Category Movies

All of Us Strangers

Adam is a gay 40-year-old screenwriter who lives in a London apartment complex. One day Harry, an exuberant young man, knocks on his door and proposes to him with great sentimental and sexual ease, but initially Adam is too reserved and solitary to allow himself the pleasure of this new discovery. Going to visit his childhood home, the man encounters the ghosts of his parents, who disappeared when he was just twelve years old, and at the time unable to accept his emerging homosexuality. His parents appear to him as his peers and as very real presences, with whom he can deal in order to reconnect the threads of a past abruptly interrupted by the accident of which mum and dad were victims...

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Argylle

Thanks to the saga dedicated to Agent Argylle, Elly Conway is one of the most successful writers around, an heir to John le Carré who tells with admirable skill about secret service agents with a license to kill. Until one day she, from being the creator of spy stories, becomes the unaware and recalcitrant protagonist, once dragged into the action by Aidan Wilde, an authentic spy at the antipodes of the idealized and fictitious Argylle...

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Madame Web

In the 1970s, in the Peruvian Amazon forest, scientist Constance Webb searches for a legendary spider. As soon as she finds it, however, she is betrayed by Ezekiel Sims, who shoots her and steals the spider for himself. Constance cannot be saved even by the Arañas, a tribe endowed with mystical spider powers, who however will give birth to her daughter Cassandra. Thirty years later, in New York, Cassandra is an affectionless paramedic whose life is turned upside down when, following an accident, she develops the power to see into the future...

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Bob Marley – One Love

Between 1976 and 1978 Robert Nesta Marley, known as “Bob”, lived intense years, in an alternation of great joys and painful moments. The choice to hold a concert in Kingston to reconcile Jamaica’s two main political parties turns out to be even more dangerous than expected: Bob and his wife Rita suffer an attack, but, although injured, manage to survive. Bob then temporarily leaves Jamaica to find refuge in London, where the punk people welcome him with curiosity mixed with admiration...

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Dune: Part Two

Paul Atreides and his mother Jessica are among the Fremen together with the leader of one of their clans, Stilgar, and the warrior Chani. However, they will have to learn to be accepted by the entire Fremen people and above all Paul, who Stilgar believes to be the awaited Messiah of Dune promised by the Bene Gesserit, will have to make his prophecy come true, to gain an immense and deadly army and with it have the possibility of avenge his father, Duke Leto. But the prophecy that Paul sees is not just a dream of victory but a massacre of unprecedented proportions, a holy war that will set the entire galaxy on fire...

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Fallout

Amazon adds to the current and winning trend of video game adaptations and does so by putting Lisa Joy (Pushing Daisies, Westworld) and Jonathan Nolan at the helm of the adaptation of Fallout – a role-playing video game created by Black Isle Studios and now produced by Bethesda Softwork. The intent of Todd Howard, director of Bethesda and executive producer of the series, is not to adapt the story of the last chapters of the successful post-apocalyptic video game saga, but to add a new piece to the puzzle, thus expanding the narrative universe ...

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The Beekeeper

In the film, one man’s brutal campaign of revenge takes on national significance after he is revealed to be a former agent of a powerful clandestine organization known as the “Beekeepers...

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Supersex

The story is freely taken from the true life of Rocco Siffredi and from his direct testimonies. At the center of the story are unpublished aspects of the porn star, a profound story that runs through his life since childhood...

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Perfect Days

Tokyo, today. Hirayama is a sixty-year-old Japanese man who cleans the city’s public toilets with meticulous attention to detail and painstaking dedication to his work. Every day he follows the same routine: careful personal cleaning before and after cleaning other people’s bathrooms, watering the plants that he saved from the city’s carelessness, a sandwich in the park at lunchtime. Along his route he sometimes stops to observe the plants above him, taking photos of the foliage, or has a snack at some diner. And every now and then he has some encounters: with Takashi, the boy who takes over the afternoon shift of cleaning the bathrooms, with a girl in the park, with a homeless man disconnected from reality, with the owner of a restaurant who gives him small preferential treatments...

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White Bird

1942. Sara is fifteen years old and lives in Alsace, that is, in unoccupied France. However, the German presence gradually becomes stronger and the raids begin. She will be saved by the family of Julien, a boy suffering from polio, whom she previously kept at a distance...

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