Commonplace instance of a sequel that's really just an alternative version, a completely different cast of characters in a parallel series of contrived chain-reaction accidents with gory payoffs, all to test the dictum that you can't cheat death. Death, evidently, will go to great serpentine lengths to see that you …
Same carnage, different kids. This time the torture-porn embraces alternative forms of medicine such as acupuncture and laser surgery (if you have a thing about eyes, it’s best to close yours). There’s a terrific mounting sight gag (did you hear the one about the gymnast, a thumbtack, and a balance …
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all. Directed by Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky, starring Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo …
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all. Directed by Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky, starring Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo …
Directed by Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue. Starring Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Itô and Shôtarô Morikubo.
Quite possibly the most meta-horror film since Cabin in the Woods. Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson.
While on a short layover in Paris, American writer James Lord agrees to be subject of Alberto Giacometti’s titular swan-sketch. What stars as a short stay plays out into an extended yawn. Stanley Tucci steps behind the camera and transforms his original screenplay into something akin to a Fathom Event …
A square baseball movie, "based on a true story," about a small-town Iowa high school housing nineteen state baseball championships in its trophy case ("We grow ballplayers here like corn"), now facing consolidation into a larger school district, and entering its last year of independence under a wet-behind-the-ears rookie coach …
A post-apocalyptic amalgamation of Tom Hanks’ greatest hits (notably Turner and Hooch and Cast Away) lies at the heart of this wake up call to climate change deniers. (Perhaps the non-believers in the crowd might finally face reality if the message comes cloaked in sci-fi trappings and with the Walter …
Five million stolen dollars are secreted in a coffin to be shipped cross-country by rail. The coffin, as chance would have it, is commandeered in the train depot by an imposter soldier, who drapes it with the American flag he happens to be carrying, in order to evade a couple …
Small comedy of larger-than-average ambition, sharp in flavor and in perception, centered around a middle-aged racetrack junkie and hack sitcom writer. Peter Tolan, the screenwriter and first-time director, has his own sitcom résumé, Murphy Brown, Home Improvement, The Larry Sanders Show, far from the pits, though his work here is …
There is one great scene in Pixar’s latest oceanic offering: when forgetful heroine Dory finds herself lost and alone — really, totally alone — in the darkening murk of an ocean that feels as vast as it is empty. Her profound distress, her response to that distress, and the eventual …
Gus Van Sant, reverting to the vein of Good Will Hunting, goes all soft and squishy (don't be fooled by the scruffy surface) with the tall tale of another youthful genius, a black high-school athlete and closet littérateur (diffident newcomer Rob Brown) who finds a mentor in an irascible old …
For thousands of years women have been locked out of Taiko drumming. Not anymore, according to this documentary directed by Dawn Mikkelson and Keri Pickett.