The story of heavyweight boxer James J. Braddock, the Bulldog of Bergen, the Pride of New Jersey, a working-class hero for real. It's something of a puzzle why his story had not been told on screen before, seeing as how we have it on the authority of Damon Runyon, who …
Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters and stepmother push her too far, leading her to swap her glass slippers in pursuit of blood-soaked vengeance with the help of her Fairy Godmother. Directed by Andy Edwards, starring Lauren Staerck, Natasha Henstridge, Stephanie Lodge, Beatrice Fletcher, Megan Purvis, and Darrell Griggs.
Laborious reworking of the staple fairy tale in the San Fernando Valley: the high-school football star (Chad Michael Murray, so sensitive that his forehead never smooths out) can't recognize his copiously blond classmate (Hilary Duff) at the Halloween costume party, even though she's hidden behind a mask no bigger than …
German-financed video documentary, focussed on five New York cinephiles, four men and one woman, all of them single and unattached, acquaintances if not necessarily friends. "Film," one of them submits, "is a substitute for life." (Clearly, it was a word-choice of Flaubertian care and consideration not to call the film …
This plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to their catalog the documentary, "combines film clips with interviews and behind-the-scenes footage to capture the revolutionary spirit of the 1960’s film movement that changed Brazilian filmmaking forever." Eryk Rocha directed.
A valentine to all movie lovers. Or else a blackmail note. Part-Truffaut and part-Fellini (part-Day for Night and part-Amarcord), it's a sentimental flashback to a post-war Italian village where, in the eyes of one altar boy, the movie theater supplants the church as the religious house of choice, and the …
The trailer for The Circle jerked audiences in the direction of a paranoid thriller of universal proportion, but all director James Ponsoldt (Smashed, The Spectacular Now) could make good on was a wormhole of narcissism down which he could make his latest film spiral. Mae (Emma Watson) won the lottery …
Grim survey of the woman's lot in Iran (especially the woman, for whatever reason, outside the law), shot in a stark, spare, semi-documentary style. Like La Ronde (otherwise a very different movie), it has no one focal character, but keeps passing the baton as in a relay race. It can …
First love, and true, and trite too, of a convent-bred, moon-faced, and plushly upholstered Irish lass in the mid-Fifties: "I know I may look like a rhinoceros, but I've quite a thin skin really." Every bump, dip, and detour on the rocky road is clearly marked. Every virtue is rewarded, …
Oriental mysticism, original story by Bruce Lee, James Coburn, and Stirling Silliphant, screenplay by Silliphant and Stanley Mann, eminent mystics every one. Cord, the Seeker (acted by a conceited Muscle Beach type named Jeff Cooper), travels the perilous path leading to Zeton, the Keeper of the Book. David Carradine pops …
In this film by Maryam Keshavarz, an upscale Iranian family must deal with teen problems including a lesbian romance and the secular temptations of Dubai. With Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai.
Wrongfully accused of criminal acts, a tramp (Charlie Chaplin) unwittingly ducks into a big top, where his bumbling attempts to avoid pursuing police officers earn the laughter and applause of the circus-goers. Impressed, the ringmaster (Allan Garcia) decides to employ the tramp as an entertainer. In between getting trapped in …
Travis Scott concert film.