The latest family affair from Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup, 13 Moons) is a product from another time. On the surface, it could very well have been a black-and-white low-budget indie that was left lounging in a time capsule since missing its release window some 35 years ago. But the …
From afar, the peaceful community appears to be aglow from luminaria, the traditional paper bag lanterns used to light the Christ child’s path on Christmas Eve. But this small town’s latest resident (Christopher Abbott) is anything but godly. The opening scene — a stranger walks into a bar after hours, …
As if needed, further proof that the western is indeed dead. A reformed whore with a heart of lead (January Jones), a hell-bent religious cult leader (Jason Issac), and an unorthodox lawman (Ed Harris) juggle bullets in a modern day shoot-’em-up that tries for dark poetics, only to unfold like …
High school teacher Holly (Azura Skye) appears to command the respect of her students, her husband Rob (Bryce Pinkham) is set for a promotion at work, and their two sons seem to be relatively well-adjusted. That makes it even harder to shake the close-up on her bloody hands tightened around …
In the Middle Ages, an unnamed stranger (Karol Bernacki) tends to the wounds of a recently shipwrecked bishop (Krzysztof Pieczynski). Sent on a mission from the King, the latter’s task is basically to beat Christianity into the heads of the heathen islanders, with the alternative being certain death. The natives …
When asked what he’d do in France, the Israeli Yoav (Tom Mercier) replies, “I’ll be French.” Like a Terminator dropped from the sky, he runs naked reconnaissance through the recently leased Parisian flat he now calls home. He left Israel with a one-way ticket and a singular goal: erase all …
Unless the entire cast suddenly found it hard to make their mortgage payments, file this one under “unnecessary sequels.” The passage of 23 years finds Begbie (Robert Carlyle) on the lam, Spud (Ewen Bremner) a suicidal junkie, and Simon (Jonny Lee Miller) managing a questionable extortion ring — when he’s …
It’s a testament to Tab Hunter’s popularity that just about every co-star he shared the bill with – including the reclusive likes of Clint Eastwood and Dolores Hart – agreed to appear in Jeffrey Schwarz’s absorbing documentary. His boy-next-door good looks helped to catapult the shy, California-raised teen to movie …
Better to sneak into another auditorium than pull up a seat at the loser table opposite these six dusty nerds. Director Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound, Rocket Science) skips the hors d'oeuvre — nothing can whet the appetite for what’s to follow — and for the main course, serves up the comedic …
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 …
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 …
A window fan blows the heat out of a sweltering Toronto kitchen as Michelle Williams kneels on the floor, her cheek pressed against the glowing oven door, her heart burning with desire. Happily married doesn't always mean happily ever after, and the tension between the two sets the tone for …
“Once upon a time in the land of films…” mutters Suleiman Ibrahim as he looks down at the abandoned projection booth floor, where gritty, unspooled yards of celluloid, curled from the Sudanese heat, crunch beneath his feet. The 35mm projectors, so dirty that it takes a leaf-blower to clean out …