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.
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.
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.
Without benefit of intertitles or one spoken word – the spare dialogue is unintelligible – Brazilian animator Alê Abreu’s gentle fantasy, seen entirely through the coin slot eyes of a 5-year-old stick figure, speaks volumes. At first, all that’s needed to advance the simple tale of a son’s journey from …
As if one feature per lifetime on the dodo-headed topic of conversion therapy weren’t enough, make room for 2018’s second big screen crusade to make bank off of public-spirited homophobe Mike Pence’s pet project. The first thing the viewer notices is an overall aversion on the part of the characters …
In the context of a powder-puff parody of Thirties musicals, Ken Russell's harsh, unflattering, ghoulish lighting becomes interesting for its abrasive, corrosive effect. And Twiggy's movie debut is almost as notable as her publicity made claim -- delicate, halting, sweet, charming, and utterly unspoiled by the efforts of her director. …
This, the sixth in Eric Rohmer's series of "Comedies and Proverbs," continues to minister to the Rohmer faithful and does nothing to attract new converts. A sense of déjà vu will start to materialize almost immediately. Everyone is young, slim, attractive, wears bright colors, and talks prosaically and incessantly. Everything …
Contrived concentration-camp fable, from the novel by John Boyne, about the budding friendship, through barbed wire, between the eight-year-old Aryan son of the camp commandant (in his innocence, he thinks it’s a farm) and a same-aged, shaved-headed Jew. It roughly recalls Life Is Beautiful in its mixture, or collision, of …
Boy vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy, the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left Boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, Boy trains with a mysterious shaman (Ruhian) …
A transgendered virgin-with-girls (Michelle Hendley) falls for a girl virgin (Alexandra Turshen) engaged to a homophobic marine (Michael Galante). A good portion of writer-director Eric Schaeffer’s time is spent hammering out well-worn dialogue exchanges aimed at shedding light upon transsexuality to cave-dwelling Red Staters who probably wouldn’t go near a …
When conservatives bash Hollywood, it's for films like this, with their trashy, lurid, depictions of extramarital sex between lusty moms (Jennifer Lopez, fit and flaunting at 45) and hunky high-school boys (Ryan Guzman, 27 playing 19). When liberals bash Hollywood, it's for films like this, with their themes of inevitable …
It is difficult to locate the director of Smithereens and Desperately Seeking Susan in this multicharacter romantic comedy (original title: The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club) that targets an audience of seniors and is accordingly toothless and bland. Rather than "targets," perhaps we should say "patronizes." Susan Seidelman, the director in …
The true story (told before in a documentary, The Brandon Teena Story) of a young Nebraska woman in a "sexual identity crisis," and on the dodge from the law, who reversed her first and last names, attempted to pass as a man in a redneck corner of the state, and …