Somebody down at Computer Casting Service must have been running a temperature when he matched Mel Gibson with Goldie Hawn (or when he matched each of them to their individual roles: Mel's a former hippie who still keeps the faith; Goldie's a former hippie who's now a corporate attorney). It …
Hitchcock's shocker about an avian air attack on the citizenry of Bodega Bay is constructed along the lines of a sci-fi invasion film. Divested of all logic, this assault on middle-class complacency exposes Hitchcock's sadistic tendencies as nakedly as they have ever been. There is a lightening of load thanks …
Hitchcock's shocker about an avian air attack on the citizenry of Bodega Bay is constructed along the lines of a sci-fi invasion film. Divested of all logic, this assault on middle-class complacency exposes Hitchcock's sadistic tendencies as nakedly as they have ever been. There is a lightening of load thanks …
Director Ciro Guerra, whose mesmerizing Embrace of the Serpent similarly treated the havoc wrought when gringos take an interest in local produce (there, it was rubber; here, it’s marijuana), teams with his producer on that film, Cristina Gallegos, to bring you a classical tragedy, complete with cantos for chapters and …
Horrormeister Dario Argento establishes his durable and elegant pattern in his first feature: a witness to a crime knows more than he knows he knows. How and when will his subconscious cough it up? More of an atmosphere, more of an air of mystery, less of a blood bath, than …
The sophomore effort of director Jonathan Glazer, after his auspicious debut with Sexy Beast, is nothing if not ambitious: a reincarnation mystery wherein a somber little ten-year-old (Cameron Bright, the little creep of Godsend) shows up at the doorstep of a newly engaged widow (Nicole Kidman in a Peter Pan …
In celebration of what would have been the 70th birthday of the late head Deadhead Jerry Garcia, the screening will feature the 1977 tripfest The Grateful Dead Movie, as well as a special birthday commemoration on Garcia directed by Justin Kreutzmann (son of Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann), featuring the Dead’s …
Offbeat, roundabout love story. It starts out as a kinky light comedy about a Russian mail-order bride in provincial England who proves to speak only one word of English ("Are you a giraffe?" "Yes"), and who uncovers an instructional stash of S&M porn in the bedroom closet. Then, near the …
Director, star, and co-writer Nate Parker’s take on Nat Turner’s failed slave uprising is certainly controversial, given its sympathetic portrayal of a religious extremist on a murderous mission from God. But it’s not good: it looks bad, sounds cartoonish, skips jerkily from scene to scene, and seems weirdly illiterate about …
Dirctor George Nolfi dramatizes the true story of the fight between a young martial-arts hotshot named Bruce Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man. (Also, from the looks of the trailer, the fight itself.)
Documentary revealing the untold story behind Bruce Brown's film The Endless Summer. It follows the journey of Dick Metz, a California surf pioneer, as he travels the world from 1958 to 1961. Metz's adventures lead him to discover the "perfect wave" at Cape St. Francis in South Africa, which inspires …
Because you can't possibly get enough of zombies, and so you want to know how it all began: a documentary that looks back at the plucky bunch of unlikely pioneers behind George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
What's this? A documentary western?! An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past. Directed by Robert Greene.