Jacques Demy cannot stifle the urge to infiltrate Charles Perrault's Medieval fairytale with his own sophisticated witticisms (the magic donkey of the tale produces jewels from its rear, rather than its ear; the women at a costume ball are dressed as birds and the men as cats), as well as …
Inside the Mafia, on the elbow of an FBI infiltrator. And all of a sudden Lefty from Mulberry Street won't go anywhere without Don the Jeweller. The factual basis adds little in the way of interest or excitement, although it seems to inspire a desire to instruct (mustaches are "against …
Dark comedy, photographically as much as temperamentally, about a disturbed adolescent (Jake Gyllenhaal of October Sky) who has an imaginary friend in a demonic bunny suit giving him mischief-making orders. (The bunny's end-of-the-world forecast, however, carries little weight when the action is set in the thick of Dukakis's run for …
Dark comedy, photographically as much as temperamentally, about a disturbed adolescent (Jake Gyllenhaal of October Sky) who has an imaginary friend in a demonic bunny suit giving him mischief-making orders. (The bunny's end-of-the-world forecast, however, carries little weight when the action is set in the thick of Dukakis's run for …
A hand enters the frame to select a tape from the stacks. Strategically shelved label-out next to “Donny’s Party” — the cassette that has transcribed on it in rapidly deteriorating magnetic particles the 1998 reception at hand — is a VHS tape with “Barney Porn” scrawled across its spine. This …
An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
Ferguson, Missouri, the day after an unarmed African-American teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer. A call asking for a bigger police presence to help assuage any potential unrest results in the appearance of an MRAP, a veritable armored car, given to the city free of charge as …
For all the posh trappings of Ye Olde Haunted House and a Guillermo del Toro script, the horror is hokum. Guy Pearce is too busy fixing up the mansion to notice that his daughter (Bailee Madison), traumatized by his divorce, is losing her mind. She is also terrorized by tiny, …
Documentary on the life and work of Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, who reinvented himself the American way with his book of photography The Americans and filmmaking efforts with The Beats and the Rolling Stones. Directed by Frank's long-time editor Laura Israel, featuring music by Lou Reed, The White …
Panic Room meets Wait Until Dark in this pitiless, uncommonly serviceable horror thriller. A pair of necessitous, romantically involved housebreakers (Jane Levy and Daniel Zovatto) partner with a college freshman (Dylan Minnette) whose dad’s position with a home-security provider helps to open a lot of doors. What could be easier …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "Tall, dark, androgynously handsome, Pierre wears eyeliner and a black lace g-string, and has sex with both boys and girls. Things get only more complicated when the teenager’s single, working-class mom is arrested …