Much of the viewer’s enjoyment of writer-director Dominic Savage’s tale of a desperate English housewife will depend on his or her sympathy for its outwardly comfortable, inwardly unsatisfied protagonist Tara (Gemma Arterton, her face a china-doll mask of misery). And much of that sympathy will depend on the degree of …
Don Siegel, a sort of connect-the-dots director who is very good at charting a terrain or tracing a course of action, takes such a pragmatic interest in locale and procedure that he restores a certain credibility, if not freshness, to the prison movie clichés collected herein. The locale, really, is …
Narrated by Academy Award winner, Dame Helen Mirren and featuring rare footage of endangered animals and interviews with the world’s leading animal welfare and conservation specialists, this pioneering feature explores the critical efforts of zoos and aquariums across the globe as they race to protect and preserve animals on the …
Hitler's army was rapidly closing borders in August of 1939 while eighty-five American missionaries were serving their church inside Germany. As the German military preparations escalated, word came to speedily move those LDS missionaries to safety in adjacent countries. Taken from the personal diaries of those missionaries.
An uncommonly long-delayed sequel, and a medium-volume hoot. It is now A.D. 2013, or anyway it will be as soon as we pass through a preamble that explains how the Big One of the year 2000 created the Island of Los Angeles, thereafter converted into a prison colony of undesirables …
The year is 1997, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison, and the black-shirted security police are headquartered at the foot of the Statue of Liberty (how ironic!). Things, in short, have changed a bit -- but director John Carpenter still has mashed potatoes for …
It sounded so cool: a movie made on the sly inside a Disney theme park. Someone's sticking it to the Mouse! But the trailer? Eh, maybe. Still, it's a start. Next time, they can take on the Princesses.
Sylvester Stallone back in stir, this time as a professional jailbreaker hired by penal institutions to go undercover and test the impregnability of maximum security prisons. The implausibility of the opening escape is made clear in a flashback. Sly is assigned a different institution to crack, and the moment fellow …