Tamong the best films to see at the cinema todaymeaning this weekend and beyond, there is a cowboy and an astronaut dealing with a technological threat And an aspiring heir ready to exterminate the family for 28 million dollars. Then a chef who returns to the scene of the crime (or almost) and a teenager who tries to be himself.
Great films to see at the cinema today
These films are Fuze – Countdown, Toy Story 5, Rich as Death – Crimes in the Family, So Let’s Dance And I wish you all the best. Five very different titles but with an invisible link. Each protagonist must face, in their own way, a great change and completely question yourself so as not to lose your happiness. Goodbye to protagonists who never fail: welcome imperfect personalities but capable of impulses of rare beauty.
In Toy Story Woody and Buzz get back together to fight the nightmare of the future: the disappearance of all traditional toys. Glen Powell – star of Rich as hell – confirms his golden moment in a remake of a famous British film with Alec Guinness (1948): revenge against a snobbish and cruel family.
“Toy Story 5”. (Disney Italy)
The thriller Fuze – it is «a heist film made by the Ramones», as director David Mackenzie said, who had fun at play with genre stylistic features between uncommon thieves and an explosives expert.
Tommy Dorfman’s first work – I wish you all the best – addresses the topic of acceptance with rare sensitivity and gender identity. The protagonist of the French comedy Then let’s dance instead he chooses food and his roots with the hope of starting a new life.
Glen Powell is the protagonist of a very dark comedy directed by John Patton Ford, remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1948), a great classic of English cinema in which the wonderful Alec Guinness played 8 characters. The story is told through flashbacks. Becket Redfellow (Powell), son of a single mother rejected by her wealthy family of origin, he lives in New York and is an unhappy clerk in a clothing boutique high fashion. At 30 he discovers that he is, in a minority share, in the hereditary axis of the huge Redfellow estate. He thus decides to take back what he believes is his by devising a bloody plan: to kill his 8 surviving relatives one by one. Despite great difficulties and the risk of going to prison, through a series of lucky coincidences Becket gets money and even love. An unsuspecting person, even more greedy than him, will ruin his life again. If lovers of the original film cried sacrilege for having set the story not in England but in the United States, Powell’s effective and very dark humor and overwhelming sympathy make the affront less bitter. In the cast, in a key role, there is Margaret Qualley.
Toy Story 5
Buzz Lightyears and Woody return in chapter number 5 of one of the most beloved animated sagas of all time. This time the wonderful toys and best friends of children will have to compete not with the latest innovations but with the new frontiers of technology. After leaving the tranquility of Bonnie’s bedroom to accompany the beautiful globetrotting shepherdess Bo Beep, Jesse and all the other gaming colleagues remained to guard the community. Their owner, however, is growing up and occupies much more time with video games and tablets than in their company. The greatest threat comes in the form of a highly sophisticated all-round device, capable of capturing the complete attention of today’s children. Are toys at risk of extinction? Woody will be at their side as always. The heart of Toy Story returns untouched with universal arguments: friendship, the good and the bad of growth and changes and the search for a new way of living the present. Although we are starting to glimpse a certain tiredness and repetitiveness, the irony and the great quality of the writing conquer all enthusiasts who want to live their adventures “towards the universe, and beyond”.
So let’s dance
Food as a profession and as care for the soul: this is it the central theme of the film directed by Amélie Bonnin whose original title, Leave for a day, it is much more revealing than the Italian one. After winning a show in style MasterChef the beautiful Cécile (the French singer Juliette Armanet) she is ready to open a restaurant together with her colleague and boyfriend Sofiane (Tewfik Jallab). His dreams of glory, however, must wait because Father Gérard (François Rollin), who runs a small place on a provincial road, he has a heart attack. Cecilewhose cuisine is very far from the simple and regional one of his parents, he temporarily returns to his hometown to lend a hand to the family. Between childhood memories and the meeting with Raphaël (Bastien Bouillon), ex boyfriend whose heart she broke when she ran away to pursue her career, the woman begins to rethink her priorities. An all-too-thin plot and an even more predictable ending don’t ruin the pleasure of this comedy that reminds you that you don’t have to go far to be truly happy.
Fuze – Countdown
Fuze – Countdown is the title not to be missed for all lovers of the genre Heist Movie. Despite a plot that is far too dense and a second part that is too cumbersome to be truly credible, the film directed by David Mackenzie stages two parallel stories ready to converge to amaze the viewer. On a London construction site An unexploded bomb from the Second World War has been found. The police take care of making it safe with the help of Major Will Tranter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), explosives expert. In the great chaos, no one has yet noticed that, not far away, mysterious thieves (Theo James, Sam Worthington, Nabil Elouahabi), they’re robbing a bank. A simple coincidence or is there something more? The director chooses frenetic rhythms and a style that pays homage to the great classics: the result is an enjoyable thrillerperhaps far from the narrative beauty of Inside man by Spike Lee (2006) but which has its highest value in a cast that is nothing short of perfect.
I wish you all the best
A story of training and good feelings in which a boy finally finds his place in the world and is ready to truly grow up. Director Tommy Dorfman (the Ryan of Thirteen), in his first work, he poured into the screenplay all the fears and personal difficulties experienced during his delicate gender transition. The result is both an excessive use of melodramatic and predictable stereotypes, is a delicate and moving portrait of someone just trying to be themselves. Based on the novel of the same name by Mason Deaver, tells Ben’s story (Corey Fogelmanis), a non-binary teenager estranged from his very religious parents after he came out. He reconnects with his sister Hannah (Alexandra Daddario), with whom they have not met for over 10 years because she is also in conflict with her family. Ben moves into her house and finally finds the affection he needs. Hannah and her husband Thomas (Cole Sprouse) finally make him feel loved. Not only do they allow him to continue his studies but, to teach him a sense of responsibility, he takes care of the elderly in a retirement home suffering from senile dementia. The meeting with the brilliant student Nathan (Miles Gutierrez-Riley) and an eccentric art teacher (Lena Dunham), will be a further step towards a happy adulthood.
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