Shot over nearly a decade, the film explores the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry of dueling 90s bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, and ultimately to their …
Marital matters and family matters aboard a cruise ship.
Motor “visionary” and motormouth Vince Vaughn hedges about asking lover Jennifer Connelly to marry him and instead invades the privacy of his chum and biz-partner Kevin James, whose wife (Winona Ryder) has secret heat with a stud muffin (Channing Tatum). Shallow Chicago images, fill-in music, male bonding via sports and …
Barry Levinson's very "personal," yet very derivative, portrait of young manhood in Baltimore, 1959. The production is unstinting in its collection of period cars and haircuts and toggle-button jackets and what-have-you (and are those pink-flamingo lawn decorations a sly tribute to that other cinematic bard of Baltimore and fellow pop-culture …
This big-screen adaptation of Herman Koch’s Dutch novel was originally scheduled to be Cate Blanchett’s directorial debut. Instead, the job went to screenwriter Owen Moverman, and we’re left to wonder what if. A pair of privileged cousins film the murder of a homeless woman whom they decide to torch pretty …
Nothing much to shout about cinematically, but in its airily histrionic and tirelessly talkative way, this MGM centerpiece is abundantly entertaining -- especially so in the husband-and-wife set-tos between the inspirationally matched Wallace Beery and Jean Harlow. With John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, and Lee Tracy; adapted from the …
Cain and Abel revisited as two siblings — a doctor working to save the life of a young victim of a road rage and the lawyer assigned to defend the off-duty cop who shot him — push the limits of their rivalry when the son of one brother and daughter …
Softened, mushed-up remake of a rather distasteful French farce, called here The Dinner Game, concerning a clique of fat cats who periodically convene for a soirée to which each of them for their shared amusement brings along an unwitting idiot to compete for the laurel of biggest idiot. For the …
A French farce ticketed, like any of Francis Veber's directorial and/or auctorial efforts, for a Hollywood remake. The title is not a verbatim translation of Le Dîner des Cons, which would (or could) have been The Dinner of Assholes. Said dinner, in any case, is a periodic ritual of a …
Godzilla meets Barney. Or in a word, Aladar, a dino orphan raised by apes and instilled with family values and community spirit: "Stand together!" (How did the species ever die out with him on the team?) The computer-generated imagery is dazzling, the computer-programmed emotion cloying, and the James Newton Howard …