Hot bees and diabolical surfers.

Just in time for the beginning of summer, besides dramas also taken fresh teen comedies and turbulent Filmbeileger popcorn entertainment as on the title sheets of the public press. ONLINE blogs helps you spoiled for choice.

 

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"Bandidas", F / MEX / USA 2006. Director: Joachim Rönninge, Espen Sandberg. Cast: Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek. Format: 2,35:1 (16:9). FSK: 12 years. Issue price: 3,70 euros.

When the light kratzbürstigen figures Penélope Cruz ( "Volver") and Salma Hayek ( "Frida"), together with a screenplay by Luc Besson ( "The Fifth Element") in front of the camera, nothing more should go wrong. Up to a few bad puns in prepubertal infantile atmosphere we see is also an unambitious, but quickly made all the adventures of two Rächerinnen disinherited before hübscher Western scenery, which is mainly at a male audience.

Core of the event is the battle of Sara (Salma Hayek) and their complicity Maria (Penélope Cruz) against a New York bank, whose unscrupulous business practices, the two fathers took. Their common goal, as many branches auszurauben to the evil Garaus the company to make, provides all sorts of entanglements with idiot detectives, cool professional bank robbers and nasty villains. The stars of two hours is largely painless popcorn entertainment - but not do anything else.

To 5 July in the trade

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"Perfect Deal", USA 1998. Directed by: Georges Chamchoum. Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Lee Majors. Format: 1,33:1 (4:3). FSK: 16 years. and "River Queen", GB / NZ 2005th Director: Vincent Ward. Cast: Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland. Format: 1,85:1 (16:9). FSK: 16 years. Issue price: 4.50 euros.

Friends of the TV series "A Colt for all cases" can be happy, because her old star Lee Majors was 1998 in the thriller "Perfect Deal" on the entire feature length sympathetic warhorse mimes. In the role of the poker player Ben O'Conner, he along with two comrades from his military time a country club near an Indian Reservation.

But shortly after the inauguration party is anger at the door: His bartender D'Artagnan (Michael Dudikoff) verknallt is going to be in the chief subsidiary, while corrupt cops and mafia fiese the land of Indians to build a gigantic casino ergaunern want. Although the Lebanese director and producer George Chamchoum bravely tries, his second feature film with a bit of Indian folklore and veterans upgrade, so that he lands on the hard ground of the low-budget action, the only one of the fights alcohol pubs heroes blessed lives. Despite the good humor and good music to them at the end just shallow entertainment beer belly level left.

In "River Queen" is the Irish-immigrant New Zealand Sarah (Samantha Morton) at the end of the 19th Century by a young Maori pregnant, who died shortly afterwards. Against the opposition of her father brings them into the middle of the bloody turmoil of the New Zealand colonial wars of her son to the world, but already in childhood by his Maori grandfather, is kidnapped. As Sarah years later given the chance, to meet him again, she breaks down all the bridges and can be integrated into the unknown, from the indigenous-dominated hinterland lead.

Based on a true story and only after lengthy negotiations with the Maoristämmen at the Whanganui River in the west of New Zealand realized tugs the ambitious, multi-award winning drama with impressive images include a chapter of colonial history on the canvas, which is hardly known here. Like "The Navigator" (1987) and "Escape from the Ice" (1992) director Vincent Ward has also here a magical film created, one in Germany, despite its visual splendor on DVD, unfortunately, only got to see. With the "SFT" he also without subtitles, therefore, given a long, non-synchronized scenes in the Maori language a bit irritated. Nevertheless, Friends of dramatic cinema here safely accessed.

Published on 24 June in the trade

Super Illu

"Hans Roeckl and the Devil", GDR the 1974th Director: Hans Kratzert. Cast: Rolf Hoppe, Peter Aust. Format: 4:3. FSK: unlimited. Issue price: 2.99 euros.

This month shows us the "Super Illu" a fantastic fairy tale art. The creative puppeteer Hans Roeckl (Rolf Hoppe) receives is from the devil Flammfuß (Peter Aust) infinite imagination, however, needs all seven hours Useful created, otherwise he would eternally damned. When he was with his inventions is just the opposite of achieved what he intended, Roeckl need of something else that made him neither the devil drives in arms, nor the human damage.

The Ilse and Vilmos grain in 1968 to a children's fable about a manufactured rivalry between the devil and of man is Karl Marx himself had been invented, as his daughter, Eleanor wrote in her memoirs. In the seventies, evolved from the substance, then not only the special effects were great up in DEFA film, but also the most successful opera by the composer Joachim Werzlau, which until 1989 at a fixed program of the Berlin Staatsoper, and belonged to several stages after the GDR has been played. To the west is the eastern classics virtually unknown - all the more reason, a look at it.

From 2 to 8 July in the trade

TV Movie

"Nix wie raus aus Orange County, USA 2002. Director: Jake Kasdan. Cast: Colin Hanks, Jack Black. Format: 1,85:1 (16:9). FSK: 16 years. Issue price: 3.50 euros.

Just in time for the official beginning of summer is also the first summer movies angespült, here in the shape of the slightly oblique coming-out comedy about the Californian teenager Shaun (Colin Hanks). With the death of his buddies in a giant wave comes from the path of the Surfers dauergutgelaunten and opts for a highly symbolic book to find a career as a writer, in his opinion, only at the university in Stanford can begin. But surely the dream of lost study breaks, desperate attempt Shaun, the fate of a Snip Chen to beat.

Elegant meets Colin Hanks in the footsteps of his famous father Tom, but without the impressive number of game joyful Supporting Actor - especially Jack Black in the role of Feist, vollgedröhnten brother - would be the thing about not become. Probably for this reason, like Jake Kasdan second feature film after a failed start with "Zero Effect" anno 1998 now also the audience for a nice profit at the box office provided. As a successful alternative to the usual Teeniekomödienkram he avoids a moral message, despite all the raised fingers and ensures up to the beautiful conclusion of intelligent entertainment.

By 25 June in the trade