EXCITING GIFT

We didn’t expect to ever see this again. Yet 2023 will go down in history as the year we were able to go to the cinema again to see a new Indiana Jones, played by the charismatic Harrison Ford.

What’s more, modern technology has made him young like in the original trilogy in the opening 25 minutes. What else could you want?

Our tips don’t end with this adventure. We’ve got a Transformers reboot, a new animated Spider-Man, the much-anticipated Flash, which sees the original Michael Keaton return as Batman after thirty years, and a horror film based on a work by Stephen King.

You’ll have to admit, that’s a gift that even Santa Claus would be ashamed of at Christmas. We’d get a cinema pass with these kinds of films playing.

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Action / Adventure / Animated, USA, 2023

Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin Thompson, Voice: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Jake Johnson

Release date: 1. 6. 2023

Miles Morales returns in the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga. An epic adventure awaits, which transports the friendly neighbor of Spider-Man from Brooklyn across the multiverse to help Gwen Stacey and a new group of Spider-People against a villain more powerful than anything they‘ve faced in the past. The first installment of the animated Spider-Man stunned with visuals and a supercharged story that featured thrilling action scenes, tons of references and poignant moments. The second installment promises at least as much of the same.

Action / Adventure / Sci-fi, USA,

Director: Steven Caple Jr.

Stars: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Do menic Di Rosa, Ron Perlman, Luna Lauren Velez

Release date: 8. 6. 2023

The original Transformers franchise has run out of breath and so we have a reboot, this time without Michael Bay. In the film, we‘re transported to 1994, when a pair of archaeologists kick up an ancient wasp nest. It happens during an adventurous expedition. There is a fight between three factions. On one side are the Autobot-like good guys, the Maxi mals, led by Optimus Primal (Ron Perlman). On the other side of the barricade are the Predacons, the old enemies of the Maximals. But there‘s an even bigger threat than the duel between two age-old rivals - the dead robot Terracons.

Horror, USA, 2023

Director: Rob Savage

Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, David

Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland, Vivien Lyra Blair

Release date: 8. 6. 2023

The new film The Boogeyman is an adaptation of the 1978 short story of the same name by master horror writer Stephen King. High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are recovering from the recent death of their mother and are getting little support from their father Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds off the suffering of its victims. And Sadie‘s family has plenty to choose from.

On June 26, American singer and ZZ Top guitarist Billy F. Gibbons will show not only his typical long beard, but also why he is considered one of the best blues-rock guitarists in history. For the first time ever in the Czech Republic, the Blues Music Awards winner will perform here with his solo band The BFGs, which includes drummer Matt Sorum (The Cult, Guns N‘ Roses, Velvet Revolver) and left-handed guitarist Austin Hanks, who has worked with Gibbons before and who provides the rhythm in the trio. Audiences can look forward to first-class blues and southern rock. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster and Ticketportal.

Department store Kotva, 4th floor náměstí Republiky 656/8, Old Town

Open daily from 9 am to 8 pm www.retromuzeumpraha.cz

The Prague Retro Museum presents design, trends and everyday life in the 1970s and 1980s in Czechoslovakia. It is located on 2,500 m2 on the fourth floor of OD Kotva. It shows about 12,000 unique objects, divided into 15 thematic exhibitions, which show how Czechs lived, ate, travelled, shopped, dressed or spent their free time.

Comedy / Sci-fi / Action / Fantasy, USA, 2023

Director: Andy Muschietti

Stars: Ezra Miller, Ben Affleck, Michael Shannon, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle

Release date: 15. 6. 2023

Ezra Miller stars as Barry Allen, aka The Flash, who pushes the limits of his superpowers in the first ever standalone DC superhero movie. Barry Allen uses his super-speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without superheroes and forces him to race for his life to

Adventure / Action, USA, 2023

Director: James Mangold

Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Antonio Banderas, Toby Jones

Release date: 29. 6. 2023

In 1969, American archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is living a quiet life. However, the fierce struggle to conquer the universe is playing out in the background. Jones is concerned that the US government has recruited former Nazis to help defeat the Soviet Union save the future. Ironically, the biggest attraction of the new film from the DC universe is not the Flash himself, but Michael Keaton, who returns to the cinema after thirty years as Batman. in this space power struggle. So he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands and embark on another expedition, accompanied by his goddaughter Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge). The last adventure of Indiana Jones.

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The newly reconstructed museum offers visitors a look into the history of the military in the Czech Republic from the earliest times to the present day. More than seven thousand collection items are housed in exceptional exhibition spaces. The exhibits are complemented by dioramas, audiovisual elements and QR codes. For the youngest visitors, the museum offers quizzes, cut-out games and haptic objects. The first part of the exhibition is dedicated to the historical period up to 1740. The next exhibition presents the historical period from 1740 to 1914. In the exhibition of the First World War 1914 - 1918, the connecting motif is a train that imaginatively takes the visitor to the trenches. The next part of the exhibition focuses on the period 1918 to 1938, starting with the return of Czechoslovak legionaries to Czechoslovakia, continuing with the formation of the Czechoslovak Legion. The final section is devoted to the political situation in the 1930s. The extensive exhibition 1938 - 1948 covers the period after Munich, the Second World War and the post-war period. There are unique objects on display, such as Otakar Jaroš‘s pistols or the personal belongings of paratroopers. Another part of the exhibiti- on deals with the events after 1948, when Czechoslovakia found itself behind the Iron Curtain. The final part is devoted to the period from November 1989 to the present day and the involvement of our soldiers in foreign operations.

Opening hours: Tue. – Sun., 9.00 – 18.00

Address: U Památníku 2, Prague 3 Entrance is free

The Kbely Aviation Museum is one of the largest aviation museums in Europe. Visitors can see over 100 aircraft on display in covered halls and 25 in uncovered exhibitions. The museum covers the history of Czechoslovak and Czech aviation with an emphasis on military aviation. For comparison, there are also selected types of the world‘s most important aircraft on display, as well as a number of aircraft en gines, airframe components, armament, equipment, uniforms, flags, decorations and other memorabilia relating to the his tory of Czechoslovak and Czech aviation.

Opening hours: May - September, Tue. –Sun., 10.00 – 18.00

In October it is open at weekends

Address: Mladoboleslavská, Prague 9 Entrance is free

The Military Technical Museum Lešany is located between Krhanice and Lešany near Týnec nad Sázavou in the former artillery barracks. This museum consists of more than 700 historical tanks, cannons, motorcycles, armored cargo and passenger military vehicles, rocketry, communications and engineer equipment and logistics material dating from 1890 to the present day. Especially unique is the collection of Czechoslovak military vehicles - tanks, motorcycles, trucks and command vehicles - from the period 1918-1939 and the collection of cannons of the Škoda system.

Among the unique exhibits from the Cold War period are rocketry and tanks - both from the Warsaw Pact and NATO armaments. With its exhibition concept, the museum subscribes to modern trends in the presentation of collections of a technical nature.

Opening hours: In June and September only on weekends 9.30 - 17.30 and Reinhard Heydrich‘s rise to power, to the preparations and execution of the assassination, to the fight in the church and the crypt. Attention is also paid to the Sokol resistance fighters and members of the Orthodox Church and to the many people who actively helped the paratroopers and without whose help the paratroopers could not have done without. The exhibition is in Czech and English and is complemented not only by unique collection items, but also by period audio-visuals.

Open all year round: Tue. – Sun. 9.00 - 17.00

Address: Resslova 9a, Prague 2 Entrance is free

Although you won’t find any Hollywood movie stars in the Czech streets, many of them were filming here. So you can make a picture of Czech sites that adorn a lot of famous Hollywood movies.

We have to Start with the blockbuster Mission: Impossible from 1996 with Tom Cruise in the lead role. It was the first major Hollywood production that visited Prague and the filmmakers had used a number of gorgeous Prague scenes. The party at the embassy was filmed at the National Museum, the escape from modern glass restaurant (cover photo) on the Old Town Square. In this case, however, keep in mind that the restaurant itself doesn’t exist – it was made just for the purpose of filming the movie.

After 15 years the production of Mission: Impossible returned to Prague, this with the fourth chapter – Ghost Protocol. They used the Main Railway Station (the opening scene with killed agent) or the corner house in the street Pštrossova 17, where Ethan Hunt ran from the police. In 2002 Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock visited Prague together to shoot an action thriller Bad Company. Rock was chased by bad guys in Thun Street in Lesser Town (Malá Strana), Hopkins’ agent went to helim him through Castle stairs (Zámecké schody). Together they went to the Castle Square. They also used the Shooter’s Island (Střelecký ostrov) in the Old Town (the scene with atomic bomb dealer).

Even the legendary vampire slayer Blade used the streets of Prague in his second adventure movie. From the entrance next to the pizzeria in the Sokolovská Street, the filmmakers made a vampire blood bank. And for the seat of vampire family Damaskinos they used secluded place of Vaníčkova Street.

Prague had a key role in the action movie of Vin Diesel xXx filmed in 2002. Beginning of the movie was shot on the Old Town Square (the producers managed to depopulate it, which was almost an im possible task), then the camera wande red the Týnská Street, the Powder Gate, the Republic Square and the seat of the Czech philharmonic – Rudolfinum.

In 2004 our country was visited by Wol verine – Hugh Jackman, in those times without his comic book claws, but with his long coat and hat as Van Helsing. The battle in the village with three brides of Dracula (probably the best part of the mo vie) was filmed at the Kunratice Castle in Prague 4. Then the hero walks the street Na Kampě under the Charles Bridge, where one of the brides offers him a trade. The magnificent ball of vampires was filmed in the Saint Nicholas Church.

And then of course there‘s the recently filmed The Gray Man with the Chris Evans/Ryan Gosling duo, when the fil- included Prague to its scenes, natu rally doesn’t end. Furthermore, there were shot movies like The Bourne Identity (street Kampa, street of Political prisoners, the Senovážná square) or A Knight’s Tale (Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge). Before the walk in our metropolis we recommend to watch all of these mentioned movies.