Looking to get his legacy in order, a billionaire elevator magnate (Ray Wise) brings his four children together to announce he has 6 months to live. Not only are the children excluded from the will, if a vengeful dad has his way they’ll be written out of life altogether. The …
The first half-hour plays like a reel of Pixar stand-alone shorts: Woody Goes to School, Woody Saves Forky, etc. It isn’t until the arrival at Granny’s antique store that the film finds its bearings. The voice box tracheotomy was an errant touch of genius. Too bad Disney couldn’t have secured …
The first half-hour plays like a reel of Pixar stand-alone shorts: Woody Goes to School, Woody Saves Forky, etc. It isn’t until the arrival at Granny’s antique store that the film finds its bearings. The voice box tracheotomy was an errant touch of genius. Too bad Disney couldn’t have secured …
The first half-hour plays like a reel of Pixar stand-alone shorts: Woody Goes to School, Woody Saves Forky, etc. It isn’t until the arrival at Granny’s antique store that the film finds its bearings. The voice box tracheotomy was an errant touch of genius. Too bad Disney couldn’t have secured …
Wanting to escape her bigoted, misogynistic small-town upbringing — and with little but four camels, a dog, and her wits to guide her — a young woman (Mia Wasikowska) embarks on a 2,000-mile trek across the Australian desert. It only sounds like Disneynature. Whatever you look for in a movie …
What makes a pair of homicidal high school hit girls — looking to find a mentor and eager to up the number of hits on their popular website — think the bona fide serial killer they kidnap and hold hostage will cooperate with their plans? That’s just one of the …
A standing joke/disclaimer: I probably would have liked Shakespeare more had his plays been written by someone else. If the film’s the thing, my appreciation of his work doesn’t extend beyond the films of Welles and Kurosawa. To hold Joel Coen to those unattainable standards would be unfair. So it’s …
Show me a classic cosa nostra saga that doesn’t affirm the importance of family and... well, I submit the latest from Marco Bellocchio. Tommaso Buscetta (played with rumpled aplomb by Pierfrancesco Favino) had no use for the term “mafia;” to his way of thinking, it was a non-existent appellation cooked …
Fancying himself a young bloodsucker, Milo (Eric Ruffin) uses a knife concealed inside a fountain pen to slice the throats of his victims. Perhaps he should find a new obsession: the poor lad can barely keep his lunch down, and no descendent of Dracula would ever allow a gang of …
It's been over 30 years, but the Orson Welles completest in me actually has fond memories of seeing this in a theatre. If given the choice, one would certainly prefer this to the Michael Bay atrocity of the same name.
What’s the largest employer of transgender people in America? The U.S. military which currently has on its payroll 15,500 members of the trans community. The military identifies Lt. El Cook as female to which he replies, “I am taking steps to make my biological, physical body reflect my gender.” Cook …
Storytelling takes a back seat to the issue of the death penalty in this true-life story of a father (Jack O’Connell) wrongfully accused of setting fire to his three children. Just because life offers up cliches doesn’t mean a director has to play them as such. No stranger to television …
Muhammad Ali had no problem beating people up on the white man’s dime or acting as celebrity spokesperson for the organized hate group, the Nation of Islam. Shot down by one critic as “a disgrace to his country, race, and what he laughingly describes as his profession,” in 1967 the …
It’s more of an outright faceplant than a trip when duelling fusspots Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon retrace Odysseus’ ten-year journey from Troy to Ithaca in six days. Lunches consist of three-camera shoots with a side of bumpy cutaways to the kitchen or waitstaff, brought in to trim the open …