The lady-in-distress storyline, unspooled on a smallness of scale that could nowadays be maintained only in an independent film, is agreeably old-fashioned, as you would expect when you know that it's a remake of a top-drawer 1949 melodrama by Max Ophuls, The Reckless Moment. The introduction of an explicit homosexual …
A swatch of TV-movie material given a big-screen sheen. Michelle Pfeiffer is cast as a Mother Discouraged whose three-year-old middle child disappears from the crowded lobby of the host hotel at her fifteen-year high-school reunion. Nine years later, after an unavailing nationwide search, a People Magazine cover story, and a …
Contemplation of the end of the world seems to be just about enough to compel seriousness from a Hollywood filmmaker. And certainly the bigger-than-Everest comet herein hurtling towards Earth compels more seriousness from Mimi Leder than the prospect of a mere nuclear detonation in the heart of Manhattan in her …
One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in …
Computer-cartoon sea monsters slurp up most of the cookie-cutter humans aboard a pleasure ship in the Western Pacific. (Commonly asked questions: "What the hell is/was that?" and "Now what?") Gore galore; fun none. With Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Wes Studi, Djimon Hounsou; written and directed by Stephen …
Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet narrate this journey into the depths...of the sea.
Shenxiu has felt a deep sadness since her mother left. A storm plunges her into a dreamlike, 3D world of swirling colour. Led by the Hyjinx, and joined by inventive underwater chef Nanhe, she embarks on a quest to find solace in the Eye of the Deep Sea. A film …
Journey through the cosmos and travel through time with the NASA Webb Telescope.
Serviceable low-budget sci-fi about a long-throated sea creature riled up by an ocean-floor research team. We don't get to see much of the monster -- though he causes no end of shipboard mechanical difficulties -- and when we do see him he always seems to be saying "ah-h-h." With Greg …
A flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai goes down in the middle of the Pacific. After surviving the crash, the survivors soon discover they’re not alone and they must survive the shark infested waters. From director Renny Harlin, starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley.
If it’s a choice between heroes drawn from real life and costume-clad warriors, give me the civvies life every time. Admittedly, the TV-friendly character exposition that opens Deepwater Horizon – Mark Wahlberg’s young daughter reveals what daddy does for a living in the form of a class paper read aloud …
If it’s a choice between heroes drawn from real life and costume-clad warriors, give me the civvies life every time. Admittedly, the TV-friendly character exposition that opens Deepwater Horizon – Mark Wahlberg’s young daughter reveals what daddy does for a living in the form of a class paper read aloud …
Michael Cimino's Vietnam War story centers around an "ours not to reason why" trio of mindlessly patriotic Middle Americans from a small Pennsylvania steel town. Three hours long, in the tradition of bigness established by the Second World War stories of Norman Mailer, James Jones, Herman Wouk, and Irwin Shaw, …