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“Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI” (2024)
From Amazon MGM Studios, OBB Pictures and director Michael D. Ratner (“Justin Bieber: Seasons”) comes the newly-released documentary “Kids Are Growing UP:A Story About a Kid Named LAROI,” available now on Prime Video.the documentary follows Australian rapper Charlton Howard — who is known by his stage name, the Kid LAROI. LAROI has seen a meteoric rise to superstardom, having gone from a relative unknown to selling out his hometown arena over the course of three years.the film covers everything from the 20-year-old rapper’s upbringing in Australia to his most recent success. Featuring interviews with Post Malone (“Sunflower”), Justin Bieber (“Peaches”) and the Kid LAROI himself, viewers get an in-depth look at how LAROI deals with being an adult, navigating fame, struggling with mental health and mourning the death of his mentor, Juice WRLD (“Lucid Dreams”). In addition to Ratner, “Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named LAROI” is produced by Kfir Goldberg (“The 5th Quarter”),arlen Konopaki (“Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil”) and Scott Ratner (“Mountain Queen:the Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa,” 2023).
“How to Train Your Dragon” (2010)
Go back to the beginning of Dreamworks’ dragoncentric computer animated film franchise with 2010’s “How to Train Your Dragon,” available now on Prime Video.the first entry in this venerable series voice stars Jay Baruchel (“Blackberry,” 2023) as Hiccup, the only resident of a dragon-slaying village without the instinct to kill the creatures.when Hiccup comes face-to-face with an injured dragon, he decides to nurse it back to health rather than kill it, and the two quickly become friends. However, when Hiccup’s father, village chieftain Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, “300,” 2006), finds out about this unlikely friendship, he captures the dragon that Hiccup names “Toothless” to lead the village’s Vikings to the dragon’s nest. Before his father can start an allout war with the dragons, Hiccup and his friends need to show the villagers that they can live in harmony with the dragons.written by William Davies (“Flushed Away,” 2006) and directors Dean Deblois (“Lilo & Stitch,” 2002) and Chris Sanders (“Mulan,” 1998), “How to Train Your Dragon” also voice stars Craig Ferguson (“Winnie the Pooh,” 2011),America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”), Jonah Hill (“Moneyball,” 2011), Christopher Mintz-plasse (“Superbad,” 2007), Kristen Wiig (“Bridesmaids,” 2011), Robin Atkin Downes (“The Strain”), Philip Mcgrade (“The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”), Kieron Elliott (“Solitary,” 2011),Ashley Jensen (“Extras”) and David Tennant (“Broadchurch”).
“Mortal Engines” (2018)
Enjoy a steampunk-flavored post-apocalypse in 2018’s “Mortal Engines,” available now on Prime Video. Based on the award-winning young adult series of novels by Philip Reeve, the film follows the adventures of Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan, “The Umbrella Academy”), an apprentice historian, and Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar, “See”), a disfigured assassin.while searching an absorbed settlement for resources,tom stops Hester from assassinating head historian Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving, “V for Vendetta,” 2005). However, upon failing to capture Hester,thaddeus turns on his apprentice, exiling Tom from the moving city of London and, in order to survive the badlands,tom must team up with Hester.this tentative collaboration soon sees the duo join the resistance to stop the evil machinations of the power-hungry Valentine. On top of Hilmar, Sheehan and Weaving, Jihae (“Succession”), Ronan Raftery (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” 2016), Leila George (“Animal Kingdom”), Patrick Malahide (“The World Is Not Enough,” 1999), Stephen Lang (“Avatar,” 2009), Colin Salmon (“Resident Evil,” 2002), Mark Mitchinson (“Evil Dead Rise,” 2023), Regé-jean Page (“Bridgerton”), Menik Gooneratne (“Lion,” 2016), Frankie Adams (“The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”), Leifur Sigurdarson (“Vikings: Valhalla”), Kahn West (“Terry Teo”), Andrew Lees (“Unfriended: Dark Web,” 2018), Sophie Cox (“Home and Away”) and Caren Pistorius (“Unhinged,” 2020) also star.with a screenplay by The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies’ Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, “Mortal Engines” serves as Christian Rivers (“King Kong,” 2005) feature-length directorial debut.