Lujdzo
23-06-2009, 15:18
Satellite: Hotbird Position: 13 east
Frequency: 11996V, 12073V, 12341V, 12616H & 12635V
Programming hours: 24 Hours
Encryptions: Videoguard
June 19 to June 26
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
Deception (Sex List)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Drillbit Taylor
Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.
Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)
Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.
High School Musical 3
Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin, Kaycee Stroh, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, Matt Prokop and Justin Martin.
Disney's "High School Musical" phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High's talented ensemble.
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
The Lodger
Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.
Che Ama
Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.
dagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Mirrors (Riflessi Di Paura)
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng and Julian Glover.
A mall security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store‘s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Down through the ages, mirrors have always been gateways to other worlds; they have protected us from evil, they have told us the future, and they have told us the truth. Mirrors reflect back at the viewer a glimpse of the human soul. In stories handed down through folk beliefs of generations, and stitched into the fabric of fairy tales and myths worldwide, mirrors have been the gateways to other worlds. is this a realm inhabited by angels, demons, and spirits of the dead? Or, does it reflect back to the viewer a glimpse of the human soul?
No Problem
Con Vincenzo Salemme, Giorgio Panariello, Sergio Rubini, Aylin Prandi, Iaia Forte.
Arturo Cremisi è (o, meglio, era) il protagonista di una soap opera dal titolo 'Un bambino a metà'. ‘Era' perché Federico, il bambino che interpreta il ruolo di suo figlio, gli ruba costantemente la scena grazie anche agli appoggi ‘in alto' di cui gode la madre Barbara che nel passato ha avuto una breve relazione proprio con Arturo. Sul set la tensione è alle stelle ma la situazione si complica all'estremo quando negli studi di registrazione giunge il piccolo Mirko che, avendo perso il padre e vivendo con una madre sempre in tensione, si è identificato nel protagonista della soap e ha deciso che Arturo è il padre che gli manca. All'istintivo tentativo di liberarsi dell'importuno da parte dell'attore fa da scudo l'intraprendenza del suo agente Enrico Pignataro. Costui, naif quanto basta a storpiare una parola su cinque ma estremamente attento a tutto quanto può accrescere la sua parcella, vede in questo incontro un affare. I settimanali e le rubriche televisive andranno a nozze con la storia dell'attore che diventa ‘nella realtà' il padre dell'orfano. Ci sono però due ostacoli: la madre di Mirko che non vuole che il figlio venga sfruttato mediaticamente e uno zio del bambino simpaticamente alienato. A loro si aggiunge la rabbia di Barbara che rischia di vedere il proprio pupillo entrare in un cono d'ombra. Dopo l'incontestabile successo di SMS-Sotto mentite spoglie Salemme decide di conservare un elemento prezioso della squadra (Panariello a cui permette di svariare su più registri espressivi) e di farsi affiancare da due cavalli di razza dall'altrettanto indiscutibile e consolidata carriera come Sergio Rubini e Iaia Forte. Memore della lezione dei De Filippo (di Eduardo, certo, con cui ha a lungo lavorato ma anche di Peppino) sa che uno dei mezzi per far pensare è quello di far sorridere. Lo fa con delicatezza e misura per gran parte di un film che mette alla berlina il mondo della serialità televisiva nostrana con i suoi miti effimeri destinati a un'altrettanto effimera ascesa agli altari con spesso conseguente caduta nella polvere dei dati dell'Auditel e affini. Il suo Arturo è un ex essere umano ormai solo attento a chi gli ruba i primi piani e (cor)roso da una sterile lotta per uno pseudosuccesso. Il piccolo Mirko, che è sprofondato (come accade non solo al cinema ma anche nella patologia scientificamente studiata) nella commistione totale tra finzione e realtà nel tentativo di suturare una ferita troppo profonda, lo trascina con sé nel mondo di una realtà che è fatta di piccole meschinità (come quelle rappresentate con grottesca misura da Oreste Lionello e Gisella Sofio) che non sono poi troppo distanti da quelle che lui stesso si porta dentro. Tutto questo viene raccontato non dimenticando mai lo spettatore e le sue attese salvo in due casi. Il tormentone della degustazione di vini fa deviare il film sul piano della farsa di cui non si sentiva il bisogno e il finale (di cui ovviamente non anticipiamo il contenuto) rischia di rientrare proprio negli schemi narrativi di quella soap opera che così abilmente si era messa alla berlina. Peccato. Anzi due peccati. Veniali? Al pubblico l'ardua sentenza.
The Orphanage
Starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Caya, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla and Geraldine Chaplin.
Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon’s imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games... A troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child’s strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.
Reno 911!: Miami
Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.
The Rocker
Starring Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Will Arnett, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Howard Hesseman and Emma Stone.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (Rainn Wilson), was the drummer for an eighties hair band. He was living the rock 'n' roll dream... until he was kicked out of the group. Twenty years later, the desperate rocker joins his nephew's band, "A.D.D.," finally reclaiming the rock-god throne he's always thought he deserved - while taking his much younger bandmates along for the ride of their lives. When we first meet Fish, he and his bandmates from Vesuvius are in full '80s glory - knocking out headbanging songs and sporting big hair, scarves, and impossibly tight leather pants. Just as Vesuvius is about to break big, Fish is tossed out of the band. Flash-forward twenty years: the ex-drummer extraordinaire, who lived, ate, breathed, slept - and most of all, sweated - rock n' roll, works for an insurance company and is living with his sister, brother-in-law and nephew Matt. In short, Fish is a broken man, stuck in a mid-life crisis. But when he learns that Matt's band, A.D.D. is searching for a new drummer, Fish volunteers - well, really, he begs - for a shot. Fish is over two decades older than his bandmates, yet somehow he completes A.D.D.: the brooding, hair-in-the-face singer Curtis; the stiff-as-a-board supernerd Matt; the ironic post-modern punk girl Amelia - and now the ancient rocker, Fish. Spurred by Fish's habit of rehearsing in the buff (and hip new moniker "The Naked Drummer"), A.D.D. becomes an internet sensation. They hit the road for their first big tour - along with Curtis' mom, Kim, as a chaperon. But as Fish once again lives the rock and roll life he thought was almost a birthright, he begins a journey that will take him to a place even he never thought possible: adulthood.
Tropic Thunder
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn.
Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Woody Allen's funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations.
Frequency: 11996V, 12073V, 12341V, 12616H & 12635V
Programming hours: 24 Hours
Encryptions: Videoguard
June 19 to June 26
Bolt
Starring John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann.
For super-dog Bolt (voice of John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue - at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet - a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny (voice of Miley Cyrus). Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions - a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens (voice of Susie Essman) and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino (voice of Mark Walton) - Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
The Burning Plain
Starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida and Tessa Ia.
Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
Deception (Sex List)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, LisaGay Hamilton, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein, Malcolm Goodwin and Charlotte Rampling.
"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's 'The List' - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of 'intimacy without intricacy', as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S' (Michelle Williams), will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
Drillbit Taylor
Starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck, David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, Alex Frost and Andrew Caldwell.
It all begins on the first day of high school, when a trio of anxious freshmen - chubby Ryan (Troy Gentile), freakishly skinny Wade (Nate Hartley) and their shrimpy tagalong, Emmit (David Dorfman) - become the instant target of the school's senior psycho-in-residence, Filkins (Alex Frost), the ultimate school bully. As what they were hoping to be the best years of their lives are suddenly turned into a daily living hell, the boys realize they have only one choice - to hire their own personal bodyguard. Enter Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), not the best but definitely the cheapest of the mercenaries, hit men and bodyguards who answer their online ad. Drillbit is steely, dangerous and skilled in covert black-ops and exotic martial arts. He's also a complete fraud. He bluffs and cajoles the credulous trio through his cockamamie boot camp and, after several hilarious missteps, instills in them new skills and some muchneeded confidence. But when push comes to shove - and more pushing and more shoving - Drillbit seems to be no match for Filkins' reign of terror. Now it's up to Ryan, Wade and Emmit to transform this down-and-out drifter into the savior he originally promised to be.
Giu' Al Nord (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Tis)
Con Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Michel Galabru, Line Renaud, Zoé Félix, Philippe Duquesne. Il film racconta la storia di un funzionario delle Poste trasferito in un piccolo villaggio del nord che viene a contatto con gli strani costumi della popolazione locale, ovvero gli Ch'tis, la loro lingua e la loro calda ospitalità.
High School Musical 3
Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin, Kaycee Stroh, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, Matt Prokop and Justin Martin.
Disney's "High School Musical" phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which finds high school seniors Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High's talented ensemble.
La Fidanzata Di Papa'
Con Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Natalia Bush, Elisabetta Canalis, Enzo Salvi, Biagio Izzo, Nino Frassica, Loredana De Nardis, Martina Pinto, I Fichi d'India, Teresa Mannino. Una donna in carriera (Simona Ventura), che fa la manager di professione, farà girare la testa ad un uomo (Massimo Boldi) che vive a Miami con il figlio.
The Lodger
Starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leigh Cook and Mel Harris.
Grizzled detective Chandler Manning is on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger called Malcolm Slaight rents a guesthouse from Joe (Donal Logue) and Ellen Bunting, a married couple struggling to preserve their fragile union after their plans to start a family have ended in tragedy. Manning, shunned both by his daughter Amanda and his suicidal wife Margaret as a result of his single-minded dedication to police work, teams up with unlikely rookie partner Street Wilkenson, only to make a startling discovery. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, Manning soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer Manning incarcerated years ago.
Che Ama
Con Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Piera Degli Esposti, Marisa Paredes.
Cosa prova un uomo quando viene lasciato dalla donna che ama? E cosa invece quando capisce di non amare più, e sceglie di mettere la parola fine ad una storia d'amore? L'amore che racconta il film, l'amore di Roberto, é un amore assoluto. Quello che spezza le gambe o ti riempie la vita. Una pellicola adulta sull'amore, un film che racconta la passione dal punto di vista maschile. L'uomo abbandona e viene abbandonato, diventa carnefice e poi vittima.
dagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd and Alec Baldwin.
In the highly-anticipated sequel to Madagascar, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and the penguins (Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller) and the chimps (Conrad Vernon) find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane - sort of. Once the first flight of Air Penguin is aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all - the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our New York City zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place ... but is it better than their Central Park home?
Mirrors (Riflessi Di Paura)
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng and Julian Glover.
A mall security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store‘s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Down through the ages, mirrors have always been gateways to other worlds; they have protected us from evil, they have told us the future, and they have told us the truth. Mirrors reflect back at the viewer a glimpse of the human soul. In stories handed down through folk beliefs of generations, and stitched into the fabric of fairy tales and myths worldwide, mirrors have been the gateways to other worlds. is this a realm inhabited by angels, demons, and spirits of the dead? Or, does it reflect back to the viewer a glimpse of the human soul?
No Problem
Con Vincenzo Salemme, Giorgio Panariello, Sergio Rubini, Aylin Prandi, Iaia Forte.
Arturo Cremisi è (o, meglio, era) il protagonista di una soap opera dal titolo 'Un bambino a metà'. ‘Era' perché Federico, il bambino che interpreta il ruolo di suo figlio, gli ruba costantemente la scena grazie anche agli appoggi ‘in alto' di cui gode la madre Barbara che nel passato ha avuto una breve relazione proprio con Arturo. Sul set la tensione è alle stelle ma la situazione si complica all'estremo quando negli studi di registrazione giunge il piccolo Mirko che, avendo perso il padre e vivendo con una madre sempre in tensione, si è identificato nel protagonista della soap e ha deciso che Arturo è il padre che gli manca. All'istintivo tentativo di liberarsi dell'importuno da parte dell'attore fa da scudo l'intraprendenza del suo agente Enrico Pignataro. Costui, naif quanto basta a storpiare una parola su cinque ma estremamente attento a tutto quanto può accrescere la sua parcella, vede in questo incontro un affare. I settimanali e le rubriche televisive andranno a nozze con la storia dell'attore che diventa ‘nella realtà' il padre dell'orfano. Ci sono però due ostacoli: la madre di Mirko che non vuole che il figlio venga sfruttato mediaticamente e uno zio del bambino simpaticamente alienato. A loro si aggiunge la rabbia di Barbara che rischia di vedere il proprio pupillo entrare in un cono d'ombra. Dopo l'incontestabile successo di SMS-Sotto mentite spoglie Salemme decide di conservare un elemento prezioso della squadra (Panariello a cui permette di svariare su più registri espressivi) e di farsi affiancare da due cavalli di razza dall'altrettanto indiscutibile e consolidata carriera come Sergio Rubini e Iaia Forte. Memore della lezione dei De Filippo (di Eduardo, certo, con cui ha a lungo lavorato ma anche di Peppino) sa che uno dei mezzi per far pensare è quello di far sorridere. Lo fa con delicatezza e misura per gran parte di un film che mette alla berlina il mondo della serialità televisiva nostrana con i suoi miti effimeri destinati a un'altrettanto effimera ascesa agli altari con spesso conseguente caduta nella polvere dei dati dell'Auditel e affini. Il suo Arturo è un ex essere umano ormai solo attento a chi gli ruba i primi piani e (cor)roso da una sterile lotta per uno pseudosuccesso. Il piccolo Mirko, che è sprofondato (come accade non solo al cinema ma anche nella patologia scientificamente studiata) nella commistione totale tra finzione e realtà nel tentativo di suturare una ferita troppo profonda, lo trascina con sé nel mondo di una realtà che è fatta di piccole meschinità (come quelle rappresentate con grottesca misura da Oreste Lionello e Gisella Sofio) che non sono poi troppo distanti da quelle che lui stesso si porta dentro. Tutto questo viene raccontato non dimenticando mai lo spettatore e le sue attese salvo in due casi. Il tormentone della degustazione di vini fa deviare il film sul piano della farsa di cui non si sentiva il bisogno e il finale (di cui ovviamente non anticipiamo il contenuto) rischia di rientrare proprio negli schemi narrativi di quella soap opera che così abilmente si era messa alla berlina. Peccato. Anzi due peccati. Veniali? Al pubblico l'ardua sentenza.
The Orphanage
Starring Belén Rueda, Fernando Caya, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla and Geraldine Chaplin.
Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage by the seaside, cared for by the staff and fellow orphans whom she loved as brothers and sisters. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband Carlos and Simon, their 7-year-old son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long-abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. The new home and mysterious surroundings awaken Simon’s imagination and the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games... A troubling web that begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child’s strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply unsettling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Carlos remains sceptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention. But Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.
Reno 911!: Miami
Starring Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong and Wendi McLendon-Covey.
Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) and the rest of the gang from the Washoe County Sheriff's Department are transported from landlocked Reno to the sunny shores of Miami in this big-screen version of Comedy Central's cop spoof. While attending a police convention at the height of spring break, the Reno cops prove their crime-fighting abilities are as sharp as ever (meaning not very!) after a biological attack occurs and they race to save the day.
The Rocker
Starring Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Will Arnett, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Howard Hesseman and Emma Stone.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (Rainn Wilson), was the drummer for an eighties hair band. He was living the rock 'n' roll dream... until he was kicked out of the group. Twenty years later, the desperate rocker joins his nephew's band, "A.D.D.," finally reclaiming the rock-god throne he's always thought he deserved - while taking his much younger bandmates along for the ride of their lives. When we first meet Fish, he and his bandmates from Vesuvius are in full '80s glory - knocking out headbanging songs and sporting big hair, scarves, and impossibly tight leather pants. Just as Vesuvius is about to break big, Fish is tossed out of the band. Flash-forward twenty years: the ex-drummer extraordinaire, who lived, ate, breathed, slept - and most of all, sweated - rock n' roll, works for an insurance company and is living with his sister, brother-in-law and nephew Matt. In short, Fish is a broken man, stuck in a mid-life crisis. But when he learns that Matt's band, A.D.D. is searching for a new drummer, Fish volunteers - well, really, he begs - for a shot. Fish is over two decades older than his bandmates, yet somehow he completes A.D.D.: the brooding, hair-in-the-face singer Curtis; the stiff-as-a-board supernerd Matt; the ironic post-modern punk girl Amelia - and now the ancient rocker, Fish. Spurred by Fish's habit of rehearsing in the buff (and hip new moniker "The Naked Drummer"), A.D.D. becomes an internet sensation. They hit the road for their first big tour - along with Curtis' mom, Kim, as a chaperon. But as Fish once again lives the rock and roll life he thought was almost a birthright, he begins a journey that will take him to a place even he never thought possible: adulthood.
Tropic Thunder
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte and Tom Cruise.
Pampered action superstar Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) is cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced. He sets out to Southeast Asia with a "Who's Who" of celebrity co-stars. They include Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hip-hop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). Soon after the production begins the actors are thrown into a real-life situation and are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying, in order to find a way out of the jungle in one piece.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn.
Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they're drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Woody Allen's funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations.