Academy Award-winning former Bond girl Halle Berry wagers her reputation on a shameless "teen-in-trunk" exploitation drama, playing a veteran LAPD 911 operator plagued with guilt after her accidental redial alerts a killer to the victim’s whereabouts. Naturally, she gets a second shot at the same killer, and as implausible as …
Jack London’s semi-autobiographical The Call of the Wild, published in 1903, was based on an arduous year the author spent in the Yukon, looking to find a cure for Gold Rush fever — a time when a man’s best friend was his sled dog. The novel was told from the …
If the goal is to reheat a chestnut, the least a director can do is hold the material to the flame. That’s precisely how Francisco Varone’s debut feature manages to keep fresh this timeworn two-hander about a pair of mismatched souls placed in close confines and sent on a spiritual …
This above-average Sundance fodder stars (Kristen Stewart) as a buck private stationed in Guantanamo who slowly begins to exhibit more compassion for a falsely abducted veteran detainee (Payman Maadi) than her fellow soldiers. Set largely inside a temporary detention facility at Gitmo, first-time writer-director Peter Sattler and cinematographer James Laxton …
Clothes make the man, particularly when the man in question is a young German deserter on the run from the Nazis who’s fortunate enough to find a high-ranking party member’s uniform in an abandoned staff car. Based on factual events, Willi Herold’s (Max Hubacher) masquerade as a Luftwaffe captain quickly …
The ever-present Kevin Hart lends his crinkly voice to George, a feckless (and neckless) budding comic book artist who teams up with classmate Harold (Thomas Middleditch) to hypnotize their elementary school principal (Ed Helms) into thinking he’s an infantile superhero. In-joke asides to Jerome “Curly” Horowitz and German Industrialist/Nuremberg posterchild …
Those dopey enough to buy into the “based on a true story” disclaimer that opens the film are doomed to enjoy this minimal ‘70’s throwback about a crazed Vietnam vet (Pat Healy) and the hostage of a botched bank robbery (Ashley Bell) he puts through the paces of an Ed …
If you've got a taste for terror, steer far afield of this beggarly Xerox job. Topicality alights in the form of a Tim Tebow reference, Mom as a born-again cutter, and the “plug it up” humiliation captured on smartphone. The rest is chapter and verse DePalma. Chloë Grace Moretz knowingly …
A forlorn author of fanboy novels (Justin Long) finds his muse in divine barista Evan Rachel Wood. Hours spent researching her Facebook “likes” help Long transition into the perfect catch. Attention must finally be paid to such a person, and a frail ego forces him to rethink positioning her as …
It’s five days before shooting commences, and Vera (Judith Engel) — it’s the third film for the documentarian, and her first dramatic digression — can’t seem to make up her mind over who should play the lead role of Fassbinder’s broken-but-still-capable-of-loving fashion designer in this TV remake of The Bitter …
It’s one thing to open up a play for the big screen and another to shut down an original screenplay by turning it into canned theatre. Such is the fate of Joey Klein’s dirty-windshield view of the opioid crisis. Dutiful son Henry (Alex Wolff) begins his day using a spoon …
A broken man with a guilty past moves out on his wife and children, over to a different city, and into the arms of another woman, looking to start anew. The world moves on until the day his ex lands in a coma and, through all fault of his own, …
In times past, a typical sports figure could expect to live out his remaining years as a casino greeter or car salesman. But sometimes, Uncle Sam has other plans: the O.S.S. assigned Boston Red Sox catcher Moe Berg (Paul Rudd) the task of assassinating Werner Heisenberg (Mark Strong), the man …