More haunted hijinx from Marlon Wayans & Co.
Parents who follow their pushy kid around with a camcorder his entire life, hoping to find the right stunt that will thrust their baby into the spotlight, form the basis of this insignificant documentary. The Cuban government gave Mica’s zayde refuge from the Nazis, and decades later the 17-year-old decides …
Puri Jagannadh takes his Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies to Spain for this story of how "falling for girl is fun but being in love is pain."
Based on the book Heaven is for Real, the story of a boy who has a near death experience and comes out of it saying he went to heaven and knowing stuff that he shouldn't be able to know. Just imagine the terrifying sequel if it's a hit: Hell Is …
Oh, dear. Hector (Simon Pegg in deadly earnest) is an English psychiatrist, an affluent, middle-aged white guy afflicted with the dreaded "tidy, uncomplicated, satisfactory life," a man who, terrifyingly, "takes comfort in his predictable patterns." No wonder he can't help his patients. Happily, one of them is a psychic who …
Angry co-titular adolescent, check. Dead mother, check. Widowed, alcoholic/negligent co-titular father, check. Rural Southern milieu, check. Custody battle with CPS, check. Sports (in this case, Motocross) as a means of redemption/escape, check. Gun in Act II, check. Trendy, tripod-free presentation, check, check. It’s a network pilot minus profanity! Dad (Aaron …
Starring Dwayne Johnson. 'nuff said.
Look, if you were as bloated as The Hobbit trilogy, you'd probably be showing signs of exhaustion toward the end of a nearly nine-hour runtime, too. And if your films were as stupidly profitable as director Peter Jackson's, you'd probably be just as blind to your own cinematic sins. So …
Here it is, folks: the longer version of this.
Randall Wright’s documentary about the English artist is forced to trade drama for detail: that’s what happens when your still-living subject has led a relatively happy, comfortable life. (Yes, he was born into English austerity during the war years, and yes, it wasn’t easy being gay, but he still comes …
The Searchers houses one of the most famous (and dramatic) camera movements in cinema history, a swift dolly-in on John Wayne’s evil-eyed examination of young women ravaged by the Comanche. At its best, The Homesman adds credence to the Duke’s towering look of disgust. Tommy Lee Jones directs and co-scripts …
Why would a civilian war correspondent risk life and limb to send home pictorial confirmation of government-sanctioned brutality? David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud’s harrowing documentary The Hornet’s Nest answers the question. Mike Boettcher’s 34 years of dedication to his job as network correspondent helped earn him enough Absentee Father of …
Remarkable: a sequel that actually scales down from its predecessor. The high concept — workers of the world, kill your boss! — dispensed with, our working class heroes Nick, Kurt, and Dale (Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day, clearly enjoying themselves and each other) can relax and get down …
"With Vikings riding dragons," proclaims the clever young Viking Hiccup at the outset, "the world just got a whole lot bigger." "Bigger" pretty much describes this sequel to the 2010 sleeper hit - as opposed to, say, "different." Once again, our hero must convince a hardheaded hulk about the right …
Noted down-home small-towners Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey produce traditionally minded director Lasse Hallstrom's (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules) film version of Richard Morais' novel about a displaced Indian family ("There was an election of some kind.") who decide to open a restaurant in a French village, right across the …