Very often we seem to love our pets more than our family members. We are astonished by the amount of energy and love they give us, we are devastated at their diseases, accidents, and deaths. People cherish various bonds that they developed over the course of their lives. Some of us can be named great parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, or friends. Others one of the most important bonds in their lives consider the relationship with a pet. But how this friendship came about? A fable on the human's best friend, an old world at the beginning of human civilization, and a bond old as time, especially for those who have an animal by their side. ALPHA.
Now we are getting used to the fact that all Hollywood productions, especially blockbuster, megahit, superhero films include characters of all races. It's a thing from the present, trying to overshadow years of racism, discrimination, and broken biographies of those who were willing to love despite years of the politics of race. Let's put the black and white love to another level. Imagine a cult singer, threatened by an assassin, surrounded by false friends and fake followers. Imagine a guardian hired to protect as professionally as he only could. And imagine a love story, which even for the leading actress was something unthinkable and far from personal experience. Full of cliches but still a worth watch for those hopeless romantics who love despite financial status, race, and profession. Music in the background, love in the air, The Bodyguard.
You cannot disregard female power. Some men throughout the history of the world wanted to diminish women's significance, close them in the kitchen, limit their ambitions to cooking and child-bearing. Women, however, resisted, spreading their wings and proving that no area of human accomplishments is for them too difficult or unreachable. They survived. But intelligence raises fear. For their beliefs, many women were considered possessed, for their desires they were punished, for the expression of their thoughts they were imprisoned. Some of them needed shelter. Imagine a place which survived the political turmoils of changing governments, a place which valued art and female independence. A place, which could offer a hideout for the lost souls that strove for self-expression. What if it was run by witches? Rhythm, dance, and the horror of female liberation, which required bigger sacrifices, taking sides, and a whole lot of gore, Suspiria.
Love gives no conditions. It accepts us for who we are and who we want to become. It respects our greatest desires and helps us fulfill our deeply hidden potential. Many artists, writers, businessmen, and politicians wouldn't be who they are without the encouragement of their loved ones. Being burnt by many subsequent relationships, we learn that having someone who won't inhibit our professional wishes, but help us find strength in making our dream come true, is like finding a golden egg among the ordinary chickens. It's a roulette of outcomes, a lottery which can't tell you whether your choices were right or wrong. At times you will help someone shine to the extent that they will overshine you. At times you will allow someone to make choices you don't accept at the bottom of your heart or don't like. At times you will devote your own happiness for the happiness of someone else. And sometimes you will realize that true love is not about fame and fortune. Only losing someone you love will make you feel the void which cannot be filled by any success at all. A beautiful story, filled with many personal experiences and simplicity of people, who despite being on the top, seem to still remember the bottom. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.
They call it karma. If you spread enough bad energy in the world, it will hit you sooner or later with the force of the butterfly effect. Karma works more accurately than you know, it's better than the wisest of judges and it doesn't know the meaning of mercy. Sometimes your perfect life is built on others' suffering. Your career is founded on the hard work of those who stay overtime, your personal life consists of more and more jilted women who come back at your slightest apologies. You pay for psychological help as you cannot find any friends to support you. What more do you need? Maybe a vampire kiss to make you crazy and a little bit more dead inside? Maybe a little thirst for blood and a vampire lover to expose your real nature? For Halloween connoisseurs, Vampire's Kiss.
We quickly realized that school education gives you a limited outlook on life. It provides theoretical knowledge, which has little to do with practice. For the latter, we should spread our wings, learn something about the world, and travel. Among hundreds of traveling vlogs and National Geographic highly awarded documentaries, giving you little tips of where to go, what to eat, and how to behave, you can rarely find the most interesting bits and pieces put into your repertoire for the nasty. A hilarious comedy, providing exaggerated stereotypes, awkward situations, the American perception of Europe, and something which still makes you willing to explore the unknown. Plus, some songs to hum, for whatever reason. Pure fun for the open-minded, Euro Trip.
It seems that some professions are treated with respect higher than is given to any others. By the cover of God, some are able to commit the worst crimes, cover the biggest lies, conduct any business fraud on a big scale and crush the lives of those who will be forever silenced by their trusted assassins, being at their most vulnerable. We all have some relationship with the Church: positive clashes with condemnable, high morale lose with the overall hypocrisy of those who cannot keep their promises of abstinence and celibate. Few practice what they preach, but the deeply rooted cause of many problems of the Church is still pushed under the carpet. Generations will pass until the problem is solved and this film is a sign of these changes. One story about a few priests. Who is the hero and who is the villain, and aren't we all people doomed to sin? Kler.
It's nothing new that in the realist universe of everyday repetitive actions we look for parallel universes. If our minds can imagine it, the concept may as well be true. Our world can be just one of the options. Our laws might not be laws obeyed everywhere and our species may be just one among numerous intelligent beings with nature, habits, and beliefs of their own. If you haven't already fallen in love with the world of Azeroth where the armies of humans and Orcs wage battles and wars, where honor and tribal traditions are of bigger value than you can imagine, where love is loyal, full of sacrifices, and surprisingly real in the high fantasy surroundings. Finally, where magic, evil, and death are your everyday bread and butter, then enter the World of Warcraft. And even if you're not a fan of computer games, this is still a spectacle worth noticing. Another world, another war, another Warcraft. Enjoy.
The contemporary world made it possible to steal someone's ID and in this way rob someone of one's identity. But making banks, internet services or car sharing companies believe that you are someone who in reality you are not, is one thing. But making people believe that you are a princess from a distant country, with different habits, customs, language, and religion, and making them act as you wish, is a talent in the making. How deceived we are because of appearances, why showing off is still one of our biggest vices, and how easily a witty servant can make fools of the entire British society. Based on a true story, Princess Caraboo.
Our lives consist of obsessions. We grow up being fans of certain people for certain reasons. We idolize some for achievements we would like to accomplish or for the talents we would like to have. We dig deep into the personal lives of our idols, out of curiosity or to compare if their happiness resembles our own. Willingly we enter a one-sided relationship which can last decades and is as consuming as the real one. We seem to be connected. But what if the obsession with one particular singer overshadows the real life and the real relationship? What if the object of your admiration all of a sudden becomes attracted to your second half? And why do we make so many relationship mistakes in search for the right person? It's never too late for celebrity disillusionment and falling in love. Based on Nick Hornby's novel, warm and funny, Juliet, Naked.
We all need to believe in love. It makes us heal from all these tragedies that hit with an impact of the end of the world, it makes us move from one place to another, it makes us flee from one broken heart to the arms of something new budding in the distance. It inspires us, makes us who we really are or who we were meant to be. We also need romantic comedies to prove that this love really can happen, regardless of our life stage and expectations. What if a teenager's secret love letters were sent and one of the recepient was the sister's boyfriend? What if while being in love with someone, you fell in love with someone else and your old crush turned into something real? Every generation has its love story, To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
We were raised in the cult of the omniscient, skillful, and handsome agent of the British Intelligence, who is able to fight any villain and win any beautiful lady. Literally: any. Not everybody can be equally charming as James Bond in all of his editions, but some can at least be placed in the same circumstances. They prevent the evil men of this world from stealing precious national treasure, overtaking the world, or simply being showed in good light as opposed to the light that rightly belongs to them, meaning shade. Reminding us all the comedic brilliance of Rowan Atkinson, engaging us in the British state of affairs and triggering the most unexpected laughs: from 2003 Johnny English, through 2011 Johnny English Reborn, to 2018 Johnny English Strikes Again. Prepare your tea and biscuits, and enjoy.
Are only genes responsible for our intelligence, skills, predispositions or personality traits? Or are we, as children, born a blank page and our childhood, upbringing, and actions stimulate our growth to the extent that we can be entirely different beings than our family members and distant ancestors? Some were willing to take part in quite an engaging experiment to check whether you can raise a child in a pre-scheduled way so that he or she could become someone specific. For all these parents who instill in their children their unfulfilled ambitions, for all families, which struggle due to unfulfilled expectations, and for us all an outlook on parenthood and growing-up. Can, finally, human beings be devoted for the higher purpose of science, or don't we all have the right to the so-called normalcy? Birthmarked.
America the land of immigrants! Over the last couple of hundreds of years, there were millions of those who wanted to fulfill their own American dream. They came on ships, on planes, willingly with high hopes for the new life or having no other choice in the impoverished homelands where potatoes were scarce. Some of them were forced to name another country their country, squeezed in slave ships if they managed to survive inhumane conditions and diseases.
The same journey is still taken by millions for more or less the same reasons. For some, the conditions changed, but seeing the ships of immigrants from Africa, not necessarily so. Once you step on a new land, you meet new people, you have to learn the language and the paradoxes of the legal system. You blend in and prove that you can be considered a worthy human being regardless of your origin. This is a perfect scenario. Imagine, however, a situation when arriving at your destiny imprisons you for an indefinite time and there's no turning back. One man, due to a military coup in his home Krakozhia, was stuck at an airport. Without a language, he was able to win the hearts of the airport's employees, and ours, giving hope that strangers can be your family and some places in the world you can call home. The Terminal.
College life seems to be insignificant. You are tight with money, you have years to develop your professional career, and you occupy your parents' flats, garages, and dorms. What you're left with is an idea. In 2004 from a dormitory room Marck Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes launched Facebook, which changed the entire world of social network. In 2005 Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created YouTube, which revolutionized the way we watch, upload and share video clips, and enjoy the world of music, vlogs, and world-travel from home. In 2003 Warren Lipka, Spencer Reinhard, Chas Allen, and Eric Borsuk came up with an idea to steal one of the rarest books from the University Library. Can hatching up a plan of acquiring million-dollar-worth items mess with the young minds? Can you bear the consequences of a plan which seems to be exciting but requires commitment? And once you cross the line of an actual crime can you bear the consequences of guilt and regret? An actual theft, real people, true story. American Animals.
Sometimes we wish we were smarter, more charismatic, more assertive or brave. We know we are good enough to get this promotion, this man/woman, this level of success. But we are who we are and drugs, caffeine, or alcohol rarely change the status quo. We don't have the guts to make our dreams come true. If only there was a magic item which would grant us all the things we desire, if only there was something which would enable us to release our deeply hidden potential. An unappreciated banker was lucky enough to find such a thing. An ancient mask with powers he wasn't expecting to turn his life upside down and change him into an unpredictable cartoon alfa male with exaggerated ego. A tale about our hidden desires and frustrations, and the way to finally put dreams into actions. At the end of the day, we all wear a mask and we seem to be a different person depending on the company and circumstances. It's high time we were ourselves. Maybe this time we will strike gold. The Mask.
There were times when England had its colonies all over the world, its ports were on every continent, its fleet was storming the sees and oceans shipping goods, people, and precious metals. Of course, not everybody in this huge water enterprise could remain on the side of good. There were those who wanted to rob, steal, rape, and plunder: the evil tricksters of wide open waters: pirates. Among the legends of the dark sees, mermaids, lonely sailors dreaming of the company of beautiful women, hierarchies of the marine service, they were unlawful enough to raise fear and respect thanks to their practical skills and scandalous crimes. And once Hollywood actually bet on the pirates making a series of films filled with uplifting music, adventure, and extreme duels in a beautiful background of tribal islands. Films dense with adventure, which boasted female characters who didn't only pose and wear dresses but equaled men and fought a battle for their true love. More entertaining with every film, full of memorable characters, megahit series Pirates of the Caribbean.
We waged various wars. Some of them started because of a woman, some began due to religious conflicts, others sprang out of individual ambition to conquer and dominate. Recently, we have witnessed the war of terror with few open conflicts but many individual cases of bomb explosions, hijacked planes, and trucks running into innocent trespassers of the wrong place and the wrong time. The world is changing and the way war is conducted has also changed, proving that feelings of fear, hatred, aggression, and revenge are never put to sleep. Technology also revolutionized our lives to the extent that we live double lives, one online, another in real life, leaving our ability to put food on the table at the mercy of online banking. The lines between the two worlds are getting blurry. Maybe our future is also to be programmed as a programme and deal with machines of their own intelligence?
A phenomenon of the Matrix, one internet hacker's destiny to become the savior of the hopeful waiting for the end of the war. A still unrepeated achievement of technology where everything is possible, a philosophical fable about the power of faith and control of your choices, and one of the most passionate, reliable, and caring relationships pictured in the science fiction film history. Leaving us obsessed for years, 1999's film, followed by 2003's The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
We still value professions of prestige. There is nothing more rewarding for the parents to boast in front of their friends that their children are doctors, lawyers, or pilots. Uniform makes not only women's heads turn around. It opens many doors, makes business deals easier, enables an average man to be raised to the level of heroes and gods. No wonder that getting into these professions takes years of studies, hard work, training, and certified qualifications. But if you don't have any of the above and you want to reap the rewards of being a certain professional, the only way is to become a conman. Based on a true story, one great climb up the steep ladder of success and adventure for one man skillful in a less prestigious professional area, fraud. Catch Me If You Can.
The world has always been constructed in the way that some have and others have not. Whether we are talking about health care, insurance, cars, houses, and food, there are some who have everything in abundance, and others dream of having just the scraps from the table. A few billionaires' income could support all of us, yet some choose to have more yachts, cars, real estate, while others can put their possessions in a bag and carry it, homeless, wherever they go. A heartwarming story of a father and a child who despite having very little, had something real to offer to one well-equipped career-oriented lady. And something which still rings true, you never know the ways of your fate. Once rich, you could lose everything within a few minutes of the market crash and cost-cutting in your company. Having it all, you can leave it for one real moment of happiness and true love. A nineties' fairy tale, Curly Sue.



















