Greta Gerwig directs the fantasy about Barbie being expelled from Barbieland for not making the grade of being the perfect Barbie doll. Despite the misfortune, Barbie heads off to the human world to make a name for herself and find true happiness.
Margot Robbie plays Barbie, and Ryan Gosling plays Ken. David Heyman of the Harry Potter franchise and other movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the producer of Barbie alongside Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley.
Gerwig’s directorial credits include Lady Bird and Little Women.
Steven Soderbergh directs Channing Tatum in Magic Mike’s Last Dance. Tatum, as Mike Lane, takes on the stage again when a deal goes bust, leaving him broke and bartending. Salma Hayek, players a socialite, comes along and finds out about Mike’s dancing skills.
She makes Mike an offer to come to London and put on a show of dancers. She has her own agenda.
With everything coming together, Mike works with a hot new roster of dancers who need professional guidance.
(L to R) Casey Metcalfe as Marlon, James Day Keith as Benny, Woody Harrelson as Marcus, Ashton Gunning as Cody, and Tom Sinclair as Blair in director Bobby Farrelly’s CHAMPIONS, a Focus Features release. Courtesy of Focus Features
Vasilis Katsoupis directs Willem Dafoe in the movie Inside. Katsoupis makes his feature debut directing Dafoe. Katsoupis’s documentary My Friend Larry Cus received the Best Documentary Film nomination from the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival 2016.
Inside tells the story of Nemo, an art thief who enters a collector’s penthouse apartment hunting for valuable works of art. As he enters, the security system locks everything down. And then malfunctions. He’s locked inside.
At first, he expects his partner-in-crime to arrive, then the security guards or the police. Or the owner. But no one comes. Then he hopes and prays for a cleaning lady to come. A servant. Anyone. But no one comes. And days stretch out into weeks and months.
He’s locked inside a prison adorned with exquisite, strange, even eerie works of art: works that he both covets and admires but which are now, for him, useless.
Instead, he must use all of his cunning and invention to survive. He must break into all the locked spaces to find all the food and liquid.
The luxury penthouse—this location of perfection and aspiration — has become a prison. A desert island. A torture chamber. And then a place of revelation.
John Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, uncovers a path to defeat The High Table. The ultimate authority of the underworld. It’s a council of twelve crime lords. They govern the underworld’s most powerful criminal organizations. The High Table has respect but draws fear.
But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Chad Stahelski directs a stellar cast that includes Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson, Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Scott Adkins and Ian McShane.
Keanu Reeves as John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 4. Photo Credit: Murray Close
Keanu Reeves as John Wick, Donnie Yen as Caine, and Scott Adkins as Killa in John Wick: Chapter 4. Photo Credit: Murray Close
Keanu Reeves as John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 4. Photo Credit: Murray Close
Stephen Williams directs the true story Chevalier based on the life of the composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, played by Kevin Harrison Jr.
Stefani Robinson wrote the screenplay that follows the life of an illegitimate son of a French plantation owner and an African slave mother, played by Ronke Adekoluejo. As a prodigy, he rises to fame and befriends Marie Antoinette.
Dean Craig directed The Estate, a raunchy escapade about two sisters, played by Anna Faris and Toni Collette, trying to win over their terminally ill aunt, played by Kathleen Turner.
It’s good to see Turner frequently absent from the screen as the aunt who is challenging to please. Her nieces try to accommodate their aunt in hopes of pleasing her and becoming beneficiaries of her wealthy estate.
Along comes the rest of the greedy family members who have the same idea. David Duchovny, Rosemarie DeWitt and Thomas Hayden are also in the film.
Craig is a British director, which lends to some good old suggestive humor.
