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In Blacksmith, a small town in the Midwest, the daily life of the Gladney family runs unperturbed: Jack, Babette and their four children, born from previous marriages. A routine punctuated by television sessions, father-son comparisons, reasoned or unreasonable talks about this or that piece of news, talk about this or that other product and ritual visits to the supermarket, where everyone indulges in the frenetic consumption of objects, messages, noise. A background noise that haunts Jack, a professor at College on the Hill, where he founded a department of Hitler studies. For some time now man has been living in a dull and constant fear of death...

1952. Sammy Fabelman is six years old and doesn’t want to go to the cinema, he is afraid to face that world of giants. His mother assures him that movies are unforgettable dreams, his father reassures him by describing the prodigy of a machine that makes still images move. In front of their child, Mitzi and Burt each assume their own role: poetry on the one hand, technology on the other. In room Cecil B. DeMille’s Greatest Show on Earth does the rest...

Young nun Ann, raised with the trauma of a mentally ill mother, is trained in exorcism by Father Quinn. Able to enter into a relationship with the possessed admitted to a hospital run by the Church, Ann focuses on the liberation of Natalie, a victim of the same demon that years before her had perhaps possessed her mother. While attending classes with other priests, Ann begins to have disturbing childhood memories and terrifying visions, as well as violently clashing with Natalie’s demon...

An important poet from America who lives in his world as a poet, a fictitious world, is suddenly shaken by the civil war that divides his family, thus living a real drama. Thus he is forced to leave writing, his practical passion, being enveloped by sadness...

The film is based on the description of the book with the same name published in 2015...

Tyler, an obsessive gourmet, invites Margot, a mysterious ‘girlfriend’, to accompany him to Hawthorn, a starred restaurant in the heart of a private island. It is managed, like a barracks, by Slowik, a chef of molecular cuisine who promises a dream menu garnished with revelations and surprises. Between one course and another, which Tyler savors voraciously, and Margot declines irritating Slowik, a macabre spectacle gradually takes shape. Surrounded by movie celebrities and financial sharks, delusional food critics and regulars, Margot is the first to feel the hostile climate. Meanwhile, her lack of appetite attracts the attention of the chef who makes a terrible revelation...

There is a distant land, called Avalonia, surrounded by a formidable range of mountains that no one has ever been able to cross. Avalonia is dying, reduced as it is to stagnation and unable to grow, and many place their last hope of salvation beyond those mountains. So do the Clade, Jaeger and Searcher, father and son, a duo of explorers who have been desperately trying to find a ride to the other side for years. During an expedition, Searcher discovers a mysterious plant capable of generating electricity, and while Jaeger decides to continue alone in search of an access route, his son returns to the city bringing back the plant that will be the engine of rebirth of the entire Avalonia...

After several centuries of work, Santa Clause is out of love with Christmas. The now boring Christmas Eve takes an unexpected turn for him when in a villa, where he has to leave a gift for little Trudi, he finds the little girl taken hostage by a gang of unscrupulous criminals. They are led by a man who has chosen Uncle Scrooge as his code name – and obviously has a bad relationship with Christmas. Santa, accidentally involved in a scuffle, ends up abandoned in the villa by his reindeer...

Puss in Boots has just found out that he has used up eight of his nine lives, and has met a Big Bad Wolf who reminds him that, on this round, he too must die. So Cat goes on the hunt for a fallen star in the Dark Forest that can fulfill his greatest wish: to restore the many lost lives. But he’s not the only one with a great existential aspiration, there are also Velvet Paws Kitty, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack Horner, a deranged megalomaniac straight out of a Mother Goose nursery rhyme. Alongside the Puss and (his?) Kitty is a microscopic dog disguised as a feline who volunteers for pet therapy and is the only one who is happy with his life as it is...

Birth, growth, apotheosis and beginning of decline of Elvis Aaron Presley, the myth of several generations, are told and reread from the point of view of his lifelong manager: Colonel Tom Parker...