A colorful mix of films is coming to cinemas this week: a comedy with Nicolas Cage, a sequel to the cult film Ghostbusters and a story about a boy who doesn’t have an easy time at school.
“Dream Scenario”: Nicolas Cage in black comedy
The slightly clumsy university teacher Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) becomes famous overnight after he keeps appearing in the dreams of various people: Paul, according to the dreamers, stands by completely uninvolved while the most incredible and sometimes quite frightening things happen happen. As a result, Paul is asked more and more often in public: Don’t we know each other from somewhere? But the initially pleasant fame turns into a real horror trip: Paul is excluded and treated with hostility in public.
“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”
The 1984 “Ghostbusters” film is now cult. A few sequels followed – another one now stars Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon and Finn Wolfhard, among others. In “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” as Sony Pictures describes it, “the Spengler family returns to where it all began: the iconic New York fire station. There they team up with the original Ghostbusters, who have set up a top-secret research lab to take ghost hunting to the next level.” Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts – stars of the 1984 film – are back. The film is a sequel to “Ghostbusters: Legacy”, which was successfully released in cinemas in 2021.
Multi-perspective: “Innocence”
“Innocence” is the new film by Hirokazu Koreeda, who won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival with “Shoplifters”. The Japanese director’s new work tells the story of a boy who has problems at school from different perspectives. It’s about his relationship with a teacher who seems to bully him and his mysterious friendship with a schoolmate. As the story progresses, the different narrative perspectives reveal new perspectives that question what has been seen before.
