Four mental patients get a pass to the ballgame. Translation: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, and Stephen Furst get a pass to bad acting. With Lorraine Bracco; directed by Howard Zieff.
"Everything you would imagine a metal concert in South America would be." "Two nights, sixteen cameras, one incredible experience."
Aimless doodle to do with the tightening bond and shared adventures (nude bowling with hookers, etc.) between a suicidal voyeur and the terminally ill boyfriend of the voyeur's favorite target. There are lessons to be learned and surprises to be sprung, but without a whiff of belief. The jeans-ad color …
A tight, trim, grueling police drama about a homicide investigation that turns into a drug bust that turns into a nasty game of cop-hunt. It's the future, so naturally, things are urban, wasted, and awful. Overmatched officers in full body armor patrol a city that stretches along most of the …
Miserably paced thriller, not just because of the slowness and distension of every individual scene, but also because of the rhythm-and-rhymeless placement of the dramatic climaxes. The movie gets off on the wrong foot with a Dial Soap wet dream (Angie Dickinson steaming up the shower by fondling a body …
The period of the Second World War, with its consequent boost to the spirit of The Show Must Go On, recalls Truffaut's The Last Metro and (an even closer contemporary) the remake of To Be or Not To Be. But lacking the specificness of either of those, this one, about …
Out for revenge, seamstress-turned-sleuth Kate WInslet returns to her rural Australian hometown and, using haute couture much the same way Sherlock Holmes would apply deductive reasoning, cracks a decades old crime that positioned her as a murderess. Thankfully, this was a lot darker than anticipated. For over half its running …
Makes the case that the medium isn't just the message, it's the magic. Specifically, there's a reason why a painting on a movie poster can do a better job of capturing the spell-casting power of cinema than a photograph can. At least when the painter is humble workaday genius Drew …
Homeless army deserter answers a want ad to bodyguard a fat kid, skinny kid, and shrimpy kid from the high-school bully. The jokes arrive predictably, the laughs lag badly. With Owen Wilson, Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, David Dorfman, Alex Frost, and Leslie Mann; directed by Steven Brill.
A friendship between a pair of ‘spoken for’ co-workers at a Chicago brewery gradually heats up in what has to be the sweetest, most romantic, and non-judgmental 90 minutes you’ll ever spend in the company of functioning alcoholics. With top comedic performances in Butter and now Drinking Buddies, Olivia Wilde …
Seven years after the case related to Vijay Salgaonkar and his family was closed, a series of unexpected events bring a truth to light that threatens to change everything for the Salgaonkars. Can Vijay save his family this time? Directed by Abhishek Pathak.
A tricky, unsettling, often riveting film, shot in a coldly glowing L.A. by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. Ryan Gosling, an update on Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, has magnetic mystery as the lean, terse “hero” who drives hard, can fox-out criminals, and may be a sociopath. His shy interest …
Nicolas Cage, ripping down highways to avenge his daughter and recover his grandchild from a satanic-cult preacher (Billy Burke), joins with a kick-ass waitress (Amber Heard) and is pursued by Hell’s suave, deadly emissary (William Fichtner). The violence, nudity, crashes, trash talk, and hocus-pocus could make you yearn for the …