A couple gets caught up in the annual purge when their car breaks down.
In August of 2014, moviegoers were treated to As Above, So Below, a crummy movie about an archaeologist poking around in the catacombs under Paris. Now, just a few months later, they can take follow an archaeologist into the catacombs under an Egyptian pyramid. And they say Hollywood is out …
John Boorman's masterful followup to his 1987 semi-autobiographical Hope and Glory. Then, the story was about a boy growing up in the London Blitz. Now it's 1952, and young Bill Rohan is a conscript in the Army, teaching typing on a domestic base. For the first 20 minutes or so, …
Whatever promise Oren Moverman’s (The Messenger) co-screenwriting credit held is quickly dashed in another undistinguished five-characters-in-a-haunted-house spooktravaganza. Erin Richards and Rory Fleck-Byrne play Renfield(s) to Jared Harris’ mad genius, a college professor bent on ridding the world of psychosocial behavior, one possessed foster child in a white hospital gown with …
The age of GoPro is upon us. Here are people doing things much more active than sitting in a movie theater. But you can sit in a movie theater and watch them do those things.
Pit anywhere from 5 to 15 thugs against one lone tough and instead of a dogpile, the bad guys line up like they’re in a bakery waiting for their numbers to be called. (Don’t any of these maroons pack a firearm, and more importantly, haven’t they seen Billy Jack?) This …
Respectable torture porn. Decades after the end of World War II, a former British POW tracks down and squares off against his Japanese tormenter. With Oscar®-winner Colin Firth and Oscar®-winner Nicole Kidman occupying prime real estate on the poster, one would automatically expect them to carry this petrified revenge drama. …
You guys, the Rapture is gonna suck for the unsaved.
The Fourth of July fireworks display that caps off this unblinking, intimate poor-kids-in-the-heartland documentary can be viewed in a couple of ways. You can see the younguns staring open-mouthed at the pretty explosions while chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" sound in the background and think, "Brutal. How can folks cheer for …
The appeal of Ice Cube (Trespass, Three Kings) as an action star began to thaw somewhere around the time of Torque and the two Are We Disinterested Yet? kidpics. Drive Along is enough to put the freeze on any man’s career, preferably that belonging to Mr. Cube's co-star, chatterbox Kevin …
Cinema’s answer to a picture-postcard rack, the franchise operates solely on the premise that audiences will return so long as the cast is appealing, the location enticing, and the romantic subplots not too demanding. I liked it better when they called it The Love Boat. For once, the multiple plot …
A tough Detroit cop (Joel Kinnaman) gets blown to bits, and the best of those bits get stuck inside a heavily armed robot. Personal crises and ethical complications ensue, as do some remarkably intense (for a PG-13 film) gun battles. Director Jose Padilha (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within) brings his …
For his first stint in the director’s chair, topical tummeler Jon Stewart brings a lightweight TV sensibility to journalist Maziar Bahari’s autobiographical tale of being held prisoner by the Iranian government for 118 days. A winsomely progressive member of the news media (Gael García Bernal), who uses his camera to …