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.
Iron Man 3 is an American super-hero fantasy film scheduled to release in 2013. The movie is mostly based on the best of Marvel's Iron Man comics' series, "Extremis". In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark finds himself helpless before the menace that looms on him, his beloved ones and all the civilized humanity. His feels guilty for numerous deaths of his friends in the previous "Good vs. Evil" fights. He decides to change the world around himself, to make it less harmful both for personal guilt and happy and restful life of his folks. These attempts make world better break into pieces when powerful "Extremis" break loose in its turn. Referred as a virus, "Extremis" is not exactly what you think. It's a Super-Soldier Serum that consists of billions of programmable nano-robots. This army of robots invades the human brain and affects so called "Body's Repair Center". These nano-mediums totally erase all the original instructions that allows as to recover from wounds and replace these instructions with preprogrammed ones. The body fails to perform its basic functions and fails covered with serious injuries caused by "Extremis" action. Then the new program tells body's repair how to repair these wounds by replacing old tissues by new ones and even how to grow new organs. The better ones. The fact that this serum was produced at one of Stark factory's makes him feeling even guiltier. But there is no time to regrets, the Evil equipped with "Extremis" attacks a human world, and Iron Man is our last hope. Being defeated by virus-powered evil forces in the first round, Tony takes a frantic pace – he enchants his body with "Extremis" too. But his program for body's repair center makes quite big difference with the "bad guy's" one.
One of the most anticipated westerns of 2013, The Lone Ranger's script was rewritten for several times to be finally approved by Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer were confirmed for leading roles in the movie by director Gore Verbinski, and filming has began soon after Johnny Depp completed his role in Dark Shadows. The movie tells a story about a ranger, John Reid who tries his best as serious man serving the justice in the town. In one day he meets Tonto,a native American who practice some mysterious spiritual cult. They befriend and travel along time to time getting into serious troubles. Tonto's tranquility and self-control alongside with Reid's braveness helps them to defeat their enemies. Meanwhile, Tonto's spiritual techniques make lots of changes their ways of life. John Reid becomes stronger, but not physically, he develops "superhuman" traits making him a true legend standing behind a justice in this Wild Wild West. While the action unfolds in the fictional American Old West, Tonto and Rider have to survive not only human greed and aggression, but some mystical forces standing far beyond their understanding.
Directed and produced by Allen Hughes, Broken City, stars quite stellar cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Russell Crowe and Mark Wahlberg. The movie tells a story about a policeman, Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) who finds himself in the midst of serious issues aroused after a questionable shooting on the New York streets. Faced the 99% probability to be sentenced and jailed for indefinite period of time, he cross his steps with NY Mayor, Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe), who helps him to get out of troubles. Meanwhile, Billy starts a private investigator career thanks to help of his new "friend", Nicholas. The friendship has its additional advantages: Billy gets some" bonus jobs". The only doubts he has about these "bonuses" - how lawful they are. Soon, he gets quite unordinary task from Mayor: to trail Mrs Hostetler and investigate her extra-martial adventures. The "bonus" worth 50,00USD – a quite desirable sum of money for Billy. He is eager to make a deal and manages to gather facts of Mrs Hostetler adultery in very timely manner. However, an easy task turns out be even worse nightmare then troubles that left him stripped of badge.
A prehistoric man, Grug, and his ferocious family awake, when an earthquake strikes. All they have to do is to run out of their comfortable cave-apartments and accept their fate of "caveless" wanderers traveling uncharted and fantastical world. As they travel, a prehistoric genius meets them on their way. His name – Guy, and he tries to use his brain, not strength, in contrast as Grug does. This unusual, as per those times, behavior makes him derelict in eyes of contemporaries. Especially in the eyes of Crug, whose oldest daughter, Eep, seems to be fallen in love with Guy. This inappropriate order of things: a sudden earthquake, a crazy nerd, and unexpected maturing of the daughter makes Crug's world being ruining. However, the rest of his family is less worried of these events: Ugga, Grug's wife; Thunk, their fat but kind son; and Gran Grug's mother-in-law and his main enemy in this world. If you are not excited with the story, think about how The Croods was made. Produced by Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders and voiced by Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone, the animated movie looks much better then How to Train Your Dragon, the one that has put The Croods on hold in 2010.
Could you imagine what would happen if your identity had been stolen: your good name had been used by another person, who easily would completely destroy your credit history by being a "Shopping Queen" with your credit card? The Identity Thief, filmed in 2013 telling us exact story about unlucky businessman living in Denver, NY whose identity was stolen by a woman living in Miami. How is that possible, you say? Easily, if man's name is Sandy, there is no problem for woman to be Sandy too -Sandy Bigelow Patterson, to be accurate. The movie storyline revolves around the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson, who is traveling across the half-country to catch the thief and to get real Sandy's financial personality back. This unlucky character is impersonated by Jason Bateman, who may be familiar to you as Michael Bluth in Arrested Development and Keith Yert in Hit and Run. You may also remember him in one of the leading roles in Horrible Bosses (as Nick Hendricks).
A Good Day to Die Hard is the fifth installation of Die Hard franchise with Bruce Willis in leading role. The movie revolves around McClane's son who finds himself in troubles in Russia and his father who immediately hits the road to rescue the son from these troubles. But, as it happens, these troubles are just a top of the iceberg, the main troubles are ahead. When McClane steps on the Russia ground he realizes that it was the twisted plot implemented by Russian terrorists to get him caught upon the arrival. However, the situation is not so simple. Russian special forces are standing behind this turmoil have their own plans and McClane's capturing is just a part of these plans. This part, however turns to be unexpectedly hard one… which mean that explosions, endless alternating of action scenes, shotgun fire, detonating buildings and agonizing bad guys (all that stuff that we like so much in Die Hard franchise) are just a question of time. May be the plot is too classic and happy end is too predictable as well, but this is some kind of proven formula that works too good to be replaced with something else. Another "sweet" thing in the movie is Russian antagonist: Irina, a role performed by Juliya Snigir. And, if you wonder why this thing "sweet", you seem to be clueless who Juliya Snigir is – if so, just google her in Google Images with "Safe mode Off" – to learn what it does it mean.
Starring such an unusual ensemble cast as Barbara Streisand and Seth Rogen, The Guilt Trip tells a story about young inventor who has and brilliant idea of organic cleaner he recently patented. His name is Andy Brewster (Seth Rogen), and he is unsuccessfully trying to commercialize his invention by selling it to huge corporations. In order to finally sell it, he plans a trip across the USA, but the organic cleaner is not the only reason, his real aim is to help his recently widowed mother, Joyce to find her lost love in San Francisco (Barbara Streisand) where Andy plans to stop for a while. She knows nothing about the surprise, and it's impossible to predict how the things will turn out. Even, if the storyline does not look very promising for you, the movie is definitely worth to be watch by one only reason – to see the phenomenal play of phenomenal woman, Barbara Streisand. Filmed on 2012 by Anne Fletcher, The Guilt Trip could be an exiting entertaining experience for you, especial if you are a fan of Barbara.
Filmed as the immediate continue of the first 1974 movie in the franchise signature "shock 'till you drop" style, Texas Chainsaw 3D, picks up the story line of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre exactly where it was left off by the first movie. So, in order to refresh all the aforegoing events of the movie you may need to watch once again (or just watch) the first one. However, it's needless to say that Texas Chainsaw 3D is the seventh movie in this slasher franchise, so it would be very hard (if not impossible) to determine what the difference between them all. Nevertheless, the CGI effects are developing constantly, which, in the case of horror movies, means that the quality of bloodbaths and other meat ins and outs would be incredibly realistic in this new John Luessenhop's movie. The story of Texas Chainsaw 3D starts when Heather Miller learns that she inherits the mansions from her grandmother she never known; when she visits her new house, he realizes that the mansion is inhabited by some horrible entity. As for ensemble cast it needs some special words about: the main protagonist, a gorgeous Heather Miller is portrayed by Alexandra Daddario, who may be familiar to you by her participating in such a well-known projects as Hall Pass, Bereavement, Nurse Jackie and Damages; while Dan Yeager plays the main villain, Leatherface - you may not know him well, but this was the guy who has produced Ordinary Average Guys short film in 2011.
Directed by Gus Van Sant and featuring Matt Damon in the leading role, Promised Land centers on the ace of the oil industry, Steve Butler, a corporate salesman, who is sent to rural American town to secure the drilling rights of his company to tap into the local resources. The town is going thru an uneasy times after the world financial crisis, and, in these times, the establishing the office and production platforms could be in-need for the locals, especially considering the buying drilling rights from local authorities. However, what seemed as easy procedure at the first look, turned to uneasy challenge for Steve. Now he has to rethink all of his beliefs and approaches to life. The movie is a subject of criticism concerning the facts that the major sponsor of its production is Abu Dhabi Media, which is totally owned by United Arab Emirates. It's believed that due to this sponsorship, the film puts shale fracking being described in the movie in a bad light, as it significantly increased the oil-producing capabilities of USA and reduced the oil import from UAE. Nevertheless, Promised Land allows us to enjoy brilliant play of Matt Damon, which is considered to be as "top-level" as it was in The Adjustment Bureau, True Grit and The Informant!
A light heart touching comedy from Andy Fickman, Parental Guidance features Billy Crystal as Artie Decker and Bette Midler as Diane Decker. Mr. and Mrs. Decker are old-school pair faced to look after their three grandkids as their parents went out from town for work for a few weeks. The thing go wrong from the very first minutes of their "babysitting". It seems like old-school methods of parenting are not suitable for 21-th century kids living in their hyper-dynamical rhythms. But there are no choices and both the elderly couple and their grandchildren have to learn a magic of love that like a connecting thread binds all the generations regardless to how they are treat what is wrong and what is right in this world. Meanwhile, it becomes clear for Artie and Diane, that their grandchildren Harper, Turner, Barker are the most lovely and good-behaving persons in their lives, although the first days of 'babysitting' were completely failed due to insane misbehavior of the children. By the way Harper is played by Bailee Madison, who may be familiar to you by her roles in Bridge to Terabithia (as May Belle, a younger sister of Jesse Aarons) and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (as Sally Hurst).