Just imagine: 264 minutes of Independence Day-style Americans vs. Aliens action. Now stop imagining, because IT'S REAL.
Independent from original thinking. Director Roland Emmerich and his band of four co-screenwriters waited 20 years to crap out a sequel, and this is the best they can come up with? Even the updated CG effects effects aren’t an improvement. If Independence Day was, as my predecessor Duncan Shepherd observed, …
Independent from original thinking. Director Roland Emmerich and his band of four co-screenwriters waited 20 years to crap out a sequel, and this is the best they can come up with? Even the updated CG effects effects aren’t an improvement. If Independence Day was, as my predecessor Duncan Shepherd observed, …
HOW ON EARF ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DEFEAT THE ALIENS WITHOUT WILL SMITH? We better think of something, Jeff Goldblum, because they are coming back, and they are angry. Directed by Roland Emmerich.
Longtime screenwriter and producer James Schamus adapts longtime novelist Philip Roth’s novel of love and death and Midwestern collegiate life, and turns what might have been an exercise in mordant mid-century nostalgia into something vital and resonant (as opposed to the trendier, emptier “relevant”). Something that lives and breathes and …
A thoroughly pedestrian adventure that might have been better titled Hell is Lots and Lots of Other People.. At least, that's the belief of the billionaire bad guy in Ron Howard's latest adaptation of Dan Brown's series featuring symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks). What to do about overbreeding humanity? Well, …
Overboiled based-on-a-true-story cops-and-druglords pic that aspires to portray the strain that acting bad has on good people, and to convey the tension that arises from pretending to form friendships with folks you’re trying to bust. One or two scenes do elicit a wince — co-star John Leguizamo makes the most …
aka Aftermath and Afterbirth. C’est la guerre — it’s the war. Isn’t it always? World War II is over, but the Russians made the most of their march toward Berlin, with one batch stopping off for a three-day rapefest at a Polish Benedictine convent. Multiple pregnancies ensued (plus at least …
True story of Christian missionaries Nik and Ruth Ripken's encounter with the fallen world, abroad and at home.
What with all the political unrest in their region of the globe, who knew that a major culinary revolution was currently taking place in Israel?
Clea DuVall directs and writes a film about young couples who gather together to tell another young couple that they should get divorced. Kids these days.
Sunao Katabuchi directed and co-wrote this beautifully painted, emotionally muted anime adaptation of Hiroshima native Fumiyo Kōno’s manga series of the same name. The story’s origin as a serial shows; what dramatic shape there is here stems largely from events outside the characters’ control. This happens, and then this happens... …
Too long since your gut’s had a good churning? The Invitation was sent out for a tight-knit group of friends (and a couple of hand-picked interlopers) to gather at a dinner party that initially had all the makings of a crisis intervention. Crisis, indeed! Arbitration? Not likely. It takes about …