Category 2023

We’re in Montauk, summer hasn’t started yet and Maddie is already in a mess – her car has been impounded for unpaid fines, but without the car she can’t work as an Uber driver and supplement the salary she gets as a waitress, and without that extra money he can’t keep up with the property taxes on the house he inherited from his mother after her death… However, an ad on Craigslist seems to fit his (desperate) case: Laird and Allison, a rich couple New Yorkers with a house on the beaches of Montauk, seek “help” for their son Percy, in their view too inexperienced and unprepared to face life in college which will access in September. If Maddie can get him out of her shell, weaning him emotionally and sexually, she’ll get a Buick Regal in exchange. And so all her problems will be solved...

The day of the trial for the father of Barry Allen is approaching, who has been in prison for years for the murder of his wife. The boy, who is actually also the superhero The Flash, tried in every way to prove his innocence, but even with the help of Wayne Enterprises and his superpowers he couldn’t find how to exonerate him. Out of desperation he runs faster than he ever has before, until he reaches some sort of wheel of time. But he soon discovers that traveling to the past doesn’t just change the present and the future: in this world, in fact, his friend Batman is very different and there seems to be no trace of Superman...

Miles Morales is back – or rather, never left. He has been doing the usual things a teenage superhero would do for a year, that is going to school, arguing with his parents and saving the world from more or less (im) probable threats. Whoever is gone, however, is the only circle of friends he had, namely Gwen, Peter, Peni, Spider-Ham and Spider-Man Noir, the Spider-Man of other dimensions who supported him in his first adventure and who have returned to their respective universes. One day, however, Gwen reappears in Miles’ bedroom, explaining to him that she has joined the Spider-Society, an interdimensional group of Spider-Man, led by Miguel O’Hara, whose intent is to prevent the collapse of the Multiverse...

Ember Lumen, a temperamental teenager, grew up in Elemental City, a multi-ethnic city where the inhabitants are made of fire and water, earth and air. The city, mostly aquatic, is intolerant of migrants, especially the ardent ones like Ember, who never miss an opportunity to humiliate and ‘cool down’. Completely dedicated to her old father, one step away from her retirement, she has decided to take over from him in the family business, a shop selling ‘ethnic’ products frequented by demanding customers who never fail to annoy her. During a fit of anger, the umpteenth of hers, which makes walls and ducts shake, an anomalous wave delivers to her address Wade Ripple, a shy and sentimental gay toilet bowl, full of good intentions and tears that she sheds profusely at the first emotion...

After more than 30 cartoon films where she has explored every possibility and situation, Barbie arrives at the cinema in live action and has the face of Margot Robbie. The most famous doll in the world comes to life thanks to the direction of Greta Gerwig who took care of the screenplay of the film together with her partner Noah Baumbach. Forced to leave Barbieland and her perfection of hers, she Barbie ventures to the real world where she has a series of adventures helping the people she meets until she finds herself on her way home again...

Indiana Jones has hung up his hat and has been teaching archeology at New York University for a few years now. While waiting for a divorce, which weighs like the mourning of his son, Professor Jones drags himself to work and into an ordinary life ‘shaken’ only by the noises of the neighbors. On the eve of the conquest of the Moon, he receives a visit from Helena Shaw, daughter of an old friend ‘killed’ by his obsession with him: the Antikythera machine, a mechanical device designed by Archimedes to find temporal holes. Half of the dial has been resting for years in the Indiana Jones archives, after he stole it from the defeated Nazis in 1944. Back from her past, Helena would like to retrieve the curious find to sell it at an auction in Morocco. Tailing her, craving the same good, is Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who participated in the Apollo 11 project under a false name. (Ab) beaten years earlier by Indiana Jones on a moving train, he wants to trace the two sides of the dial and travel through time by changing the course of history. A shootout in full ‘moon parade’ starts the search for the precious object...

It is 1987 and Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe), Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, is called upon to do the job inscribed in his title – to free a young boy from demonic possession. But, as ninety-eight percent of the time, it is only a case of psychic problems: this is what he tries to explain before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, divided into the factions of Cardinal Sullivan, a member of the new ecclesiastical generation, and Cardinal Lumumba, representative of the old order. Mediating between the two positions is the Pope (Franco Nero) himself, who sends Amorth to Spain, where inside the abbey of San Sebastiano, according to the report of the presbyter Father Esquibel (Daniel Zovatto), a possession is in progress demonic...

Eight-year-old Cady is orphaned after her parents tragically die in their car while riding with her after being caught in a blizzard. Aunt Gemma, a robot from a toy company under great pressure at work, thus becomes her guardian. However, the woman initially does not seem to be able to take care of her niece and she also receives a visit from the social worker who wants to verify the conditions in which the child is. Suddenly comes the solution. Gemma lets Cady interact with M3gan, a life-size doll who can listen, watch and learn and can be both a strict teacher and her best friend. As the days go by, a very strong bond is established between the girl and the doll; now she is more than a toy and part of the family. The company Gemma works for is enthusiastic. But M3gan is learning at an impressive speed...

Based on the book by Jamie McGuire, called the new “50 shades of gray”. The film tells the story of Abby Abernathy, a virtuoso who does not fall victim to the demon of drink, or let her mouth be fouled by bad words. She meets sultry bad boy, Travis Maddox, with whom she makes a bet, if she wins, he’ll have to abstain from sex for a month...

Brodie Torrance is an airline pilot with a former military background, who now flies sidelines after a drunken brawl caused him to downgrade. He didn’t take it badly though: his real pain is the loss of his wife and his main concern is getting back to his daughter for the start of the new year. Unfortunately there is a storm on his route and the airline, to save on fuel for a seldom frequented flight, requires him to fly over the disturbance, which however turns out to be worse than expected and ends up causing the plane to crash into a island in the Philippines in the hands of separatist guerrillas...