Wanna-be Dog Day Afternoon, only a (wanna-be) comedy, about a wanna-be rock band who take over an L.A. radio station with water guns, precipitating a standoff with police. (To maintain topicality, the cry of "Attica!" gets replaced by "Rodney King!") Good physical humor from Michael Richards; unrivalled by any other …
A takeoff (peculiarly appropriate term in this context, although the implication of getting off the ground makes it a misnomer after all) on the Airport series of disaster films. Several flashbacks allow it to take off on other tacks as well, and indeed it seems constitutionally unable to remain on …
People who enjoyed the predecessor seem to be disappointed in the sequel. People who did not enjoy the predecessor will have difficulty telling much difference. But because fidelity, not originality, is the goal this time (a new writer and director, Ken Finkleman, has taken over for the Kentucky Fried Theater …
This movie begins in the realm of the ridiculous (the airborne pleasure palace borrows several ideas in first-class travel accommodations from The Big Bus, and the audience is expected to go ga-ga over them), and it follows a course even sillier than the forerunners in the Airport series (the attempted …
Rookie Michael Jordan teams up with Nike’s fledgling basketball division to revolutionize the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. From director Ben Affleck.
Fast-talking basketball scout travels to deepest Africa to recruit a blue-chip beanpole, gets involved in local politics, precipitates a basketball war, grows as a human being, triumphs as a sportsman, gets his man, gets promoted -- the feel-good prescription. With Kevin Bacon and Charles Gitonga Maina; directed by Paul Michael …
Documentary chronicles the experiences of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei.
Set in the roiling melting pot of Jaffa, the writing and directing collaboration of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis, Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti, is a push-and-pull of contradictions: a balanced and even-handed treatment of tremulous sensationalized subject matter (a mafia-like blood feud, drug traffic, forbidden love, illegal immigration, hate crime, …
Set in northern Kerala, three generations of heroes, Maniyan, Kunjikelu, and Ajayan, try to protect the most important treasure of the land.
The story of Colorado sheriff Nolan Sharpless, who risks everything when the kidnapping of a seemingly innocent Swiss tourist turns into a hunt for one of America's most elusive career criminals. Mixing elements of tabloid journalism and reality TV, Nolan's dogged pursuit of the mysterious Birdseye blazes an outlandish comic …
An eleven-year-old black girl (the appealing Keke Palmer) in the South L.A. ghetto braves the taunts of "freak" and "brainiac" to enter the Scripps National Spelling Bee and, on her first try, go clear through to the televised finals in Washington, D.C., where it all comes down to "logorrhea" and …