It’s 1984, Reagan is in the White House, Apple launches its first Macintosh and Michael Jordan has yet to set foot on an NBA parquet. But with which shoes? Converse and Adidas share the market for top conference teams, stars on posters and college seniors. Nike, the company named after the goddess of victory that no one knows how to pronounce, lags far behind...
On October 5, 2017, the “New York Times” published the investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey into the sex crimes of Harvey Weinstein, film producer and serial predator, found guilty in 2020 and sentenced to twenty-three years in prison. For three decades the founder of Miramax abused actresses and assistants, deciding their fates like a vulgar torturer. Willing to go to the end of the world for a testimony, the two journalists, multitasking champions, reconstruct the strategy used by Weinstein to cover up his abuses: reducing his victims to silence with big checks and inextricable confidentiality agreements...
Anna (Kristen Bell) is a woman who has reached her limit: depressed and addicted to alcohol to overcome the pain of losing her daughter, eaten by a cannibal serial killer. Her little girl had in fact gone with her father (Michael Ealy), an FBI profiler, on “take your daughter to work” day and, in a moment of distraction, she was left alone in the same room with a notorious killer. In her desperation, accompanied by the breakup with her husband, after three years of alcohol and psychopharmaceuticals, Anna begins to obsess over the lives of others, and in particular that of her new neighbor, Neil (Tom Riley), a widower with a dependent child...
A teenager is thrilled that her mother is going on a vacation to Colombia with her boyfriend, so they can leave her at home alone. The initial happiness, however, will fail when the young woman realizes that the two seem to have completely disappeared into thin air...
Margate, 1981. Hard times for Great Britain, plunged into recession and shaken by endemic racism. Cinema is the only way out. Towering like a beacon along the English coast, the Empire shines with a thousand lights and points the way for willing spectators. Forced to close two of its four screens, this stately cinema in decline is run by Mr. Ellis, elegant only in the title. The soul of her business is Hilary, a conscientious secretary, dedicated to her profession and attentive to her ’employees’, directed like a family. She broke out of a nervous breakdown, she is slowly returning to life. Hilary navigates between projections, which she never attends due to excess of zeal, and a toxic relationship with Ellis, who ‘abuses’ her unhappiness for her. But to change things comes Stephen, a young black boy who immediately empathizes with Hilary. With blows of detached tickets, Hilary and Stephen approach each other, tenderly, passionately...
Mike Lane is again without money, work and affection. He’s not even “Magic” anymore, since he hasn’t danced in a while. Now he is a barman here and there, and at a charity party where he mixes cocktails he is recognized by Kim, a girl who ten years earlier at her initiation party in a university fraternity used the services of Mike and the Kings of Tampa. Kim reveals the past of the bartender-stripper to her boss, Maxandra Mendoza, a multi-billionaire in the air of legal disputes and divorce with her English media mogul husband...
Adonis is close to retiring, missing only one last fight win to exit the stage in his most glorious way and then dedicate himself to his family – and protect his health from the fractures and bruises of the ring. After all, her wife, close to losing her hearing like her deaf daughter, has also left her career as a singer and now limits herself to producing the record hits of others. But when Adonis meets Damian, known as Dame, an old friend of his from the days when he lived in a group home, he realizes he has a debt to pay with him. In fact, Damian had gone to jail during a fight that he had unleashed, furthermore Adonis was not close to him during the years in prison...