The Kurja Polt 2017 genre film festival is approaching, a festival dedicated to cults, classics and genre renegades. As the name suggests, don't expect to sit still in your seat while watching movies. The unique genre film festival, which often brings to the screens for the first time films labeled cult, genre, exploitation, B film, "off mainstream" and many film orphans, as well as silenced, overlooked and banned films, returns to the scene for the fourth time this year and will take place from April 19 to 23, 2017.
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Geostorm is a disaster film from the makers of Independence Day that depicts a dark future where the weather can be controlled with the help of satellites. The action sci-fi thriller starring Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris and Andy Garcia features stunning special effects and weather extremes of epic proportions.
The concert film Rammstein: Paris is a mixture of stage performance and film art. It is a recording of a concert from the Made in Germany tour in the Arena Bercy in Paris from 2012, recorded by 30 cameras, and packaged into a full-length product by renowned director Jonas Åkerlund. Tickets for the unique event are already on sale.
British director Edgar Wright, known for films such as Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World in the trilogy Night of the Silly Dead, Vroča kifeljca and Pr' konc sveta, returns to the crime scene with the action crime film Baby Driver about a daring young getaway driver who is forced to constantly listen to music due to a ringing in his ears. Although Fast and Furious 8 is also coming out this year, we'd bet that Octane fans will be even more excited by this movie. The star cast is just the icing on the cake.
The timeless story of Disney's animated classic The Little Mermaid will soon come to life in a feature version. But unlike Beauty and the Beast (and similar films of this kind), this one is surprisingly not being sent to the big screen by Disney, but by the production company Conglomerate Media and Kingsway Production (CMKP). More. It is not a classic adaptation, but a remake.
Atomic Blonde is a spy thriller set in the throes of the Cold War with the sexy Charlize Theron as MI6 operative Lorraine Broughton, who is a kind of mix between her colleague James Bond and the legendary assassin John Wick. The film is based on the comic The Coldest Winter by Antony Johnston.
Who doesn't know the series Breaking Bad, which captivated many people in front of the small screen? Two directors have now edited all five seasons into a two-hour film. If you don't have time for a marathon, this is a great alternative that doesn't miss anything important.
Watch the first trailer for the seventh season of the Game of Thrones TV series, which was also filmed in Dubrovnik. In the following, we will also release when the penultimate season will premiere.
Demain tout commence is a French drama with elements of comedy that has all the charm of French film production. It's about a womanizer who unexpectedly gets a daughter a few months old. Unable to take care of her, he wants to return her to her mother, but since he can't find you, he has to find his way. Eight years later, he and his daughter have a beautiful and orderly life, which is suddenly interrupted by Kristin, who wants her daughter back.
In Slovenia, cinemas have started showing the Oscar-winning film Moonlight (Moolight, 2016), which in the dramatic finale of the awarding of the most prestigious film awards took the statuette out of the hands of the film La La Land. This made it the first film in history with an LGBT label and an all-black cast, and also the winning film with the lowest budget (US$1.5 million). Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim to win an Oscar for acting.
Rough Night is an American comedy film and the directorial debut of Lucia Aniello starring Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer and Paula W. Downs. In it, we follow five college friends who, after a long time, dream of a bachelorette party, which turns into a nightmare. After a wild night full of alcohol and drugs, they are stuck in a luxury house in Miami with a dead stripper.
Do you like happy endings? Maybe you prefer bitters. The multimedia content provider Netflix, which has also been available in Slovenia since last year, has set about developing technology that will allow viewers to choose, with the help of a remote control, what kind of outcome or they want the end. Are you excited about this kind of interactive storytelling and the ability to choose the ending, or do you think it ruins the charm of the whole thing.