By Dominick’s (Kevin James) calculations, the aryan nationalist — he’s the one with the swastika yarmulke inked atop his parietal bone — has spent 54,538 hours behind bars mentally mapping out an escape route and he’s not about to let 15-year-old Becky (Lulu Wilson) upend his plans. This is not …
Zoey Deutch stars as an entitled brat (and founding member of her school’s elite “mean girls” clique) who is inexplicably compelled to wrap up her final moments on Earth reliving the last day of her life before getting it right. Other than an unexpected air of adroitness that occasionally kicks …
Just when you thought Hollywood had exhausted every drop of originality, here comes a new film on the subject of amnesia. A gruesome “accident” robs Nicole Kidman of her ability to store information for more than a day at a time. Not knowing whom to trust, the absent-minded cipher must …
The awkward goodnight kiss Rachel (writer-director Hannah Pearl Utt) shares in front of the rickety playhouse she calls home trumpets an indie romance. Sit tight. Love will have to wait. Rachel still lives at home and is embarrassed to invite her date inside for a nightcap. One branch below on …
A divorced record exec (Mark Ruffalo), inundated with booze and bombarded by mediocrity, stumbles upon an open mic night in time to catch a fetching singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) with a sensational “little voice” who he instantly signs. The gimmick: they’ll record an album on the fly at various locations across …
What with well-intentioned films about bullying currently the rage, it stands to reason there must be at least one that doesn’t construct a bully pulpit of its own to hammer home its obvious points. This rare misstep from the otherwise dependable voice of humanist André Téchiné (Alice et Martin, Wild …
This should have been a bonus feature on a Sesame Street DVD. Knowledge gleaned: Kevin Clash is a blueblooded puppeteer in love with his calling and blessed with an ability to animate fleece with the mere twist of a knuckle. We’re told little about Clash’s private life, other than he’s …
Before Mr. T and Steven Seagal, there was Evel Knievel. In the span of seven years, the daredevil stunt cyclist became one of the most recognizable figures, action or otherwise, on the planet. Knievel’s was a life of constant reinvention, an inner-crusade of never-ending one-upmanship with but one goal in …
Another week, another round of celebrity pantomimes, this time a biopic prime for Amazon, not theatres. Lucy (Nicole Kidman) loved logic, a trait that clearly did not find a home in writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s final cut. The pampered superstar couldn’t find a washing machine in a Maytag showroom. What would …
No sooner does a full-color drone’s-eye-view offer up a glimpse of Belfast today, than we’re whisked over a fence and 50 years into a monochromatic past. For a city beset by civil war, it’s amazing how squeaky clean the streets look, as if set designers spent their evenings polishing each …
An investigator sends his underage junkie niece undercover, and her death kicks off a search for the hellborn Mr. Lee, a drug kingpin whose identity remains a tightly guarded mystery. How does one say “Stop remaking great movies!” in Korean? Because it seems our friends to the South have become …
How’s this for a genuinely frightening premise: a faceless corporation outfits 80 of its employees with explosive implant tracers, confines them to a Colombian office building, and obliges the staff to participate in a game of last man or woman standing. All director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) and screenwriter James …
A pair of novice car and end-of-the-world enthusiasts bone up for Armageddon by spending their days and nights in search of army-surplus stores and auto graveyards that stock parts to build do-it-yourself flamethrowing devices. Other than the fact it took producer/director/co-editor/star Evan Glodell eight years to complete his audacious $17K …