It's not a subtle move to open your story with a tour guide (Oscar Isaac) leading a group around some sun-drenched ruins and telling site-specific stories from the Greek myths. (In this case, the story of how Theseus lost his dear old dad Aegus after killing the Minotaur.) But it's …
"If people only knew what single moms go through." Now they can! Because of this movie!
Angelina Jolie strikes a pose behind the camera for a vanity production that delights in torturing audiences as much as it does the film’s characters. On land, sea, and air, the charmed celeb stops at nothing when it comes to cataloging human suffering in this fact-based, CGI-encumbered account of Italian-American …
As an ad for the annual electronic dance music festival The Electric Daisy Carnival, Under the Electric Sky is pretty good. The gigantic animatronic owl whose nest serves as the event's main stage is flat-out fun to watch, and there's lots of music and dancing. The founders at Insomniac Events …
Glacial in pace, skeletal in plot, and generally nasty, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin is a repetitive nightmare of drear and dread punctuated by moments of queasy-making horror. Scarlett Johansson plays a blank but fetching piece of alien bait, trawling Scotland for solitary dudes that no one will miss, then …
Vampires can not cavort in direct sunlight. That comes part and parcel with the legend, whether you’re Kathryn Bigelow looking for an easy way to cap Near Dark or now Mark Waters directing his senior class of St. Vladimir’s Academy through umbrella-covered strolls in the midday sun. The wanton trashing …
Roman Polanski directs a film (based on a play by the same name) about a director who is trying to cast a play (which he wrote, also by the same name) based on a book written by the man whose name gave us the term “masochism.” There are only two …
Ten years ago, Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) graduated from SoCal's Neptune High and walked away from her life as a teenage private eye. Eventually, she went to law school - though not before dealing with a leaked undergrad sex tape (we ain't on TV any more, folks). But just before …
Purveyor of fine coffee-table movies Godfrey Reggio (Powaqqatsi, Koyaanisqatsi) brings us a highfaultin' technical exercises that asks the question, "Since humanity spends so much of its time staring at a computer screen, why not turn things around, situate the audience inside a laptop, and force them to look out? The …
Liam Neeson’s latest actioner is born in cliches — a pre-credit flashback explains how a career cop becomes an unlicensed P.I. (and sober) after a shootout results in the accidental death of a child — and fatigued by even harder-to-swallow secondary characters. Credibility crumples the moment our hero begins to …
The Camino de Santiago is a Christian pilgrim trail that stretches across Spain for 500 miles and ends at the reputed tomb of the apostle James. Back when it was a pagan pilgrim trail, it continued on to a stretch of beach known as "the End of the World." Today, …
Brazilian gay coming-of-age tale, almost quaint in its old-fashioned sweetness and gentle dramatics. Leonardo is a blind boy, and his disability means that he feels the old adolescent tension between dependence and autonomy even more keenly than usual. (Worried Mama is worried all the time.) Giovanna is his loyal best …
20 short films that set out to answer 20 questions about money in (hopefully) entertaining and enlightening fashion. Money money money money money money money.
Warning: contents could cause loathing. Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan star as a pair of aimlessly adorable twentysomethings on the rebound and eager to demonstrate the futility of platonic male-female relationships. How did a talented guy like Michael Dowse go from directing the flipped out and intensely moving It’s All …