"Weekend Movie Guide". As the name suggests, it's as simple as telling everyone what movies and TV dramas are worth watching every weekend. The recommended scope is not only limited to movies that are being released in mainland theaters, but also includes high-quality movies and TV series on domestic streaming media such as Youku, iQiyi, Tencent, and Station B, as well as recent popular movies in Hollywood, Japan, South Korea, and Europe.
All in all, just pay attention to this column to make sure you're not bored on the weekend and at least have a good movie to watch.
Part.1 Theatrical films
The first part of the Weekend Movie Guide will always recommend theatrical movies. Because watching movies on the big screen is our last insistence, movies should not be separated from the cinema. This week, the theater line finally ushered in a blockbuster, hoping to change the decline.
Jurassic World 3
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Movie channel: Cinema line
Director: Colin Trevojo
Writers: Colin Trevoro / Emily Carmichael / Derek Connery / Michael Clayton
Starring: Chris Pratt / Blythe Dallas Howard / Sam Neil / Laura Dunn / Jeff Goldblum
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Adventure
Release: 2022-06-10 (US/Chinese mainland)
Runtime: 147 minutes
As a veritable rescue work, "Jurassic World 3" should be able to break through the 1 billion box office. This should be a good news for cinemas that have been closed for a long time.
Especially as the finale of the "Jurassic World" series, it is of great significance for the new and old generations of starring actors to gather in this film and bid farewell to the big dinosaurs together. In addition, the film will be 2 hours and 26 minutes long, the longest in the series.
The first in the series, released in 2015, tells the story of the tyrannical Tyrannosaurus rex cultivated by artificial genetic technology to escape from Jurassic World; The second, released in 2018, tells the story of the protagonists who travel to the island to be destroyed to rescue dinosaurs. The third part continues the story of the previous one, telling a series of stories that happened after dinosaurs entered the human world.
The Jurassic series has long been considered a prime example of the combination of technology and film, and as early as 1993, it relied on simple special effects and exquisite models to create lifelike dinosaur effects. After entering the new century, special effects technology has developed by leaps and bounds, and the Jurassic World series has also used the top Hollywood special effects. Therefore, this film is also particularly worth choosing a better big screen movie.
Genius program
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Movie channel: Cinema line
Director: Francis Annan
Writers: Francis Annan / L. H. Adams / Tim Jenkin / Carol Griffiths
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe / Daniel Webb / Ian Hart / Mark Leonard Winter / Nathan Peggy / more...
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Crime
Release: 2022-06-10(Chinese mainland)
Runtime: 106 minutes
Although it is already a movie from two years ago, this time it should only be released to clear the inventory, but the quality of the movie itself is not bad, you may wish to recommend it. It's just a change of title, and many viewers may not know it.
Its original title was Escape from Pretoria, a 2020 British action thriller film. The protagonist is very famous, that is, daniel Radcliffe, the actor who played Harry Potter, who told one of his prison escape stories.
Interestingly, the story is based on the true events of Tim Jenkin's autobiographical novel Prison Break: Escape from Pretoria. The story is set in the late 1970s, when South Africa's apartheid policy set off a wave of widespread protests, and the protagonists were two white people who opposed the apartheid policy and were eventually imprisoned.
In prison, they met Leonard from France. Together, the three of them successfully crafted the keys to all the iron doors of the prison by building the keys, and finally successfully escaped from prison.
Part.2 UAiteng
The second part of the "Weekend Movie Guide" will insist on recommending high-quality film and television dramas that can be seen on domestic streaming media platforms such as Youku, iQiyi, Tencent, and Station B. Although for a long time, the network drama has always been full of all kinds of shoddy fabrication, but in recent years, with the improvement and upgrading of the quality of online movies, there are actually many online movies worth watching. In short, lower your expectations, there may be surprises.
Dream Hualu
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Watch channel: Tencent Video
Director: Yang Yang
Writers: Zhang Wei
Starring: Liu Yifei / Chen Xiao / Liu Yan / Lin Yun / Xu Haiqiao / more...
Genre: Drama / Romance / Costume
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Premiere: 2022-06-02(Chinese mainland)
Episodes: 40
Episode length: 45 minutes
There is no doubt that "Dream Hualu" is the hottest film and television drama at present. It has been played more than 600 million times in the 5 days of launch, and the Douban score has risen from 8.3 to 8.8 points, becoming the highest score of domestic drama Douban so far in 2022.
Adapted from Guan Hanqing's meta-drama "Zhao Pan'er Wind and Moon Rescue from Wind and Dust", "Dream Hualu" tells the story of the protagonists Zhao Pan'er, Song Yinzhang and Sun Sanniang joining hands to break into Beijing, and with the help of Gu Qianfan, the deputy commander of the Imperial City Division, they ran the small tea house into the largest restaurant in Beijing, and at the same time opened the door of equal redemption for women of humble status in ancient times.
In addition to the famous blessing of "Guan Hanqing", the biggest gimmick is Liu Yifei's return to the small screen after 16 years, whether it is fans or passers-by are looking forward to her performance, so that this drama has already satisfied the appetite of the audience before it has started.
However, in terms of plot, "Dream Hualu" has not been perfect, and there are still problems of domestic dramas full of errors and omissions, and water injection delays.
Defiant
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Watch channel: iQiyi
Director: Yang Bingjia
Writers: Yang Bingjia
Starring: Xie Miao / Gao Weiman / Xiang Hao / Liu Ben / Zhang Di
Genre: Action / Martial Arts
Release: 2022-06-03 (Chinese mainland Network)
Runtime: 74 minutes
Also known as: Blind Man
Recently, a popular network movie, martial arts theme, the protagonist is a blind man, the action is sharp, a bit of humpback city feeling.
The director of this film is Yang Bingjia, co-starring Xie Miao, Gao Weiman, Xiang Hao, Liu Ben and Zhang Di. Many people may not know about Sem miao, but in fact, everyone should have seen his childhood works, that is, the little friend in Jet Li starring in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", which can also be regarded as a child star. In recent years, it has been acting on the internet, and a large number of works, including "Xin Abandoned Disease 1162", "Northeast Police Story", etc., the quality is average, but it is won by quantity.
However, "No One in sight" as a big online movie, in terms of action direction and art is still relatively good. The story is simple, but a few fight scenes are still quite exciting.
The story is also a bridge of revenge, the blind "knife catcher" with special skills becomes blind, meets the tragically destroyed and humiliated restaurant girl, who originally did not want to intervene, he was gradually involved in a powerful dark dispute, and the blind man began to embark on the road of revenge seeking justice.
Part.3 Top Resources
The third part of the "Weekend Movie Guide" will focus on new film resources, popular new films in Hollywood, Europe, Japan, and South Korea. As long as you have the conditions to watch the movie, you will recommend it to everyone for the first time. Of course, the specific resources still depend on everyone to dig up.
Genius can't bear the weight
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Director: Tom Gomicon
Writers: Tom Gomicon / Kevin Etten
Starring: Nicolas Cage / Pedro Pascal / Tiffany Hades / Sharon Haugen / Paco Leon / more...
Genre: Comedy / Action / Crime
Release Date: 2022-03-12 (South by Southwest Film Festival) / 2022-04-22 (USA)
Runtime: 107 minutes
The much-anticipated "The Weight of Genius Can't Bear" has finally been released on streaming media, and everyone will have the opportunity to see the strangeness of this so-called strange movie.
The reason why everyone says that this movie is strange is because nicholas Cage, an old friend of the Chinese people and the king of bad movies, is about to be a demon again, and he plays himself in this movie - a former superstar of the king and now a third-rate actor.
The film tells that Cage is lost because he has made too many bad films, and he agrees to collect money for a billionaire (Pedro Pascal) birthday party, but the rich man is his loyal fan and wants to secretly show him his script. When Cage established contact with the rich man, he was told by the CIA that the rich man was actually a big drug lord, and Cage had to take on the most important role in his life.
Interestingly, there are many homages to Cage himself in the film, including "Leaving Las Vegas", "Face-Off", "Gone in 60 Seconds" and so on. If there are Cage fans, it should be cool to see these parts.
However, Cage played Cage, which is the only fun in this film. The rest of the film is rather boring, with two inexplicably big men telling weird, not-so-funny cold jokes from start to finish.
Novelist's film
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Director: Hong Changxiu
Writers: Hong Changxiu
Starring: Lee Hye Young / Kim Min Hee / Seo Young-hee / Park Mi-hee / Kwon Hae-hyo / more...
Genre: Drama
Release date: 2022-02-16 (Berlin Film Festival) / 2022-04-21 (South Korea)
Runtime: 92 minutes
Hong Changxiu's new film, which is made faster than you can see, is familiar again. Sure enough, as long as Kim Min-hee participates in the movie, there will always be a large number of fans to grasp the translation.
This film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival, and while taking Kim Min-hee to Berlin to show love, he also won a jury prize, which really made film directors around the world envious.
The story tells the story of novelist Joon-hee (Lee Hye-young) who travels far away to visit the bookstore of his descendants, walks alone and meets the film director couple and actors, and convinces the actress (Kim Min-hee) to make a movie together.
In fact, it can be connected with Hong Changxiu's last work "In Front of You". The last film tells the story of a middle-aged woman (played by Lee Wai-young) who meets a director who says he wants to make a movie for her, but ends up cheating on her.
When you look at the two movies together, you can see a whole complete story. Hong Changxiu has this kind of everyday lens and dialogue, constructing the divinity between the daily life, subtly touching on aging, disease and death, and finally expressing sincere love in sudden color shots.