Amy Heckerling returns, more or less, to the scene of her Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). It's now Beverly Hills High, but it's still contemporary So-Cal youth — that's the important thing. And there are important social changes to document: "God, skateboards! That's like so five years ago!" The …
Shot in America European-style — 1.66:1 aspect ratio and in muted shades of black-and-white — director Mike Mills (Beginners, 20th Century Women) is clearly banking on Academy highbrows sweeping their votes in his direction. And who better to front such an ostentatious operation than Joaquin Phoenix in his first film …
Teacherly sports film, the athletic equivalent of Stand and Deliver and Lean on Me (with Samuel L. Jackson every bit the equal of Edward James Olmos and Morgan Freeman), a salute to a real-life taskmaster by the name of Ken Carter, who demanded that his high-school basketballers sign contracts agreeing …
The main contribution traceable directly from Loretta Lynn to the movie on her life -- besides, of course, her having lived it and then recounted it in that bastard literary form, the as-told-to autobiography -- is simply her felt presence looking over the collective shoulder of the moviemakers. This queenly …
Warts-and-nothing-but portrait by Ron (Bull Durham) Shelton of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, brawler, wife-beater, gun-wielder, whorer, boozer, pill popper, reckless driver, cusser, racist, anti-Semite -- oh, and once upon a time baseball player. It concentrates on the seventy-second and last year of his life, witnessed close up by his handpicked biographer-cum-chauffeur-cum-nurse, …
Sylvester Stallone portrays a member of the L.A.P.D. Zombie Squad -- whatever that is -- named Cobretti, hence Cobra. (His given name is disclosed, with some boyish abashment, to be Marion -- just like John Wayne's real one, although somehow less likely to have been bestowed by Italian parents than …
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Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall -- a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions …
Everyone outside of Eric Roberts (his hair dyed a mustardy yellow) appears to be acting at half-speed. This histrionic cyclone represents a flag-waving, quasi-evangelistic troubleshooter for Coca-Cola, Inc., sent from the Atlanta home office to Australia, to find some unknown trouble in order that it might be fixed. ("Do not …
There’s a moment in director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear when said bear, having gone a little too long without cocaine, passes out atop a dude who then reveals that the bear is a she. He knows this, he says, because “her vagina is pressing against my face.” It’s a telling …