Age rating: K-12

Published: August 7, 2023

Beverly Hills Cop

The action-comedy film “Beverly Hills Cop,” premiered in 1984, tells the story of Detroit police officer Axel Foley’s journey to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of his friend. His humorous nature leads to comical situations in the circles of Beverly Hills.

Axel teams up with the local police, uncovering drug smuggling and corrupt officials. The movie was a massive success, propelling Eddie Murphy’s career as a movie star, and it became a cult classic, spawning two sequels in 1987 and 1994.

Published: June 14, 2023

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

After the death of King T’Challa, Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje set out to fight the world powers that threaten their nation. As Wakandans seek to begin a new phase in their lives, the warriors must join forces with the help of Nakia and Everett Ross and build a new future for the Kingdom of Wakanda.

Published: June 13, 2023

Hyväveli

The law enforcement officer Loyan, played by Abdirahman Bile, tries to adapt to the new police department while keeping his recently released friend Warsame (Kamaludin Ahmed Abdulla) on the right track. Loyan has an ambitious goal to get into detective training, but his superior Jokisalo (Sampo Sarkola) thinks that he is better off patrolling familiar neighborhoods with his partner Johanna (Heli Sutela).

Patrol duties turn into real action when they begin to investigate a case that appears to be a suicide. Professional criminal and racist Antero Päiviö (Riku Kemppinen), who is involved in the drug trade, jumps from his balcony. A man who was initially declared dead suddenly comes back to life and is taken to the hospital. Loyan finds it hard to believe the man’s story and decides to find out the truth at any cost. As events begin to unravel, it’s hard to know who to trust anymore, especially when Warsame seems to be scheming behind Loyan’s back.

Published: June 13, 2023

Free Guy

Free Guy tells the story of Guy, a bank clerk whose days are very similar. He wakes up in the morning, greets his pet fish, eats breakfast in front of the TV, and takes coffee with him on the way to work. However, there is a difference: People in the city rioting in sunglasses are destroying Guy’s beloved hometown.

One day, Guy accidentally meets a woman named Molotov Girl, who reveals the truth to him. Guy is a character in a video game called Free City, and the people with sunglasses are player-controlled characters that destroy the city while completing missions in the game. In the real world, Molotov Girl is a game designer named Millie, who is looking for evidence that the game’s code has been branded as the company that created the game through questionable means.

With Guy’s world in danger of being destroyed, he decides to become a hero to save his world in his unique way before it’s too late.

Published: June 12, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

A charming thief and his band of adventurers plan an epic heist to retrieve a lost ancient artifact. However, things don’t go according to plan, and they anger the wrong people. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the rich world and playful atmosphere of the RPG legend to the big screen in the form of an adventure film bursting with humor and action. (Source: Finnkino)

Published: June 2, 2023

Missing

The new movie thriller Missing from the makers of Searching moves like a rollercoaster and raises questions about how well we know our loved ones. The story begins when June’s mother goes on vacation with her new boyfriend. Despite her mother’s prohibitions, June decides to throw a huge house party and when it’s time for her to pick her up from the airport, no one is there to meet her.

June’s mother has disappeared while on vacation in Colombia and she decides to start by her means to find out the answers despite the challenges of the bureaucracy. Although stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June uses the latest technological aids. June creatively uses everything she has available to try to find her mother before it’s too late.

June dives deeper into her search, but instead of finding answers, only more questions arise. Mother’s secrets are gradually revealed and June realizes that she never really knew her mother.

Published: June 2, 2023

Kupla

Eveliina, 16 years old, happens to see her mother kissing another woman. She is afraid of his parents’ separation and decides to intervene in the situation without permission and without fearing the limits of means. She believes that the best way to destroy mom’s extramarital affair and bring the parents back together is to be the teenage daughter who causes trouble.

So Eveliina throws herself into multi-problems. In this process, a few other lives also become stakes. Despite that, Eveliina keeps her plans a secret until the very end, and even adults have secret means of survival – until the bubble bursts.

Among the film’s actors, Stella Leppikorpi won the Jussi Award for Best New Actress.

Published: June 2, 2023

65

Adam Driver plays Space Pilot Mills in ’65’. Mills has an accident with his spaceship when it encounters an asteroid field and the ship crashes on Earth. This all happened already 65 million years ago.

In addition to Mills, another spaceship passenger survived the shipwreck, a little girl, Koa, and together they have to survive among prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs in order to keep their hope of survival alive.

Published: May 24, 2023

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a good-hearted man who observes the world in his peculiar way. At the beginning of the film, he tells the vent guest his life story, because he wants to and doesn’t see anything strange about it.

Through chance, Forrest becomes involved in significant events in world history, such as the Vietnam War, Elvis, John Lennon, and President Nixon. Forrest’s differency is by no means an insurmountable obstacle. He owns a successful seafood company, is a war hero, and has visited the White House several times. Forrest is an affectionate individual; you could say that he just wants to bring as much good as possible into the world. But can he get the love of his life?

The film won a whopping six Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Special Effects.

Published: May 24, 2023

Things We Do for Love (Kaikella rakkaudella)

The film tells about the different forms of love and what a person is willing to do for it. The story takes place in the landscapes of Finnish Lapland, Norwegian Lapland, and the Arctic Ocean. Is love something you consider first, or coincidence?

Toivo Vaarala is a photographer who meets Ansa on a photography trip and they fall in love. Ansa’s dangerous, threatening, and ex-husband Ismo, who has a history of murder, enters the picture, but for some reason he becomes friends with Toivo. Ansa and Ismo have two children together. The film also describes their challenging family relationships with their parents.