A Roger Rabbit for the underground-comics consumer. In other words, the graphics are uniformly ugly, except for maybe the Vargas Girl called Holli Would, who is no worse than cocktail-napkin conventional. And the premise is a thorough mess: "interworld travel" between Las Vegas, Nevada, and the comic-book metropolis which an …
An anomaly, maybe an antilogy: a Sylvester Stallone film for critics. Written and directed by James Mangold (of the low-budget independent Heavy), it is a Sidney Lumet-style expose of police misconduct, in which the action star sets out as a resigned sideline-sitter, an overweight wannabe cop, hampered with one bad …
By-the-book buddy comedy about black and white NYPD partners whose apparently unrelated cases involving Mexican drug runners and a stolen baseball card conveniently dovetail. The sneering and snarling bad guys are played murderously straight, but they’re still funnier than the smirky white (Bruce Willis, on automatic pilot) and buffoonish black …
The police set up a stakeout in a suburban residence, and the comic machinery starts to creak and groan: the crusty cop goes all gooey inside, and the timid family man regains some respect. Handsome photography by Gerry Fisher (handsomer than warranted), and Jack Palance, while looking as if he …
Two top actresses in low-to-medium-level material, a slavering serial-killer thing, with an overdrawn finale and a checklist of unanswered questions. Sigourney Weaver, as the traumatized agoraphobic brandy-swilling psychological expert, comes too close to repeating herself too soon after her victim role in Death and the Maiden. But Holly Hunter forges …
A piece of 3-D stop-motion animation about a little girl with blue hair and ski-jump nose (everyone hears her name as Caroline, and her last name of Jones will only encourage confusion in anyone who remembers the Morticia of TV’s Addams Family, Carolyn Jones), who, unhappy with her preoccupied parents, …
A piece of 3-D stop-motion animation about a little girl with blue hair and ski-jump nose (everyone hears her name as Caroline, and her last name of Jones will only encourage confusion in anyone who remembers the Morticia of TV’s Addams Family, Carolyn Jones), who, unhappy with her preoccupied parents, …
A piece of 3-D stop-motion animation about a little girl with blue hair and ski-jump nose (everyone hears her name as Caroline, and her last name of Jones will only encourage confusion in anyone who remembers the Morticia of TV’s Addams Family, Carolyn Jones), who, unhappy with her preoccupied parents, …
A piece of 3-D stop-motion animation about a little girl with blue hair and ski-jump nose (everyone hears her name as Caroline, and her last name of Jones will only encourage confusion in anyone who remembers the Morticia of TV’s Addams Family, Carolyn Jones), who, unhappy with her preoccupied parents, …
Liam Neeson narrates this story of reefs in peril. Directed by Greg MacGillivray and starring underwater photographers Howard and Michele Hall.
Love "in the context of Zapatista resistance," filmed in a Zapatista community in Lacandón Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, with non-professional Zapatista actors "who uncovered their faces and opened their communities for the world to see." In Spanish with English subtitles.
We descend from the clouds, an angel’s point-of-view guiding us through what was once the childhood home of Patricio Guzmán. It’s been over 40 years since the director left Chile, around the same time Pinochet came to power. Nothing about the Cordillera is revolutionary — it’s a veritable time machine …