After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake.
Jason rises from the grave to wreak havoc upon a new group of unsuspecting campers in the ultra-bloody rampage Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives -- Deluxe Edition. As a child, Tommy Jarvis killed mass-murderer Jason Voorhees. But now, years later, he is tormented by the fear that maybe …
The title improves on the Fannie Flagg novel and stage adaptation by lopping off the last five words, at the Whistle Stop Cafe -- a portent of good taste. But it's hard to believe that the movie has cut down on the frequency with which the name Idgie Threadgoode is …
A story of love and friendship, about a writer who adopts a Great Dane from her best friend. Starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Sarah Pidgeon, Carla Gugino, Constance Wu, and Ann Dowd. Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel.
A glimpse into the new capitalist Ukraine, where there's plenty of work for members of the mafia and for free-lance hitmen, though none for the linguistic scholar whose wife (gainfully employed in advertising) is cheating on him. Pithy expression of the hero's reduced circumstances: fishing through his pockets, he can …
Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) accepts a Facebook friend request that leads to a demon killing her besties. Horror film that's been sitting on the shelf for a year is dusted off for a pre-Halloween release.
The fluid fatalistic romance, the rather ungainly fawnlike manner of the fourteen-year-old lovers, the French girl's disarming rhythmic accent, and the diluted pastel countryside shot by Andreas Winding, taken all together, have the not unpleasant effect of a sedative. With Anicee Alvina, Sean Bury; music by Elton John; directed by …
Having never watched so much as one episode of the popular sitcom — too many movies means not enough time for their bastard offspring — what piqued my interest about this presentation was a rare shot at catching a network television show on a movie theatre screen while surrounded by …
A man tries to befriend his charismatic new neighbour, but it soon threatens to ruin both of their lives. From writer/director Andrew DeYoung and starring Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson.
Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake star as physically perfect specimens, each unable to maintain a committed relationship, who decide to use each other for sex. It’s an attempt to parody romantic comedies that quickly disintegrates into precisely what it’s spoofing. This thing stank when they called it No Strings Attached. …
A vacuum tube that chuckles. Breast and penis and poo poo gags, a cute baby, lots of bar chatter, and insufferably glib Adam Scott as a New Yorker who has a kid outside marriage with his sex buddy Jennifer Westfeldt. She has great cheekbones, also wrote and directed, but this …
There are, to be exact, three friends with money, and one without, a former teacher toiling now as a free-lance maid, helping herself to the bedside vibrator of one of her employers, and in her spare time harassing an ex-boyfriend with all-hours phone calls and hang-ups. The three with money …