A Sundance favorite that once again proves the film festival should use invisible ink in its stamp of approval. Based on events that took place at a McDonald's in Kentucky in 2004, the by-the-book manager of a ChickWich restaurant (Ann Dowd, destined to be remembered come awards season) fields a …
The leading Long Island gum surgeon, and one of its leading ladies' men, is stabbed to death in his office after hours. Adapted by Susan Isaacs from her own novel, the movie aims at being satirical and blackly comic, settles for being just bitchy and catty (if that isn't a …
Home-style sci-fi about the rise of the nerds, and easily the best time you will have watching black and white video-quality footage on the big screen this year. Also, quite possibly the feel-icky movie of the summer. Computer Chess tells the story of an early-'80s computer chess convention in San …
At some level, inaccessible to the naked eye, this could be classified as a jailbreak thriller, but any family resemblance to the likes of Black Tuesday or The Concrete Jungle has been obliterated beneath the mask of spectacle -- the cosmetic surgery, the collagen injections, the earrings and nose studs, …
Late-night deity Conan O’Brien is such a good scout that he’ll stop at nothing short of washing the feet of lepers to win you over in Rodman Flender’s sycophantic, shoot-now-figure-it-out-later documentary. Taped during a concert tour that took place between the time NBC dropped O’Brien and TBS picked him up, …
The closest thing to a Steve Reeves Italian muscleman epic to come along in quite some time. The ravaging of a peaceful village by vandals on horseback, the son of the slain chieftain brought up in slavery and honing his avenger's ambitions by way of gladitorial school, the diabolical temptress …
The opening passage, with a tough, near-mute little scrapper (Leo Howard as “Young Conan”) beating the snot out of every adult the script throws him, held promise. As the full-grown barbarian, all the insufferably preening Jason Momoa can muster is a hint of Ashton Kutcher on steroids. The filmmakers wisely …
The closest thing to a Steve Reeves Italian muscleman epic to come along in quite some time. The ravaging of a peaceful village by vandals on horseback, the son of the slain chieftain brought up in slavery and honing his avenger's ambitions by way of gladitorial school, the diabolical temptress …
Also describable as Conan the Modest, in comparison with his first screen adventure and none the worse for it. Grace Jones, she of the flat-top haircut and the flat-front torso, is a helpful recruit, with none of that mushy stuff between her and the hero to slow things down. And …
The janitor at the Bolshoi, demoted from maestro for political motives under Brezhnev, intercepts a faxed invitation from the Châtelet in Paris, and conspires to round up sixty fellow out-of-work musicians for an imposter orchestra. Low comedy en route to high culture, a climax of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, mixed throughout …
Reissue of David Leland's concert film to commemorate what would have been the 75th birthday of George Harrison.
Reissue of David Leland's concert film to commemorate what would have been the 75th birthday of George Harrison.
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes takes on Beethoven.
Akino, a trainee concierge, works at a very special store – the customers are all animals and the most valued among them are extinct species.