkably as Sherlock Holmes in the extremely popular British television series of the same name. As for Enterprise crew we see familiar faces: Chris Pine (Rise of the Guardians, People Like Us, This Means War) as James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto (The Invitation, What's Your Number?, Margin Call) as Spock and Zoe Saldana (Avater, Out of the Furnace, Nina) as Nyota Uhura.
Humorous yet gruesome, Warm Bodies is the title of Jonathan Levine's next movie, the title that works on the many levels; all of them are perfectly describing the idea of the film that loosely based on Isaac Marion debut novel of the same name. The story of filmed in 2013 Warm Bodies begins in the post-apocalyptical world where hordes of zombies are in the charge, ruling the Earth, while people are hiding in sporting domes, usually main city stadiums. Such stadiums remain the last refugee camps in the centers of most of the big cities of the destroyed world. Fortified in the manner medieval castles these domed structures hold the small concentrated groups of survivors keeping an endless defense against zombies. The movie follows the zombie named R, who is able to think and empathize: when he eats another portion of human brains it takes him high filling R with emotions and life experience of the victim. The irreversible changes begin when kills a suicidal teenager and eats out his brains. In the moment he immerses in the center of unrequited love of the victim to some girl named Julie. When R's congeners approach to kill the rest of the teenagers, R in the burst of emotions decides to save Julie's life, taking her out of the massacre. This step ignites developing relationship between R and Julie, resulting in the world-change consequence of events.
American Pie franchise ex-director, Paul Weitz, tries himself on a quite new territory. Released in 2013, Admission tells an ordinary story about a middle age woman, who gave up her son for adoption many years ago and now are filled with regrets about sins of youth. A self-confident, law abiding admission officer in Princeton, Portia Nathan, tries her best to live her life "by the book" both at the workplace and in the private life. This approach is a nuisance for Portia's boyfriend, Mark, a local faculty member. He knows nothing about his girlfriend's past and he is much surprised when Portia meets a young student Jeremiah, who supposedly is her son. Nobody knows if this true, including Portia, but all the circumstances point to that. Nevertheless, Portia decides to turn the life road of the young gentleman in more perspective direction, in spite of her law-abiding way of life. Where will this decision lead Portia, Jeremiah and Mark? Admission's ensemble cast features Michael Sheen (Crooked House, Cut Bank, The Twilight Saga, Midnight in Paris, Tron: Legacy) as Mark, unparalleled writer and actress Tina Fey (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) as Portia Nathan and Nat Wolff (The Last Keepers, Stuck in Love, New Year's Eve) as Jeremiah Balakian.
The story of Stoker is revolving around a teenager with a uncommon name, India, who lost his father. In those sad circumstances, her Uncle decides to move to India's house to join the teenager and her mother. Uncle Charlie seems to be a solicitous, attentive man who really cares about India and her mother. But, what she knows about him. Before her father dies, she doesn't even hear about Charlie. Who is he? What are his real intentions? Is he really her Uncle? There are more questions than answers left. The movie is filmed by unparalleled Chan-wook Park on the screenplay written by Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida Wilson. It features quite stellar ensemble cast including: Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right, Jane Eyre) playing India Stoker, Nicole Kidman (Just Go with It, Rabbit Hole, Nine) playing India's mother - Evelyn 'Evie' Stoker, while Matthew Goode (Leap Year, Watchmen, A Single Man) plays Uncle Charlie.
No one expected that on the edge of the war between Boston Police Department and local Russian drug mafia, two policewomen will stand against the cruel mob boss from Moscow. His gang strikes fear on Boston's citizens and his corruption network seems to be protective enough to feel himself invulnerable. Nothing can stop him. Nothing but two crazy policewomen, no one could ever imagined are able to work together. Neither Special Agent Sarah Ashburn, nor Detective Shannon Mullins knows anything about friendly support; it looks like they hated each other from the very first moment they met – but, what's really important they hate gangsters. And as they approach the target, Sarah and Shannon became deadly cohesive team…Sarah Ashburn is portrayed by Sandra Bullock (The Proposal, Miss Congeniality, Premonition, Infamous, The Lake House), while Melissa McCarthy (leading role in Mike & Molly, This Is 40, Identity Thief ) plays Det. Shannon Mullins.
Directed by Louis Leterrier and filmed on screenplay written by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakinand Edward Ricourt, Now You See Me follows a strange sequence of events centered on weird show group of magicians named The Four Horsemen. Their show features neither rabbits out of top hat nor playing cards out of sleeves. There is something much more valued by audience in modern world than these old fashioned tricks, and The Four Horsemen have a proposition for this demand. Meet their tricks: a real bank robbery, a million dollars heist, a white collar blackmailing. How it's possible to be real? The question that demands some non-magic answers, at least such question has FBI – and these guys will play hard to get an answer. The stakes are raising when magic hunters get to know that weird magicians have some plan to shock the audience with their next incredibly risky yet audacious robbery has ever happened in the history of FBI, the robbery that probably will occupy number one in The Hall of Fame of Robberies, if such ever existed. Unfortunately, the attempts of FBI agents to discover what are really standing behind the magic tricks break on their suspiciousness to each other. Finally, as the day X comes closer they decide to ask for help from world most known magic mythbusters, with ambiguous reputation Thaddeus (played by Morgan Freeman). The greatest crime of the century is about to happen, however neither FBI agents, not Thaddeus are approached a step closer to unlock the puzzle of The Four Horsemen's riddle. What is this- a double-cross of one agent, Thaddeus' betrayal or … real magic? Besides the twisted plot we have great pleasure to watch an unparalleled play of actors. Besides abovementioned Morgan Freeman, Now You See Me stars some truly superior actors: Dave Franco (Warm Bodies, 21 Jump Street, Fright Night), Isla Fisher (Desperados, The Great Gatsby, Rise of the Guardians, Bachelorette) and Jesse Eisenberg (To Rome with Love, 30 Minutes or Less, The Social Network.)
One of the most anticipated animated sequels of 2013, Despicable Me 2 follows the return of an ex-villain and now parental-superhero, Gru, his pretty restless "girls" and incredibly funny yet faithful minions. Now they have to withstand the next evil mind voiced by unparalleled Al Pacino. The first movie, Despicable Me released in 2010 and, as the introductory one, won the hearts of the viewers by the immediacy of its leading character turning from evil to good, unlike the 2013 movie where most of the characters are familiar to us, despite the main antagonist. Here in 2013 Despicable Me 2 the film's plot comes to the fore and the creators promised not to deceive our expectation. As in the original movie there are lots of unpredictable scenario turns and screenwriters' tricks for which we unquestionably owe Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, two figures standing behind the previous film and another animated big hit, The Lorax. The next big thing of the movie are the voices: Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig and Russell Brand are on the place voicing Gru, Margo, Miss Hattie and Dr. Nefario accordingly, in the manner they did in the first Despicable Me, which makes this movie a win-win option both for parents and kids.