The writing and directing debut of the mere co-writer on Coach Carter, John Gatins, is one of the endless supply of inspirational true sports stories to come to the screen, this one the horsetrack story, and only fractionally true, of a filly called Soñador (Spanish for Dreamer, but Mariah's Storm …
You may have seen this sports story done several times before, set in the world of boxing, bullfighting, rodeo, roller derby, or where-have-you. You may have figured that the low-priority slowness with which Hollywood has gotten around to the world of bowling is a fair indication of its worthiness as …
Lumpy potage of Sixties politics, "revolutionary" sex, and ravenous cinephilia, whipped up by Bernardo Bertolucci. Last Tango in Paris would seem to be the career milestone -- or is it millstone? -- to which the filmmaker here reverts: same city, same era, same revolution. Yet the recipe's main ingredient turns …
Karam, a small-town boy from Mathura, is struggling every day to pay his father's debt, who has borrowed money from nearly everyone on the planet. On the other hand, he is deeply in love with Pari, whose father has kept the conditions to marry her. To make ends meet, Karam …
Broadway backstage musical -- not, that is to say, backstage on Broadway but backstage in Motown -- charting the breakthrough of R&B; into the pop mainstream in the Sixties, more specifically the rise of a girl group called the Dreams (rhymes with Supremes), and attendant heartbreaks, breakups, downfalls, and assorted …
Leasing an old New England home, haunted by past murders and present terror, cause hard times for newcomers Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz. jim Sheridan also directed Naomi Watts, Marton Csokas, and Jane Alexander in the PG-13 thriller.
What happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece? While the album’s rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried …
After two years of widowerhood, and thinking the time is right for a much-needed getaway, Luke (Henry Thomas) packs Josh (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong), his still-traumatized son and Gail (Radha Mitchell, who also produced), the boy’s replacement mom, into the family roadster and heads to their secluded summer house aka the very …
Title aside, this is a scruffily realistic French film about the friendship of a pair of assembly-line seamstresses (a friendship founded, so far as we can tell, on mutual disdain for combed hair), two of society's outsiders, one of whom secretly wants "in." These two form a friendship in turn …
Oversolemn psychological thriller, by Alan J. Pakula. Kristy McNichol is still very much Daddy's Little Girl despite her maturity as a flutist. ("You have the great gift for improvisation," her teacher tells her. "How would you like to turn my trio into a quartet?") She also happens to be "one …
Jules Dassin takes another stab at modernizing an ancient Greek legend, maybe in hopes of rectifying the earlier attempt that resulted in arguably his biggest debacle, Phaedra. Here, a glamorous international star of stage and screen (Melina Mercouri), who looks like Catherine Deneuve from the back of her luxurious blonde …
Attractive and provocative sci-fi about dream research in which gifted psychics are able to project themselves into other people's dreams, either as passive observers or as active participants, with possible curative effect (or, as we soon see, possible destructive effect, too). Not an original idea, but not as yet an …
Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. When his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom. From writer/director Kristoffer Borgli and starring Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, …