The Lone Ranger Nazi-hunter, modelled on Simon Wiesenthal, is made to seem a worryingly feeble hero, afflicted in his dotage by the world's growing indifference, his own infirmity, his leaky plumbing, and his overdue rent; but the sympathy evoked by the role is more than cancelled out by Laurence Olivier's …
In the event you have been a little late on the uptake, here are laid out (a,b,c,d, etc.) all the horrors and lunacies of the U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia, beginning with the sheepshearing in Marine bootcamp and extending to the body counts in the Vietnam rice paddies. Some …
A homosexual birthday gathering, organized a little like a formal congress, where each invited guest represents one of the many shades of gay -- a midnight cowboy in darling blond curls, a closet case in gray flannel, a transvestite, etc. Psychotherapeutic party games, with predictable echoes of Albee, peel away …
Based on the best-selling book about the inspirational true story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. Directed by George Clooney, starring Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner.
Based on the best-selling book about the inspirational true story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. Directed by George Clooney, starring Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner.
Low-grade video documentary, by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, on a Baltimore educational experiment to send twenty "at-risk" black students per year to an all-male boarding school in Kenya. It's an interesting project, whether as education or as documentary, but the students and filmmakers alike are left high and dry …
Buddy film, feminine gender. Three dissimilar single women -- Jane, the black lesbian cabaret entertainer; Robin, the uptight HIV-positive white-bread yuppie; Holly, the abused pregnant white-trash coquette -- share a van driving westward. (Road-weary cinematic technique: a montage of fast-food and gas-station signs, cut to the beat of the pop …
He has never spoken a word. He sits on his windowsill at all hours of the day, arms stretched out at his sides. He thinks he's an airplane. And as the title divulges straightaway, while the script plays it catty, he actually can fly. This situation is worked out in …
Peace entreaty for a gang-ridden L.A. ghetto, made by twenty-three-year-old writer-director John Singleton -- his first feature. Very simple and direct in style (to match the intentions), and almost unformed as a narrative. Larry Fishburne is imposing, though limited, as a Positive Role Model, and the movie feels more comfortable, …
In case you hadn’t been paying attention during the preceding two hours and 15 minutes, director Robin Campillo’s unblinking tale of gay love and AIDS activism in ‘90s Paris culminates by cutting between dramatic political protest and emotionally intense lovemaking. Because for the members of ACT UP, the personal is …
Why all the whining? Put another way, why does Brad (Ben Stiller) spend more time counting other people’s successes than he does taking stock in his own good fortune? Beset by the feeling that his college chums (Michael Sheen, Jermaine Clement, Luke Wilson) are all passing him by, his anxieties …
Affectionate cheek-tweak of the Seventies sitcom and perennial re-run. The premise is a little far afield -- the conformist family of the TV show is now radically nonconformist: custodians of Seventies clothes, hairstyles, language, music, etc., in blissful defiance of their Nineties surroundings -- but the artificiality of the world …
Written and directed by Rvs Nikhil.
Inspired by deeply rooted concepts and tales in Indian mythology but set in the modern world, this is the story of Shiva, who sets out in search of love and self-discovery. During his journey, he has to face many evil forces that threaten our existence. The story and screenplay are …
Inspired by deeply rooted concepts and tales in Indian mythology but set in the modern world, this is the story of Shiva, who sets out in search of love and self-discovery. During his journey, he has to face many evil forces that threaten our existence. The story and screenplay are …