This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "During the late 1980’s, on the Venezuelan / Colombian border, two men survive an armed assault in the bed of the Arauca River. The men claim they were attacked by the Venezuelan military, …
Sure, why not. Directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly.
The hackers are coming! Director and co-writer Akan Satayev’s tale of an immigrant's son who starts off clicking for dollars and winds up orchestrating a stock market panic plays like a highly competent student film and looks like an expensive episode of basic cable television. Everything feels requisite, from the …
If ever a filmmaker’s heart was in the right place, it’s local documentarian Brian Jenkins’s. John Witek, Jenkins’s uncle, was a student at the University of Virginia when he joined Martin Luther King’s march on Selma. Alas, the road to insightful documentary filmmaking is not paved with good intentions. But …
It may seem unlikely that a Czech assassin holed up in a Prague church as he hides out from the Nazis with his fellow operatives would start perusing English playwright William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. But then again, they’ve got time on their hands, and the play is about an assassination. …
A son makes his father's mistakes. Starring Biju Menon, Asif Ali, and Rajisha Vijayan; directed by Khalid Rahman.
Fun, fast-paced French film d’animation that manages to keep its ideas from getting lost amid the steampunk aesthetics, frequent chases, and occasional explosions. Indeed, while those ideas sometimes manage to trump the people, they also explain the aesthetics: someone has figured out the value of knowledge without quite comprehending the …
First impression: a disease-of-the-week weepie about a widowed cancer survivor, the last tenant standing in a “ghost building” that can’t undergo urban gentrification until she vacates. But never judge a film by its trailer, as proven by this ravishingly realized study in filmed exasperation. Women’s pictures — those dark, intricately …
Is there ever a good time to tell your brother that his four years spent in stir — taking the rap for a job you both committed — was just enough time for you and his ex to fall head-over-heels in love? The question that becomes a running gag in …
Denis Villeneuve’s latest is an artier — certainly moodier and less entertaining, thanks to Amy Adams’s deeply inward protagonist and a blue-gray palette designed to contrast the barren present with the fruitful past — version of M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. That is, it’s an alien-landing movie in which the alien …
There’s a feature film waiting to be made on each of Robert Cenedella’s canvases; they illustrate as big a battleground of love, hate, and action as you’ll find in any of fellow outsider Sam Fuller’s movies. As an artist in all seriousness, Cenedella likes to cyanide-coat his message with humor. …
Those who knew Adam Goldstein — a pioneering plate-mate remixer who survived an airplane crash only to die of a drug overdose — called him a “digital shaman,” a DJ who assumed rock star status. He no more invented mashups than he did the wheel, but he was the first …
The titular creed states that, unlike most people, Assassins know that nothing is true and everything is permitted. It’s hard to imagine true believers in such a creed turning around and saying that their own lives are worth nothing and all that matters is the protection of the Apple of …
Sung-su Kim this urban drama about a compromised cop and a corrupt mayor. In Korean with English subtitles.