Agnieszka Holland, who directed Angry Harvest, here again seeks out the gray areas of the Holocaust: a survival tale of a pragmatic young Jew who first passes himself off as a Communist, then as a Nazi. It is based (here also again) on a true story -- that of Salomon …
Boredom begins when a group of six top flight international astronauts undertake a mission to find life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon. From television footage to fixed surveillance cameras onboard the ship, the entire film tediously unfolds through the eyes of television cameras.(There’s a “Europa One” ident in the right …
Other than the fastidious period re-creation and the lovely New England autumn, most of the quality of this starchy literary adaptation is attributable to the Henry James original, and there is still a good deal more quality there than made the trip to the screen. Lee Remick, Lisa Eichhorn, Tim …
Or: Lars (Will Ferrell) and the real actress (Rachel McAdams). We open in 1974 with an Icelandic nod to The Jazz Singer: only over Erick Erickssong’s (Pierce Brosnan) dead body will his son Lars be allowed to appear on the world’s largest televised singing competition. From that seed grows a …
Misato and her anti-NERV group Wille arrive at Paris, a city now red from core-ization. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower. They only have 720 seconds to restore the city. When a horde of NERV Evas appear, Mari’s improved Eva Unit 8 must intercept. Meanwhile, Shinji, …
Misato and her anti-NERV group Wille arrive at Paris, a city now red from core-ization. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower. They only have 720 seconds to restore the city. When a horde of NERV Evas appear, Mari’s improved Eva Unit 8 must intercept. Meanwhile, Shinji, …
Chapter three of the four-part rebuild of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Things get explodey.
Fact-based sob story, set in the Fifties, about a hard-drinking, unemployed Irishman (Pierce Brosnan, whose brogue seems to raise his voice half an octave) whose children are taken away from him after his wife runs off with another man, and who must storm the fortress of Family Law in order …
The marriage of culty moviemaker Gus Van Sant and culty novelist Tom Robbins has produced the monster that Mother Nature always warned about: deformed by self-indulgence, self-consciousness, self-congratulation. The narrative revolves around one Sissy Hankshaw (there are supporting characters called Bonanza Jellybean and Delores Del Ruby: it's that kind of …
Early Werner Herzog. A desultory revolt among the stunted prisoners on a chalky desolate island. (With strong intimations of a larger symbolic Significance.) The title is the best thing about it, though there's plenty of oddity mixed in with barbarity and monotony.