Films and TV series from 10 to 16 January (Topic)

As you know, life does not end during the New Year holidays. Therefore, many will be interested in knowing in advance what the filmmakers will offer us after the post-New Year and post-Christmas passions have subsided?

Short lists of movie premieres of the second decade of January

Let's immediately pay attention to the fundamental difference between the New Year's schedule and the old New Year's one. In the old New Year, our selection of films will be almost twice as large, but USA films will be completely absent from the list of film premieres. What exactly are we going to look at in the second decade of January? In short, the list of movies looks like this:

• Creed 2 (USA);
• Start over (US);
• 1 + 1 Hollywood Story (USA);
• Black stripe (France, Belgium);
• Dark Mirror (USA);
• The Way Home (USA);
• Monster Family Mystery (India, Mexico);
• Chimera (USA);
• Snow Races (Canada)

As we can see, in the current list of premieres there are as many as 9 films against New Year's 5. Indeed, for the old New Year we were, for some reason, much more fortunate with variety.

Schedule of new seasons of TV series

And what about TV shows? They, as you can see, have broken through since the New Year so that no one can plug the pipe. But, nevertheless, their flow is gradually starting to dry up, because against the previous week, in which the light saw the whole 17 new seasons of our favorite TV series, this week we have to check out only 13 significant starts of the seasons, of which 3 will be full-fledged premieres. This is how the list of franchises looks briefly, arranged by date:

• 10.01. The Promised Neverland, Japan premiere;
• 10.01. Untold Biology Season 2 (USA)
• 10.01. Family, TV series premiere (USA);
• 10.01. Brooklyn 9-9, Season 6 (USA);
• 10.01. Death in Paradise Season 8 (England)
• 11.01. Granchester, season 4 (England);
• 11.01. Man from the Future Season 2 (USA);
• 11.01. Friends from College Season 2 (USA)
• 12.01. Virgin, Season 5 (USA);
• 13.01. Victoria Season 3 (England)
• 13.01. True Detective Season 3 (USA);
• 15.01. Roswell, New Mexico, US premiere;
• 15.01. Monsters Corporation Season 2 (USA)
• 15.01. Drunken Story Season 6 (US)

So this week there will be a lot to see in theaters and on TV. And to make it easier for us to make a choice, let's go through the premieres in more detail.

Short mid-January movie premieres

As already mentioned, domestic films were not included in the list of films released on large screens since January 10. It consists of 7 movies and 2 full-length cartoons, and the main expectation of this week, of course, is the boxing drama "Creed 2". Let's start with her.

Creed 2. Rating IMDb 7.8, CP 6.9

Film campaigns: Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, Warner Brothers Entertainment.

Genres: sports, drama.

Director: Stephen Capel Jr.

In chap. Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Dolph Lundgren.

Sylvester Stallone and company do not want to believe in any way that the hen called "Rocky Balboa" is no longer able to lay the golden eggs.

And they are right. Although now these eggs are no longer borne by the hen "Rocky", but by her chicken named "Adonis Creed". No, Creed is not Rocky's son. He's just his good and talented student. But the former main rival of Balboa, the Soviet professional boxer Ivan Drago, as it turned out, has a son. And now Rocky's foster child - Creed must at all costs defeat this son. After all, by doing so, Balboa, as it were, will screw up Vanka Drago already in the second generation.

The intrigue is complicated by the fact that Vanka Drago once killed Adonis Creed's father in the ring. So, it will also be a righteous revenge for the father. How can you lose then? Well, since we know how everything will end, where to go to the movie?

Yes, as usual, there will be a lot of training, a little drama, memories of how Lundgren's hero killed his daddy. And, of course, a difficult duel, at the end of which, nevertheless, Creed will win. How could it be otherwise?

Start over. IMDb rating 5.9.

Film Campaign: STX Entertainment.

Genres: comedy, melodrama.

Director: Peter Segal.

In chap. Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Ann Hudgens, Treat Williams, Lea Remini.

The last serious full-length project in which Jennifer Lopez starred was "Leela and Eve" (2015). The story about two mothers who lost their sons in street shootings, desperate to wait for legal justice and personally went to war with thugs, took almost 5 million dollars. And collected on the territory of the United States was only 40 thousand dollars. How do you like this flight?

No wonder that in light of this, no one coveted Jay Lo's acting talents for three years. No, there were, of course, the voice acting of cartoons, but this is not the same. And now an ambitious comedy melodrama comes out on the screens, for which the producers did not spare as much as 16 million greens. And again failure. Since its world premiere on December 6, 2018, the tape has barely managed to recoup those costs. So, the further career of J.Lo in cinematography very much depends on how the people in USA come to the picture with her participation.

And the people will not tumble down. People not only in USA try not to go to films with an IMDb rating below 6. And rightly so. The tale of how Maya, who accidentally got a job in a well-known company, proves something to someone, is fundamentally uninteresting.

And why? Because the key word here is "random." Now, if the people on their own got out into the people, it is worth looking at it. And to get a place in the company "by chance", and after that prove something to someone ... Dear, what kind of naive and tasteless nonsense are you talking about? Who might be interested in this? You can come to the casino and watch how people accidentally win at roulette. Believe me, it will be even more interesting! And you don't need to shoot any film!

1 + 1 Hollywood Story. Rating IMDb 3.8

Film Campaigns : Lantern Entertainment, STX Entertainment ..

Genres: Comedy, Drama.

Director: Neil Burger.

In chap. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Kevin Hart, Julianne Margulies, Brian Cranston.

Believe it or not. The world premiere of the Hollywood rehash of the French "Untouchables" (our film was called "1 + 1") took place on September 8, 2017 at the Toronto Film Festival. And the masterpiece managed to be born at a time when the scandal around Weinstein's sexual harassment was only flaring up.

By all accounts, it was clear that if the movie, which was executive-produced by Harvey Weinstein, and which cost a lot of money, was released now, it would fail miserably. Therefore, he went under the cloth for 2 long years.

As a result, the painting was bought from The Weinstein Company for a song by STX Entertainment, which will have the honor to show it to the whole world. And although Weinstein's name was removed from the credits, the picture was already minus to less than 4 points on the IMDb scale. But we all know that the reason is not at all bad acting, right?

I wonder if it turned out that Einstein was a fan of grabbing women by the ass, would America give up the atomic bomb? ..

Black stripe. Rating IMDb 6.2

Film campaigns: Curiosa Films, Mars Films, France 2 Cinema.

Genres: thriller, drama, detective, crime.

Regis: r Eric Zonka.

In chap. Starring: Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Elodie Boucher, Sandrine Cyberlain.

For a long time we have not seen solid masterpieces with the participation of Vincent Cassel on the big screens. And this one, judging by the rating, also does not shine with skill. Although, for fans of muddled detective thrillers, the picture may be of some interest.

Kassel plays a detective, trying with might and main to find a teenager who disappeared overnight. When he starts to dig, then, as it turned out, any of the boy's entourage is such a strange and contradictory person that it may well become, at least, an accomplice in his disappearance ...

Dark mirror. Rating IMDb 6.2, KP 5.5

Film Campaigns : Primary Wave Entertainment, Dana Lustig Productions, Buffalo Gal Pictures.

Genre: Thriller.

Director: Asaf Bernstein.

In chap. starring: India Isley, Jason Isaacs, Penelope Mitchell, Mira Sorvino.

The tape was released worldwide three months ago and during this time it has already managed to come out in quality and acquire its own rating on KinoPoisk, which, by the way, does not even reach 6.

And therefore the question arises: is it worth going to the cinema for a wiped out masterpiece of average lousy, which, moreover, you can look at on torrents, or is it better to give preference to a more recent tape, which few people have seen yet? >