Category 2016

Jack Reacher, a former US Army major, and now wandering perpetually thirsty for justice, he returned to Virginia to fulfill the promise of an invitation to dinner with Major Susan Turner. But it turns out that this has been put under house arrest with very serious accusations. It all happened very quickly, and Jack does not add up: as it deepens the investigation of what happened, the matter becomes more cloudy...

Summer of 18 years. Marco leaves for the United States but the friend that has been hosted in San Francisco offers the same opportunity to Mary, a kind of lay nun eighteen that Mark sees it as a tremendous assumption. In San Francisco await them Matt and Paul: a gay couple, to the bewilderment of the bigoted Mary...

New York, late twenties. Max Perkins is the main editor of the publishing house Scribner’s Son and has already contributed to the discovery of writers of the caliber of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. On 2 January 1929 the first meeting with Thomas Wolfe, who has submitted a manuscript of a thousand pages titled “O Lost”. Perkins read it in one breath and the certainty of having before him an author who deserves the literary success...

New York, 1943. Arturo Giammarresi, Palermo transplanted in America, dreams of marrying the lovely conterranea Flora, but she is already promised to Carmel, son of the right arm of Lucky Luciano. The only way to get the Flora hand is to ask it directly to the woman’s father, he remained in Sicily. And since the Allies are going to land in Trinacria Arturo he enlisted in the US Army and arrived in the village where Crisafulli command, in no particular order, the Madonna, the Duce, the local boss Don Calo and a handful of fascist...

Bruno is seriously ill with a disease that has ancient origins linked to a traumatic event in the past. His wife Elena tries to be near him but is not allowed to cross the wall that Bruno has erected to protect the horror and shame...

Kim Baker arrives in Afghanistan, in Kabul, as a war reporter. He does not know the real situation of the place and in the first days hard to get used to this new life. Tina Fey, icon of the Hollywood comedy, plays the American journalist in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa movie based on the book-truth of the Baker “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a black comedy with a more political and social subtext. The directors of Crazy, Stupid Love through a blatant comedy show the effects of war even on those not directly involved: Kim begins to get used to the danger, that life always on the cutting edge, where even a journalist would do anything for a ‘ exclusive for its network. The horror of war has become a commodity, like everything. Thanks to a cast of actors always impeccable, Alfred Molina who plays the national prosecutor and Martin Freeman as the Scottish journalist Iain, the film maintains an increasingly fast-paced with never a failure...

Laura is one of the most popular college girls: when the mysterious But Rina asks the friend on a social network, Laura remains impressed by the animated videos made by the girl and her insecurity. Soon the presence of Ma Rina becomes too obsessive and Laura decide to remove it from the list of his friendships...

James Bowen is a homeless singer-songwriter, who lives and sleeps on the street, eating what is and yielding to the lure of heroin to escape from despair. His parents separated when he was eleven, James followed his mother in Australia, then returned to London, but has never managed to get un-ban from his father, who has since formed a new family. The meeting that will change the life of Bob is the one with a red cat, found wandering around in her council house in Tottenham...

Ruby is a ballet dancer, on her first day in the Big Apple to attend the conservatory in Manhattan. Johnny is a street violinist who plays in the subway. A clash between hip hop crew, in the underground metro, creates confusion and gives the two a chance to meet but also to a couple of thieves to steal Johnny his only treasure, the violin of his grandfather...

La Traviata is considered one of the finest works of Verdi and the traditional staging of Richard Eyre is one of the most popular productions of the Royal Opera House. It is the story of a Parisian courtesan Violetta Valery, one of the great heroines of opera history, that is inspired by the story of the courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died in 1847, at the age of 23 years...