There still remains plenty of interest in the manhunt story, told with the imaginative gimmicks of one of Andersen's gorier fairy tales plus some modernized (ca. 1931) touches of abnormal psychology, in which everybody from the enraged police department down to the edgy criminal fraternity pounds the trail of a …
The venue flips from high school Animal House to sure-fire slaughterhouse after a vengeful veterinary assistant converts her garage into a niteclub for underage teens. Fifteen years in the business, with forty features and dozens more television credits behind her, it took The Help to finally turn Octavia Spencer into …
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Action film about a creative man who must find his brave side in order to battle a sinister group of party men who seem to be part of an already-written story that must be lived out. Written and directed by Madonne Ashwin, starring Sivakarthikeyan and Aditi Shankar.
The directorial debut of John Turturro, who also handles the title role, is a memorial to his father (1925-1988), a first-generation Italian immigrant, carpenter, and then independent contractor in Queens, N.Y., in the mid-1950s. Under the circumstances, it's a marvel of objectivity, or maybe not quite such a marvel of …
Maudlin apologia for the Japanese in World War II, set prudently just after truce. Certainly, children make a good symbol (or even good definition) of innocence, and a Little League baseball team makes a good symbol of the future. (How is it, though, that a team that's no match for …
Roman Polanski's neither very engaging, nor very clearly motivated, version of the Shakespeare tragedy, acted by a young and little-known cast. There are a few stunning surrealistic visions, and the violence, in tin-soldier armor suits, is herky-jerkily hectic. Several minor roles in the original play have been combined economically into …
Orson Welles's first screen treatment — and a rather harsh one — of Shakespeare, shot in three weeks on tacky Western sets at Republic Studios. The visuals, moody and blustery, are interesting at times, monotonous at length. They, and the very approximate Scottish burrs, pretty thoroughly obscure the verbals. But …
A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception and superstition. Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma star in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, directed by Simon Godwin with set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw, staged in custom built …
SNL skit torturously stretched out and unrestrainedly pottied up. (A villain named von Cunth. Hence, “Fuck you, Cunth,” etc.) In the result, the original models (TV’s MacGyver primarily, but Rambo, Commando, and cousins) are invariably funnier than the spoof. Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe; directed …