A loving mother of four is granted the legal right for medical use of magic mushrooms. She then embarks on a remarkable journey of personal transformation and healing while exploring lesser known possible cures for cancer, like cannabis oil. This story of courage and resilience calls into question everything we …
George Clooney, Dwayne Johnson, P Diddy and other celebrities who have made the move to tequila would be wise to check out what their high-profile brands have done to put a drain on family-owned distilleries in the Jalisco Highlands. The once prosperous Two Seasons factory has reached a painful crossroad. …
George Clooney, Dwayne Johnson, P Diddy and other celebrities who have made the move to tequila would be wise to check out what their high-profile brands have done to put a drain on family-owned distilleries in the Jalisco Highlands. The once prosperous Two Seasons factory has reached a painful crossroad. …
Spike Lee voiced displeasure at being branded after his first film "the black Woody Allen," and in truth his ambitions, though no less large, run in a quite different direction (and at even a faster clip) than those of the maker of Interiors and September and such. Lee's third feature …
Nothing-is-as-it-seems love triangle, composed of a Brit, a Brazilian, and a Spaniard, in London. Writer-director Matthew Parkhill, in his feature debut, conceals the complete illogicality until the "sucker-punch" twist. In the meantime, he reveals the charms of Gael García Bernal and Natalia Verbeke. With James D'Arcy, Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox.
The more Jesse Eisenberg films there are, the more I embrace Michael Cera. The fidgety, uni-expressioned Eisenberg tackles the dual role of a secondary government clerk, kicked further to the curb after the sudden appearance of his assured doppelganger in Richard Ayoade’s adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella. Not since Only …
A winning performance in a losing cause: the humorous, bright, protean Sandra Oh as the modern, free-spirited, unmarried (and unaccented) daughter of traditional Chinese immigrant parents, in Vancouver, B.C. All very familiar, except for Oh. With Stephen M.D. Chang, Alannah Ong, Frances You, and Callum Rennie; written and directed by …
Russian actress Kseniya Rappoport has a lovely, vulnerable intensity as Sonia, a chambermaid in Turin, Italy, who falls for a sensitive ex-cop (Filippo Timi, who was Mussolini in Vincere). Her soulfulness can’t save a moody jam-up of various genres utilizing robbery, two suicides, two loves, a dating club, brain injury, …
There are two van Dammes on screen: one a Hong Kong hard case who slicks down his hair and chomps on stogies, the other a Beverly Hills exercise instructor who wears trendy togs and tries to be pleasant, both of them on the same side in a separated-at-birth revenge tale. …
Trash with pedigree: a novel by Cain, a script co-authored by Chandler, and fine work from Stanwyck and MacMurray, the latter of whom can always make sin look so unpleasurable. But this is not one of Billy Wilder's more personal projects, shallow and sleazy, and only conformistly cynical instead of …
A Big Bull wants to attain immortality by performing a new experiment, which involves brain transplantation. Written and directed by Puri Jagannnadh, starring Ram Pothineni, Sanjay Dutt, and Kavya Thapar.
A wronged-woman thriller in which the flattery of the heroine reaches such nauseating heights as to call into question its sincerity. (The once-in-a-million-lifetimes event of driving an automobile off a moving ferry into the bay, while one hand is cuffed to the door handle and the other is fending off …
Krzysztof Kieslowski weighs in with some whole-cloth testimony on behalf of the science of physiognomy. Two identical women are born on the same day in different countries. As adults, they both wear their hair alike; they both are classical singers (with the voice emanating from nowhere near the mouth); they …