Were sweetmeats. She's a waitress, he's a short-order cook, at the Apollo cafe on 23rd and 9th, patronized and operated by a large assemblage of monotonously "colorful" characters (the wallflower waitress, the wild waitress, etc.). Terrence McNally has thus "opened up," and juiced up, his own two-character stage play, and …
Once the pleasures derived from eyeballing black-and-white on a big screen wane, what remains is a digitized manure pile that adds new meaning to the term green-screen composting. This 3D pop-up primer on misogyny for 9-year-old boys finds sequel scion Robert Rodriguez — once again aided and abetted by comic …
A must for fans of upstanding citizenry. In the eyes of the NYPD, Frank Serpico was the scourge of the boys in blue serge, an undercover cop who narced on his crooked cronies. They made a movie about it called Serpico, and it’s clear from this documentary that director Sidney …
A woman with multiple personality disorder is having a hard time handling the other four personalities dwelling inside her. They appear to live in an old-fashioned hotel in the middle of nowhere. Directed by Birgit Möller.
A low-flame suspense thriller that comes, by and by, to a pretty steady and sustained simmer. Polanski's main notion of tension is to have actors in the same frame standing at radically different distances from the camera, so that the visual plane is pushed inward, like a door ajar. (A …
Six documentarists — Seth Gordon, Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, and the team of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady — pitch in, in turn, to popularize further the views of economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner — on “the hidden side of everything” — in their nonfiction best-seller …
Tod Browning's somewhat overvalued shocker, set amid the segregated population of a carnival sideshow. Stiff, heavy-handed, preachy, and often, with its primitive 1930 soundtrack, inaudible; but also curious, compassionate, and unsettling. Certainly not one of Irving Thalberg's run-of-the-mill projects for MGM.
Trudie Styler makes her feature directorial debut with this comedy about a lad who runs for homecoming queen at an ultra conservative high school. With Abigail Breslin, AnnaSophia Robb, Alex Lawther, and Bette Midler. Bette Midler?
Vampires. Zombies. Aliens. Ohio. Horror comedy!
The superimposed text reads “Wednesday the 11th,” but its purpose is not to establish time, place, or even herald a film-within-a-film parody. For all the good it does, the latest Blumhouse Production might just as well greet us with: Warning: Secondhand Horror Comedy Ahead. Not that the idea of spinning …
Sohail Khan wrote, directed, and produced this story of a goon's debt collector who discovers he's very good at golf and also falls in love. In Hindi.
Disney remake of the magical, mystical mother-daughter switcheroo, adjusted for youth's further usurping of the culture since 1977. The ostensible original idea was for the representatives of both generations to see through the other's eyes, but the bias in the remake tilts strongly toward the younger. The girl is a …
Set in 1987 Oakland, Freaky Tales is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters — an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector — on a collision course in a fever dream of showdowns and battles. Executive produced by hip-hop pioneer Too …