"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.
Ralf is a lonesome antagonist from arcade video game Fix-It Felix Jr. He is nine-foot-tall, 643-pound anti-hero whose goal is to crash everything that main protagonist Fix-It Felix fixes. Ralf is representing the "Evil Forces" for almost 30 years and tired to be just a number two in the shadow of Fix-It Felix success. In his desperation, Ralph decides to break up with the arcade and escapes thru the power cord out to the world of other video games where he hopes to prove himself as a true hero. His first stop is first person shooter Hero's Duty, where he meets cold-blooded and tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun fighting with Cy-Bugs invading her planet. After Ralph helps Calhoun to get rid of the alien invasion he finds himself in the thick of things boiling in racing video game Sugar Rush, where encounters Vanellope von Schweetz facing serious troubles and the only person to help her is Ralph. Initially Disney was planning to name the movie Joe Jump or Reboot Ralph, but at the time when whole conception was assembled, the 3D animated story was decided to rename in Wreck-it-Ralf as the same name arcade game. Wreck-it-Ralf is full of gimmicks, spoofs, allusions and allegories – you will be pleased to meet here the orange colored little ghost from Packman, a Zombie and lots of others funny villains from 30 years old videogames. You should add here the astonishingly matching voices of John C. Reilly, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman in perfect combination with soundtracks of Flo Rida (remember 'Good Feeling'?) and all what you get is another Disney's unquestionable success.
In a small silent American city five are shot dead. The local policemen make a rapid investigation and quickly arrest the culprit. It seems like everything is clear and the case is closed. But the guy accused in five death makes a strange declaration in front of cameras "Get Jack Reacher", claiming himself innocent. The crystal clear case turns out to be a complicated chain of events, when Reacher, who saw the accused man's request, heads to the city in order to restore the justice. The movie is solely based on Lee Child's series of novels about the giant military professional Jack Reacher. In the Christopher McQuarrie's movie Jack is portrayed by Tom Cruise. Although Cruise is not as tall as Jack Reacher described in Lee Child's books, he manages the role in very persuasive way. Furthermore, Tom looks perfectly adequate for the role of Reacher, mostly because we are to accustomed to his previous roles as special agents or military professionals in the movies like Valkyrie, Knight and Day, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
The" found footage" genre was used almost to death in the period of 2005-2012. However, Scott Derrickson's Sinister is something bigger than regular "found footage scary movie". In Sinister, where Derrickson's talent is multiplied on Ethan Hawke's play, the old fashion draggy movie blossoms with new fruitful flowers conceiving the new levels of horror film's quality. The story begins, when the main protagonist, Ellison finds a footage which was made a long time ago by the previous inhabitants of his new house. As it follows from the footage, four members of the family were hanged on the nearest trees, while fifth one; a little girl has disappeared somewhere and hasn't been found since. As the professional writer, specializing on the scandalous crime stories, he begins his own investigation with the help of local deputy sheriff (James Ransone, who may be familiar to you as Officer Thomas Prudenti in The Son of No One). As they excavate new facts and stories about this mysterious murder they find similar cases where entire families was killed besides the little girls which are still missing. Step by step Ellison immerses deep into the horror of these mysterious deaths becoming increasingly unsettled mentally, as the rest of his family show the sings of serious emotional distress. His wife Tracy (Juliet Rylance, who played in Adam Shaw) and 12-year-old Trevor (Michael Hall D'Addario who played in People Like Us) hear strange frightening voices that are coming out from the attic where the scary footage was found.
Filmed in 2012, Taken 2 is Olivier's Megaton sequel of Taken which was previously produced in cooperation with Luc Besson in 2008. The sequel's scenario was written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen who wrote the screenplays for Besson's Transporters and Fifth Element. The plot of Taken 2 is continuing the story of the first movie, where special agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) rescues his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) from taken as the hostage by Albanian mobs specializing in kidnapping teenagers to sell them into sexual slavery. The events of Taken 2 start just after the father of one of trhe Albanian mobs, who was killed by Bryan Mills, learns about murder of his son and swears to kill Bryan. This Albanian Mafioso, who is called Murad (Rade Е erbedЕѕija) abducts Byan's ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), while she is on her vacation in Istanbul, counting on Bryan to come and rescue her. His masterplan seems to be successful one and he captivates Bryan alongside with Lenore hoping to kill them both. In this situation Bryan enlists their daughter Kim instructing her how to rescue them using special tactic: to kill Albanian mobs one by one in some specific ways.
Inspired by California's Parent Trigger law in 2010, a Daniel Barnz's movie Won't Back Down is telling a story about two mothers, who are adamant in their decision to change things in downgrading school of their city. Their strong will and resoluteness to override the sequence of mediocre performance reports issued by the school year after year leads them to fierce battle with corruption and indolence prevailing behind the school officers and government officials. Two mothers, a bartender (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and a teacher Nona Alberts (Viola Davis) maybe belonging two different backgrounds, but they are very eager to fight the bureaucracy personalized in Principal Thompson and Teacher's Union President (portrayed by Holly Hunter, Grace Hanadarko from Saving Grace TV series). It seems like the mothers are going to lose everything in this unequal combat, however their good will to change things for better will bring them victory and safe education for their children, which deserve the best future.
21 And Over is an outrageous comedy scheduled to worldwide release in 2013. The movie is directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore , an ingenious pair standing behind The Change-Up, Flypaper, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and both parts of The Hangover. It follows vicissitude of Jeff Chang,a "straight-A" high school student celebrating his 21th. The party was intended to be over just after a couple of beers, but his two crazy friends turned up out of the blue messed all the good intentions transforming virgin party to a wild drunk marathon across the city streets. What is expecting young friends in the night of chaotic stream of profligacy and debauch? And, that is more important, what awaits Jeff Chang next morning, when a crucial interview in prestigious medical university is appointed? The movie stars Skylar Astin as Casey, one of Jeff Chang friends. We know Skylar as Jesse from Pitch Perfect. Another star of 21 And Over is Miles Teller, who may be familiar to you by his roles in Project X and Footloose. The leading female role, Nicole, was given to Sarah Wright, a promising young blonde cutie, who mostly is known by her roles in TV series: Parks and Recreation, Men at Work and 7th Heaven.
After a Nuclear Apocalypse, the Earth lies in the ruins. Its major territory turned into radioactive desert inhabited by dangerous tribes of mutants. The only "civilized" live could be found in so-called Mega-Cities, where the rest of the humanity tries to survive in massacre fighting with each other for resources, money and drugs. Violent crime wars have achieved their apogee, when the new drug named SLO-MO was invented. This new dope heavily alters reality slowing everything around you in ten times. After taking a doze you can even notice slow motion of particles of smoke vibrating in the fume of your cigar. This happens because your mind and perception accelerates and runs in ten times faster making everything in front of you moving slowly, that's why the stuff was named SLO-MO. The woman standing behind the invention and distributing the drug, Ma-Ma (Lena Headey) is going to take control over the entire Mega-City One making the whole its population addicted to her new invention. In this near the state of war situation, two cops (or how they are called in future, Judges) one veteran Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) and one newbie Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) tries to stop Ma-Ma before her dream to gain the control over the city population will come true. In post-apocalyptic future, where traditional principles of judgment are forceless, Judges are endowed with the power to capture, arrest, judge and execute any criminal they encounter. Sometimes all these actions take no more than a second between arrest and execution.
In case of tremendous success of the book, it's only a question of time when the movie based on it will be released. As for The Perks of Being a Wallflower this statement seems to be a very true one. All we have is to wonder, if Stephen Chbosky, has the intention to film the book at the times he wrote it. However he surely has to do it. And the movie turned out to be great. As great as the book. Although you may have probably encountered not so many good movies based on the good books. Nevertheless , we have ensure you: in that case The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the awesome film directed by Stephen Chbosky and based on inimitable novel of Stephen Chbosky. In the unlikely event "you haven't read the Chbosky's young adult novel", here some tips out from the film's plot. The story is revolving around the letters of high-school freshmen "Charlie" (Logan Lerman) who narrates some parts of the movie. He is a bit of autistic lonesome boy who could by precisely described as "Wallflower", a person who is never being noticed by the opposite sex and who seems to be happy about it. Charlie is exactly that kind of a person, but his life as "Wallflower" is being suddenly interrupted by two senior graduates who decide to take care of the newbie. This twist of fate turns out in Charlie's first drug experience, his first falling in love (with a girl named Sam, portrayed by Emma Watson, by the way), his first sex and first depression.
When a commercial airline pilot, Whip (Denzel Washington) saves hundreds of lives it seems like his future looks bright and glorious. He managed to land an airplane with both engines damaged. Although the landing was very hard, Whip has showed a virtuoso level of superior flight skills and have saved 98 out of 106 lives on board. After preventing this catastrophe Whip may feel himself like a hero as well as all the Americans treat him; but following investigation set a long row of inconvenient questions that are making Whip's perspectives looking not so bright. To tell the truth, his future seems like he has to be a prisoner who is serving the very long term in a jail rather than an American hero who is resting on its laurels. Furthermore, everything points on the fact that he knows why. Step by step, dialogue by dialogue, as we watch Flight, we learn more about this unfortunate flight and the night before it.
You have probably noticed the fact that Quentin Tarantino is trying to make movies of each and every possible genre with some of manic persistence. Let's see: we have already seen his crime-thriller masterpiece, two martial arts movies, one epic war film, one grindhouse-massacre zombiefilm , and now we have a western, named Django Unchained. To say exactly, Django Unchained is a western only in general meaning of this word. The movie depicts the period of distempers of pre-civil war America, where slavery is still in law in South. The storyline of Django Unchained revolves around the ex-slave Django, who manages to escape his villain proprietor just to find himself in slavery of German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. His new master promises to grant a freedom to Django, if he helps him to find and capture murderous Brittle brothers. After successful assassination of outlaws Dr. Schultz keeps his promise and frees Django, who seems to like Schultz's style of life and decides to stay with him in hunting the villains. Nevertheless these adventures do not interfere with Django main mission: to find and free his wife Broomhilda, which is slaved by Calvin Candie an malicious" Candyland" plantation owner, who is having fun forcing his slaves to fight each other as gladiators on the arena. Besides a twisted plot, the movie features some stellar cast: Leonardo DiCaprio as the main antagonist Calvin Candie, Samuel L. Jackson as his trusted house slave, Kerry Washington as Django's wife Broomhilda, Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz and Jamie Foxx as Django.