There is a mutant in the family: Dinklage fights for justice, Nagiyev teaches major

Peter Dinklage is fighting for justice in the form of a mutant. Egor Creed is stuck in an elevator with a psycho. Dmitry Nagiyev sends his on-screen son to the village for re-education. Orlando Bloom loses 11 kg in six days. The Korean web novel has received a horror film adaptation. Izvestia tells you which films to watch at the cinema next weekend.

"Toxic Avenger", 18+

Directed by Macon Blair. Starring: Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Jacob Tremblay, Julian Kostov, Jane Levy, Taylor Page

A remake of the legendary Troma studio's iconic comedy thriller "Toxic Avenger" is being released in Russia. In 1984, director Lloyd Kaufman released a film about a shy young man named Melvin, who fell into a barrel of toxic waste and turned into a mutant with a kind heart and a mop instead of a sword. Despite its modest budget, the film became a video rental hit and spawned a franchise: three sequels, the animated series Toxic Crusaders, and even a Broadway musical.

41 years later, director Macon Blair reshot "The Toxic Avenger" with Peter Dinklage, widely known for his role as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones." The main reinterpretation is just the hero of Dinklage, Winston Goose. He is no longer a teenage nerd, but a tired janitor who has a son and debts.

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The villain is also changing. Now the mutant avenger is not facing petty bandits, but a system that grinds such people into toxic waste. There is an absolutely Gogolian "little man". It is all the more interesting that he is played by an actor with dwarfism, Peter Dinklage. A nice bonus is a homage to Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings" performed by Elijah Wood.

"Down", 18+

Directed by Marius Vaisberg. Starring: Egor Creed, Anfisa Chernykh, Igor Mirkurbanov, Yulia Melnikova

Egor Creed continues to storm the Russian cinema. After the comedy "(Not)the Perfect Man," where the musician played the robot Friend, the singer tries out for horror. The director and screenwriter was Marius Vaisberg, who is familiar to viewers from the comedies "Granny of Easy Virtue" and "Love in the Big City."

In the story, a young married couple, Marina and Anton, are trapped in an elevator of a skyscraper in the capital while waiting for their honeymoon in the Maldives. A strange-looking security guard becomes their unexpected traveling companion. Pretty quickly, the characters realize that no one will come to their aid, and the main threat is not the elevator at all, but a muddy stranger. He not only admits that he knows the guys, but also intends to personally punish the newlyweds with special cruelty for the deeds of the past.

The director carefully incorporated the classic thriller techniques into the film: limited space, a growing threat, and a psychopathic villain. You can watch the movie to see how successful Weisberg's experiment turned out to be in transforming Creed the singer into Creed the dramatic artist.

Sausage, 16+

Directed by Andrey Panteleev. Starring: Alexander Metelkin, Dmitry Nagiyev, Erkhan Nokhoev, Polina Kazantseva, Ilya Sobolev, Anatoly Zhuravlev, Fedor Lavrov, Anna Ukolova

A new Russian comedy from full-length debutant Andrey Panteleev is launching at the box office. The plot revolves around the spoiled son of the capital's oligarch Gleb. Tired of his offspring's quirks, his father sends him to occupational therapy in the Russian countryside to reanimate a dying sausage factory. But the locals, led by director Fyodor Grudinkin, are ready to resist the bureaucracy of the mayor to the last.

Panteleev relied on the acting tandem of Dmitry Nagiyev and Alexander Metelkin. The latter will appear before the audience in an unusual comedic role, and his on—screen lover will be Metelkin's real wife, Polina Kazantseva.

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"Sausage" is a humane story about growing up, recognition and returning to the roots, which ranks alongside such popular comedies about the re—education of a Muscovite in recent years as "The Serf" and "Knock on my Tver."

"Weight of victory", 18+

Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Orlando Bloom, Katrina Balfe, John Turturro, Ed Keir, Oliver Trevena

Fans of sports dramas about boxing and martial arts should take a closer look at the new picture by Oscar nominee Sean Ellis, who acts not only as a director, but also as a cinematographer. "The Weight of Victory" is a special project for Orlando Bloom, who plays the main role. The actor co-produced the film and dropped 35 kg for the role.

At the center of the story is an unnamed boxer who once won the champion title in his weight class. After the defeat, he left the ring and now runs a small sports section with his beloved. Tired of such a life, the boxer agrees to enter the ring on short notice to fight for the title with a young and promising opponent. But for admission, he needs to lose 11 kg in six days.

With all the variety of such films, this is probably the only one that examines in such detail one of the most important stages of athlete training — weightlifting.

"The Omniscient reader", 18+

Directed by Kim Byung-woo. Starring: Ahn Hye-sop, Lee Min-ho, Ji-soo Kim, Jin-Ah Im

The Korean fantasy horror "The Omniscient Reader", based on the web novel of the same name, is being released in Russia. The original has several volumes, so the creators of the film version took the main plot elements.

The main character is an ordinary office clerk Kim Dok-cha. For ten years, he had been reading an anonymous web novel about the end of the world, Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse. His story told how the Earth became a field for the game of certain divine entities — Constellations. The character of the online work Yoo Joon-hyuk passes all the tests, but remains alone. The main character of the film did not like this ending, so he came up with his own ending.

But one day, Kim is riding the subway after work and suddenly finds herself in the same romance. Now he has to survive on the playing field. Viewers are sure to find a lot in common with the Korean Netflix hit "The Squid Game" and the zombie survival thriller "Train to Busan."