Richard Kelly's blow-up of a Richard Matheson short story titled "Button, Button" is a would-be cult film from the writer and director of the already-been cult film Donnie Darko. Commingling space exploration, Arthur C. Clarke, Jean-Paul Sartre, body-snatched zombies prone to nosebleeds, and mid-Seventies period trappings, it's an overelaborate and …
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman's sustained gaze into the interior of Lord's Boxing Gym in Austin, Texas. There is no narrative to speak of, and besides proprietor Richard Lord, there are hardly any characters. Instead, you get a profound sense of what has to be done to a body to ready it …
Tale of erotic obsession from first-time director Jennifer Chambers Lynch, daughter of director David Lynch (Twin Peaks, etc.). The protagonist, a masterful surgeon but a stammering, stumbling idiot when it comes to his object of obsession, tries to hold on to her by amputating both her legs (Twin Stumps, so …
A boy takes a bus from Mexico City to collect his father's remains after his death in a mining accident. However, he sees a man who looks just like his father, and the man takes the boy under his wing. Directed by Lorenzo Vigas. Starring: Hatzín Navarrete, Hernán Mendoza, Elián …
Middle-aged nerd (pocket pen set, daily uniform of white dress shirt and black slacks) loosens up after a chance encounter with an outgoing dropout in a Davy Crockett costume. John Turturro's robotic posture and movements have the physical expressiveness of a silent-cinema clown, and his dance, when he really cuts …
A child's animated primer on the chicanery, skullduggery, and social gamesmanship so dear to the heart of the grownup world, and a gentle affirmation of genuine family life as the antithesis of and antidote for same. Ben Kingsley is simply great as Archibald Snatcher, a noisome, ill-bred schemer who dreams …
Romance happens on the night of the 2016 Presidential election. Meagan Good and Omari Hardwick star and Qasim Basir directs.
A flip piece of science-fiction misogyny. In the stereotyped wastelands of post-WWIII, man's best friend is still his dog, and woman is still his Garden of Eden undoer. (The dog's interior monologues and telepathic dialogues sound like a canine counterpart of Morris the Cat -- a dry wit, jaded, bored.) …
Nothing frosts my ass more than a cartoon feature that doesn’t put to use the limitless imaginative possibilities of creating an animated universe made up entirely of pen and ink (and now, pixels). Not much happens in this story of a young runaway brought to act as an apprentice in …
Mahito, a young 12-year-old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother's death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world.