This British comedy was shown and awarded at the 2019 South by Southwest Festival under the name 'Boyz in the Wood', but now it has been given the title 'Get Duked!', a play on an English swear word and the plot of the movie. The story follows the adventures of four teenagers in the Scottish Highlands as they complete the so-called "Duke of Edinburgh Challenge". They have to make a journey through the wilderness and, as if that weren't hard enough, they also have to escape from a pair of hunters who want to kill them. 'Get Duked!' is full of sharp humor and good critiques of youth culture, regarding drug consumption and also the difference between social classes. The production can be compared to the kind of comedy of Taika Waititi, who manages to talk about serious topics and still get a laugh out of it. An example of this is the award-winning 'Jojo Rabbit' and 'The Incredible Adventure of Rick Baker'. 'Get Duked!' has a great soundtrack - for those who are fans of hip-hop - and an original plot, which mixes moments of tension with lots of humor. The cast of the movie is not very well known, the most popular faces are Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, Jonathan Aris and James Cosmo, who deliver great performances. The four protagonists don't stay behind, special mention to Lewis Gribben - it's hard not to laugh at his lines.
In The Idea of You, Solène (Anne Hathaway), a 40-year-old single mother, embarks on an unexpected romance with Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), a 24-year-old August Moon boy band vocalist. But Hayes's superstar status soon poses inevitable challenges to their relationship, and Solène quickly discovers that life in his spotlight may be more than she bargained for. An exciting romance inspired by a successful fanfic.
This feature film debut from Regina King as a director is an adaptation of the homonymous play written by Kemp Powers. And the debut couldn't be more interesting. Although it is simplistic in some decisions and a bit tiring with such verbosity of the dialogues, the feature film recreates the meeting that never happened of four of the greatest icons of the black movement of the 1960s. It's a delicious conversation that anyone would want to participate in. Here there is emotion, feeling, fear, anguish. Happiness with what has changed, concern with what remains the same. King, meanwhile, does not accept making this film just a filmed theater piece. She has elegance in the conduct of the plot, helping to highlight the friendship of these four figures and, above all, to emphasize aspects of the black movement of the 1960s that resonate decades later. It is a powerful, urgent, elegant, necessary, precise film. Just accept the format, understand the style and dive into the imagination of the plot that, according to King, is a love story.
In 2006, actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen hit the bullseye with his outrageous comedy, but with a powerful and very funny political and social subtext behind it. 14 years later, Cohen returns to the character at a time of political extremism, again in a provocative and daring way. Although the movie does not have the same vigor and power as the previous one, the jokes are still sharp and some moments exude daring - the scenes with Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani and two Republicans in quarantine are absolutely hilarious. Maria Bakalova ('Transgression') also helps to move the plot forward as Borat's daughter. So, it can be said that, although inferior to the first one, 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' fulfills what it promises: it makes you laugh and, once again, it provokes the status quo of American politics and high society.
Look Back is the adaptation of the popular manga of the same name by Tatsuki Fujimoto, better known as the creator of Chainsaw Man. The film, brief and moving, tells the story of two girls: Fujino, popular and talented at creating comedy manga; and Kyōmoto, shy, agoraphobic, but gifted at drawing landscapes. When they meet, a beautiful friendship and a fertile collaboration emerge, which, however, is destined for tragedy. Fans of Fujimoto's original work will be more than satisfied with this adaptation: as if the original manga were a storyboard, the film brings it to life through vibrant colors and movement in an animation that only enhances the emotions that the narrative holds. A simple yet powerful story about art, life, death, and their eternal, inevitable, and symbiotic relationship.