MTV jester Tom Green spreads his wings, directing himself in the role of the idiot offspring of Rip Torn (matching facial hair), taking up the gross-out gauntlet (umbilical-cord jokes, paraplegic S&M jokes, child-molestation jokes), and thus initiating a hairsplitting debate as to which he has less of -- talent or …
An epigraph from Friedrich Nietzsche, a time-jump of ten years into the future, a heavy-metal song track, a cameo by Roseanne Barr (and hubby), an allusion to Twin Peaks, a psychedelic video-game sequence, a promised (for those who can hang on that long) climactic 3-D sequence, an overall contemptuous jokiness, …
For centuries, Spain has been the cradle of Contemplation. Filmmakers obtained permission to enter and talk to people who rarely utter a word and places that remain closed to the world: THE MONASTERIES.
Two turkeys (Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson) go back in time to try to keep turkeys from becoming a traditional Thanksgiving dish. Go ahead, take your kids. Then, on Thanksgiving, explain to them that Free Birds was a bit of doomed wishing, kind of like the fake-out ending in Brazil. Then …
Skynyrd! Over three hours of Skynyrd! The makers of every crap-pop country song that wants to the band in order to gain a little cred (they tend to do the same thing to Hank Williams) should be made to watch this before going into the studio.
At the time of his arrest, Chol Soo Lee had 41 rounds of live ammo and a 357 Magnum in his room and he was on probation for felony theft. He was a Korean punk living in Chinatown, but the gangs never bothered him. Lee confessed to firing a gun …
From a novel and screenplay by Richard Price, directed by Joe Roth, a ripped-from-today's-headlines thriller that amounts to a virtual collage of newspaper clippings: child abduction, domestic violence, police brutality, racial profiling, ghetto rioting, and whatnot. Julianne Moore is once again a bereft mother, but in trying out, for a …
When a soldier deserts from battle, he soon discovers the true cost of war through a young heroic black man, who teaches him the real meaning of freedom. Starring Gerran Howell, RJ Cyler, Ewen Bremner, Carol Sutton, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Afemo Omilami, Harrison Gilbertson, and Steven Swadling.
Eddie Rosenstein’s historically sweeping documentary kicks off 102 days before the Supreme Court is set to begin hearing arguments over whether America is ready to greet the day when gay couples are allowed the same rights as everybody else. For someone like Evan “The Marriage Guy” Wolfson — founder of …
Make-a-difference true story about an idealistic young English teacher at an "integrated" high school in Long Beach, where she brings peace and harmony to her fractious classroom (she appears to teach only one hour per day) and seemingly also to the community at large: the gang violence peters out dramatically …
A hearty “Suck on this!” prefaces a shooting in Ben Wheatley’s new film — an homage to Travis Bickle that even Helen Keller could make out. Martin Scorsese recently confessed that He no longer wastes time watching meaningless, image-free multiplex fodder, but that didn’t stop Him from taking a producer’s …