In room movies 26 February

These new films cinema season, presented by the journalist critic Michael Lattanzi, in the halls of Florence from Thursday 26 February.

Motel
Genus: Dramatic, Thriller
Director: David Grovic
Cast: John Cusack, Rebecca Da Costa, Robert De Niro, Crispin Glover, Dominic Purcell, Sticky Fingaz, Martin Klebba, David Shumbris, Chazz Menendez, Ian Mclaughlin

Motel is a noir thriller that follows the story of Jack, starring John Cusack, a hard man, unfortunate, but the sensitive nature, that is hired by Dragna, Robert De Niro, a legendary crime boss, to complete a simple task but somewhat unusual. The plot revolves around waiting for Dragna, who called Jack and a bunch of shady characters in a remote place, a cramped motel, for unknown reasons. During that long night of agonizing waiting, Jack si imbatterà in Rivka, a beautiful woman whose life you weave so unexpected to her. The wait will not last forever, and the appearance of Dragna will have consequences for all unexpected and extreme.

Defect of form
Genus: Dramatic
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Martin Short, Jena Malone, Maya Rudolph, Joanna Newsom, Martin Short, Eric Roberts, Sasha Pieterse

It all starts when the old flame of private detective ATM Doc shows up unexpectedly, telling the story of his current partner, billionaire landowner who is in love, and the plots of his wife and her boyfriend. We are at the end of the psychedelic years 60 and paranoia is on the agenda and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words in vogue at that moment in history, come “trip” o “groovy”, that are used inappropriately; only that the word "love" usually brings trouble.

Kingsman - Secret Service
Genus: Action, Thriller
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Mark Strong, Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Michael Caine, Jack Davenport, Corey Johnson, Conference Egerton, Sofia boutella, Gachev name, Sophie Cookson, Tom Prior

A secret organization of super spies, is starting a recruitment program to add to the group new agents. To be part of the recruits is also called a thug street, although he had a respectable academic career who then abandoned to devote himself to the crime; a thug by the talent and enormous potential…

The laws of desire
Genus: Comedy
Director: Silvio Muccino
Cast: Silvio Muccino, Nicole Grimaudo, Maurizio Mattioli, Luke Ward, Carla Signoris, Paola Tiziana Cruciani

The desires of man move the world. And every day, to be able to get the object of our desire, we change ourselves and our reality. Or at least, let's do it. According to John Canton, the charismatic motivational trainer and acrobatic protagonist of this story, There are specific techniques that can help us achieve what we want, be it the pleasure, luxury, power, success or love. Regarded by his many fans a kind of prophet, and many other a scoundrel who takes advantage of the weaknesses of others, Canton decides to prove the truth of his theories by organizing a competition for the selection of three lucky people who will be brought to him in six months to achieve their wildest desires. But the intense relationship that will be established between the life coach and the trio chosen will produce unexpected effects in the lives of all of them, especially in that of Canton.

Automatic
Genus: Science fiction, Thriller
Director: Gabe Ibáñez
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster, Tim McInnerny, Andy Nyman, David Ryall, Andrew Tiernan, Christa Campbell

2044, Earth is heading towards desertification and humanity struggle for survival in an environment that has become quite hostile. The human race coexists with robots, created to support the condition of a society in decline. The insurance agent Jacq VAUCAN, who works for a company of robotics, la Roc Robotics Corporation, investigates some defective androids. During one of his investigations he discovers that some robots have evolved, becoming a possible threat to humanity.

Marvelous Boccaccio
Genus: Dramatic
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Kasia Smutniak, Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Rosabel Laurenti Sellers, Kim Rossi Stuart, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Lello Arena, Michele Rion, Flavio Parenti, Vittoria Puccini

The background is that of the fourteenth-century Florence hit by the plague, pushing ten young to take refuge in the countryside, and to spend time telling of short stories. Oh clever drammaticbe, Sex or grotesque, all the stories they still actually one, great protagonist: love, in its many shades. It will just love to become the best antidote for all the suffering and the uncertainties of an era.

Spongebob - Out of the water
Genus: Animation
Director: Paul Tibbitt

Comes a new adventure of nice sea sponge and his friends in the city of Bikini Bottom. TO 10 years after the first episode, comes the second animated feature taken from the famous TV series of Nickelodeon starring SpongeBob, the cheerful and carefree marine sponge, always with his friends, all sea creatures that live in a world very similar to that of humans.

Home
Genus: Dramatic
Director: Felice Farina
Cast: Francesco Pannofino, Roberto Citran, Carlo Giuseppe Gabardini

The factory closes and fires, yet another in Turin. Goodbye jobs, goodbye identity, goodbye certainties. Salvatore Brogna, worker, climbs the tower factory, protest or maybe just to blind rage, threatening to jump off. Giorgio, worker union representative, of character and political faith of all opposites, arrives to save him from falling. The third, visually impaired and autistic, caretaker hired as protected category, adds heroically climbing the tower to make their company. Over the course of one night, desperately waiting to arrive some journalist, these three points of view so different about the world retrace the last thirty years of the life of the country, the years that brought them on that tower dangerous.

A journey seriously… but not too much
Genus: Comedy
Director: Modestino Di Nenna
Cast: Lina Sastri, Simona Masilotti, Joseph Joy Xaverian, Anna Rita Di Sarno, Vincenzo Galdo, Carlo Maria Todini, Gennaro Xaverian, Angela Caterina, Enzo Costanza, Luigi France, Anna Caserta

The film tells the story of a boy, Joseph, that with the help of a group of his friends with disabilities goes in search of his father who died in mysterious circumstances. The story unfolds through a series of comic situation that arise from the boys with characters for their features combine to create an atmosphere that is almost surreal sometimes of considerable impact on the public. Numerous twists that characterize the journey of Joseph and his amazing friends up to a denouement that also contains a message with strong social.

The boards of the other films released in previous weeks and still in theaters can be found within our Cinema section.

Michael Lattanzi

By the number 53 - Year II 25/02/2015