Norma Shearer catches hubby Chester Morris in the arms of another woman and decides it’s time to get even, and how. Joan Crawford, Metro’s resident bad girl, was rightfully steamed when producer Irving Thalberg assigned the role of Jerry — “a great girl with a man’s point-of-view” — to the …
Quentin Tarantino fails to do for slave owners what he did for Nazis in this, his long-awaited western (southern?) follow-up to the epic war comedy Inglourious Basterds. Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz returns to the Tarantino fold as Dr. King, a German dentist-cum-bounty hunter hot on the trail of a pair of …
A desperate man discovers he's been fatally poisoned with no chance of survival, setting off a relentless race against time. As he digs into the mystery behind his impending demise, he unravels a complex web of deceit, betrayal, and a sinister conspiracy.
California-bound cosmetic surgeon gets stalled in Grady, Georgia -- "Squash Capital of the South." A small-town panegyric that hinges to an extreme degree on the town's unlikeliest citizen: a tangle-haired vegetarian divorcée who skinny-dips in the lake, pees in the forest to scare the deer away from hunters, and repeatedly …
Becomes a patient. Becomes a better doctor because of it. (Starts combing his hair in a less severe, softer style too.) William I.M. Hurt is not terribly persuasive as either the cool, carefree doctor at the beginning or the warm and caring doctor at the end, but he does pretty …
Dan Aykroyd impersonates a Comparative Lit. professor who impersonates a Rhett Butler-ish Southern gentleman, a hapkido master, and an iron-fisted (literally) mobster. Nothing goes with anything else, and nothing goes by itself, either. With Howard Hesseman, T.K. Carter, and Kate Murtaugh; directed by Michael Pressman.
Stephen King introduces a group of RV-driving New Age vampires, led by a bolero-topped seductress who goes by the name Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson). But rather than let his sustenance-seeking pseudo-family get blood under their fingernails, King has them vape the “shine” out of their victims. The cult lures …
Stephen King introduces a group of RV-driving New Age vampires, led by a bolero-topped seductress who goes by the name Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson). But rather than let his sustenance-seeking pseudo-family get blood under their fingernails, King has them vape the “shine” out of their victims. The cult lures …
As a Christian allegory, director Scott Derrickson’s entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe is impressively thorough. Proud and worldly neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch, cockily joking even as he fumbles with his accent) is cast down from his throne, seeks healing from a keeper of ancient spiritual wisdom and …
Not only does this mark Sam Raimi’s return to the screen since The Great and Powerful Oz failed to live up to its title, it’s his first comic book movie in 15 years. It’s as good a cast as any Marvel’s assembled (Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Elizabeth Olsen, Rachel McAdams, …