If there could be anything more exciting than a sequel that actually works! The mix of freedom offered by the skies, Tom Cruise, with his naughty sex appeal, and a story about a friendship that shaped a brilliant pilot for years to come, returned even better and bolder. Top Gun was a dream of 1986 with a taste of adventure, slightly forbidden romance,...
No one prepares you for this. You have been familiar with keywords, which circulated around your childhood when someone mentioned ancestors. To you, they were like a third leg - equally unexplainable and mysterious. But you were far from them, with your life ahead of you and your parents still young. But once you reach adulthood, you get closer and closer to encyclopedia entrances,...
In the celebrity culture, everyone secretly wishes to be someone else. To experience life in a different way, to be successful and recognized. There are very few accomplished hitting the headlines of gossip magazines and millions of those who buy them and follow the latest gossip. But if you could have a chance to become someone else for a short period of time and...
Political and personal situations require us to make major life decisions. Who to support in times of conflict? Who to be loyal and devote years of service to? Is your personal life more important than financial stability? Or will you, against reason, make the same mistake as many before you and sacrifice your career for the sake of budding feelings of affection, when...
Picture a perfect life for a young woman: a loving and handsome husband, rich parents-in-law, a beautiful house to take care of, a baby on the way. But whose perfect scenario is it? The husbands and parents' or yours? Are you just an addition to the pretty picture whose voice, thoughts, and experiences don't matter? What if your only way of independence and...
Tell us the future, we ask now and again the fortune tellers, whom we partially trust, holding our hopes higher than our reason. If The Jetsons' cartoon reality of video conferences, internet schooling, application shopping, and robotic machines doing our kitchen chores came true, other scenarios might also turn into reality. The world consisting of humans and androids is not so difficult to...
The cult of physical attractiveness is difficult to overcome. One hundred years ago film stars and celebrities were one of the most attractive people according to the standards of the epoch, and, sadly, one hundred years later actors, actresses, singers, and TV personalities of today are in most cases sexy. But is physical attraction the only ingredient of a happy relationship? On the...
In the past, when you were getting older, you most likely ended up with your family. You lived with your children and grandchildren and as a representative of three generations under one roof and knew your fate perfectly well. In many societies, this is still a valid concept and tradition to obey. In equally many, when you get old, you start to be...
You know how it is with climate change. Scientists show you pictures of flooded continents that they produced via simulation, weather conditions oscillate now from fires and heatwaves to hurricanes and floods in the areas where there hadn't been one. And unless you're there being killed, you just scroll. Greta Thunberg is literally pissed as she was born in times where a bunch...
Do you think that you have the right to peace and happiness? To respect and dignity? To acceptance and understanding? It's enough to bring you closer to a toxic family member to destroy any sense of self-respect and slowly suck the happiness from you. A complex square of interconnected characters: a woman, her son, her husband, and his brother in a tangle of...
Imagine a planet where there is only spice. Water is like gold. Special uniforms have to be made to retain water from the body and keep you alive. Gigantic Warms cross its deserts bringing only fear and destruction. There are conquerors who want to make the most profit and the conquered who learned to adjust to the circumstances and live in hiding. In...
Old money and new money. Getting inside the circles of the super-rich is equally strange as immigrating into a new country with a different language and culture. You want to fit in. You want to be respected. But will having enough guarantee you the love of a woman spoilt by her upbringing? Or will you find yourself inside a messy affair and an...
The definition of success is different for everyone. Swimming in the sea of financial sharks, owning a great apartment, and enjoying the pleasures of a big city is considered a great achievement for some but, possibly, you need to redefine things in life. Going back to your roots gives you an opportunity to climb not the career ladder but expand your own personal...
All the good in the world is tinted with some evil. But if you come across a particularly nasty bad guy who makes life for people in your town a living nightmare, you need to take action. And just as in every good recipe for success you need a few key ingredients. Courage, skill, humor, wit, friendship, and trust with a pinch of...
It's rare that all family members add up equally to the family fortune. It often happens that one hard-working and successful man keeps the rest of the less accomplished, lazy bunch afloat. The fortune is tempting like a lottery win and there are many eager candidates for the inheritance. You can wait for years for the death of the prospective benefactor, but what...
It's a challenge to play someone well-known and characteristic without the cringe effect. Freddy Mercury was such a person for sure. But having an unsurpassed music gift calls for an unsurpassed acting talent, and then the story just clicks. Queen's music enchanted us with this brilliant feeling of unity and power against the world's injustice. Bohemian Rhapsody reminds you about that magic and...
You can live your quiet, uneventful life, not bothering anyone, getting in trouble, or aiming too high in life or career opportunities. But trouble tends to find you. What if you were mistaken for a millionaire with a reckless wife and thrown into a crime you had no intention of getting involved in? What if someone pissed on your carpet, and while having...
Ambition can blind you at times. You can be driven by ego and achievements and be misled by what is worthy. Life also puts obstacles in front of you, challenges that make you learn your lessons and change your course of action. This journey gives you people who can shift your perspective and teach you the important things. And very rarely in life,...
When you look at the pictures of couples that have spent their lives together and celebrated decades, you want that for yourself. You want that company, that happiness, that time, and that love. Success, money, and health are just a part of life. Another part contains the downs you agree on at the altar. And you know that the downs will be coming...
Life gets boring, problematic, and stressful. You're not as good as you wish you'd be, and it's no point denying that you're on the right path to success. What if you could make it just a bit less tiresome? A bit more exciting? A bit more relaxed? What if drinking just a bit of alcohol every day could solve your life problems? Experiments...
