Athlete Ben Ferguson and an elite crew of professional snowboarders travel the globe to document two winters of chasing storms in search of the adventure of a lifetime. Starring Ben Ferguson, his brother Gabe, good friend and Olympic Gold medalist Red Gerard, (one of Ben’s co-stars in 2019’s JOY), Jared …
Yes, but more of blood, plus some bubonic-plague lesions and vomit for good measure. This is Europe in 1501, and a California sex kitten (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has been abducted from her Australian betrothed (Tom Burlinson) by a handsome Dutchman (Rutger Hauer) and his yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum band of mercenaries. The stuff …
An arty exercise in American Gothic: the Texas motels, bars, coffee shops, etc., on the rounds of a vending-machine supplier (Dennis Quaid) who picks up, and takes with him, a part-time bachelor-party entertainer (Meg Ryan). The many-years-earlier prologue has a highly charged atmosphere of menace, and a couple of later …
Some of the special effects — a swan-shaped spaceship; a five-story, putty-like monster with a dry wit — are reminders of the fantasy realm of antique movie serials; but the sense of fantasy crashes to earth with every lethargic display of soft-core sex. The cross-purposes scheme of combining prurient interest …
Gloomy news indeed. The intensely dislikable newspaper reporter, I.M. Fletcher, as played by the dislikable Chevy Chase, is back -- smirks, batted eyelids, disguises, aliases, and all. Now, something called Fletch Dies might just be something to see. Then again, it might not. Directed by Michael Ritchie.
Jean-Pierre Melville's acutely minimalist take on American gangster films resulted in a formal probity unlike anything cinema has experienced before or since. Un Flic is his final contemplation of the genre he embraced. Both the reason for the opening heist and the rationale behind a seemingly well-heeled cabaret owner (Richard …
Days before she travels to Mecca for HAJJ , Ghada is faced with an emergency and is needed to come up with a large sum of money. She is forced to return to people from a tainted past with which she had severed ties. Will things go smoothly, will she …
The remarkable, arduous journey of the Monarch butterfly. Documentary directed by Mike Slee.
The race to the North Pole via balloon in the 1890s seems to have had some of the same intensity for Sweden and Norway that the race to the moon had, somewhat later and by way of somewhat swifter vehicles, for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. To make a Swedish …
Another belated thank-you to our boys in Vietnam, in particular a pilot called "Cool Hand" and a bombardier called Cole, who jump the gun on Nixon's order to go "downtown" into Hanoi. Director John Milius wants as always to strut and swagger, but it's a boozy, woozy swagger, nowhere as …