Based on the book White Noise, by Don DeLillo, the film addresses the dramas of a contemporary North American family, and their attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life, in addition to seeking to understand the universal mysteries of love, death and the need to seek happiness, even in an uncertain world...
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Gina (Sally Phillips) is taken aback when, on her fiftieth birthday, a sex worker – a gift sent by her friends – offers to do whatever she wants. She asks him to do what no one else will: she tells him to clean her house. Only later does Gina realize that he is from a moving company that her business was already involved with. Delighted, her friends also want a sexy janitor, starting a new career for Gina, who decides to employ the entire male removal team as janitors...
Read more ...In Puss in Boots 2: The Last Order, Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: because of his taste for danger and disregard for personal safety, he has burned eight of his nine lives. With only one life left, Gato needs to ask for help from an old partner – who is currently his rival and mortal enemy, Kitty Pata Mansa – to stay alive...
Read more ...Based on the comics by Aaron Blabey, The Mean Guys follows a group of thieving animals and their shenanigans. Mr. Wolf, Ms. Tarantula, Mr. Shark, Mr. Piranha and Mr. Cobras have always been seen as evil, misfits and scare everyone who sees them. They have a long criminal history, stealing whatever they want however they want. In one of his heist plans at a gala event, Mr. Lobo realizes that they can be good, or rather, that people can see them as good animals. Being caught by the police after an unsuccessful plan, the group of thieves decide to pretend to be nice so that the police don’t follow them and they don’t get sent to prison. They end up accepting Professor Marmalade’s proposal to help him recover guinea pigs that are being used for testing in a company...
Read more ...In Aftersun, in the late 1990s, eleven-year-old Sophie and her father Calum are vacationing at a club on the Turkish coast. They shower, play pool, and enjoy each other’s friendly company. Calum becomes the best version of himself when he’s with Sophie. Sophie, meanwhile, thinks anything is possible with him. When the young woman is alone, she makes new friends and has new experiences. As we savor every moment spent together, a sense of melancholy and mystery sometimes permeates Calum’s demeanor...
Read more ...In Mrs. Harris goes to Paris in the 1950s, widowed housemaid Mrs. Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) falls in love with a Dior couture dress. She decides that she desperately needs a matching dress and goes to great lengths to save up the money to buy it. After suddenly receiving a war widow’s pension, she travels to Paris to do so. She stumbles upon a display of Dior’s 10-year collection and befriends André, the Dior accountant, and Natasha, a Dior model...
Read more ...Lilo, Lilo, Crocodile is the eponymous adaptation of the book by Bernard Waber. Hector Valenti (Javier Bardem) is a man who wants to enter the US national talent show, but is always denied a spot. One day, he ends up passing in front of an exotic pet store and comes across a baby crocodile with a peculiar detail: he can sing. Hungry for money and fame, he buys the animal and names her Lilo. To re-enter the contest, Valenti puts his three-story Victorian house on the table, but ends up losing everything when he discovers that Lilo is afraid to sing on stage. Reluctantly, he leaves the house and Lilo with her. Eighteen months later, the Primms family arrives at the house and Josh (Winslow Fegley) the family’s son discovers Lilo in the attic and they end up becoming friends...
Read more ...In More Than Friends, Friends follows an unlikely friendship between two men who slowly fall in love with each other. At a gay club one night, Bobby Leiber (Billy Eichner) bumps into Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) – who is shirtless. The two strike up a conversation and end up building a relationship over their sarcastic superiority over the vapidity of the gay club that surround them. Aaron is a corporate lawyer, but out of touch with queer culture and politics – causing Bobby to seriously doubt whether Aaron is really gay. Initially, there isn’t exactly much chemistry or connection between the two, other than their shared discomfort with vulnerability. But as time passes, the two end up opening up to themselves, telling about their lives, aspirations and vulnerabilities...
Read more ...Evil feline villain Ika Chu (Ricky Gervais) and his henchman Ohga (George Takei) set out to put a terrifying plan in motion that could wipe out the town of Kakamucho. The task of combating this danger is taken up by Hank (Michael Cera), a dog who dreams of being a great samurai. He ends up convincing Jimbo (Samuel L...
Read more ...Gil (Owen Wilson) has always idolized the great American writers and dreamed of being like them. Life led him to work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, which made him very well paid, but which also brought him a good deal of frustration. Now he’s about to head to Paris with his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), and her parents, John (Kurt Fuller) and Helen (Mimi Kennedy). John is going to town to close a big deal and doesn’t bother to hide his disapproval of his future son-in-law...
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