Gary Oldman

Nestled between Bologna and the Adriatic coast, Predappio, with its 6,000 inhabitants, is not a town in Emilia Romagna like any other. Benito Mussolini was born here in 1883 and is buried here. Everything here recalls the presence of the Duce, who modified the structure of the streets, transformed his childhood home into a town hall and had a family crypt built in the old cemetery for his eternal rest. During his ten years as mayor, the left-wing mayor Giorgio Frassineti, who was installed in the same office occupied by the organizer of the "March on Rome" in 1922, fought to convert the old Casa del fascio, which once housed the offices of the dictator's party, into a museum dedicated to the crimes of fascism.

Mank is a biographical film that portrays the life of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he struggles with alcoholism and his unfinished script of Citizen Kane.

Jurgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Antonio Banderas) introduce themselves and the concept and system of money laundering. Mossack and Fonseca act as narrators for three stories of people around the world that are affected by the company Mossack Fonseca. While the story has been somewhat fictionalized, the names of the law firm at the center of the scandal, along with those of its founders, were not. Neither were the names and roles of individuals involved in the Wang Lijun incident changed. The narrators says that one morning everything changed as their story was on all the media. So, they decided to tell a few stories of their own. All the stories are about money. Fonseca says that before money there was only the barter system, but there were limits to this system. Money was the agreed upon medium of exchange. It could be gold or even a piece of paper. The pieces of paper are the promise of value, and in turn they generated more paper such as credit. Credit meant that one could buy and own things, even if they didn't have the money right then. Credit is the future tense in the language of money. But now, there is more money then ever before and it has many more names such as commodities, stocks, loans, funds, funds of funds, bonds, futures, equity, derivatives, Securitized debt, financial instruments, shorts, margin calls, all invisible words. Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) and her husband Joe (James Cromwell) are on a pleasure boat at Lake George, New York when it suddenly capsizes due to a rogue wave that took the small boat by surprise, drowning Joe. There were many tourists on the pleasure boat and the accident had 21 casualties. Ellen and Joe celebrated their honeymoon at Niagara Falls, and they were on their way back there on the day they lost Joe. Joe had ruby pendant in his pocket which he wanted to give to Ellen at the falls, on occasion of their 40th anniversary. When Ellen tries to get compensation from the boating company for Joe's death, she is unable to because the reinsurance company that the boat companies' owner and his son Matthew (David Schwimmer) bought their policy from, was sold to another company based out of Nevis (Panama) that is actually a trust to one of Mossack's shell companies and is under investigation by the IRS for fraud. Matthew bought insurance from Global Property Owners Association, who got converted into Monarch. Monarch itself is insured by a firm called United. Initially the response of Mossack's firm United to Matthew is that their insurance policy had lapsed prior to the accident. Manager of the trust Malchus is paid $15 per signature by Mossack to act as the Director, without being involved in the operations of the firm. Matthew is worried that the victims will now come after them for claims. Ellen & Matthew's attempts to contact Mossack and the Nevis-based company are unsuccessful. When the insurance company refuses to pay, Matthew still makes an attempt to provide some financial settlement to the victims, with the limited means at his disposal. Ellen was planning to buy an apartment in Vegas with the settlement money. Her lawyer informs her that the insurance company refused to pay and advises her to take the amount offered by Matthew. Ellen travels to Nevis herself to confront the manager of the trust, Malchus Boncamper (Jeffrey Wright). When Ellen bumps into Malchus, not knowing who he is, she asks questions about his firm's location, but he tricks and evades her and escapes to Miami only to be caught and arrested by IRS Agents at Miami's airport. As soon as Malchus is arrested, Mossack back dates his recent transactions and selects another random employee to become of owner of 25,000 of his group/trust companies. Mossack provides shell services to all Wealth management desks of banks and has basically helped setup 240,000 shell firms globally, including for members of the Mexican drug cartels. The shell companies hold the assets for their owners, but has no employees, no office, and only an email ID and a post office box in a country where the laws are favorable to their client's financial goals. The second story is about Simone (Jessica Allain), the daughter of an African billionaire, Charles (Nonso Anozie), who discovers that her best friend is having an affair with her father. In order to prevent Simone from telling her mother about the affair, Charles offers her shares from one of his investment companies that are supposedly worth $20 million. She accepts his offer, but when she travels to Mossack's offices in Panama City to claim ownership of the shares, they turn out to be worthless as they are actually part of a shell company under Mossack that only existed on paper. The company was owned by another Mossack shell (itself presumably owned by Charles) that had recently emptied the company's bank account. The third story is a dramatization of part of the Wang Lijun incident, specifically the death of Neil Heywood. Neil (renamed "Maywood" (Matthias Schoenaerts)), is an intermediary for wealthy Chinese looking to funnel money abroad. He visits a Chongqing hotel to meet Gu Kailai (Rosalind Chao). He demands and pressures Gu for a much higher price if he is to continue to launder money for her family through one of Mossack's shell companies. Gu retaliates by murdering Maywood through poisoning the drinks that she serves him. She discloses the incident and reports Maywood to a party official Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun (Ming Lo) who secretly records the conversation and reports her. The story ends with Gu and her husband Bo Xilai (Jesse Wang) arrested for corruption and for Maywood's murder. The film ends with the leaks of the Panama Papers and subsequent police raids on Mossack Fonseca, the brief imprisonment of Mossack and Fonseca, and the shutdown of the firm. However, the two, as well as Meryl Streep herself acting out of character, remind viewers that there are still many such companies in existence and the practice of money laundering and corruption through fake trusts and shell companies based in tax havens is still widespread. Streep makes a clear and bold statement about the immediate need for campaign finance reforms in the US before adopting the Statue of Liberty's pose..

Julia (Maika Monroe) is a young woman who steals at seedy nightclubs. She is abducted from her home and awakens in a jail cell with a glowing implant in the back of her neck. Two other subjects are with her. Julia is taken to a lab daily and subjected to a painful procedure that downloads her memories from her brain via the implant. In one such visit, Julia steals a knife from the lab and uses that to cut her restraints. After multiple sessions of psychological torture by a man named Alex (Ed Skrein), she destroys the cell (she uses the knife and shards of her pajamas to short circuit the electricity grid outside her cell) and adjacent lab in an escape attempt. They cannot escape the front door as it is programmed to the fingerprints of Alex alone. The two other subjects are killed by a robot, Aries, run by an artificial intelligence (AI) named Tau (Gary Oldman). Aries is about to kill Julia when Alex arrives and stops the robot. Julia watches as Alex orders Tau to clean up the house. Tau activates several big and small robots who clean up and repair the entire house. It is revealed that Alex is the CEO of a company named Upton and is working on creating an AI entity which has the ability to learn from human emotions. This work is light years ahead in its field and has military applications in the form of Aries. Alex reveals that the implant is collecting Julia's neural activity for an AI project. Destroying the lab has set back his research. In the face of a two-week deadline, Alex keeps Julia a prisoner in his house and insists that she complete puzzles and cognitive tests. In exchange Julia wants real food, clothes and a shower every night. While Alex is away at work each day, Julia converses with Tau about the world outside the house. It is clear that, although intelligent in some ways, Tau is ignorant of how people feel or the world at large. Alex tells Julia that while Tau is very advanced, it can yet behave erratically when given uncontrolled information. So, Alex keeps Tau disconnected from the outside world. While Tau begins to understand the harm in Julia's situation, his programming prevents him from releasing her. In exchange for information about the outside world, Tau gradually reveals more information about the house as well as Alex's experiments. Tau reveals to Julia that upstairs is Alex's bedroom. He also reveals the existence of program 6903, which is the self-destruct sequence of the house. Julia finds an escape route through an AC vent in Alex's gym, but Tau prevents her escape by asking Aries to capture her inside the vents and yank her back. Julia secretly accesses Alex's tablet computer and discovers that ten subjects have died in his experiments. Julia learns that the removal of the implant is required for the final data extraction, and that step also kills the subject. Alex later discovers her fingerprint on the tablet and assumes that Tau has slipped in his duties, so he punishes Tau by erasing its code and memories, delivering a form of pain to the AI. Julia notices that Tau's monitoring of her shuts down during his punishment, so when undetected, she hides a steak knife. When Alex returns later that night from a charity benefit, Julia begins to seduce him while he is sitting at the kitchen table, then slashes him. As the two struggles, Tau threatens Alex with pain if he does not stop hurting Julia. Alex forces Aries to hit Julia repeatedly and then tells both Tau and Julia that whatever was going on is over. While repairing Tau, he disconnects a drone from the network. The next day, Julia convinces Tau that Alex will kill her if she does not escape. Julia helps Tau understand that a person is not a killing machine and that as people grow up, they learn from their own memories and experiences. Tau bypasses his prohibition in releasing her by opening an air duct in the atrium. As she escapes, Alex arrives, sees Julia missing, and begins punishing Tau. Julia returns to save Tau, but it is too late-all of his memories of her have been erased. Alex has Julia strapped down in the basement to extract her implant, a procedure that will kill her. The disconnected drone, still containing Tau's former consciousness and memories, helps Julia break free from her restraints. She knocks Alex unconscious and cuts off his hand with a bone saw to use on the house's bio-metric sensors. Aries sees her in the atrium and chases her upstairs to Alex's bedroom. As the robot breaks through the door, she uses Alex's severed hand to activate the house's self-destruct mechanism. She narrowly escapes through a cracking wall with the drone that saved her-all that remains of Tau.

In his biggest challenge since becoming the Dragon Warrior, Po must lead his kung fu masters, The Furious Five, on an epic mission to defeat his most threatening rival yet.

A movie based on Bram Stoker`s classic and dark love story about the vampire who travels from Eastern Europe to England in search of human love.

It is the year 1462. Constantinople has fallen to invading Turks. Prince Dracula [Gary Oldman] must leave his bride Elizabeta [Winona Ryder] to do battle against the Turks. A ferocious and pitched battle occurs and Dracula's counteroffensive is a success and he leaves many in the Turk army alive and impaled on long spears on the battlefield. The Turks, seeking vengeance, send a message to Dracula's castle falsely announcing that the warlord has been killed in battle. Elizabeta flings herself into the river below. Because she committed suicide, the Bishop [Anthony Hopkins] proclaims her soul damned. Furious that God let his wife die while Dracula was defending His church, Dracula renounces God and the Church. He draws his sword and stabs the large cross on the dais of his chapel and it begins to bleed. Dracula drinks the blood flowing from the cross, proclaiming he will be reborn after his death with all the powers of darkness at his command. March 1897, England. Law clerk Jonathan Harker [Keanu Reeves] must travel to Transylvania to close the sale of 10 London properties being purchased by Count Dracula. Upon his return, Jonathan and fiancee Mina Murray [Winona Ryder] intend to be married. In Jonathan's absence, Mina goes to stay with her rich friend Lucy Westenra [Sadie Frost], who has just recently received three marriage proposals -- from Texan Quincey Morris [Bill Campbell], Dr Jack Seward [Richard E Grant], and Lord Arthur Holmwood [Cary Elwes] -- and she has decided to marry Arthur. Meanwhile, Jonathan has arrived at Castle Dracula following a strange carriage ride past blue flames and wolves. Even stranger is the Count himself. He never eats, sleeps all day, lives alone in a large castle in which most of the doors are locked, and crawls down the castle walls like a reptile. Jonathan has begun to have strange dreams about three women who try to seduce him. To Jonathan's further unease, the Count seems to be fascinated with a picture of Mina, who upon seeing her picture believes she is a reincarnation of Elizabeta, has forced Jonathan to write letters saying that he will be staying with the Count for another month. Meanwhile, the Count is preparing for his trip to England by having his mindless servants fill large crates with dirt from the grounds around the castle. July, 1897. Jonathan has been missing for over three months, and Mina is sick with worry, while Lucy is involved with planning for her wedding. But Lucy is not without worries either. A particularly violent summer storm has recently washed a ship of dead sailors upon the beach, and shortly thereafter Lucy has begun her old habit of sleepwalking. Each time she sleepwalks, she returns bewildered and pale. Dr Seward, who has his hands full treating the fly-eating lunatic R M Renfield [Tom Waits] , has taken on Lucy as his patient. She shows all the signs of anemia, but Dr Seward can find no cause for it. Consequently, he has decided to send for a metaphysician, philosopher, and specialist in rare blood disorders, his old mentor Professor Abraham Van Helsing [Anthony Hopkins]. Upon his arrival, Van Helsing immediately begins a blood transfusion on Lucy and places garlic near her bed. When Lucy's suitors ask what could possibly have caused such extreme anemia, Van Helsing suggests that a supernatural force may have been stalking her. The others find it too fantastical to believe. Meanwhile, Mina has begun occupying herself with a dashingly dressed but mysterious man she met near the cinematograph. He introduced himself as Prince Vlad of Szekely, and Mina is strangely drawn to him, as though she knows him. He is easily able to seduce her in the theatre but she is snapped out of her hypnosis when a large wolf appears and terrorizes the theatre-goers. Mina is surprised moments later when she sees that Vlad is suddenly friendly with the wolf. Mina later receives news that Jonathan has been found and has suffered a violent brain fever and is being cared for by the sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, who bid her to come to Romania and be married to Jonathan. She realizes that she can no longer see her prince again. Mina says goodbye to Lucy, writes a note to Dracula, and sets sail for Romania. Dracula, heartbroken at losing Mina to Jonathan, takes Lucy as his bride instead, attacking her in her bed as the wolf and causing a violent explosion of blood that kills her. Lucy is dead, although Van Helsing knows that the correct term is 'undead,' for he can see the fangs in her mouth and knows that she is 'nosferatu.' He explains to Arthur, Jack, and Quincey that, to give Lucy's soul peace, they must cut off her head and take out her heart. They are horrified and think that Van Helsing is just a sick old coot, until they spend a night in Lucy's tomb and find her returning with a child in her arms. Van Helsing is able to force Lucy to release the child and forces her back into her coffin with a crucifix. Due to his engagement to and love of Lucy, Holmwood is selected to drive a large stake through Lucy's heart while Van Helsing beheads her with a single blow. When the deed is done, they band together to seek out the Count and destroy him. Mina and Jonathan have returned to London, only to hear that Lucy has died. One night, they have dinner with Van Helsing, and Jonathan realizes that he knows Count Dracula and that he sleeps in Carfax Abbey. After securing Mina at Dr Seward's sanitarium, the five of them -- Van Helsing, Jonathan, Quincey, Jack, and Arthur -- pay a visit to the abbey in order to sterilize Dracula's earth-filled crates. Meanwhile Dracula is paying a visit to Mina. When she learns that her prince is actually the vampyre who killed Lucy, she becomes extremely upset, but not enough to resist wanting to be with him, to live how he lives. Dracula drinks from Mina, then opens a vein in his chest and bids her drink. However, he stops short after she has taken but a bit. 'I love you too much to condemn you,' he explains. Suddenly, Van Helsing et al burst in the room. They attempt to destroy Dracula, but he changes into hundreds of rats and scurries away. Dracula knows that he cannot stay in England any longer and books passage back to Transylvania via Varna. Mina and the men follow close behind. As Dracula is in mind contact with Mina, Van Helsing knows Dracula's plans but Dracula also seems to know theirs. Instead of sailing into Varna, Dracula diverts the ship 200 miles north and lands at Galatz, causing a change in plans such that Van Helsing and Mina take a carriage directly from Varna to the Borgo Pass while Jonathan, Quincey, Arthur, and Jack continue by train to Galatz where they secure horses and ride for the Borgo Pass, hoping to intercept the Count. They are unsuccessful. Dracula's gypsies picked up his box at Galatz and are now speeding down the Borgo Pass road, making the race closer than ever. Mina and Van Helsing are almost to the castle but decide to stop for the night. Hearing spirits from the surrounding area, Van Helsing casts a circle around Mina and protects her by burning her forehead with a blessed communion wafer. They stay inside the circle through the night while Dracula's three brides tempt Mina to join them, killing the horses from their carriage. The next morning, as Mina sleeps in the circle, Van Helsing visits the castle and beheads the vampiresses, throwing their severed heads into the gorge, bellowing the Count's Latin name "Dracul". Near sundown, the gypsy wagon bearing Dracula in his crate approaches the castle. Jonathan, Arthur, Quincey, and Jack are riding hard to catch up. Mina and Van Helsing wait inside the castle courtyard. Mina calls up a blue flame to protect Dracula. As the gypsy wagon enters the courtyard, a gypsy stabs Quincey in the back. Jonathan attempts to open Dracula's box, but the sun has set and Dracula bursts forth, his strength revived. At that very moment, however, Jonathan slits Dracula's neck and Quincey stabs Dracula through the heart with a sword. Mina screams. As Arthur races forward to finish Dracula, Harker stops him. 'Let them go,' he says. 'Our work is finished here; hers has just begun.' As Quincey dies, Mina sits with Dracula on the chapel floor inside the castle. She kisses him, and he begs her to give him peace. Out of love, she pushes the sword the rest of the way through Dracula's heart. The burn on her forehead disappears, the wound in the altar cross repairs itself and Dracula dies, his face becoming youthful again. Mina gives him his final release by cutting off his head. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl]