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.
If the environmental issues are close to your heart, then A Dark Truth is the right movie for you. There is no big budget, nor large studio behind the film, but if you think that A Dark Truth is all about tedious scenes of dying rare animals you are seriously wrong. The movie is full of action, awesome actor and actress and it's filmed Damian Lee, the man behind such of masterpieces as Sacrifice, King of Sorrow, One Eyed King and Agent Red. The assembly cast includes Kevin Durand (Resident Evil: Retribution, Cosmopolis, Real Steel, I Am Number Four) as Tor, Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, Frontera, Crazy Kind of Love Married and Cheating) as Mia Francis, Kim Coates (Robosapien: Rebooted, By Virtue Fall, Ferocious, Sons of Anarchy) as Bruce Swinton, Forest Whitaker (Out of the Furnace, Pawn, Vipaka, Powder Blue) as Francisco Francis, Andy Garcia (Middleton, What About Love, Open Road) as Jack Begosian , Deborah Kara Unger (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, The Samaritan, 186 Dollars to Freedom) as Morgan Swinton and Steven Bauer (On Painted Wings, The Sleeper, The Lookalike, Awakened) as Tony Green.
Jason Statham now impersonates Parker, a professional thief with Robin Hood habits. His credo: not to steal from poor people and not to hurt innocent ones. And as it often happens in real life, goodness is punishable, especially when you are a thief (even if the best one). Parker's abettors start playing unclean game against him, finally stealing his heist and leaving Parker for dead. But something was wrong with these guys. May be they did know nothing about Jason Statham and his obsession for sophisticated revenge? It was miserable fault on their part. Parker has resurrected as rich Texan accompanied by his "canceled" victim, Leslie, both eager to spread fear, destruction and devastation around. It is a time to rue for Parker's ex friends. If an astonishing play of Jason Statham isn't enough reason to watch the movie, here is a surprise to change your mind: gorgeous Jennifer Lopez plays Leslie, and this couple Statham plus Lopez may be the only thing making the film worth to watch despite the Transporter-like plot.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Last Airbender) filmed by Columbia Pictures in 2012 this movie hits the screens in 2013. After Earth follows an exciting story written by Gary Whitta about a father and a son survived a starship crash on a distant inhabited planet. Cypher Raige is a recognized hero of many wars, a legendary general who heads his spacecraft to the distant realms, convoying recently captured fierce alien creature. He travels with his son, Kitai Raige, inexperienced 13-years-old boy who gets his initial knowledge about space voyages. Unfortunately, a technical malfunction triggers a chain of events that lead to emergency landing on hostile planet. The only hope for deathly injured father and his son is to find and activate SOS beacon before Cypher Raige dies. Bad news: their radars indicate that the beacon is located on the other side of the planet and ocean of impassable jungles infested with bloodthirsty animals and furious alien that escaped the spaceship during the crash are the only obstacle between 13-years old Kitai and the hope to save their lives. Seriously wounded Cypher can't move, but he tries to help his son to overcome the fear by couching him distantly. The only thing is left at his disposal is to convince Kitai, that in contradistinction to dreadful monsters his fear is not real. That means that Kitai has to forget the fear and concentrate on the real dangers: ravenous creatures and virulent environment of the hostile planet. By the way it's Earth. Yes, it's our home planet that was abandoned by humans almost 1000 years ago due to the catastrophic event that wiped out majority of the species. Since that time new kinds of giant animal took the place of extincted ones and now they dominate the Earth. It's strange and suspicious that we know so much about the movie's story, taking in consideration that After Earth was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, so you have to expect some unpredictable plot twists. Another fact to enjoy is the ensemble cast: there are two leading characters - the father and the son, and they are the real father and son Will and Jaden Smith. Yes, this is the Will Smith (Men in Black franchise, Wild Wild West and I, Legend) and his son Jaden Smith (The Karate Kid, The Day the Earth Stood Still).
Sixty years have passed since the first attack of aliens. For a long time our planet were nothing more but place of disastrous war between earthlings and extraterrestrial form of live named Scavs. We've won the war, but Earth was totally devastated turned into hostile yet dangerous desert. All the achievements of our civilization were ruined and recently prosperous megacities now forming whimsical landscapes with rivers running down the wide ex-avenues and waterfalls rushing down from the skyscrapers. In that hostile environment only artificial drones are alive to protect the Earth from possible aliens' comebacks. Drones and a couple dozens of people maintaining them are only the Earth population now, while the mission aimed to extract all the valuable resources left is in progress. Jack Harper is one of the "lucky ones" that has been left on Earth to secure the mission. His duty to repair drones and he is doing that job for many years. His only hobby is to read "old books" that has been written before the alien invasion. Jack's duty was about to be completed when he witnesses a starship crash and hurries to rescue possible survivors. He manages to save the life of beautiful woman, Julia, who seems to be familiar with him. However Jack doesn't know her and rests assured the he never met her. This event turns the known world of Jack Harper inside out. It seems like he was wrong about his purpose on the Earth. Soon after he meets the real population of the planet, a Resistance, and its leader Malcolm Beech. Oblivion was filmed by Universal Studios after the Radical Comics graphic novel of the same name. The movie stars Tom Cruise (Mission Imposible franchise, Van Helsing, All You Need Is Kill) as Jack Harper and Olga Kurylenko (La terre outragée, James Bond: Quantum of Solace, Max Payne) as Julia, while resistance leader is portrayed by Morgan Freeman (Now You See Me, Olympus Has Fallen, The Dark Knight Rises).
It's absolutely fatuously to list here all the ensemble cast of Movie 43. It will be enough said that such a Hollywood megastars as Halle Berry, Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Anna Faris, Chloë Grace Moretz, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts and Kate Winslet are playing in the Movie 43. Not yet convinced? Gerard Butler, Jimmy Bennett, Richard Gere, Hugh Jackman and Jason Sudeikis are starring in the film too. It's not a joke, there are more than 40 high paid celebs are contributing Peter Farrelly's Movie 43. How is it possible, you say? Just imagine New Year's Eve-alike movie, but filled full of vulgar jokes. Just for example Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables, Rise of the Guardians, X-Men: First Class, Real Steel) is playing a dude with genitals located exactly under his chin, while Richard Gere (Arbitrage, The Double, Pretty Woman) alongside with Kate Bosworth (Homefront, Big Sur, Another Happy Day) heroine learning about i-Babe device helping couples to keep devotion and not to cheat on each other. By the way Gerard Butler (Dynamo, Thunder Run, Hunter Killer, Olympus Has Fallen) plays Chaun, who is nothing but ribald Leprechaun.
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.