Big screen version of a 1981 Queen concert featuring frontman Freddie Mercury.
Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya star as the black Bonnie & Clyde.
Set in sunny Corsica, it stars Sandrine Bonnaire as a bored hotel maid saved by discovering chess. Kevin Kline is the suave American widower who teaches her the art of the game (his French is fine, his English better as he recites Blake’s poem “The Tyger”). Chess becomes the analog …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival's Cine Gay Showcase. According to the festival brochure, "Aislinn Derbez, Ilse Salas and José María de Tavira star in this hilarious comedy about a heartbroken man who makes a series of bad decisions as he tries to win …
Homoeroticism in sailor suits, in hardhats, in motorcyclist leather, and in the sort of artificial colored light better suited to a musical fantasy like Carousel -- except that the image is so dim (and perhaps just as well) you can hardly make out what's happening. Fassbinder's swan song proves to …
Three families beset with tragedy find their destinies converging on the path of spiritual enlightenment. Starring Richard T. Jones, Kim Fields, and C. Thomas Howell star in a drama directed by Kevin Otto.
A Filipino Schindler’s List?! Read on. The Nazis had Jews they wanted to dispose of, and the Filipinos were willing to take them in. Under the guise of boosting the economy, Manuel L. Quezon (Raymond Bagatsing), second President of the Philippines, posted classified ads offering Jews professional jobs in the …
Sam Raimi clamps down his comic-book graphic style — Wellesian deep focus, tilted cameras, magnifying-glass closeups — on the Western genre. For him, a new frontier. Essentially he has worked out an exhaustive series of variations on the Main Street showdown: the two opponents lined up on a parallel visual …
I-Hate-New-York heist comedy: a smooth bank job followed by a bumpy escape route, which summarizes the reasons for wanting to leave the city at the same time as it throws up obstacles preventing it -- the raucous construction workers, the non-English-speaking cabbie, the punctilious bus driver (a movie-stealing portrayal by …
A sleazy, unsavory, but indeed quiet domestic melodrama, tracing the female-bonding experience of an In Crowd high-school "virgin" (Elisha Cuthbert) and the deaf-mute orphaned outcast (Camilla Belle) who comes to live under the same roof, and who, on the sly, performs concert-caliber Beethoven on the piano and turns out unsurprisingly …
A tale of political intrigue complicated by romantic intrigue in Indochina in the early 1950s: an idealistic and myopic American secret agent played by Brendan Fraser, and an aloof, effete British journalist played by Michael Caine ("Sooner or later," he is admonished by a native, "one has to take sides …
Science fiction of the subgenre Last-Man-on-Earth. Or at least on New Zealand. The "Man" in this instance is an Auckland scientist who, in league with "the Americans," may or may not have had a hand in "the effect," as it comes to be known, that has seemingly removed all trace …
A shy nine-year-old who has been separated from her immediate family is left in the care of two distant relatives for the summer. After sun-dappled days spent milking cows, peeling potatoes, and fetching water from the well, the Initially uncommunicative child soon opens up to her foster parents. Directed by …