"For Palych!"
The plot of the comedy by Andrei Bogatyrev, who also worked on the script of the tape together with Alexei Chadov, Georgy Afanasyev and Maxim Boev, revolves around a typical representative of the "golden youth" Tyoma Golub. The young man takes advantage of the opportunities of his father and believes that everything is allowed to him. One day he gets into an accident with the heir of a more powerful person. Subsequently, the boy's father is deprived of the opportunity to run for election, the cottage is taken away from the family, after which they have to huddle in the house of their grandfather, Palych, the hero of the Afghan war and the legend of the Airborne Forces. Tyoma himself goes to serve in the army, and upon his return he learns that they are trying to evict his grandfather from his house. Tyoma will have to reassess her values and decide whether to return to her past crazy life or help a relative.
"The main message of our film is nepotism, which we must strive for. Our protagonist comes to understand this through experiences and obstacles, "Komsomolskaya Pravda quotes Chadov.
The central roles were played by Sergey Shakurov and Evgeny Zarubin. Irina Pegova, Alexander Samoilenko, Mikhail Gorevoy, Ivan Okhlobystin, Fyodor Lavrov and others also starred in the film.
"The problem in the picture between the grandson and grandfather is the same as everyone else's. Young people are not easy now, they have different values," Shakurov said.
According to the filmmakers, Palych's house symbolizes Russia, and its protection is akin to upholding traditional values and culture.
"Rocky and Rani. Love Story" (Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani)
Indian director Karan Johar, who shot such films as "My Name is Khan", "Everything in Life Happens" and "Both in Sorrow and in Joy", returns to Russian screens with a new comedy melodrama, in which the main roles were played by Alia Bhatt ("RRR: Revolution Roars Nearby") and Ranveer Singh ("Bajirao and Mastani").
"I made the film solely out of my beliefs. I make a movie like this only if it makes sense, appeals to feelings, talks about something meaningful, or gives me the opportunity to have fun with actors I adore. So I sincerely hope that I will be able to convey this. All I want to do is tell stories," Bol News quoted the director as saying.
The film shows the love story of the Bengali journalist Rani and the ardent Punjabi Roki. Parents oppose their relationship, and the lovers find a non-standard solution to the problem: in order to convince relatives, they need to live in each other's families for three months.
The star ensemble of the film also includes Dharmendra ("Zita and Gita"), Jaya Bhaduri ("Will Tomorrow Come or Not"), Shabana Azmi ("What does love have to do with it?"), Varun Dhawan ("Lovers") and others.
"Tailed aliens" (Space Pups)
As a result of a meteor shower, an alien spacecraft is forced to land on Earth. The team needs to repair the vehicle, the details of which are lost. In order not to catch the eye of people, unexpected guests take the form of dogs. They come to the aid of a brother and sister who witnessed the fall of a flying saucer. The catch is that teenagers aren't the only ones who have seen the spaceship. Now the aliens are being chased by FBI agents and a hunter.
"Full of touching and exciting moments, the film "Tailed Aliens" is an exciting story about friendship, courage and how important it is to be a team," says the material of the portal Kron 4.
The director of the fantastic adventure film was a former Disney puppeteer, and now an independent cinematographer, Jason Murphy.
When working on the scenery of the flying saucer and its interior, the authors of the tape turned to the technologies of virtual filmmaking.
"For us, the advantage (of filming at the University of Full Sale. - RT) is that we can make a professional-quality film with a modest budget. Instead of building the scenery of this spacecraft (which would be extremely expensive), we created virtual interiors of the spacecraft and then filmed the scenes we needed at Studio VI, "said producer Kenny Beaumont in an interview with the university's portal, whose graduates made up the majority of the film's crew.
"Greatest Days"
The story of the dramatic musical from the director of "Wuthering Heights" Koki Gidrych revolves around the nurse Rachel, who won several tickets to the reunion concert in Athens of her favorite youth band Take That. She gathers her school friends, whom she has not seen for 25 years. Having met, the heroines share the sorrows and joys of life, remember the best days of their youth and go on a journey to a selected collection of hits of the British group.
"Better Days" is an amazingly talented and disarmingly honest film. He was able to say something important about friendship, growing up and grieving, while still smiling through his tears. In the last 20 minutes, you may feel as if something got into the eye, but you don't have to be an ardent fan of Take That to enjoy this cheerful musical, "writes the author of the Why Now portal, Maria Latilla.
The world premiere of the film took place in June. The audience favorably received the musical - its rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website is 70%.
"Bachelorette Party: Slaughter Night" (Fear the Night)
A group of eight girls goes to a country house to celebrate the upcoming wedding. Armed robbers infiltrate there. Determined not to leave witnesses, the bandits begin to shoot at the heroines with a bow. Unfortunately for the criminals, among the girls there is a combat veteran Tess (Maggie Q), who does not give in to danger and takes the situation into her own hands. A fun bachelorette party in the company of a stripper turns into a bloody night quest for survival.
Chad Collins on Dread Central noted that Neil LaBute's "incredibly funny and delightfully creepy" picture is a kind of response to Adam Wingard's cult classic "You're finished!".
"Although (this film. - RT), of course, far from being so subversive culturally or inquisitive socially, in general terms, "Bachelorette Party: Slaughter Night" operates within the same basic framework - "fools against fools," he wrote.
The author of Film Festival Today noted that the tape is not without imperfections, but it is quite good due to the well-written image of the main character and the injection of the atmosphere throughout the picture.