Birdman

24 Febrero, 2016

Plot

Riggan Thomson is an ex-Hollywood star now down on his luck. He had been famous years before playing a superhero called Birdman. He constantly hears the voice of Birdman, which mocks and criticizes him for quitting the role. He is trying to revive his career by appearing in a play on Broadway, which he is also writing and directing. The lay also stars his girlfriend, Laura, a first-time Broadway actress, Lesley, and an unconvincing actor called Ralph. 

In one scene, Thomson looks up at the stage lights and one falls on Ralph’s head. He cannot continue. Lesley suggests a brilliant but difficult actor called mike Shiner could take Ralph’s part. Then Laura tells Thomson that she has missed two periods and may be pregnant. He pretends to be happy. Shiner joins the cast and the preview performances begin.


Source: Speak Up.

Película no recomendada a menores de 16 años.

Sinopsis:
Birdman es la primera aventura como director en el género de la comedia, del experto en desgarradores dramas Alejandro Gónzalez Iñárritu. La historia trata de la carrera de un actor y de cómo ésta se ha desmoronado. El actor recuerda con anhelo los años en los que interpretó papeles de extraordinario éxito como el de un superhéroe, que hoy por hoy sigue siendo un referente. Ahora desea más que nunca volver de nuevo a su carrera, subido en los escenarios de Broadway, mientras que lucha por recuperarse a sí mismo, como persona, y también recuperar a sus seres más queridos, su familia.

Fuente: www.sensacine.com

El nuevo exótico Hotel Marigold

24 Febrero, 2016

Plot

Eight months before the film opens, seven British pensioners travelled to what they thought was going to be a glamorous resort in Jaipur, India, where they planned to spend their retirement years in the “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”. Things, however, were not as they expected…
Now, eight months later, we return to see how they are progressing, Muriel, once a bitter xenophobe, is now helping the young hotel owner, Sonny, to manage the business. 

They are in America looking for investors for Sonny’s new plan –there is now only one vacancy in his hotel, and he wants to open a new one for other pensioners. A possible investor says he will send an undercover inspector to have a look at Sonny’s hotel. Shortly after the two return to India, two new people, Guy and Lavinia, arrive at the hotel. Sonny is convinced that Guy is the inspector..


Source: Speak Up.

Película no recomendada a menores de 7 años.

Sinopsis:

El hotel Marigold está prosperando cuando dos nuevos viajeros, Guy y Lavinia, llegan en busca de habitación. El problema comienza en el momento que les comunican que sólo hay una habitación disponible. El resto de huéspedes se dan cuenta de la tensión entre los dos viajes, y mientras tanto, en los pasillos del hotel comienzan un sinfín de peleas y, como no, romances.

Es la segunda parte de El exótico Hotel Marigold (2011) y la dirige John Madden, director de la anterior. El reparto está compuesto por Judi Dench (Skyfall), Maggie Smith (Harry Potter y las reliquias de la muerte: Parte 2), Bill Nighby (Una cuestión de tiempo), Richard Gere (El fraude), Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) y Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey).



Fuente: www.sensacine.com

La Dama de Oro

24 Febrero, 2016

Plot

Los Angeles, 1998. Maria Altman attends her sister’s funeral. As young women they were forced to flee their country when the Nazi persecution of the Jews began. Among her papers are references to a painting belonging to their aunt which is now in the Belvedere in Vienna. She decides to consult an old friend’s son, Randol Schoenberg, who is a lawyer. The painting is no less than Klimt’s Woman in Gold, which was stolen by the Nazis during the war. There is a committee dealing with claims for the return of works of art and Maria would like to pursue the matter further. 

At first Randy refuses; he has just started a new job and has a wife and children to support. But he is intrigued by the case, the value of the painting and by Maria herself and agrees to take it up. He even persuades her to go to Vienna to speak at a conference on stolen art works.


Source: Speak Up.

Película no recomendada a menores de 7 años.

Sinopsis:

Han pasado sesenta años desde que Maria Altmann, una mujer judía, se vio en la obligación de huir de Viena debido al asedio nazi durante la II Guerra Mundial.
Tras todos esos años fuera de su país, decide emprender un viaje para exigir el patrimonio que los nazis le robaron a su familia, entre lo que se encuentra una importante obra de Gustav Klimt, el “Retrato de Adele Bloch-Baauer I”.
Para ayudarle en este largo y complicado camino, el joven abogado Randy Schoenberg lucha junto a ella para suplir la falta de experiencia de Altmann y llegar hasta la cúspide del gobierno de Austria y la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos.
Sin embargo, el viaje es difícil y Maria debe enfrentarse a todos los secretos y verdades que se esconden en su pasado, y que ahora salen a la luz.
La dama de oro es una película dirigida por Simon Curtis (Mi semana con Marilyn) y protagonizada por Helen Mirren (Un viaje de diez metros); Ryan Reynolds (The Captive); Daniel Brühl (El hombre más buscado); Tatiana Maslany (la serie de televisión Orphan Black); y Katie Holmes (Miss Meadows).

 


Fuente: www.sensacine.com

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El gran Hotel Budapest

11 Mayo, 2015

Plot
1985. Zubrowa’s greatest author is reminiscing about the writing of his last book. He goes back to 1968, when he went to stay at The Grand Budapest Hotel. While there he met the owner, Zero Mustapha, once the richest man in the country.

August osage county (Agosto)

22 Abril, 2015

Plot

Violet Weston lives with her alcoholic husband, Beverly, a writer and academic, and her daughter Ivy. She has been a drug addict for many years. She is also suffering from cancer of the mouth, and one day Beverly hires a girl, Johnna, to look after her.