Surprisingly bright teen comedy, littered with tidbits of literary and cinematic erudition, about a viral high-school rumor that transmutes a studious virgin into a “dirty skank,” a lesson in “the accelerated velocity of terminological inexactitude.” The path the story takes is not always judicious (the girl plays up her new …
Racing into Rome early one morning, smooth-talking, fast-walking Vittorio Gassman just needs to borrow someone's phone - even sleepy, uptight law student Jean-Louis Trintignant's will do. Bored and with nothing better on tap, the two hit the road in Gassman's souped-up Lancia Aurelia, blazing past farmers, priests, and bicyclists, honking …
Start with Rodney Dangerfield, and proceed on the assumption that it doesn't much matter where you go from there (mother-in-law jokes, son-in-law jokes, drug jokes, fat jokes), and one man's slobbery is soon parlayed into masses. Directed by James Signorelli.
Not a remake of the Rodney Dangerfield rollick, but a Swedish crime thriller brought to American shores under the aegis “Martin Scorsese Presents.” A coke dealer who looks more like a tennis coach (Joel Kinnaman) is forced to draw allegiance with an ex-con (Matias Varela), hunted by criminal and lawman …
An aftermath story, following up on the events of 2012's worlds-colliding drama Easy Money. Lanky Swede JW (a befuddled Joel Kinnaman) is about to score his first supervised release from prison after his violent stint as a coke dealer. Now that he's trying to go straight, he's got something to …
The Vietnam generation's anguish and paranoia about America, acted out in three contrasting styles by Peter Fonda, who strikes mythical postures and meditative profiles, Jack Nicholson, who chews up the scenery and the other actors like an indomitable ham, and, the strongest of the three, Dennis Hopper, who turns in …
The Vietnam generation's anguish and paranoia about America, acted out in three contrasting styles by Peter Fonda, who strikes mythical postures and meditative profiles, Jack Nicholson, who chews up the scenery and the other actors like an indomitable ham, and, the strongest of the three, Dennis Hopper, who turns in …
Brit aristocrats infiltrated, through marriage, by a classless American flapper. A flat soufflé from a Noel Coward seriocomedy, previously filmed in the silent era by, of all people, Alfred Hitchcock. The jouncing Jazz Age music keeps trying to convince us it’s a romp, with no success. Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, …
Ang Lee's tantalizing, toothsome, pungent, succulent, nutritious, well-balanced, filling (etc.) comedy about a Taiwanese widower and master chef and his three grown daughters still living at home. This is the sort of material that Yasujiro Ozu used to take to the depths of profundity, while always maintaining a bravely cheerful …
Formerly called Slaughterhouse Hotel, and by any other name would smell as much. This is Tobe Hooper's encore to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and to this point the director still seems a run-of-the-mill caricaturist of redneck moronism and animalism. Certainly the roads leading into his horrific situations are traversable …
Natalie Portman narrates this documentary about what shouldn't enter one's mouth.
Cheerfully sick comedy (not as sick as John Waters, but the same disease) on such subjects as the American Dream, "fabulous Fifties furniture," and kinky sex in Los Angeles. The self-conscious aspiration to create an Instant Cult Classic reduces the need for technical competence, and indeed the erosion of all …
How and why what we eat is the cause of the chronic diseases that are killing us, and changing what we eat can save our lives one bite at a time in this documentary directed by Paul David Kennamer Jr.