Thirty-five years ago, someone left an Etch-A-Sketch in the rain while the witch in the basement had the neighbor kid for dinner. Five days ago — and with his parent’s divorce looming large — Ben (John-Paul Howard) arrived in town to spend a little chastisement time with dad (Jamison Jones); …
Four reasons to take a child to see A Wrinkle in Time: 1. They display a keen interest in physics. 2. They’ve read the book. 3. They don’t frighten easily. 4. You hate them. More thought went into Disney’s United Colors of Benetton approach to casting than to hammering out …
Four reasons to take a child to see A Wrinkle in Time: 1. They display a keen interest in physics. 2. They’ve read the book. 3. They don’t frighten easily. 4. You hate them. More thought went into Disney’s United Colors of Benetton approach to casting than to hammering out …
Four reasons to take a child to see A Wrinkle in Time: 1. They display a keen interest in physics. 2. They’ve read the book. 3. They don’t frighten easily. 4. You hate them. More thought went into Disney’s United Colors of Benetton approach to casting than to hammering out …
In the 1960s, the road to a paycheck for most superstar remnants of Hollywood’s Golden Age forked in two directions: big screen fright or the even more terrifying network drama. Ray Milland would go on to appear in an abundance of schlock horror titles (Frogs, The Thing With Two Heads, …
“Four deadly tales directed by four killer women.” That’s the tagline for this multiauthored horror anthology, even though this type of press agent math never adds up. The two middle tales hardly qualify as killer; they’re both efficiently apportioned one-joke premises. It’s the bookending segments (and wraparound sequences) that do …
At 114 minutes, this Year only feels like a decade. It's goopy, by-the-numbers woman’s pictures like this that give melodramas a bad name. Hoping to resume her career as a writer, a defiant Karen Allen thinks the time is right for a brief separation from her overbearing husband (Michael Cristofer). …
The directorial debut of Karen Maine, author of Obvious Child, tracks a coming of age sex comedy set at a Catholic high school retreat that proves the road to damnation is paved with masturbation. Any film that begins with a quote from scripture followed by the textbook definition of “tossing …
There was a time in the mid-’90s when people would have killed to be David Arquette. With the rapidity of a Gatling gun, he cranked out what appeared to be a trio of career-determining performances: the jaundiced rebel in Robert Rodriguez’s Roadracers (the director’s rapid-fire teensploitation contribution to Showtime’s fine …
An enterprising ragamuffin (newcomer Kyle Catlett) from Montana (by way of the director’s The City of Lost Children) takes a road trip. Destination: the lost District of Columbia for a Smithsonian gala in his honor. A halcyon maze, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s shrewdly sweet-tempered surreal fantasyland is an eyegasmic saturnalia of expressive …
Parisian provocateur Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Time to Leave) again fixes his clinician’s gaze on the business of lust to further explore his pet preoccupations of identity and sexuality among teenage adolescents. In Isabelle’s (Marine Vacth) case, sexuality is allied with neither money nor feelings. Nor is the privileged schoolkid …
What do you call a low budget, largely improvised horror film that’s shot in SeizureVision and dead on arrival? Mumblecorpse. Remember The Strangers, the atrocious slasher film where married couple Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are terrorized by a band of masked spree killers while staying at an isolated vacation …
It’s not often that Human Rights Watch sends a narrative feature our way, but when they do it’s a moment worth cherishing. Two sisters, dressed alike and close enough in age to pass for twins, are placed in separate foster care, something the case worker assures them is a good …
Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a sociopathic veteran who earns cash by tracking down kidnapped girls and butchering their abductors. Sadly, it seems as though everything director Lynne Ramsey has to submit on the horrors of parenting was already covered by her deeply unsettling We Need to Talk About Kevin. Taxi …