Tired of movies that are either based on or feel like video games? Then how about a movie that actually incorporates multiple video-game motifs, from life-levels to motion indicators to pop-up data points? Not in the cutesy, self-conscious, Scott Pilgrim way, but naturally, as if such things were part and …
Veteran director John Boorman's treatment of a "light" spy novel by John le Carré. Neither the director nor the original novelist (as well as co-screenwriter and executive producer) is much noted for humor, and their unabating stabs at it here are not so much martini-dry as they are day-old-champagne flat. …
Back we go (kicking and screaming, quite likely), back to those halcyon days of the British Empire, when men were men and women were Oriental: "I want you to be fantastical good," chirrups the half-naked Chinese beauty, feeding aphrodisiacal prawns into the mouth of her master. James Clavell's very fat …
Laird Hamilton was the golden child of the surf set, a natural-born rider possessed of an innate flexibility and an unheard-of sense of balance. The lad’s natural good looks helped, too, at least to gain him a modeling career and at least one unforgettable big screen performance. (As one talking …
Herein lies the problem: 19-year-old Ryder (Logan Miller) doth not protest enough when his California-phobic uncle’s (Josh Hamilton) false accusation of child molestation against the lad turns a Nebraska family reunion into a grievance-dredging weekend inquisition. Unless Ryder was meant to get off on being a tool in his perverted …
That would be the Mississippi, specifically, the part that flows through the one-time musical Mecca of Memphis. The documentary takes its structure from the recording of an album that pairs up various Stax records legends (Bobby Bland and Mavis Staples are just two of the standouts) with more modern artists …
A ring of Albanian white slavers (Middle Eastern buyers) has the bad fortune to shanghai the virgin daughter of a retired American superspy — “I was a preventer,” he understates — on her first morning of vacation in Paris. There is no satisfaction in the quick-as-a-blink detective work that leads …
You wouldn’t know it at first glance, but sleepy-eyed Liam Neeson, fighting valiantly to assume the Charles Bronson mantle, and an even more lethargic Maggie Grace are both rolling in threequel clover. His false conviction of murder is what eventually starts the roller coaster ride in motion, but not before …
Elementary heist thriller rendered unwatchable by director John Luessenhop’s hopped-up visuals, the cameraman so excited (often over nothing) that he can’t hold his instrument steady, pressing in so close as to lose sight of what we’re supposed to be looking at, always a step behind the action, a telephoto lens …
Michael Shannon, who often seems like Frankenstein looking sadly for his doctor, plays a scared and scary guy in the flat Midwest. His sinister dreams and fantasies clue him that a vast storm is coming, and he hurls his fragile family into panic by building a big shelter (he already …