Hollywood generally casts the intellectually challenged in either a pitiable light or one that makes a lack of intelligence look like an advantage. If one must remake a movie, make it a bad one. And then do it one better. That is precisely what director Advait Chandan did with this …
Two young brides who get accidentally swapped on a train. In the ensuing chaos, they each encounter a host of colorful characters, resulting in hilarious and unexpected consequences. The young lost ladies must take it upon themselves to venture on an endearing journey: one of immense discovery about themselves and …
Made in France, and in French, by the American-born Bob Swaim. The title refers to that alienated and endangered figure, the police informer, called la balance in underworld parlance for his ability to tip the crime-battle in favor of the police; and the storyline concerns the efforts of the elite …
The Chicano cultural background, abundantly detailed, adds some unusual seasonings to the familiar tale of the singing star extinguished in his prime -- in the same plane crash, in this case, as Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. (There are also brief impersonations of a couple of other members of …
Another Jacques Rivette marathon (four hours long: not a personal high), a marathon for strollers, naturellement, across an arid and a frigid terrain. Roughly a novella's worth of material has here been so stretched out as to lose all meaningful contour: exactly the opposite of what we want from a …
Once you get past the temporary insanity of the premise — escaped killer takes mother and son prisoner in their own home and quickly becomes the lover she craves and the father he needs — the weird sincerity of the performances from Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, and Gattlin Griffith may …
In outline, it sounds like a children's story an adult could endorse and enjoy. But "in detail" is another matter. A self-absorbed teenager, put out at having to babysit her little brother, invokes the goblins to take him away (she has been rehearsing a play coincidentally called The Labyrinth, about …
In outline, it sounds like a children's story an adult could endorse and enjoy. But "in detail" is another matter. A self-absorbed teenager, put out at having to babysit her little brother, invokes the goblins to take him away (she has been rehearsing a play coincidentally called The Labyrinth, about …
Come for the movie, stay for the message. It’s 1963, and an ambitious prosecutor — and one of the few good Germans in Naziland — thinks it time to finally alert a nation of orders-following, Holocaust-denying Huns to the existence of Auschwitz. Alexander Fehling (imagine a young John Wayne with …
Pedro Almodóvar's fans, assuming the existence of these, should be delighted to find out that this early (1982) effort is a virtual seed-packet of ideas that sprouted up in his later and wider-circulated efforts. (Exhibit A: it would appear to be here, and not in Law of Desire, that Almodóvar …
Gabo and Trisha come from different backgrounds. Trisha spent about 20 years living and working in the US, while Gabo has been working in different jobs to make ends meet in the Philippines. The two will cross paths when Trish returns to the country. Directed by Coco Martin with Malu …
The homosexual proprietor of a homosexual nightclub, and long-time lover of his star drag queen, learns that the son he sired twenty years earlier in a mad moment of heterosexual experimentation is engaged to be married. Complications, as you would guess, ensue. This is French sex farce of a type …