Zachary Quinto narrates an arctic expedition that serves as a kind of possible prologue to our eventual Mars trek. Jean-Christophe Jeauffre co-writes and directs.
Director Morten Tyldum makes the most of many of his assets in this interplanetary romantic drama: the vast exterior emptiness of space, the vast interior emptiness of the colonist ship Avalon as it is experienced by a single passenger awoken 90 years early, the gently affirming android bartender in the …
A former gang member finds God and sets out to make a place for Him in a neighborhood rent by gang violence.
Having lionized American Navy SEALS in Lone Survivor and American working men in Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg turn the spotlight on American police officers, taking the Boston Marathon bombing and the massive manhunt that followed as their occasion. It’s a gutsy move, what with that …
The rags to riches story of the first 17 years in the life of soccer superstar Pelé are covered in this painfully routine biopic. Had the writing/directing team of Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist harnessed one-tenth of their real-life subject’s electricity, the picture could have been used to power Wembley …
A spiritual prequel to the 1983 film of the same name, this time looking at romantic struggles within the arranged-marriage set. Directed by Tharun Bhascker Dhaasyam. In Telugu.
Oh, snap. Bille Woodruff directs this story about a playboy who meets a playgirl, only to find himself falling in love.
By day, Maureen (Kristen Stewart) haunts the premium racks looking to outfit her vainglorious celebrity boss Kyra (Nora von Waldstätten). By night, she’s a paranormalist eager to connect with her dead brother’s spirit. (The two made a Houdini pact in which the first to die swore to contact the other.) …
Way back in 2015, Disney subsidiary Pixar released The Good Dinosaur, a boy-and-his-dog story that flipped things by making the big green lizard into the lost little boy and giving the dog’s part to a feral human child. Here, Disney flips Pixar back into conventional mode, returning the feral human …
David Hartman directs and co-writes (with Phantasm creator Don Coscarelli) this fifth installment in the Tall Man/Knife Ball horror series.
Writer-director Don Coscarelli's 1979 horror hit about an unusually tall grave robber gets exhumed and remastered.
Raymond Yip Wai-man does his take on the "let's make a film in the old abandoned theater that's supposed to be haunted" story. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
Fear Strikes Out the Great Santini in this “love me daddy” baseball pic that earns points for spending less than 5 percent of its time on the diamond and refusing to end in open competition...so far as the playing field is concerned. We never see the five consecutive wild pitches …