Man Up

Man Up starts with Nancy (Lake Bell) trying to muster up the courage to meet a blind date at a tropical-themed engagement party. Of course, the date doesn’t pan out. If it had, this would have been the shortest romcom ever. Instead it’s yet another disillusion in a long line of disillusions and disappointments.

Better Call Saul S01

Where to go after you created one of the best – if not the best – TV show ever made? That’s a question Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan must have spent quite some time pondering about. And what he came up with was Better Call Saul. It’s a spin-off, but not one like we’re used to seeing. Normally, spin-offs are an easy way to cash in on a show’s success by making something similar to the original. Of course, it’s never as good as the original, but the network can be reasonably sure that the show will already have a following before the first episode even aired.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Remember The Man From U.N.C.L.E.? Nope? Me neither. But ask your parents about it. They will most likely remember this spy show from the sixties. Following his Sherlock Holmes movies, Guy Ritchie took it upon himself to breathe some new air into the series and ended up with a stylish film. Gone is the dated campiness that played a major part in the series. It has been replaced with an effortless cool that puts Mad Men to shame.

Papa Ou Maman

Florence (Marina Fois) and Vincent (Laurent Lafitte) seem to have everything going for them. They have three kids, a nice house, good jobs. For all purposes, they seem like the perfect couple. Except for the fact that their children are spoiled rotten and that they are getting a divorce. We shouldn’t feel bad for them though, it’s an amicable split. Well, at first.

Danny Collins

Meet Danny Collins (Al Pacino), an aging rocker who’s sick and tired of singing the same old tunes that were written for him and who’s still drinking and doing drugs like the 70ies never ended. This all changes when his manager (a very charismatic Christopher Plummer) digs up a 40-year-old undelivered letter that John Lennon wrote to him. Inspired by Lennon’s words, Danny stops with the drinking and the drugs, leaves his way too young wife and moves to a hotel in New Jersey.

Woman In Gold

Woman In Gold refers to a painting by Gustav Klimt that is now on display at the Neue Galerie for German and Austrian Art in New York. How it got there? Well, that’s what this movie will tell you.