Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is an American comedy or mockumentary. For those of you who don't know, a mockumentary is a genre in which fictional data, people and facts are presented in a documentary style for the purpose of parody. If you still don't know what exactly it is about, watch the trailer for the said film, which is a parody of the music industry and a school example of the genre.
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Hollywood has apparently gotten into the habit of sending a space-themed movie to theaters every year-end. Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and now Passengers, starring one of the hottest movie stars right now, Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, X-Men) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World). The film was directed by Morten Tyldum, who recently made the acclaimed film The Imitation Game.
The popular Slovenian YouTube series Pr'Hostar is moving to the big screen in October 2016. The directorial reins of the film about the adventures of the Gorenje gaffers were taken over by Luka Marchetić (author of the series Dan ljubije and V dvoje), and the entire original cast participates in the project, i.e. Dejan Krupić, Aljoša Armuš, Haris Raković, Erik Margan, Mario Ćulibrk, Mateja Terseglav, Goran Croatian and Igor Kešina. The satirical comedy based on episodes of Pr'Hostar arrives in theaters on October 27, 2016.
Precious Cargo is an action film in which Bruce Willis, synonymous with the action hero, plays the villain. Although he is an exceptional actor, his career has been hot and cold in recent years, as a great project is usually followed by a slightly worse one. We will have to wait until April 2016 to see where the "precious cargo" belongs, but judging by the trailer, it promises a lot of action and good fun.
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.
Star Wars: Rogue One is not the eighth sequel to the world's most popular space saga, Star Wars, but the first in a series of standalone Star Wars films. Under Star Wars: Rogue One, director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) put his name to it, and the focus of the film is between Episodes III and IV. Star Wars Rogue One will tell the story of rebels who want to steal the plans of the Death Star.
Warren Beatty returns to the big screen after 15 years with Rules Don't Apply, which he also directed, co-produced and wrote the screenplay for. The film was made for 40 years! Beatty, 79, has been planning the biopic about Howard Hughes, the inventor, businessman, aviator, gangster businessman, filmmaker and billionaire, since a memorable meeting with him at a Beverly Hills hotel in 1973.
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).
Sing is an animated musical in which animals sing. In the city, an animal version of the Battle of Talents is held, which is organized by a koala (Matthew McConaughey) with a friend in his theater, who announces a competition for the best male singer. Among the candidates is a piglet (Reese Witherspoon). Fun guaranteed!
The film Hidden Figures (2016) is a true and inspiring story about three black female scientists who worked at the American space agency NASA when the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was at its peak. The film boasts three Oscar nominations, namely for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Octavia Spencer), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
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?!
Komedija solz is a Slovenian film directed by Marko Sosič about the angry, cynical, choleric and racist Albert, an old man in a wheelchair living in Trieste, whose head revolves around unresolved relationships with his family and his relationship with a woman from Istria who goes to clean for him and to cook.