Jon Amiel's doomsday thriller in the tradition of The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1962) and Crack in the World (1965) stays serious long enough for a couple of catchy introductory scenes: thirty-two civilians simultaneously dropping dead within a few-block radius in Boston (the common thread appears to be their …
Ralph Fiennes, glowering like his Harry Potter villain Voldemort, is imposing and monotonous as Shakespeare’s fascistic, Roman hero Coriolanus, who lives for slaughter. Vanessa Redgrave dominates her every scene as his mother, a she-wolf of aristocratic pride who could have suckled Romulus and Remus. No milk could dilute the poisonous …
Follow filmmakers Spencer Frost and Guy Williment and surfers Letty Mortenson and Fraser Dovell as they journey to Kamchatka in the far east of Russia.
The plague that began at the Scramble’s Bat Soup Co. in Wuhan washes up on American shores, instantly turning all who come in contact with the invisible enemy into a horde of flesh-eating ghouls. A little over a month under lockdown, and already a feature-length attempt to novelize the novel …
Ambitious young tech executives attend a luxury team-building getaway at a remote desert estate. However, what is supposed to be a weekend of corporate bonding quickly descends into a blood-soaked nightmare when the retreat’s sadistic leaders and a vengeful founder trap the staff in a deadly fight for survival. Starring …
Consciousness-raising, conscience-pricking documentary by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, reciting a laundry list, two and a half hours long, of the vices of big business past and present. A rotation of experts (CEOs, Harvard profs, Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, many more) lectures directly to the camera and over …
A little girl, traumatized by her mother's death, comes out of her shell to nudge her father and their black housekeeper (jazz lovers both) into romance. The writer-director, Jessie Nelson, does a lot of nudging also, making double sure we know precisely how we're supposed to feel about everything and …
Hong Kong-style action dropped like a bomb into a Sidney Lumet-style probe of NYPD politics. The result is widespread devastation. Mark Wahlberg, reunited with the director of Fear, James Foley, who has sometimes been somewhat serious, is the soft-spoken second-generation Irish cop assigned to the Chinatown beat for incendiary reasons …
Glitterbug movie which demands that the audience go ga-ga over customized sports cars and vans, garish paint jobs, hydraulic lifts, waterbeds, wigs, the night lights of Las Vegas, and others of life's little extras. It uses two unassuming actors — Mark Hamill as a gullible grease monkey and Annie Potts …
Big Bangs, black holes, and the development of our Solar System on a domed IMAX screen. Cosmic Voyage was nominated for the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar of 1997.
David Cronenberg directs the movie version of Don DeLillo's novel about a rich dude (Robert Pattinson) who tries to take a limo ride across Manhattan to get a haircut. Complications ensue.