When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. Directed by Arkasha Stevenson, starring …
Filmmakers follow the lives of several aspiring ballet dancers from around the globe (ages 9 to 19) as they train for the Youth America Grand Prix, a prestigious dance competition in New York City that holds the potential for career stardom. The dancers offer some humanity to the generic storytelling. …
Policemen don't make the best ghoul-hunters; their minds and their methods are too pedestrian. Tess the Psychic is thus reduced to a squad-car sidekick, and Sister Marguerite with her crucifix-cum-dagger languishes too long on the sidelines. Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Elizabeth Arlen; written and directed by Robert …
After the series opener, I vowed to Purge no more. Funny how air conditioning on a 105 degree day has a way of changing one's mind. White devils brainwash blacks into spending a governmentally sanctioned extended grace period killing other blacks. Describing three dudes on a stoop as, "Moe, Larry, …
Helene Lee's documentary on the life of Leonard Howell, one of the founders of Rastafarianism and the man who declared Haile Selassie to be the second coming of Christ.
Paul Schrader puts Hitchcock's bomb-on-bus theory to the test in this diary of a despairing priest. Ethan Hawke stars as the walking time bomb.
Swedish procedural drama about an emergency services team in the remote mountain resort of Åre - a location as breathtakingly beautiful as it is dangerous.
Digital documentary by The Hennegan Brothers (as they bill themselves, like a trapeze act) about the run-up to, and the actual running of, the 132nd Kentucky Derby. Their focus falls primarily on the trainers, although, a bit blindered, not on the actual training; and their assemblage of interviews and intimate …
Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota had a brother who was three years older. Following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player …
The futile struggle against fate of an unnecessarily unsympathetic hero, a fast-talking flooring salesman who wants to transition to jukeboxes. Belabored, unbelievable, but sizzlingly photographed in the Southwest desert by Eric Edwards, and played with strong conviction by Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner, Rick Gonzalez, Jackie Burroughs, and especially, …
Jackie Chan ("This guy can move like a monkey!") and his weapons of convenience: folding table, aluminum ladder, broom, umbrellas, stilts. A cheerful and cheesy James Bond spoof -- ski chase from On Her Majesty's Secret Service, man-eating shark and underwater combat from Thunderball -- that takes our likable hero …
A pair of backed-up-against-the-wall black Baltimoreans (Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan) go into a ghetto church with the intent to rob it, enter into endless negotiations at gunpoint with the fundraising committee, fix the air-conditioning, and come out better, and not poorer, men. A caper comedy devoid of laughs. With Chi …
Matrimonial, as opposed to occupational, 9 to 5, with three high-wattage actresses exacting rah-rah revenge on the husbands who dumped them for younger women. The tripartite story -- an old, old, old story, too -- requires some laborious exposition and development. Each of the stars -- Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, …
Matrimonial, as opposed to occupational, 9 to 5, with three high-wattage actresses exacting rah-rah revenge on the husbands who dumped them for younger women. The tripartite story -- an old, old, old story, too -- requires some laborious exposition and development. Each of the stars -- Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, …