Category 2023

High school student Sadie Harper and her little sister Sawyer are in a delicate moment. Her mother has recently died and her psychiatrist father, Will, is rather emotionally absent, he doesn’t seem to have enough time and attention for them, taken as he is by his pain and her problems. But there is worse. A certain Lester Billings suddenly appears at Will’s house desperately asking him for help. Although he doesn’t have an appointment, Will listens to him, but soon realizes that he’s not lucid: he talks about something monstrous that killed his three children, even if everyone suspects that he killed them. Having retired to call the police, Will loses sight of Billings who dies right in his house, apparently by suicide, found by Sadie, who returned home prematurely from school. But the problems don’t end there. By dying, in fact, the patient seems to have released an evil entity into the house which hides in the dark crevices, ready to come out to terrorize its victims. Sawyer is the first to realize this, but no one believes her...

Asteroid City, 1955. At a site in the Nevada desert, renowned for its crater after the impact of a giant asteroid, the fates of a war reporter in mourning for his wife, an actress he knows exists only in the gaze of others, a melancholic grandfather who tries to ‘reach’ his granddaughters, a scientist overwhelmed by events and a varied humanity lost in too large a space. During a convention of budding young scientists (the Junior Stargazer), who converged on the tourist town to present their inventions, an extraterrestrial ‘falls’ from the sky. The United States government, alarmed by the alien presence, places all those present in quarantine...

Ruby Gillman is cheerful, colorful and likeable, at least as colorful and close-knit as her group of friends. She is also a chip in mathematics and an obedient daughter, especially when it comes to respecting the diktat of the Gillman house: stay away from the ocean. But when the little boy who makes her heart beat ends up in the water with his skateboard and struggles to resurface, Ruby doesn’t think twice and dives, discovering a couple of things about herself that had been kept silent since the birth of she...

On the world of the Maximals, robots in the form of terrestrial animals, the planet-devouring Unicron arrives, in search of the transwarp key. However, the Maximals flee taking her with them, thus preventing him from freeing himself. The transformer Scourge, in the service of Unicron, however, is on their trail … In the New York of 1994, meanwhile, the ex-soldier Noah Diaz and the brilliant archaeologist Elena Wallace navigate personal and above all professional difficulties, which lead them, in different way, to discover the existence of the Transformers...

We’re in Montauk, summer hasn’t started yet and Maddie is already in a mess – her car has been impounded for unpaid fines, but without the car she can’t work as an Uber driver and supplement the salary she gets as a waitress, and without that extra money he can’t keep up with the property taxes on the house he inherited from his mother after her death… However, an ad on Craigslist seems to fit his (desperate) case: Laird and Allison, a rich couple New Yorkers with a house on the beaches of Montauk, seek “help” for their son Percy, in their view too inexperienced and unprepared to face life in college which will access in September. If Maddie can get him out of her shell, weaning him emotionally and sexually, she’ll get a Buick Regal in exchange. And so all her problems will be solved...

The day of the trial for the father of Barry Allen is approaching, who has been in prison for years for the murder of his wife. The boy, who is actually also the superhero The Flash, tried in every way to prove his innocence, but even with the help of Wayne Enterprises and his superpowers he couldn’t find how to exonerate him. Out of desperation he runs faster than he ever has before, until he reaches some sort of wheel of time. But he soon discovers that traveling to the past doesn’t just change the present and the future: in this world, in fact, his friend Batman is very different and there seems to be no trace of Superman...

Miles Morales is back – or rather, never left. He has been doing the usual things a teenage superhero would do for a year, that is going to school, arguing with his parents and saving the world from more or less (im) probable threats. Whoever is gone, however, is the only circle of friends he had, namely Gwen, Peter, Peni, Spider-Ham and Spider-Man Noir, the Spider-Man of other dimensions who supported him in his first adventure and who have returned to their respective universes. One day, however, Gwen reappears in Miles’ bedroom, explaining to him that she has joined the Spider-Society, an interdimensional group of Spider-Man, led by Miguel O’Hara, whose intent is to prevent the collapse of the Multiverse...

Ember Lumen, a temperamental teenager, grew up in Elemental City, a multi-ethnic city where the inhabitants are made of fire and water, earth and air. The city, mostly aquatic, is intolerant of migrants, especially the ardent ones like Ember, who never miss an opportunity to humiliate and ‘cool down’. Completely dedicated to her old father, one step away from her retirement, she has decided to take over from him in the family business, a shop selling ‘ethnic’ products frequented by demanding customers who never fail to annoy her. During a fit of anger, the umpteenth of hers, which makes walls and ducts shake, an anomalous wave delivers to her address Wade Ripple, a shy and sentimental gay toilet bowl, full of good intentions and tears that she sheds profusely at the first emotion...

After more than 30 cartoon films where she has explored every possibility and situation, Barbie arrives at the cinema in live action and has the face of Margot Robbie. The most famous doll in the world comes to life thanks to the direction of Greta Gerwig who took care of the screenplay of the film together with her partner Noah Baumbach. Forced to leave Barbieland and her perfection of hers, she Barbie ventures to the real world where she has a series of adventures helping the people she meets until she finds herself on her way home again...

Indiana Jones has hung up his hat and has been teaching archeology at New York University for a few years now. While waiting for a divorce, which weighs like the mourning of his son, Professor Jones drags himself to work and into an ordinary life ‘shaken’ only by the noises of the neighbors. On the eve of the conquest of the Moon, he receives a visit from Helena Shaw, daughter of an old friend ‘killed’ by his obsession with him: the Antikythera machine, a mechanical device designed by Archimedes to find temporal holes. Half of the dial has been resting for years in the Indiana Jones archives, after he stole it from the defeated Nazis in 1944. Back from her past, Helena would like to retrieve the curious find to sell it at an auction in Morocco. Tailing her, craving the same good, is Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who participated in the Apollo 11 project under a false name. (Ab) beaten years earlier by Indiana Jones on a moving train, he wants to trace the two sides of the dial and travel through time by changing the course of history. A shootout in full ‘moon parade’ starts the search for the precious object...