Brad Pitt reigns in this weekend’s premieres with “Bullet Train”

Action, trains, murderers, black humor and Brad Pitt in ‘Bullet Train’

From the director of ‘Deadpool 2’, David Leitch, who doubled for Pitt in films like ‘Fight Club’ (1999), ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ (2001) or ‘Troy’ (2004), hits the billboards Spanish ‘Bullet Train’, a comedy black that follows a bunch of hit men traveling at the same time on the same train from Tokyo to Kyoto.

Based on Kotaro Isaka’s 2010 Japanese novel ‘Maria Beetle’, the film focuses on the character of ‘Ladybug’ (Pitt)who is forced to pick up a briefcase on a “bullet train” where other assassins like him travel with their own plans, a fun proposal that is also an exciting journey through modern Japan.

Starring Brad Pitt, and with Sandra Bullock in the role of Maria Beetle, alongside Joey King, Zazie Beetz, Karen Fukuhara, Aaron Taylor Johnson Y Michael Shannonamong others, the film was criticized for not casting Asian actors in leading rolesbut Isaka himself, who participated in the script, defended the universality of the characters.

First fiction about the libertarian commune of ‘Monte Veritá’

Swiss director Stefan Jäger has shot the first fiction about the libertarian commune of Monte Veritálocated in the canton of Ticino at the beginning of 1900, where young people from all over the world lived in complete freedom -some as distinguished as Isadora Duncan or Herman Hess-, in a kind of prelude to what was the hippie movement “Flower Power”.

With a script by Kornelija Naraks, ‘The photographer of Monte Veritá’ shows life in this communeand how it was reached, through the fictional experience of a young bourgeois mother, Hanna (Maresi Riegner), who suffer from constant anxiety attacks without knowing what is happening to him.

One of the doctors who treats her, Otto Gross (Max Hubacher), convinces her to go to the Monte Veritá sanatorium, where he is convinced that she will get better, surrounded by the idyllic nature of the mountain and dedicating herself body and soul to herself and her most intense desire (to be a photographer).

An idea by Mel Brooks for ‘A Samurai Hero: The Legend of Hank’

Three animation directors who bring together titles as emblematic as ‘The Lion King’, ‘Kung Fu Panda’ either ‘Big Hero 6’ are responsible for the animated film ‘A Samurai Hero: The Legend of Hank’, a animated comedy inspired by the classic “Hot Saddles” (1974), by Mel Brooks, who voices a character in the original version.

It is about the winner of an Oscar Chris Bailey, along with Mark Koetsier and Rob Minkoff, who have the collaboration of Paul Stodolny and Rob Silvestri, on a script in which they participate, in addition to Brooks himself, a team of seven writers.

It is the story of Hank, a bloodhound who is on his last legs, and who arrives in a town full of cats that they need a hero to defend them from the evil plan of a ruthless villain, who wants the town to disappear from the map. With the help of a teacher who reluctantly agrees to train him, Hank assumes the dream role of samurai and ends up defending his natural enemies: cats.

‘Maria Chapdelaine’, rural life 100 years ago in cold Canada

Quebecois Sebastien Pilote writes and directs this Country Tale of Immaculate Frozen Photography into which he has turned ‘Maria Chapdelaine’, the novel written in 1913 by Louis Hémon that has survived to the present day after being reissued for a whole century until become a ‘best seller’ with tens of millions of copies sold all over the world.

The movie, a beautiful exhibition of the rawest nature in winters Canadians and their wonderful summers, takes place in 1910 and follows Maria Chapdelaine, a seventeen-year-old girl, and her family, a tremendously hard-working group of people who live to fulfill the dreams of their father, a settler who only wants a “good land” .

Although the custom is to cut down trees, reclaiming land from the forest, the father has come a little far: his house is so far away and his life is so hard thatsorrows relate to a handful of people and for a short period of time; still, Maria (Sara Monpetit) has three suitors.

‘Thirteen lives’, the real rescue of a team from a flooded cave

‘Thirteen Lives’, directed by Ron Howard and starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton Y Tom Batemanamong others, narrates the story based on real facts of the international effort that was made to rescue a Thai soccer team that was trapped in the Tham Luang cave during an unexpected storm.

With the entire world watching, the rescuers – including 10,000 volunteers – embarked on the most challenging dive to date while proving that the human spirit of survival knows no bounds. It premieres only online on the Prime Video platform.

And ‘Luck’, a family premiere streaming on Apple TV +

‘Luck’, available in the Apple TV+ screeners room, is a tape cartoon directed by Peggy Holmes from a screenplay by Kiel Murray, with John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and David Eisenmann producing for Skydance Animation.

‘Luck’ is an Apple Films original film that tells the story of Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world, who when he stumbles upon the uncharted Land of Luck embarks on a quest to bring some good fortune to a friend’s house; humans can’t get in there, so Sam he is forced to ask the magical creatures that live there.