From Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, the team that brought you Jesus Camp, comes another cable-ready documentary content to skim the surface. Detroit is the fastest shrinking city in the United States; the population has reached its lowest point in 100 years. We follow several locals - a video blogger, …
Indian Telugu-language action drama written and directed by Koratala Siva, starring Saif Ali Khan and Janhvi Kapoor.
An epic action saga set against coastal lands, starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr in dual roles, alongside Saif Ali Khan and Janhvi Kapoor in their first Telugu film. Written and directed by Koratala Siva.
A hidebound Hindu persuades himself that his new daughter-in-law is the reincarnation of the goddess Kali -- a rare grapple with local mythology on the part of the cosmopolitan Satyajit Ray. Not his happiest material, in fact probably his preachiest, and it provoked some protest within the confines of his …
Mechanical and efficient spook story in a stalled elevator occupied by, among four others, a disguised Satan. Builds atmosphere, maintains pressure, keeps it brief, tests belief. Story by M. Night Shyamalan. With Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Jenny O’Hara, Geoffrey Arend, Jacob Vargas, and Matt Craven; directed …
Just because you’ve never heard of someplace doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Take unincorporated Knockemstiff, Ohio, the setting for several of the acts of venality and vile affections that litter the film’s 138-minute running time. With its depiction of soldiers bringing the violence of war back home with them, The …
Filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig chronicles the life of a manic-depressive musician and artist named Daniel Johnston, using a blend of home movies, Johnston's own audiotapes, vintage performances, and current footage.
“What happened to us?” It’s a question that many long-married couples don’t prepare for yet nonetheless has a custom of creeping up on them. Seldom has it been couched in tones of disgust charged with self-loathing and regret than when posed by Beatriz (Sylvia Pasquel). The object of her abjection …
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate …
Traditional hard-boiled private-eye stuff, set in the traditional time period (1948), but a little off the traditional beaten path (in the black community of South-Central L.A.). With this workmanlike adaptation of the first installment in Walter Mosley's series of Easy Rawlins detective novels, writer-director Carl Franklin graduates from low-budget independence …
The Devil Inside is a midget racer in the exorcism derby. Requisite amounts of profanity spewing hoodoos, demons dancing on the ceiling, bodies with more twists than a Bavarian pretzel factory, and a Dolby-juiced house pet leaping from out of nowhere to remind viewers that it’s a scary movie we’re …
The novel by Raymond Radiguet shocked some people after World War I. The film of it by Claude Autant-Lara shocked some people after World War II. (Largely for -- of all things -- anti-war sentiments, in both instances.) What could Marco Bellocchio do now, in 1986, to get similar results? …