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John Dolittle, a prodigious doctor, capable of speaking with animals, lived with many of them and his beloved wife Lily in the reserve of wonders that the Queen of England had offered him as a gift. But a shipwreck has taken Lily forever and since then Dolittle has never wanted to meet her fellow men, has closed the hospital doors and given up everything...

The new film version of The Call of the Forest directed by Chris Sanders is the fourth big screen adaptation of the Jack London classic (which boasts some television transpositions and even a Japanese anime version produced by Toei Animation in the 80s) and is also considered like the remake of the 1935 film with Clark Gable. Along the lines of that adaptation, once again the role of John Thornton is more relevant than in the original novel even if, unlike in ’35, the story of Buck’s arrival in the Yukon is told and faithfully taken from the book...

Among the most anticipated titles at the end of 2019, released on theaters on December 20, Cats is now proposing itself as the most influential musical of contemporary cinema, at least from the post La La Land...

Harlan Thrombey, novelist, publisher and charismatic patriarch of a bizarre extended family, has died. Discovered by the young waitress Marta the morning after an imposing birthday party for her 85 years, the excellent corpse has a cut throat but seems to be the result of suicide. The luxurious country villa of Thrombey sees the arrival of two police inspectors, the private investigator Benoit Blanc, and the family members of the wealthy businessman, led by his sons Linda and Walter and his daughter-in-law Joni...

The silhouette of Jo, from behind, looking over a glass, like a mother would look at a newborn baby in a nest. Something will be born beyond that glass: his novel, “Little Women”. Those of Greta Gerwig start from here...

April 6, 1917. Blake and Schofield, young British corporals, receive a suicide mission order: they will have to cross enemy lines and deliver a crucial message that could save the lives of 1600 men about to attack the German army. For Blake, the order to be transmitted takes on a personal character because his brother is part of those 1600 soldiers who must launch the offensive...

Ninth experience behind the camera of Miguel Arteta, former director of The Good Girl, Welcome to Cedar Rapids and Beatriz at Dinner, Friends in Business is a female comedy that tells of the hardships and the desire for revenge of two friends for the skin , Mel and Mia. The strange couple had a dream: to set up their own company of beauty products...

Bryan Stevenson is a young African American law graduate from Harvard. He may have made a career in the North of the United States and instead chose to work, largely pro bono, to defend the condemned to death in Alabama, many of whom have not benefited from a regular trial: and almost all are black like him...

Harley Quinn left the Joker after the events of Suicide Squad and since then Batman seems to have disappeared from Gotham, where the Birds of Prey operate, like the Slayer, Huntress, daughter of the mobster Franco Bertinelli, and Dinah Lance aka Black Canary, endowed with a formidable sonic scream...

Reboot that wants to be a bridge between the original and frightening Ju-on and the equally horrifying The Grudge, is the new film of the horror saga that thus reaches the fourth chapter keeping the title The Grudge...