If you can accept Demi Moore as a blonde, maybe you can accept her also as a barefooted Carolinian clairvoyant (and meddling matchmaker) transplanted in Greenwich Village. Or maybe not. Her accent is all over the map; and with her new hair, new face, new chest (makeup? plastic surgery? what …
Two engaging young actresses, Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall, in an unengaging, smug, heavy-handed, lead-footed satire set at a homosexual-deprogramming facility (girls wear pink, boys blue) called True Directions. With Cathy Moriarty, RuPaul Charles, Bud Cort, Mink Stole; directed by Jamie Babbit.
Telugu film, featuring Anikha Surendran, Arjun Das, Surya Vashistta, and Navya Swamy in lead roles. Music by Gopi Sundar and directed by Shouree Chandrashekhar T Ramesh.
Chip Gutchell’s (director and co-writer Tyler Cornack) proctologist clearly learned his trade at the hands of a prison rapist, yet somehow the bewildered, unhappily married IT tech leaves the exam a new man. The sudden desire to lodge things up his backside is very much a new development, and isn’t …
At last, a movie that exposes the seamy, beer-bloated underbelly of the supposedly decent, God-fearing Midwest. Not even an activity as wholesome as competitive butter-carving is safe from their hypocritical machinations. I am shocked, shocked, to find that there are strippers in the American heartland!
Maudlin loss-of-innocence tale about the coming of the Spanish Civil War to a Galician village -- it doesn't arrive there until the movie is ending -- and specifically to a saucer-eyed little boy who learns a lot, but not enough, from his free-thinking old schoolmaster. The episodic narrative, adapted from …
This plays as part of the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival. The program notes describe it as, "Three aspiring actresses set out to break into the cut-throat world of acting in Los Angeles. Naomi is on the verge of stardom, Joe struggles to keep her head above water and …
Co-writers and co-directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber offer utterly unrationalized science fiction in the time-travel and alternate-universe subdivisions. It concerns a college student (Ashton Kutcher, with scholarly beard) who had suffered from memory blackouts as a child, and who now discovers that by rereading his diaries he can …
Go behind the scenes of the PBS children’s series Reading Rainbow, and learn the story of its host LeVar Burton, with an inside look at the challenges he and the show's creators faced in cultivating a love of reading through television. Featured in the documentary are Burton and show guest …
A British sickie with raw, scabby, anemic color to match. It concerns a pathological Thelma and Louise by the names of Eunice and Miriam, or Eu and Mi for short (or You and Me for deep), a homicidal loon and an apologetic simp: "I never stopped looking for the good …
The availability of Brazilian films in this country has shrivelled up to almost nothing since Cinema Nôvo first got looked into, ca. 1970. Directed by Carlos Diegues, one of the charter members of the movement, this old familiar tune about the contamination of Brazilian culture by American could seem fresh …