Scare story about white-collar drug abuse -- and in fact moderately scary, for all its somber predictability. James Woods, who worked so memorably with this same director in The Onion Field, is tuned naturally to the proper idling speed and barely has to touch the gas pedal. Sean Young, Steven …
For anyone who heretofore hadn't encountered the character on HBO, Borat Sagdiyev will need an introduction. He is one of the personas of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on Da Ali G Show, a Kazakh TV reporter dapperly dressed in a dove-gray suit, bristlingly mustachioed, blissfully sexist, superstitiously anti-Semitic, and …
Like its predecessor, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is an unremitting wellspring of laughs, many refreshingly disgraceful. As with everything Cohen signs his name to, the artist’s mind may be in the gutter, but his moral compass generally points due north. Throwaway gags brought gales of giggles — the Johnny the Monkey/lipstick …
I feel like I'm in a bad Tales from the Crypt episode, notes the wisecracking P.I. on a missing-person case. He's almost right. It's a bad Tales from the Crypt feature film, a pun-happy romp in a mortuary-cum-whorehouse (hence, "getting stiff among the stiffs," and so forth), whose madam is …
Romanticized Mexican madonna and child. Satirized Anglo housewives. Villainized lawmen. Existentialized hero. Tony Richardson's experience with British working-class dramas in the days of the Angry Young Men prepared him well for the bleak landscape -- both natural and industrial -- around El Paso, Texas, and he gets much mileage (or …
Answers the question, “What if X-Men’s story of Xavier and Magneto — mutant Others with remarkable powers trying to decide how to live in a normie world that hates and/or fears them — was played out, not between handsome youngsters (McEvoy and Fassbender) or dignified oldsters (Stewart and McKellan), but …
Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas, the universe’s most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits – Roland, …
Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas, the universe’s most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits – Roland, …
An exposé of the cruel human cost of immigration at the same time as it weaves in stories of immigrants who want to build a social movement to demand their human rights. Directed by Paco de Onis and Pamela Yates.
The illegal alien problem provides a backdrop (no more than that) for a standard revenge drama, with Charles Bronson his usual implacable self as the avenger. Out of carefulness not to be offensive, none of the Mexicans is characterized as anything beyond a symbol, and all the serious villainy is …
Director Janus Metz’ clash of the tennis titans presents its flaws early: amped grandeur (“every match is a life in miniature”), an overbearing soundtrack, too much made of its heroes’ interior lives while too little is revealed about their actual gameplay, and a tendency to tell what it could just …
Disney's True-Life Adventure series has morphed into Disneynature and this is their latest documentary. PANDA ALERT: It looks so cute and sugary that I needed a shot of Insulin to make it through the trailer.
And then, caught without I.D. in a raid by La Migra, deported to Tijuana, there to stay till the end of the movie. Some social comment along the way, little of it funny, much of it schmaltzy. But the real purpose of this spin-off from his recorded spoof of Springsteen's …
Do-gooder documentary, co-directed, co-written, and co-photographed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, focuses on eight children in the Calcutta red-light district. Their lives and prospects are as awful as you would imagine, and the film's image is as awful as you have come to expect in the DV era. (The …