If the title of The Magnificent Seven sounds familiar, your memory is serving you well. It is a legendary American western from 1960, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese masterpiece, Seven Samurai from 1954. In 2016, it gets another Hollywood adaptation, which has the same sounding names as the first American adaptation, in which, among others, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Yul Brynner and Eli Wallach. The film was directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Fall of Olympus, The Righteous, King Arthur).
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Cafe Society is a romantic comedy drama directed by Woody Allen, which will open this year's Cannes Film Festival. This is the third such honor for this American director, and just as many times Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, who starred together in the films Lunapark (Adventureland) and American Ultra, fall in love in the film.
The film, based on the bestselling book Dekle na vlako, which can also be read in Slovenian and has captivated the world, is coming to the cinema screens soon. The psychological thriller by writer Paula Hawkins was published in January 2015, and the novel quickly occupied the tops of all the most important book charts. If its success is followed by a film adaptation with Emily Blunt and Justin Theroux at the helm, it will have to wait until October 2016.
Dogs of Time is the first Slovenian film noir. The full-length debut of Matej Nahtigal was shot in an independent production based on the book proposal of the same name by Zoran Benčič. It made its debut at the Ljubljana Festival of Slovenian Film, visited Velenje and Portorož, and now the film, which represents a milestone in domestic film production, is coming to the regular cinema schedule. The film won an award from the Association of Slovenian Film Critics.
No, Bryan Cranstor is not following the path of Liam Neeson, who "transitioned" to action heroes in his old age. The Infiltrator is not an action film, but a biographical crime film about Robert Mazur, an undercover agent of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), who infiltrates the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's cartel and helps uncover large-scale money laundering.
Liza is a Slovenian short film, which is actually a trailer for a film in the making. The short film by director Miha Umko has a surprising ending, but it presents the concept of the story, in the hope that it will be fully developed on film.
The film Bad Moms is a comedy from the creators of the film Crooked Night. It is a humorous critique of society's unrealistic demands and ideas about the perfect mother. Today, it is difficult to be a good mother, as Mila Kunis, who breaks down under the pressure of social demands, knows firsthand. We must not raise our voices or raise our hands over children, we must only put healthy food on their plate, etc. "I'm tired of trying to be the perfect mom. I'm done with this!'' says Amy Mitchell, a mother of two children who, along with two other mothers (Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell), allows herself to be a bad mother.
Although you'd expect Blake Lively in a swimsuit to turn up the pressure on the mostly male audience, viewers of The Shallows will have other reasons to do so. In it, we will be trembling for the life of the grumpy surfer Nancy, in whose role this American actress got into, because she is attacked by a great white shark while surfing. Her summer movie hit, which is being compared to the cult film Žrel, will be the reason that we will be afraid to swim in the sea again after a long time!
The Slovenian youth film Nika, directed by Slobodan Maksimović, will have its world premiere at the International Children's and Youth Film Festival in Zlin, which will take place from May 27 to June 3, 2016, and the action film, which deals with the theme of karting, is coming to Slovenia in October 2016.
Cell is a novel by the American writer Stephen King, a master of horror stories who has been giving readers and viewers goosebumps with his works for decades. Now, his bloodiest literary proposal has been made into a movie, joining the likes of Carrie, Redemption Penitentiary and The Green Mile. The latest adaptation of his work stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson, who are among the few people who have not been ruled by cell phones.
If you thought Sharknado, a sci-fi horror movie in which sharks rain down during a tornado, was the most bizarre movie ever, then you haven't seen the trailer for the horror comedy Sky Sharks. This time the sharks don't fall, but attack from the sky, equipped better than jet planes. And who manages them? Zombies, who?!
This Inferno is not Vinko Möderndorfer's 2014 drama, but the third film following The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons to follow cryptologist Robert Langdon (played by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks). It is the third film adaptation of Dan Brown's bestseller, which caused a real euphoria a decade ago with The Da Vinci Code. Although enthusiasm for the series has since died down, the film industry is persevering, and here is the first trailer for the third chapter of the most controversial film series of the 21st century.