This concert documentary film chronicles Daniel's time in the rehearsal room, his stripped back and natural self with the people closest to him, and a glimpse into his mindset and resolve through heartfelt interviews.
An even flatter movie than state, with a capricious plotline about a cross-country freeloader who, after joining up with a criminal psychopath, robs a bank, saves a little girl from drowning, and falls in love with a haughty horsewoman. Matt Dillon, as the criminal, though doubtfully psychopathic, is believably not …
A light snooze through the subjects of race, crime, politics, and jazz in said city -- hometown of director Robert Altman -- in the mid-Thirties. To summarize it in such terms is to make it sound more ambitious than it honestly is. The period re-creation -- the array of automobiles, …
Written and Directed by Rishab Shetty, starring Rishab Shetty, Kishore, Achuth Kumar, Sapthami Gowda, Pramod Shetty, and Vinay Biddappa.
Shakun Batra directs this romantic dramedy. In Hindi.
Or: I Was a Teenage Rocky. John G. Avildsen, the director of the original Rocky, tries to whip up some of the same emotions, and again enlists Bill Conti to supply the music, in the story of a nice, gentle, olive-skinned kid from New Jersey who has sand kicked in …
The remake moves the action and the fatherless undersized hero to Beijing (“It’s not karate, Mom!” “Okay, kung fu, karate, whatever”), where it seems less wonderful that the apartment-house handyman is a martial-arts master. Especially when the handyman is played by Jackie Chan, lying low. The underdog regimen, on a …
The resemblance of Part I to the original Rocky is sharpened by there being a Part II. (And this time, John G. Avildsen gets to direct the sequel himself, instead of being replaced by, say, Ralph Macchio or Pat Morita as he was by Sylvester Stallone.) The most attractive parts …
After ten years of marriage, Karen leaves her macho husband to start an independent life in Bogota in this film exploring “contemporary social issues in Colombia in a fresh light.” In Spanish with English subtitles.