Melissa McCarthy slips into her blithe, doe-eyed, over-talking, PG-13 mode for a comedy about a freshly divorced soccer mom who dropped her daughter off at college and decided to stick around and complete her degree. When Rodney Dangerfield went back to school he did so in an obnoxiously amusing and …
From Pro-Family Films comes a drama about the art of parenting.
AMC Theatres both distributes and exhibits this live action, non-Disney feature inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Co-directed by first-timers Blake Harris and Chris Bouchard and starring Poppy Drayton, William Moseley, and Shirley MacLaine.
A moody delight. Domhnall Gleeson brings his uncanny talent for communicating great storms of interior feeling through an expression almost entirely devoid of affect to Lenny Abrahamson’s post-World War II ghost story about the dangers of noblesse oblige. He plays Faraday, a doctor called to the home of the local …
For her no-nonsense maiden feature, writer-director Nia DaCosta tries her luck at the tested and proven “one last score before calling it quits” crime drama. The result is Frozen River minus the tension. Ollie (Tessa Thompson) has paid her debt to society for running prescription drugs across the Canadian border, …
Writer Bryce Kass cobbles together every juicy detail from the many theories regarding the 1892 real-life murder of well-to-do New Englanders Mr. and Mrs. Borden, quite possibly at the hands of their adult daughter Lizzie: the forbidden yearnings between Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) and the family maid (Kristen Stewart), Lizzie’s stigmatizing …
A sinister presence enforces three rules upon Anglo Irish twins twins: be in bed by midnight; don't let strangers in the house, and if one attempts to escape, the life of the other is placed in jeopardy. If you get them wet do they turn into Gremlins?
A lone wolf (Jue Huang) returns home after a twenty year absence armed with a modicum of fatalistic narration with which to underscore his search for a love lost. Director Bi Gan credits Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity as his inspiration for this Chinese puzzler. A protagonist carting around a photo …
A documentary that explores the relationship between golfer and caddy. Bill Murray narrates and Jason Baffa directs.
The film version of My Fair Lady is a ceremonious bore, and the viewer has Cecil Beaton’s pompously sedentary, open-casket visual compositions to blame. (He was endowed — by the studio and Audrey Hepburn — with the power to basically call “cut” on George Cukor’s set.) Vogue magazine’s Hamish Bowles …
At a very young age, Gilda Radner learned how to ward off playground jerks looking to turn her weight into a subject of ridicule. “Comedy is hitting on the truth before the other guy thinks of it,” were words she lived by, and a reliance on self-deprecating humor became a …