Still barred from officially making movies, the house arrest has been lifted and Jafar Panahi is now free to move about the countryside. It’s life and death in the backseat of a cab as Panahi tools around Tehran in search of flailing arms and predetermined passengers. The fares range from …
Newspaper heiress slain! The husband, editor of the aforesaid newspaper and outspoken critic of the District Attorney, is indicted. A retired criminal prosecutor (and highly attractive divorcée) agrees to handle the defense as a way to even her personal score with her former boss, the D.A., and she is soon …
Indian Tamil-language black comedy-action film written and directed By Nelson, starring Rajnikanth, Mohan Lal, Jackie Shroff, and Shiva Rajkumar.
Indian Tamil-language black comedy-action film written and directed By Nelson, starring Rajnikanth, Mohan Lal, Jackie Shroff, and Shiva Rajkumar.
Along with Loving You, King Creole, and Wild in the Country, this is one of the serious early Elvis pictures about the flowering of an artistic talent. In spite of that, it is good for a few laughs. Elvis is required to be an obnoxious, ungrateful, surly, swell-headed son of …
Give Robin Williams credit for the courage (or the folly) of his convictions. He has already secured an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting), yet he persists in throwing himself into tubs of humanist mush, doing his smile-turned-upside-down number, begging to be taken seriously. This one -- a …
Mixed-media adaptation (live action, cartoon, stop-motion animation) of the Roald Dahl children's book, from the Disney studio, and more specifically from Henry Selick of Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas. The self-consciously "dreamlike" narrative concerns an unloved orphan who, accompanied by oversized English-speaking insects, sails off for the Big Apple …
While taking a vacation from taking a vacation, the titular and incognizant party boy of James White gets a call that his co-dependent mother’s stage four cancer has spread. The only things separating this from the typical disease-of-the-week tripe beamed directly to one’s satellite dish is first-time director Josh Mond’s …
Spanish sex comedy of constant provocation but no clear point. Bigas Luna, an even badder boy than his compatriot Almodóvar (and badder for a longer a period of time), has an eye for the sensual, the surreal, and the symbolic, as well as for the bleakest landscape and the gaudiest …