Gravity used space to explore the existential alienation brought on by the death of a child. The Martian used space to explore human ingenuity and drive at the level of nuts and bolts and chemistry. Director Damien Chazelle’s latest gives us a mashup of the two that is sadly less …
The opening night feature of this year's San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase.
After the series opener, I vowed to Purge no more. Funny how air conditioning on a 105 degree day has a way of changing one's mind. White devils brainwash blacks into spending a governmentally sanctioned extended grace period killing other blacks. Describing three dudes on a stoop as, "Moe, Larry, …
Paul Schrader puts Hitchcock's bomb-on-bus theory to the test in this diary of a despairing priest. Ethan Hawke stars as the walking time bomb.
The trailer is a two-minute music video. That sould tell you something about this C&W romantic drama.
A soldier’s distraught parents must simultaneously come to terms with their son’s death and the frailties of their marriage in writer-director Samuel Maoz’s anti-war drama, nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. All the sudden bursts of absurdity — an unfrequented military checkpoint where languorous camels outnumber vehicles, …
Has Jesus been misquoted? This new documentary analyzes the manuscripts of the New Testament.
Is it strange when the wholehearted pursuit of a singular and spectacular achievement inspires pity and fear more than awe? Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s documentary about rock climber Alex Honnold makes the case that you don’t have to be crazy to climb the 3000-foot sheer granite face of …
Coming soon: Free! Take Your Lickona.
The lighter-than-air unbroken take that opens the picture is director Jason Reitman’s way of demonstrating that he’s inventive enough to do something with his camera other than dangling it before his cast’s faces, which is precisely and unfortunately the main mode of expression he leans on through the rest of …