A pair of bumbling CIA agents masquerading as documentary filmmakers re-create the Apollo moon landing on a Hollywood backlot. In order for a premise like this to succeed, the re-creation must be accurate down to the grain pattern of the film stock. Not for one second did I believe any …
Liam Neeson takes on the role of Douglas MacArthur in the Korean War's Battle of Incheon.
She's bipolar, he's wracked with grief. Does one detect romance in the offing?
Johannes Roberts co-writes and directs this story of a mom who just want to speak to her dead son one last time. Oh, and maybe also see him.
Hyped as “the first movie to explore the eastern front of World War I,” this revisionist slice of Turkish propaganda wisely hides beneath the cloak of old Hollywood melodrama. Alas, the part of the iron-willed Christian nurse cried out for more charisma than Hera Hilmar’s dead-inside voiceovers could provide. So …
Flashback to 1967, when a struggling medium and her two complicit young daughters opt to incorporate the titular finger-powered planchette into the family act. Mom writes off the con as “healing people through showmanship” until the day dear dead dad’s spirit takes to the board and proceeds to spell out …
Quick! Name a memorable Ewan McGregor performance. Neither can I. Who better to play a college poetics professor who, apart from being a principled sort, is utterly unremarkable? (DJ Qualls would have been the honorable choice.) Knowing a kosher salt when he sees one, a money-laundering Russian mob accountant (Stellan …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival's Cine Gay Showcase. According to the festival brochure, "Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous in Eastside Los Angeles, the Ovarian Psycos use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives. The film rides along with the …
A cantankerous senior, recently bounced from his retirement home, moves into a commune where he soon discovers the truth about his younger son and his way of living in this Mexican comedy directed by Raúl Martínez.
Not so much a motion picture as a moving postcard. The big deal here is that it’s the first Hollywood movie filmed in Cuba since Castro’s revolution. They even got inside Ernest Hemingway’s house, Finca Vigía! The big deal should be that the autobiographical screenplay was written by Denne Bart …
Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz directs and cowrites this story of friends who head off for a dream vacation only to have that dream turn into...a nightmare!
At the age of 80, Eleanor Coppola could be the oldest American ever to direct their first narrative feature. Diane Lane stars as a movie producer who unexpectedly finds herself on a picturesque car trip from Cannes to Paris with a business associate of her husband.