Oblivion

Oblivion 

Of course Tom Cruise graces effective advertising every poster, but the main man behind "Oblivion" is for once not the megastar, but his director: The sci-fi blockbuster is primarily a Joseph Kosinski film and as such instantly recognizable after its 400-million-dollar worldwide hit "Tron: Legacy". served the former engineering and architecture student in "Oblivion" again immaculately-effective future designs from fully automatic cloud home to practical folding bike - based on these designs would be the bosses of vehicle manufacturers and communication companies (yes, even from Apple) licking your fingers. This quest for perfection is reflected in Kosinski's staging resist, which is why the film sometimes seems a bit clinical and cold. With some unexpected twists and his glorious sound design, "Oblivion" turns out however nevertheless as a pioneering study of the future and fascinating cinematic experience.

Oblivion 

In the year 2077 the Earth is in ruins. A war against alien invaders has indeed won mankind, but the Blue Planet (and the moon!) There were completely destroyed. While the majority of the population now lives in a colony in space, the art expert Jack Harper (Tom Cruise, "Mission: Impossible"), and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough, "All we had to give") on a futuristic Cloud Home remained of the earth to ensure trouble-free removal of the most vital of all resources: water! ("Quantum of Solace James Bond 007" Olga Kurylenko) in a space capsule from the sky, which turns everything to their very existence into question what Jack believed ever know ... but then suddenly drops a beautiful woman named Julia

Oblivion 

Joseph Kosinski has written the plot as a twelve-page short story eight years ago - and because he then assumed that "Oblivion" his first film project might be, he sat much aware of a number of small to (for example, he was limited to a few characters) . Following the success of "Tron: Legacy" and the signature of Tom Cruise's box but suddenly a lot more money to spend - and although the budget of an estimated $ 120 million for visually stunning panoramas of the ruined earth's surface was quite well spent, is "Oblivion" in the core is still an intimate four-person units (with Jack, Julia, Victoria and Melissa Leo as Sally, who issued a video chat spooky polite instructions from space). A chamber play with blockbuster budget and excursions in Bubbleship, a mini spacecraft with the shape of a soap bubble: These seemingly contradictory elements are brought together in "Oblivion" on atmospheric surprisingly coherent manner.

Oblivion 

In "Oblivion" is not the played "Blue Danube Waltz", but parallels to "2001 - A Space Odyssey," there is still Kosinski wants Stanley Kubrick obviously quite anticipate with his futuristic concepts like once the actual future -., And it is at its chic-functional design very well imagine that one can ascribe to him in 50 years, a similar visionary gift as today its famous predecessor., and infamous with Kubrick's perfectionism keeps the former commercial director (including those for Nike, "Halo 3" and "Gears of War. ") Kosinski with each setting affects how licked particularly impressive here is that the transition between vehicles and people in the foreground and the computer-designed backgrounds of the destroyed planet's probably never been so seamlessly and naturally succeeded as in" Oblivion "- and since you would not like to forgo such sharpness and clarity, it was also the gold right decision and, contrary to the movie "Tron: Legacy" not to shoot in 3D, and not to convert it later.

Oblivion 

The stars Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko are similar to flawless as the designs around them - even broken noses are make-them in perfect symmetry. So that their characters are missing but literally the corners and edges, rather tenterhooks is not announced. Acting highlights, however, put the two actresses from the second row: Andrea Riseborough as desperately to their ignorance clinging Victoria and Melissa Leo (Oscar for "The Fighter") as opaque Skype chat boss spread with her robot-like sense of duty, a subtly frightening mood. (we want more than the name is not revealed at this point) The role of Morgan Freeman as Beech, however, is hardly larger than an extended cameo - the falls with the black sunglasses and casual in his mouth hanging cigar but at least damn cool!

Conclusion: "Tron: Legacy" mastermind Joseph Kosinski served with his second film "Oblivion" again a unique visionary, even if sometimes slightly supercooled noise design.

Oblivion 

The Croods

Synopsis & details

The Croods

During the prehistoric era Crood members of the family are among the last survivors of their species and live well protected in their home cave. Once the home of the Croods was destroyed, they are forced to leave their safe place. In search of a new home they get into wild adventures and get to see stunning plants, animals and extraordinary places. One day meet Grug (German voice: Uwe Ochsenknecht), patriarch of the family, a stranger name Guy (Kostya Ullmann). To the chagrin Grugs bright young nomad in love with Grugs daughter Eep (Janin Reinhardt). The ancient cave safety of domestic moves further and further away, but gradually realize Grug and his family, the loss also contributes an exciting new beginning in the ...

"How to Train Your Dragon" has been withdrawn at the Oscars in 2011 against the equally great "Toy Story 3" the shorter, but more advanced the computer animation genre still has the Viking adventure from the DreamWorks. Finally director Chris Sanders created just with the flight deposits some action sequences that were fulminant and kinetic than what it was previously seen in animated films. This approach has been taken Sanders and his new co-director Kirk De Micco with "The Croods" now consistently. In the 3D Stone Age adventure, there are some so brilliantly staged chase scenes that it in the cinema in 2013 probably at best yet from Justin Lin's "Fast & Furious 6 could be "topped off. And that's not all: "The Croods" feels as if the makers would get a free pass to be allowed to be creative limitless and without regard to nothing simply and from that straight for a big-budget Hollywood. makes the film unprecedented gift directing duo for blessing the audience extensively use!

The Croods are the only Stone Age family in the local area that has not been trampled by dinosaurs or eaten by giant snakes. And this is mainly due to the strict rules of family patriarch Grug (voice of Nicolas Cage, German Uwe Ochsenknecht): When the darkness falls, a large stone is rolled from the cave entrance and no one may need to go out. Moreover, it is always the motto: Never have no fear! Grugs woken daughter Eep (Emma Stone, Janin Reinhardt), however, did not agree always to live in the dark and full of fear. But with her curiosity, she pushes the rest of her family on nothing but incomprehension. Only when the continents split, break up the soil and the cave collapses, the family their old rules must, willy-nilly throw overboard and embarks on an adventurous search for a new housing ...

The Croods

The makers lose any time. After a short but already the dry humor of the film anticipatory 2D prologue a harmless Eierklau quickly degenerates into a full-blown chase from - including football-match atmosphere and all sorts of creative designtem prehistoric animals. As in "Train Your Dragon made" (and before that "Wall-E") also in "The Croods" the legendary Roger Deakins (2013 as a cinematographer of "Skyfall" the total tenth Oscar nomination) helped illuminate the animated sets as that they act as vividly as in a real well photographed film. And it pays off: Before "The Croods" would have the most of "The Incredibles" or "Kung Fu Panda 2" claims, but the coup of Sanders and De Micco actually offers some of the most impressive action sequences of the movie year it. is nice to see that the big studios are increasingly not only on the quality of the animation (which is also in "The Croods" immaculate) focus, but rather on the quality of the production.

And then it suddenly becomes really crazy: Breaking the continents once apart, the Croods leave her supposedly safe desert cookies behind and beat instead by a colorful, crazy jungle world in the style of James Cameron's "Avatar" There is not only elephants mice, but. whales on legs that are nibbled by piranha birds in seconds to the bone. From here the film seems as if stone-age research on LSD (at least!) script and animations responsible. This also fits the often extremely dry humor including Zalando ARTIGEM shoe screams and a grandma who is thrown into the air without batting an eyelid as coin set for a round of "head or butt."

The Croods

In the spectacular finale, indeed more and more Grug crystallized out as the real hero of the story, but it's mostly his daughter Eep that drives the adventure with their curiosity. Following the release of the first trailer were therefore already repeatedly comparisons protagonist of Pixar's "Brave - Highlands" employed - and they are certainly not completely be dismissed out of hand, but the end is "The Croods" even a bit. courageous: Even if Merida with bow and arrow shoot their freedom, she is with her long curly hair just still a little sweet girl, the ohnenhin no one can blame his rebelliousness. With its super-wide shoulders and almost all of its triangular body is Eep - despite their attractive spokeswoman Emma Stone ("The Amazing Spider-Man") - however not necessarily pretty, at least not in the traditional sense, the marketing department should have prepared for the sleepless nights, but the.. Viewers leave the theater anyway with the feeling that the makers of "The Croods" everything was allowed to. And this confidence they pay back countless times with her exuberant creative film.

Conclusion: With its brilliant action sequences, its freaky characters designs, his dry humor and his ever tons of creative ideas turns out to be "The Croods" an extremely entertaining family entertainment and a midnight movie cult, with considerable potential in one.

Kristen Stewart as Snow White in the cinema again

Kristen Stewart as Snow White will return to the cinema. However, fans will have to wait, because the second part of the movie "Snow White and the Huntsman" is slated for release until 2015.

Kristen Stewart

Picture: Eva Rinaldi
Finally it's official, after months of rumors: The sequel to the film "Snow White and the Huntsman" is scheduled and Kristen Stewart will reprise the lead role as Snow White. In the "CinemaCon 2013" in Las Vegas this gave Adam Fogelson, chairman of Universal Pictures, known. Whether the actors Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth are back with this, is still open.
After Kristen's affair with director Rupert Sanders, it was far from clear whether the actress for the sequel to the cinema strip is required. Reported as the "Hollywood Reporter" in August, 2012, that it is excluded from the plans of the fairy tale film. But now seems to be agreed.

And privately it runs good again for the 23-year-old. Meanwhile, Robert Pattinson has forgiven her the affair and recently the two were spotted holding at the Coachella music festival hands.

However, Liberty Ross, the wife of director Rupert Sanders filed for divorce. For the second part of "Snow White" Sanders will not take over the government.

In December last year, Stewart made ​​no great secret that they would like to once again take on the role of Snow White. So then she told the magazine "Us Weekly": "It is absolute madness. I'm totally excited, it's crazy. "On the plot of the film is otherwise so far nothing is known.

Wotan Wilke Möhring: "Life is not for cowards" gets title "extremely valuable"

On Thursday (18.04.) Launched the film "Life is not for cowards" Wotan Wilke Möhring in German cinemas. Now the tragicomedy received the title of "most valuable" of the FBW (German Film and Media Review).

Life is not for cowards

Image. NFP / Georges Pauly
Here the jury: If the death leaves a void in the family life, the wound is difficult to cure. Markus (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and Kim it was made so as Babette, who was a wife and mother nucleus of the nuclear family, dies suddenly. While Mark is hiding, Kim loses his grip and longs for a strong shoulder. Gerlinde grandmother, son and granddaughter who wants to assist receives, meanwhile, the diagnosis of cancer.
Life is really not for cowards. The tragic reason constellation obtained by an expertly constructed and fluid screenplay written by Gernot Gricksch, which also supplied the original novel, soothing light and comical traits. Three individual stories are woven together to form a true and heartwarming family story. The camera provides excellent images to man Ngo The Chau, the "Life is not for cowards" soundtrack is unusual and just so so right. Director André Erkau takes its characters seriously and makes it her fate with a wink accept.

Wotan Wilke Möhring plays Mark as a tragic hero who learns to be there for his daughter and to confront his grief. Helene Woigk as impressionable girl with a dark Goth-shell is a real discovery and Christine Schorn as Gerlinde steals every scene with wit and charm. Also supporting cast as Rosalie Thomass and Frederick Lau create characters who like to follow the crowd.

Dry laconic and yet deeply touching proves "Life is not for cowards" (Release date: 18.04.) That life with all its dramas also must not be taken too seriously and true courage is to allow grief. If laughter and tears are closely together - a brilliant tragic comedy as it is in the book.

Director: André Erkau
Screenplay: Gernot Gricksch
Producer: Michael Eckelt
Cast: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Helen Woigk, Christine Schorn, Frederick Lau, Rosalie Thomass etc.

Robert Pattinson got hold role in the sequel of "Cosmopolis"

Director David Cronenberg (70) will cooperate with Hokkywood star Robert Pattinson (26). So Pattinson has now got a role and his new film "Map To The Stars". The film is supposed to be the successor of the movie "Cosmopolis".

Robert Pattinson

Image: Tom Sorensen
The 26-year-old will again take on the role of billionaire Eric Packer in "Map To The Stars". "The Hollywood Reporter" reported that in the continuation of the dream occupation will not change. Thus, also actress Sarah Gadon (26) is again assume the role of Elise Shifrin.
What is new is that the Golden Globe winner Julianne Moore (52) and actor John Crusack (46) with it this time. Cronenberg will of course take over the government. In addition, the company Prospero Pictures and producer Martin Katz will be at his side.

Bruce Wagner, the screenwriter of "Map To The Stars" described the story as a dark thriller in the comic look. Apparently the film is set in Los Angeles. Is rumored to be a ghost story and an indie drama. Details about the plot but are not yet known. For Robert Pattinson and his castmates to start filming in July and then it will go to Toronto.

Robert's girlfriend Kristen Stewart's new film project would not like it because it has retired recently from the movie thriller project "Focus", according to insiders to have more time for Robert.

Charlie Sheen & Co.: The "Scary Movie 5" workout

Finally spring is here and with it come the time to start a brutal fitness program for the dream body. Sit-ups and squats are from yesterday, now it says:

Scary Movie 5

Image: Constantin Film
Train Less Ordinary with the very latest spoof workout. How to do this show from 25 April 2013 our "Scary Movie 5" stars (including Charlie Sheen) in the movie. Here are a foretaste of the four-step plan - just do not be shy, this is a pure delight!
1 The grueling training of bedrooms Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen is a true fat burner: acrobatic feats, abseiling, lifting and gymnastics with the highest figures Verknotungsgefahr require tremendous skill, tremendous concentration and extraordinary perseverance. Just exactly what the two are famous.

2 After the warm-up phase is followed by a crisp SM Workout with Mike Tyson. Since fists fly, that there is only so crunches. As a reward for all the blows there with Iron Mike still chain bondage games and fun - the stretshing the muscles and pumping adrenaline into the bloodstream properly!

3 So it goes well perfused with Ashley Tisdale and Erica Ash on the dance floor. We start the Cours de Danse as handsome swan on the top and rock us loose flaky with hip-hop beats in ear, mind-altering substances in the blood and sexy hip movement towards the bar

4 Finally, we mobilize all remaining forces and once again give everything, for it is said: Raise your glasses and drink to the loss of the mother tongue! And who the next day neither has a film tear, will be blackmailed with embarrassing videos from the rush of all intoxications, has definitely given no trouble. So that is nothing to the Scary Body!

With: Charlie Sheen, Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Katrina Bowden, Terry Crews, Heather Locklear and many others
Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee
Screenwriter: David Zucker & Pat Proft
Producers: David Zucker, Phil Dornfeld

Alexander Siddig in "Kidnapped in Damascus"

A father is fighting against arbitrariness and corruption in an authoritarian country: ZDF shows 22 April 2013, 22.00 clock, the Canadian-South African film "Kidnapped in Damascus" as a free-TV premiere. Director Ruba Nadda directed the thriller starring Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei, Joshua Jackson, Oded Fehr and many others.

Picture: ZDF / Fadia Nadda
Adib (Alexander Siddig), who left his home in Syria to Canada years ago. When he comes one day from work to home, expect him frightening news: His eldest daughter Muna (Jay Anstey) has gone without his permission to Damascus to get an idea about the origin of her father - and has now disappeared.
The immediately forges worried father plans to travel for the first time in thirty years back in his homeland. He uses channels that provide much information about his past: Adib was an officer in the Syrian intelligence when he came under suspicion of spying for Israel.

Through his flight abroad although he had to pull his head out of the loop, but also lost contact with loved ones in the home, on which he now - depends - in the hour of need. Of his former fiancée Fatima (Marisa Tomei), he receives the necessary help in Syria, although they still can not forgive him, that he sold without their knowledge abroad and all these years has not contacted her.

Both fall into the troubled country in a web of intrigue and dubious meet contemporaries such as the Canadian embassy staff Paul (Joshua Jackson) or the Syrian government servant Sayid (Oded Fehr). When the secret finally learns of the presence Adibs in Damascus, the chances of survival for his daughter fall dramatically. The desperate father must now mobilize all its forces and arm themselves in order to have a real chance to get his daughter out of the country alive.

Director Ruba Nadda, a Canadian with Syrian and Palestinian roots, staged with "Kidnapped in Damascus" her fifth film, and relit the fate of a Syrian immigrant, his past catches up to.

Unlike previous productions - as early as "Sabah" (2005) provides Nadda a Syrian woman in the foreground, which einhandelt by her love for a non-Muslim problems with her family - they waived this time on comedic elements in favor of an uncompromising thriller plot and shows very clearly the desperation of a man who wants to save the most important thing in his life: his child.

Actor Alexander Siddig, who plays Adib can fall back on "Kidnapped in Damascus" on his broad experience in the action genre: After appearances in several television series in his career (including "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"), he is in especially with movies like "Doomsday" or "Clash of the Titans" on the big screen to see the last few years.

Generally, "Kidnapped in Damascus" relies on full-on action-competence, which the participation by Oded Fehr, who had his most famous roles in the films The Mummy and Resident Evil series, impressively confirmed.