Action-adventure film set in the backdrop of the Singareni coal mines near Godavarikhani of Telangana. Directed by Srikanth Odela, a protégé of Sukumar. Music by Santhosh Narayanan.
A World War II submarine adventure of a sort that already seemed outdated as of, oh, twenty-five years previous — roughly the date of that sympathetic Hollywood portrait of the embittered, weary, but still cunning U-boat commander: The Enemy Below. The main idea of how to rise above the war-movie …
A serial killer terrorizes the city of Kolkata, India, mirroring the mythological stories of Vishnu and his 10 Avatars in his killing methods. Police officers Prabir and Poddar are charged with handling the case. Directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Jisshu Sengupta and Anirban Bhattacharya.
Comedy thriller written by Prasanna Kumar Bezawada, starring Vishwaksen and Nivetha Pethuraj, and directed by Vishwak Sen, with music composed by Leon James.
In the mode of Scary Movie, a witless collection of references to, thefts from, and spoofs of, assorted romantic comedies, nonromantic comedies, noncomedies, anything at all, My Big Fat Greek Wedding to Lord of the Rings. The assumption seems to be that mere recognition will bring forth laughter. With Alyson …
A hedged bet, marital comedy cum action thriller, with a “boring” New Jersey couple enlivening their stale marriage by getting themselves mistaken for high-stakes blackmailers. Tina Fey will never in her lifetime use up the eternal gratitude she earned for her role in the 2008 presidential campaign (the faux Palin), …
Your traditional Christmas-card angel (Emmanuelle Béart, the title character of Manon des Sources), bathed in white light, caressed by gentle breezes, and with the wings of a pterodactyl-sized dove, is marooned on Earth when one of the latter gets broken. Awwwww. (A couple of nontraditional touches: she speaks in the …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "At the height of the Peruvian gold rush, an Andean woman, able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the lake she considers to be …
A memorial to the Gullah culture on the Sea Islands off the Georgia coast, set at a pivotal moment in 1902 on the eve of one family's emigration from the African sanctuary to the U.S. mainland. Plainly a labor of love for filmmaker Julie Dash, but a labor for the …
A recasting of The Prisoner of Zenda or The Prince and the Pauper or State Secret (or others) as a post-Perot piece of sentimental populism about a Presidential look-alike who's installed in the Oval Office by Machiavellian wire-pullers when the real President is laid low by a stroke. (Overexertion with …
The titular comedian hosts a hip-hop concert on a rainy September day in Brooklyn (Kanye West, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, the Fugees), and beforehand rounds up extra partygoers in his stamping ground of Dayton, Ohio, including the entire marching band of Central State U., to be bused to …
Why would you go to see a movie about a museum exhibition about a musician? Well, maybe because the exhibition, currently touring the world, isn't stopping in your town. Also maybe because the musician in question wanted very much for his music "to look like it sounds." David Bowie understood …