Writer-director Nicolas Pesce’s debut feels unnervingly like a Diane Arbus photo that’s been stretched into a film. Which is to say, it’s unnerving — a shadowy black-and-white (well, black-and-gray) image of an older, less homogenized, more frequently grotesque world, where even beauty and innocence may serve to heighten a sense …
Remember when celebrity biopics were relegated to the realm of TV movies? Now they’ve become a box office staple. On any given week, it’s virtually impossible to set foot in a multiplex without having at least one celebrity impersonator from which to choose. Evangelical bamboozler Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) never …
And the married name of Bakker (later Messner): divorced wife of televangelist Jim Bakker, deposed queen of the PTL (Praise the Lord) ministry and the Heritage USA theme park ("a Christian Disneyland," in the words of the narrator, RuPaul Charles). Nonfiction filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato take up the …
Stanley Kubrick's posthumous opus, twelve years after his previous one, with an off-puttingly grainy, gritty, speckly image. It is not hard to believe he had wanted to make it for a long, long time. There's a moldy Sexual Revolution air about it that dates it by a good two or …
Georges Franju's macabre masterpiece, originally released in the U.S. with English dubbing under the title The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus, an elegant, graceful, stately, almost ceremonial variation on the mad-scientist theme. A megalomaniacal plastic surgeon (the stocky, stolid Pierre Brasseur), responsible for his daughter's facial disfigurement, is determined to …
Directed by Steven Spielberg, the surreal comedy stars Gabriel LaBelle as 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman, Michelle Williams as his artistic mother, Paul Dano as his successful scientific father, Seth Rogen as honorary “uncle” to the Fabelman children, and Judd Hirsch as Mitzi’s Uncle Boris.
Music-making on the show-biz fringes: the hotel lounges of the Pacific Northwest. A sibling piano duo, a sort of fraternal Ferrante and Teicher, have been making a go of it for fifteen years. One of them (Beau Bridges) tries hard to keep up appearances; the other (real brother Jeff, with …
The memory board photos that adorn the opening credits looked too real to be Photoshopped. Sure enough, this is the genuine thing, a family affair built around the Basco Brothers, Philippines' answer to the 4 Marx Brothers. Duke’s (Dante Basco doing triple duty as star, writer, and director) one-take arrival …
Lifelong friends travel to Key West, Fla., to be bridesmaids in the wedding of their college girlfriend, rekindling their sisterhood amid drinks and romance. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, starring Bette Midler, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Susan Sarandon.