Because every country deserves its own haunted doll movies. This one is extra creepy since the moms get them to help grieve for lost daughters.
Live from the Stars of the White Night festival: a story of eternal love, mystery, fate, vengeance, and justice set in Royal India! Plus: it's a ballet!
Cherien Dabis (Amreeka) writes, directs, and stars in the story of May, a New York writer-type who made bank off her heritage — a book of meditations on Middle Eastern proverbs (just like the ones that serve as title cards!) — and is now returning home to Jordan to get …
The high concept: what if your YA dystopia actually felt more like a utopia? What if, instead of sterile, mechanized conformity or brutal, desperate want, you lived in an idyllic glade whose civilizational contours you had forged yourself? What if your overlords kept you well supplied, but otherwise, left you …
A recruitment film by any other name, this one aimed at shattering preconceived stereotypes surrounding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A happy, shiny, lemonade-blonde Mormon soldier named Jenna opens the show by conducting street interviews with New Yorkers, glibly punctuated by contrary clips from movies and TV …
Simply astonishing: a documentary about marriage, family, romance, and cultural assimilation that keeps a light touch without veering into mockery, caricature, or broad comedy of the record-scratch variety. Ravi Patel is an almost-30 actor living in Los Angeles with his sister Geeta. His parents (both born in India) want him …
Simply astonishing: a documentary about marriage, family, romance, and cultural assimilation that keeps a light touch without veering into mockery, caricature, or broad comedy of the record-scratch variety. Ravi Patel is an almost-30 actor living in Los Angeles with his sister Geeta. His parents (both born in India) want him …
Documentary by Laurent Bécue-Renard about 12 soldiers seeking to recover from the trauma of war.
Undersexed parents electronically spying on their oversexed teenage kids as a metaphor for the lack of value and worthiness of the human race. If asked why the need for a two-hour chalk talk on cosmicism and the utter insignificance of humanity, Jason Reitman, like the clueless parental figures he contrived …
Jon Hamm stars in this worked-over true story about a puffed-up, on-the-skids sports agent whose humbling necessitates giving birth to a Susan Boyle-inspired talent hunt for an Indian cricket bowler able to transition into an MLB pitcher. As live-action Disney sports comedies go, this makes for amenable if predictable summertime …
Poophat, peeface, fartneedle, sheepeen, spoocheek. There, glad that's out of the way. Though it's all worth mentioning, because it's the sort of "outrageous" gross-out gaggery that co-writer/director/producer/star Seth MacFarlane slops onto what otherwise looks like his childhood dream of making a straightforward, sentimental, white-hat/black-hat Western about a decent sheep farmer …
Overheard before the show: “This one looks to be ‘Christ-y.’” Oy vey, the person in front of me wasn’t kidding! When properly presented, the occasional faith-based, spiritually correct film could act as a welcome relief to all the comic book nihilism, but dear God, give us something more to work …
The evolution of marriage as seen through the eyes of an Italian Prince recovering from a very public divorce. Tao Ruspoli wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy biodoc.
In the latter days of World War II, a band of charming, aging misfits (Bill Murray! George Clooney! Bob Balaban! John Goodman! Matt Damon! Plus that French guy and that English dude!) is tasked with designating, preserving, and ultimately, recovering the art looted by the Nazis during their European conquest …