A half-breed Vietnam veteran re-enters the world of men, after a peaceful term of forest seclusion and communion with woodland creatures. His do-good tendencies land him soon in terrible trouble with the law, a band of motorcycle marauders, and a co-ed in a bikini; and his devastating karate, reluctantly unleashed, …
The All-American boy grows up playing soldier in Massapequa, Long Island, is further instilled with the fighting spirit on the high-school wrestling team, gets recruited by the Marines ("There is nothing finer, nothing prouder, nothing standing as straight ..."), goes to Vietnam, gets disillusioned, gets shot, gets paralyzed from the …
Dr. Jess Ting clearly lived up to his name when, looking down to admire his reconstructive wizardry, he joked, “I make a mean penis.” In 2015, New York began requiring insurance companies to cover gender-affirming surgery. It was Dr. Ting who was assigned the task of making the external face …
Quasi-biopic that asks the question, Why should the artist prize the love of a good woman when heroin will do just fine? One possible answer: if the woman is good enough, she won’t land you in an Italian prison the way drugs might. She might even give you the strength …
A beautifully filmed and cogent tribute to two women and their adopted animals. Birute Galdikas rescues orphaned orangutans in Borneo, and Daphne Sheldrick raises baby elephants in Kenya. The creatures, once weaned, are returned to the wild. In IMAX 3-D, the orphans are so vividly present they’re almost beyond adorable. …
After an unforeseen threat arises mid-air, a talented young air force test pilot (WANG Yibo) is forced to test not only the capabilities of his top-secret aircraft, but also his own physical and psychological limits, in order to survive. Directed by Liu Xiaoshi, starring: Wang Yibo, Hu Jun, Yu Shi, …
A look inside the sphincter-clenching world of the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics. Yes, that spells SLAM.
Repertory cinema. Remake of the Garson Kanin play -- Galatea Goes to Washington -- starring Melanie (Wee Little Voice) Griffith as Judy Holliday, John (Good Enough) Goodman as Broderick Crawford, and Don (Coppertone) Johnson as William Holden. The pro-education and anti-materialist sentiments haven't dated; and Griffith, though she lacks Holliday's …
Brick-thick chunk of whimsy, from the children's books of Mary Norton, about a species of wee folk known as Borrowers, one family of whom infests the house of the Lenders in a rose-hued, time-warped fantasyland. The Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians coexist well enough in the same space until they are required …
The torch has been passed...to Naruto's son! Anime from director Hiroyuki Yamashita, subtitled.
Harry Bosch, a retired homicide detective turned private investigator, embarks on the next chapter of his career; attorney Honey “Money” Chandler, who struggles to maintain her faith in the justice system after surviving an attempted murder; and Maddie Bosch, as she discovers the possibilities and challenges of being a rookie …
An oscillating orphan grows into a highly successful, Vegas-style motivational speaker who, after a 5 month stint in the pen for insider trading, reinvents herself as a chocolate brownie baroness. With her red wig in place, Melissa McCarthy wants like crazy to assume the Lucille Ball mantle, but all America’s …
Breezy Brazilian romantic comedy, a piece of fluff, a mere wisp, beginning with travelogue shots of Rio (a rainbow over the bay, soccer on the beach, etc.) and ending with the stock scene of a lover's mad dash to the airport. In between, there's one amusing bit of an adult-education …
Surprise! Dreamworks’ latest is not simply an exercise in sticking Alec Baldwin’s Scotch-mellowed tycoon’s rasp in the mouth of a CGI infant and chuckling at the juxtaposition. Instead, this story of a boy’s troubles when his baby brother arrives serves as a rousing defense of familial love as a good …