Harrison Ford and a furry animal (no, not Chewbacca) digitized will attempt to conquer the weekend’s box office through The Wild Call. However, they won’t be the only option in the coming days for moviegoers, the premiere menu also has drama (The Waves, Seeking Justice), Horror (The Hoop: Final Chapter, Sinister Download), Thriller (Twice You), Oscar-nominated documentaries (Honeyland) and more.
Here’s what we’re going to like:
Address: Trey Edward Shults
Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lucas Hedges, Taylor Russel, Alexa Demie
Synopsis: Two young couples navigate through the emotional minefield that involves maturing and falling in love for the first time.
The review: “Masculinity is seen as a prison with no apparent exit, it exists but recognizing it means absolute failure. Tyler’s world is one where problems are solved with physical deployments, with muscles, not with word or reason. Tyler is an impulse doomed to go extinct in the embers stoked by his own fuel.” Read on.
Address: Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov
Synopsis: The last bee hunter in Europe must save bees and restore natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invades their land and threatens their livelihood. This film shot in Macedonia is an exploration of an observational indigenous visual narrative that profoundly impacts our behavior on natural resources and the human condition.
The review: “In the Film Nominated for Best Documentary and Best International Film, filmmakers Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov portray a way of life based on the events around Hatidze and his work in the preservation of honey, with an ecological connotation that exhibits the human unconsciousness prevailing in social sectors.” Read on.
Address: Luis Miñarro
They star: Ingrid García-Jonsson, Francesc Orella, Lola Dueñas, Luis Alberti, Fausto Alzati, Oliver Laxe
Synopsis: A powerful international army assigns an entire regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. When Private Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, is assigned to watch over the prisoner, she becomes obsessed with him until it unleashes terrible consequences for both of them.
Mantarays: The Absent Spirits (Manta Ray, 2019)
Address: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
They star: Wanlop Runkgkumjad, Takrawal Nilthamrong, Chatchai Chaiyon
Synopsis: Near a seaside village in Thailand, near the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured and unconscious man in a mangrove. He rescues the stranger, who is mute, offers him his friendship and calls him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears into the sea, Thongchai begins to usurp his friend’s life: he seizes his house, his work, even his ex-wife…
Address: Solomon Askenazi
They star: Melissa Barrera, Mariano Palacios, Mercedes Hernández, Camila Valero
Synopsis: Tania and Daniela swap husbands during a wedding just for fun, but a fatal accident will create strange new relationships.
The hoop: final chapter (Sadako, 2019)
Address: Hideo Nakata
They star: Himeka Himejima, Elaiza Ikeda, Hiroya Shimizu
Synopsis: The story in this new feature film is modernized and moved to YouTube. It focuses on a girl who is under the care of psychiatrist Mayu Akikawa and in constant police surveillance. However, almost no one knows why this patient is in these conditions, not even herself, as she suffers from amnesia. Mayu’s brother Kazuma is a YouTuber who seeks attention and popularity on the internet, so he prepares to film his own adventures. What he doesn’t know is that his quest for fame will lead him to a terrible curse.
Seeking Justice (Just Mercy, 2020)
Address: Destin Cretton
They star: Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, Jamie Foxx, O Shea Jackson Jr., Tim Blake Nelson
Synopsis: Tells the true story of young attorney Bryan Stevenson and his historic battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan receives very lucrative job offers. But he prefers to set off for Alabama to defend people who have been wrongly convicted or lacked the resources to have adequate legal representation, and he does so with the support of local activist Eva Ansley. One of his first and most turbulent cases is that of Walter McMillian, who in 1987 was sentenced to death for the murder of an 18-year-old girl, even though the evidence ostensibly demonstrated his innocence.
Sinister Download (You Die, 2018)
Address: Alessandro Antonaci, Daniel Lascar & Stefano Mandalá
They star: William Angiuli, Carola Cudemo, Micol Damilano
Synopsis: Asia is a student who finds a mysterious app on her cell phone. Soon, she will realize that she has a cursed app, which kills the owner of the device on which she was installed within 24 hours, unless in turn she downloads it to someone else.
The Wild Call (Call of the Wild, 2020)
Address: Chris Sanders
Starring: Harrison Ford, Dan Stevens, Bradley Whitford, Karen Gillan
Synopsis: Tells the story of Buck, a bona-chon dog whose life changes overnight when his owner moves from California to the exotic Alaskan places during the Gold Rush in the late 19th century. As a rookie of a group sled dogs (and later its leader), Buck experiences an adventure he will never forget, finding his place in the world and thus becoming his own master.
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