Every Wednesday, discover our selection of the five most anticipated cinema releases of the week. A selection of unmissable films to discover in theaters now.
1. Anaconda
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Director: Tom Gormican
Actors: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn
Synopsis: Doug and Griff have been childhood friends who share a somewhat crazy dream: to make their own remake of their favorite film, the cult classic ANACONDA. In the midst of a midlife crisis, they finally decide to take the plunge, and find themselves filming in the heart of the Amazon. But the dream quickly turns into a nightmare when a real giant anaconda appears and turns their already chaotic set into a deadly trap. The film they are dying to make? It’s going to be truly deadly…
2. On a Blues Note
Genre: Musical, Drama
Director: Craig Brewer
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Ella Anderson
Synopsis: Based on a true story, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play two broke musicians who bring Neil Diamond’s music back to life by forming a tribute band.
3. Shining in Battle
Genre: Drama
Director: Joséphine Japy
Actors: Mélanie Laurent, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Sarah Pachoud
Synopsis: Shining in Battle is the etymological meaning of the name Bertille, the youngest of the two Roussier sisters, who suffers from a severe disability with an uncertain diagnosis. The family lives in a fragile balance around this child who monopolizes everyone’s efforts and thoughts and could lose her life at any moment. Each of them tries to build their life as best as they can with the demands of this pace and the uncertainties that accompany it. The parents, Madeleine and Gilles, the older sister, Marion. What daily life and future for a mother, a father, a couple, a teenager made to mature too quickly by the responsibility of her younger sister? When a new diagnosis is made, the cards are reshuffled and a new horizon emerges…
4. The Tigers
Genre: Crime
Director: Alberto Rodriguez
Actors: Antonio de la Torre, Bárbara Lennie, JoaquÃn Nuñez
Synopsis: Brother and sister, Antonio and Estrella have always worked as scuba divers in a Spanish port on passing merchant ships. Upon discovering a consignment of drugs hidden beneath a cargo ship that docks at the port every three weeks, Antonio believes he has found the solution to his financial problems: stealing part of the loot and reselling it.
5. Magellan
Genre: Biopic, Drama, Romance
Director: Lav Diaz
Actors: Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Roger Alan Koza, Dario Yazbek Bernal
Synopsis: Driven by the dream of pushing the boundaries of the world, Magellan defies kings and oceans. At the end of his journey, it is his own excess that he discovers and the cost of conquest. Behind the myth is the truth of his voyage.
