A sort of Rainbow Coalition wedding weekend: the father of the Jewish bride had remarried a black, the bride too is marrying a black (it might be noted that Sidney Lumet, the father of first-time scriptwriter Jenny Lumet, had remarried a black himself), and the theme of the wedding is …
Pointless wallow in American Innocence: teenage romance under the cloud of World War II, aimed, apparently, at the generation of teenagers who just missed out on Summer of '42, Red Sky at Morning, Baby Blue Marine, et al. The boy (Sean Penn, with a good haircut) is a bowling-pin setter, …
The age of GoPro is upon us. Here are people doing things much more active than sitting in a movie theater. But you can sit in a movie theater and watch them do those things.
People vs. hills of various steepness and substance.
This Canadian documentary follows an active group of snowboarders and surfers who drift from their respective sports into the world of activism. Together they journey across the West Coast of British Colombia, weaving a story of learning, inspiration and resistance.
Sanitary human-interest story of a high-school football coach in mid-Seventies South Carolina (Ed Harris in a Bear Bryant hat) who takes a retarded black man under his wing as an assistant, sending the team on an immediate losing streak and raising the question of "Why on earth are you doing …
Woody Allen back in his Woody Fellini mode, after the Woody Bergman mode of Hannah and Her Sisters (after the Woody Fellini mode of The Purple Rose of Cairo, and so on), with an Italian production designer and an Italian cinematographer -- Santo Loquasto and Carlo Di Palma -- to …
…aka Waiting for Metallica. A man can endure a great deal for the sake of a dream. But expat Iranian novelist Hamid (the spectacularly coiffed Mohsen Namjoo) candidly admits that he has no dreams of his own, that his current mission — to bring together Afghani rock band Kabul Dreams …
Child-abuse instruction smothered in sap: the story-time narration of Tom Hanks, the Wishing Spot, the Secret Hiding Cubbyhole Place, the Pinky Promise, the Anti-Monster Brew, the giant talking buffalo from dreamland (voice of Ben Johnson), and what's christened "the big idea" -- a homemade flying machine assembled from a little …