True-life unsolved mystery, set in the early ‘30s, about a young German doctor and his mistress who turned their backs on civilization to find the meaning of life on an uninhabited island. But his writing draws attention to their remote corner of the globe, and before long, paradise becomes the …
Amiable spoof of the Star Trek phenomenon (pre-reunion on the big screen), with names changed to protect the guilty. The most scrumptiously swallowable material has to do with the jostling egos of these former TV co-stars, chained to each other and to their old roles as they hobble around the …
aka, The Chicken with Big...Eggs. Scrawny rooster must win the big fight to save family farm. Animated, with subtitles.
An amateur cast — under the supervision of equally green storytellers — trapped in an old, dark schoolhouse, are systematically done in by a mysterious, noose-bearing boogeyman. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Left-to-right the camera goes, what random flashes of sure-fire horror the superabundant swish pans eventually rest …
What is shown of the hero's bright side (his career as a professor of English Literature) is pretty skimpy, and silly besides. His nebulous relationship to his mother and grandfather is also skimpy, but mildly intriguing. These things, in any case, are almost completely eclipsed by the mass of material …
Mark Wahlberg stars in a remake of the 1974 film starring James Caan.
Thoroughly dishonest thriller centered around a forty-eighth-birthday gift certificate (brother to brother, Sean Penn to Michael Douglas, dimpled chin to jutted jaw) redeemable at a low-profile outfit called Consumer Recreation Services. The particular service offered therefrom is spelled out cryptically as "a profound life experience" and "an experiential Book-of-the-Month Club," …
Gamers across the U.S. and Canada gather in real time broadcasts displayed on a giant IMAX screen. Includes sneak product peeks and surprises of upcoming game and film releases, including an extended gameplay preview of the EA’s Dead Space, a remake of the sci-fi classic survival horror game, completely rebuilt …
From executive producers James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan comes a documentary that explores thee rise of plant-based eating in professional sports. Louie Psihoyos directs.
From John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the team that crapped out the saddening remake of Vacation, comes something a bit more tolerable. As the competitive couple whose weekly game-playing ritual turns deadly after an even more cutthroat participant brings a corpse to the party, Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman …
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