Category 2023

Wish

“How did the wishing star, upon which so many characters wished, come to be?” This is the story of 17-year-old Asha, an optimist with a sharp wit who cares endlessly about her community. In a moment of desperation, Asha makes a passionate appeal to the stars, which is answered by a cosmic force, a small ball of limitless energy called the Star...

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Lord Of Misrule

In The Lord of Chaos, a horror film by director William Brent Bell, Rebecca Holland (Tuppence Middleton) takes charge of the church in a small English village and, during a local celebration, her daughter disappears...

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The Forbidden Play

In the Japanese horror The Forbidden Play, Naoto Ihara (Daiki Shigeoka) lives happily with his wife Miyuki and son Haruto (Minato Shogaki). However, when Miyuki ends up dying in an accident, Naoto is inconsolable. Haruto, in denial, decides to bury a finger in the garden in the hope that, by praying every day, she will come back to life. One day, father and son are visited by Hiroko Kurasawa (Kanna Hashimoto), who used to work with Naoto...

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Aquaman 2 is the sequel to the 2018 film Aquaman, which follows the son of human Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison) and Atlantean Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa). He grows with the experience of a human and the metahuman capabilities of an Atlantean...

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The Retirement Plan

Retirement Plan is an American action-comedy film directed by Tim Brown (The Dark Creature, Buckley’s Chance). The film follows the story of Ashley (Ashley Greene) and Sarah (Thalia Campbell), mother and daughter who accidentally become involved in a criminal scheme that ends up putting their lives at risk. Desperate and in serious danger, Ashley is forced to turn to the only person who can help them: her father Matt (Nicolas Cage), a retired man who lives in the Cayman Islands...

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Dear David

Dear David is an American supernatural horror film directed by John McPhail (Anna and the Apocalypse) and starring Augustus Prew, Justin Long, Cameron Nicoll, Andrea Bang, Rachel Wilson, David Tompa, Ethan Hwang and Rachel Risen...

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The Marvels

Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), aka Captain Marvel, must deal with unintended consequences that leave her bearing the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole, her powers intertwine with those of two other superheroines, involving them in a mysterious phenomenon, causing them to switch places without understanding the reason for this. Thus are born The Marvels: superfan Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), also known as Ms Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E...

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Before Katniss Everdeen, her revolution, and the involvement of the 13th district, there was President Snow, or rather, Coriolanus Snow. The Song of Birds and Serpents is the story of the dictator of Panem before he came to power. Years before, Coriolanus Snow lived in the capital, born into the great house of Snow, which is not doing very well in popularity and financially. He prepares for his opportunity for glory as a Games mentor. The fate of his House depends on the slim chance that Coriolanus will be able to charm, deceive, and manipulate his colleagues into mentoring the winning tribute. He has been given the humiliating task of mentoring the tribute girl from District 12. Their destinies are now intertwined – every choice Coriolanus makes will have consequences both inside and outside the Game. In the arena, the battle will be deadly and the girl will have to survive every second...

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Nefarious

In Nefárious, serial killer Edward Brady (Sean Patrick Flanery) – sentenced to death for the murders – reaches the day of his execution. However, first, he must undergo a final consultation with a psychiatrist to certify that he was aware of his crimes while he was committing them. But when his old doctor takes his own life, Edward is evaluated by a new doctor, James Martin (Jordan Belfi). Martin believes he will deal with just another common assessment, but is surprised when Brady claims to be, in fact, a demon disguised in the man’s body...

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Afire

Afire is a German romantic comedy-drama film directed by Christian Petzold. In the plot, in a small holiday home on the Baltic Sea, where the days are warm and it hasn’t rained for weeks, four young people meet again, old and new friends. The dry forests around them begin to catch fire badly, as do their emotions: happiness, lust and love, but also jealousy, resentment and tension – gradually, they too are surrounded by flames. Throughout this process, people also end up getting closer to each other at home...

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