Cut out “Love.” Why would anyone want to tack a happy ending onto the tail of Endless Love? Director-screenwriter Shana Feste and co-scripter Joshua Safran deserve a life sentence on The Lifetime Channel for their bowdlerization of Scott Spencer’s intense novel about a mental patient who spends 10 years of …
Chilean surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky continues the fantastical memoir he began in 2013’s The Dance of Reality. But where that first film made a tragic-absurdist hero out of young Alejandro’s fierce father, Poetry necessarily casts him as the villain. Alejandro must come of age, and that means breaking with Dad and …
Bruce Brown's surfing documentary follows two surfers — Michael Hynson and Robert August — in search of the perfect wave.
Endless movie, too. Bruce Brown takes up his documentary camera and, in the company of representatives of a new generation of surfer dudes, resumes his search for the Perfect Wave. (Definition: "It depends on what kind of board you ride, and what kind of wave you like." Huh.) Essentially a …
Endless movie, too. Bruce Brown takes up his documentary camera and, in the company of representatives of a new generation of surfer dudes, resumes his search for the Perfect Wave. (Definition: "It depends on what kind of board you ride, and what kind of wave you like." Huh.) Essentially a …
Omen-esque thriller in which Lucifer has precisely one appointed hour, from eleven to midnight at the close of the millennium, to mate with his preordained human bride and thus pave the way to his thousand-year reign on Earth. Whatever chances the movie might have had to be decent -- given, …
Tokyo-3 is under attack from “Angels,” extraordinary beings that possess various special abilities. Multipurpose Humanoid Decisive Weapon, Evangelion is the only method to counter these Angels.
Hampshire and Chernick are feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood. After they send their young kids to camp for the first time, they embark on a series of comic sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship. Starring Emily Hampshire, Melanie Scrofano, and Lily Gao.
A sophisticated mix of illicit romance and unconventional religion, from the Graham Greene novel, set in Second World War-time England. Writer-director Neil Jordan, working from sturdier source material than in, say, Interview with the Vampire or The Butcher Boy, gets little of the credit for the clever narrative structure, only …
Lucio Castro makes a favorable first impression weaving a dream tapestry that, while not always 100% lucid in terms of narrative, nevertheless leaves a hypnotic, stylish imprint on the viewer throughout. Ocho (Juan Barberini) is a poet who makes a living writing ad copy for an airline. For 13 dialogue-free …
Second-class documentary -- the video-transfer image ranges from poor to wretched -- on the seminal punk band who never quite hit pay dirt. The de rigueur backstage discord -- one's a doper, one's a drinker, one's a Right-winger who steals the girlfriend of the obsessive-compulsive lead singer -- will be …
Adapted from Friedrich Durrenmatt's philosophical detective novel, The Judge and His Hangman. The structural beauty of Durrenmatt's mousetrap holds its shape not nearly as well on the screen as on the page, and the tone has been drastically altered by the overstressed symbolism, the Fellini-esque oom-pah-pah musical score, some stray …
Another alarmist ecological documentary, the alarm in this case sounded over the projected extinction of the oceans’ edible population by the year 2048 or so, through the increased efficiency, capacity, and voracity of the world’s fishing fleet: “The thing is, we’re too good right now.” Director Rupert Murray follows the …
Remember novels? How about tape recorders? Wait, wait — what about famous writers? In 1996, the writer David Lipsky got Rolling Stone to let him join David Foster Wallace on the last leg of the author's book tour for his Big Novel, Infinite Jest. The article never ran, but Lipsky …
Extraterrestrials assume the shapes of a Catholic priest and six nuns. Perhaps the quietest apocalypse movie ever, full of stiff, underdirected actors and awkward pauses. The pacing seems to be dictated by the need to stretch a nonexistent script to feature length. Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon (who looks old enough …