A historical recreation of the siege of Ansi Fortress and the epic eighty-eight day battle that Yang Man-chun and his Goguryeo troops fought against 500,000 invading Tang dynasty men to defend it.
When it comes to pure visual comedy, there is no greater director than Buster Keaton. The guy literally broke his back to make audiences laugh. Without the aid of a shooting script, Keaton labored on film much the same way an illustrator would on a sketchpad. The resourceful Buster instinctively …
To pick up some side money, a raffish Copacabana bouncer agrees to chauffeur and an African-American jazz musician on a concert tour through the deep South. Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali’s deeply engaging performances are the best Christmas present moviegoers will open this year. It’s when the two finally find …
Or: How the Grinch Sucked the Life out of the Multiplex.
Or: How the Grinch Sucked the Life out of the Multiplex.
Another action/drug comedy that does as much to promote Mexican tourism as our President. Director (and star Joel’s brother) Nash Edgerton (The Square) seems more interested in clogging his dithered narrative with sudden developments (many lifted from other movies) than he is in allowing his thoroughbred cast a little breathing …
Playing in conjunction with the 2019 Hola Mexico Film Festival Tour.
On the eve of his big court hearing we find Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), a judgemental cop with a grudge to nurse and a load of backstory to slowly unravel, demoted to playing wet nurse as an emergency services dispatch operator. What is the purpose of taking an original idea …
Biopic of German singer-songwriter and rock musician, Gerhard Gundermann.
Screenwriter Robert Towne gifted Hal Ashby with two masterful, director-proof scenarios, The Last Detail and Shampoo. Harold and Maude and Being There are basically one-joke comedies, the latter aided to no end by Peter Sellers’ performance, the former sentimentalizing the Holocaust by placing a concentration camp tattoo on Ruth Gordon’s …
Forty years and numerous sequels and/or reboots have passed, and there’s not a moment in any of them to rival the slow thrust of steadicam butterflies at play in John Carpenter’s original. The well-ordered stalking and resultant butchery of a pair of morbidly obsessed fanboy and fangirl public radio podcasters …