Not a title to mobilize the masses, although the proper name would seem to be widely and warmly regarded as audience-friendly: When Harry Met Sally, Dirty Harry, The Trouble with Harry, Harry and Tonto, Harry and Son, Harry and the Hendersons, etc., etc. One of Woody Allen's better efforts in …
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Scott Freiman lectures on, "A fake band, where the Beatles can pretend to be someone else... and try lots of different things."
Musicologist Scott Freiman explores the creation of the best-selling album of the '60s.
"Dedication," is a modern love story in which Henry Roth, a misanthropic, emotionally complex author of a hit children's book series, is forced to team with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. Henry is messed up. A New York children's book author who tells …
A girl with lost memories and a strange being known as Deemo find their fates are intertwined in an animated tale of dreams and love.
"I can't afford to pass this up. It's an experience!" enthuses the sun-bleached jock to his fainthearted girlfriend, who only wishes to return home safely from her Bermuda holiday. The so-called experience is a Tom Swift-ian adventure involving sunken treasure, a giant moray eel, and voodoo villains. Its undeniable excitements …
The search for an Alzheimer's cure produces first a trio of experimental sharks of superior intelligence, speed, strength, cunning. And the floating laboratory of Aquatica becomes for the viewer a gruesome torture chamber (arms lopped off, bodies torn in half) and a real strain on the nerves. With Saffron Burrows, …
Another masterwork of British nostalgia, again haunted but more urgent than before, from director Terence Davies. Adapting the play by Terence Rattigan, he gives Rachel Weisz one of her finest roles as Hester. Buried in marriage to a stuffy judge (Simon Russell Beale) ruled by his prig-snob mother, she finds …
The search for an Alzheimer's cure produces first a trio of experimental sharks of superior intelligence, speed, strength, cunning. And the floating laboratory of Aquatica becomes for the viewer a gruesome torture chamber (arms lopped off, bodies torn in half) and a real strain on the nerves. With Saffron Burrows, …
Conventional crime story about a straight-arrow, clean-shaven, uniformed cop who gets bent, not broken, as a lightly bearded, Versace-attired undercover narc. It is filled with facile plotting and precipitous character development. It drips with glib cynicism about the Feds' commitment to the War On Drugs. It holds down the "emergent" …
Arturo Ripstein's remake of The Honeymoon Killers, a true story of multiple murder, has been flourishingly transplanted into a Mexican setting (genteel shabby interiors, barren parched landscapes) and thoroughly individualized. We still have the corpulent nurse -- a perfectly pear-shaped single mother to two small children, and a romantic fantasist …