Christopher Fetchko and Marina Donahue direct this story of a man who quits his job in the big city, heads home, and sets out to manage his hometown's best band.
Viewers of a certain age may remember Robert Redford as one of the great handsome men of cinema. The sun-kissed skin, the wind-tousled hair, the little-boy smile that let you know he couldn’t lose. Like the title says, all is lost. Disaster rouses an solo yachtsman from comfortable sleep: a …
What if Tennessee Williams wrote a play about William Shakespeare? You know, something claustrophobic and overheated, with families made miserable by mores trapped indoors together, clawing away at each other with conversation until painful secrets from the long-buried past start bleeding out of the wounds. And then what if he …
A vivid demonstration of parental indulgence: Susanna Hoffs, the lead singer of the Bangles, is directed by her mother, Tamar Simon Hoffs, in a youth comedy about the pre-commencement blowout (or Last Chance Romance) at Pacifica College. It would have been better, or anyhow a shorter route, to go for …
Comic Steve Martin and director Carl Reiner hash over roughly the same idea of their previous The Man with Two Brains. The beautiful body with the ugly personality remains constant, except that the body in this case is Victoria Tennant's instead of Kathleen Turner's. But the beautiful disembodied brain has …
Documentary about women who devote themselves to providing for the train-hopping immigrants who pass through their town on their way north.
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn …
Mike Leigh comes back from his change of pace and change of scene in Topsy-Turvy, back to his normal pace and his old stomping ground, a working-class milieu in modern-day London, more exactly a utilitarian housing complex and three downtrodden families therein. He gives us (among other things) over a …
Gay romantic comedy, not to say lighthearted and jovial especially, about an imperfectly matched couple (one's all-time favorite movie is Gone with the Wind, the other has never seen it: he doesn't like black-and-white) who make repeated and painful attempts to fit together anyway. The original stage play by co-star …
All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the …
Ella Lemhagen directs Sarah Jessica Parker as a newly divorced mom who drags her unwilling daughter to Italy for a combination nostalgia trip/travel therapy/search for lost love.
Another inspiring true story from Affirm Films, this one starring John Corbett as salesman-turned-pastor and his mission to save a group of refugees from Southeast Asia.