“They’re real sticklers for the rules these days, not like in my time,” says Errol Flynn (Kevin Kline) while effortlessly trying to put across Hollywood’s attitude towards May/December romances to star-struck Florence Aadland (Susan Sarandon), the mother of his 15-year-old mistress, Beverly (Dakota Fanning). The Last of Robin Hood chronicles …
A lost film buried beneath the Killing Fields reveals different versions of the truth. Subtitled.
A Rapture story with its heart in the right place: that is, in sympathy with the poor souls who are left to wonder what sort of God just snatches away their kids, their parents, and their airplane pilots. According to the tagline, The End of the World Has Only Just …
Renny Harlin (remember The Long Kiss Goodnight?) spills his director's paintbox all over a perfectly serviceable B movie, leaving almost no scene unstained. Wash it out, saturate it, amp it up, slow it down, and above all, have something drifting through the air — ashes, rose petals, dandelion seeds, whatever. …
LEGO, which has insinuated itself into movie franchise after movie franchise via the video game backdoor, now makes its move to subsume them all into a big-screen pop-culture juggernaut. They even took over the Bible! Resistance is futile.
Let’s not and say we did. An unsuccessful video game designer and his loser best friend get their hands on police uniforms and masquerade as cops. A dozen or so aerial shots of L.A. interspersed between amateurish, sluggishly-paced, and uncommonly unfunny skits. Where these two stone-broke schmucks raised the dough …
A recently widowed mother moves her daughter from Tokyo to a small island community. There, the young girl is befriended by a trio of gas-passing goblins. The richly articulated background drawings can’t help but call attention to the static character animation and rice paper-thin plotting that plays out before them. …
Ain't no "will they or won't they" like a "will they or won't they" about a couple of Brits (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) spending a weekend in Paris, precisely 30 years after their honeymoon visit to the City of Light. It turns out the problem with going on vacation …
Steve James's celebratory documentary about popular, populist film critic Roger Ebert shares a title with Ebert's 2011 memoir, but is able to go where the book was not: to the end of life itself. Ebert is unexpectedly hospitalized almost at the outset of production, and it turns out to be …
Two long-term buds — a clingy-and-looking, perpetually aspiring musician (Leighton Meester) and a mutually dependent, mostly plugged-in environmental lawyer (Gillian Jacobs) — feel the foundation of their friendship begin to seism when the former is asked to take a back seat to the latter’s latest suitor (Adam Brody, the real …
Junn (Ching Pei-pei) never knew her late son Kai (Andrew Leung) was gay. So the sudden appearance of the boy’s well-intentioned ex, Richard (Ben Wishaw), leaves Junn puzzled and inwardly jealous of the affection her son lavished on his “best friend.” The stoical Cambodian-Chinese widow refuses to adapt to the …
A pleasingly modest debut from writer-director Khalil Sullins: if you can't afford to depict a Tony Stark-level laboratory, you can rejoice in the fact that Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer in his garage. The (literally) hungry young inventors in this case are working on a brain patch that …
What happens when an underprivileged teen becomes surrogate son to the mother whose boy he haphazardly kills? First time writer-director Sara Colangelo explores the aftermath of several little accidents as seen through the eyes of three generations of mining families wracked by a tragic explosion and soon braided together by …