Brutal aliens pursue a fugitive teen to Earth, a crisis that rouses his special powers. Directed by D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) from a popular young-adult novel, it has conceptual traces of Superman, the Twilight saga, and TV’s The Fugitive. It offers cute bodies, ugly creeps, a dog, high school clichés, dewy …
Queasy-making entertainment. And not only, or even largely, because of the jiggly, jostly, zoomy, freeze-frame-y camerawork under director Jessie Nelson. No: Sean Penn's impression of a mental defective, complete with a new whisk-broom haircut to add to his tonsorial portfolio, no doubt offers many rewards, not the least of which …
Documentarian Daniel Cross takes audiences on a tour of what's left of the performance venues that once comprised the legendary "Chitlin' Circuit."
The review should have been filed last week when the film debuted, but after learning it was a sequel — and given my anal-retentive bent — a look at the original was crucial. Pro-wrestler-turned-marquee-aspirant Stu Bennett’s gamble paid off with this followup to director Ross Boyask’s British thriller. (British thriller? …
There was a point in America’s history when you couldn’t enter a supermarket or flip the radio dial without hearing Helen Reddy's titular tune. I clicked on the screening link expecting to find another biodoc, but to my delight, what I watched was neither a rock concert pawning itself off …
Yibai Zhang directs this tale of two disc jockeys. In Cantonese.
Have you watched the trailer? You can't imagine.
Breaking Bad, Italian-comedy style. Sydney Sibilia directs. In Italian with English subtitles.
Two wealthy American brothers take possession of the dilapidated castle occupied by two English sisters. Who will match up with whom? Literary la-di-da in period costume, from a Dodie Smith novel. With Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Henry Thomas, Marc Blucas, Bill Nighy, and Tara Fitzgerald; directed by Tim Fywell.
Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) has what it takes to become the court-appointed guardian to a galaxy of unwitting seniors. From her hairstyle — a cascading pageboy with bamboo cutting board earflaps — to the determined heels against marble click-clack in her approach, every move is calculated to intimidate, to beat …
Who ordered the Russian sports melodrama?