That would be the Mississippi, specifically, the part that flows through the one-time musical Mecca of Memphis. The documentary takes its structure from the recording of an album that pairs up various Stax records legends (Bobby Bland and Mavis Staples are just two of the standouts) with more modern artists …
Very much a live-action cartoon (albeit one just Dark 'n Gritty enough to merit a PG-13 rating), right down to lines like, "Drain all of their blood — even if it kills them!" Some actors (Megan Fox) try much harder than others (Whoopi Goldberg) in this tale of plucky, pretty …
Who says “dick jokes” have lost their power to appall and amuse? Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, and Miles Teller star as a pack of lusty himbos in this better-than-average (and Apatow) raunch carnival. The title references that point in any “boy’s night out” sex comedy where Loyal She inquires …
Based on what little I know of Stephen Hawking’s private and personal life, the man has never given the impression of one prone to wresting pity from gawkers. Why then turn the life of the smartest guy on the planet into a treacly, over-romanticized tearjerker? Music and lighting act as …
Writer-director David Rühm’s Therapy for a Vampire is wonderfully good-natured and agreeable and even funny for a film about an unhappy marriage between a pair of murderous and immortal bloodsuckers. It’s Vienna in 1932, and Count Geza von Közsnöm pays a visit to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud — though not to …
The sequel to the movie based on the relationship advice book by comedian and Family Feud host Steve Harvey. Except this time...it's about dueling bachelor/bachelorette parties in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada! Is there an advice book for that? With the energetic talents of Kevin Hart, among others. Tim Story returns …
Jason Bateman is Judd, a man who, by his own admission, has never taken any chances, who has spent his whole life playing it safe. Oh, dear. Cue the manic pixie dream girl. While you're at it, throw in a dead dad, a wayward wife, a trip home, a sexually …
Carlos Caridad-Montero writes and directs the story of a stage mom from hell. Subtitled.
Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into the lives of black families, whose experiences and perspectives are often missing from the traditional historical canon. African Americans historically embraced the medium as a way to …
Fictional account of a village in the West African nation of Mali overtaken by extreme jihadist law – no smoking, no music, playing football is punishable by 20 lashes, etc. – and the peaceful herder living with his family on its desert outskirts who must avenge the slaughter of his …
Tim Rice worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita, with Alan Menken on Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, and with Elton John on The Lion King. He's had a pretty good run. This is his musical version of the …
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