What happens when the screen becomes a lectern. Without benefit of so much as one acclimatizing image or inaugural character to provide footing, even before a title hits the screen the filmmaker’s intent is clearly spelled out for us: “School bullying is a worldwide phenomenon… We hope this film will …
The better life desired by Carlos (Demián Bichir) is to own a truck and improve his chances of success as (an illegal) Mexican gardener in L.A. His son (José Julián) has difficult teen moods and is of little help. Director Chris Weitz keeps it straight and simple, yet always credible, …
Although the title sounds like a Hong Kong shoot'em-up by John Woo, the subject is actually straight-A suburban Asian-American teens, who use exclamations like "Sweet" and "Whatever," listen to rap music, get wasted, and escalate from classroom cheating to petty crime to big-time. It's nice to know, in case you …
Based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams.
Youth comedy, slightly loonier than most: teenage suicide as a running gag, anthropomorphized hamburger buns, a Living Dead horde of paperboys. And, with a couple of direct lifts from Woody Allen and Albert Brooks, loftier in artistic aspirations, too. But no funnier, for all that. And there is still the …
This film traces the journey of a former smuggler attempting to start his life anew and repair his relationship with his estranged brother after his release from prison.
Bettie Page — born into poverty, unwanted by her mother, and molested by her father — came within one-quarter point of being her high-school Valedictorian, an honor that would have carried with it a four-year college scholarship. Instead, she wound up in a brief, bad marriage — her first of …
Chabrol's oblique, ironic, politically incorrect, or politically independent, or simply apolitical, account of one woman's roundabout liberation. (The "unpleasant" movie about an abortionist, to which one character prissily refers, could well be Chabrol's own Story of Women.) Adapted from a Simenon novel, and a definite improvement on it. Interesting effect …
Young love, French love, crazy love. Well, one of them's crazy at least: the one who throws things out the window ("Your pad will look very Zen now," a neighbor remarks), and who sets the house afire on moving out, and who stabs a pizzeria patron with a fork, and …
In a crumbling Soviet Union, the Petrosyan family finds themselves as outcasts wherever they go. Their Armenian heritage marks them for discrimination, first in their home country of Azerbaijan and then in Russia. After finding their eternal hope through a church planted by American missionaries, the hostility of everyday life …
Mieke was adopted from South Korea to the Netherlands as a child. When she visits her original family in Seoul, they navigate acceptance, cultural differences, and forgiveness, while still healing from decades of separation. Directed by Jota MUN.
Original music drama penned with the hope of encouraging honest and raw conversations regarding race, racial divisions, and stereotypes; especially within the evangelical church.