It’s a movie about a poor girl (Madina Nalwanga) being raised in a ramshackle African village by a single mother (Lupita Nyong’o) who comes under the tutelage of a chess coach (David Oyelowo) who would rather be an engineer, and who quickly discovers she has a gift for the game. …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival's Cine Gay Showcase. According to the festival brochure, "Aislinn Derbez, Ilse Salas and José María de Tavira star in this hilarious comedy about a heartbroken man who makes a series of bad decisions as he tries to win …
Terence Davies’s slow and sumptuous A Quiet Passion turns the famously reclusive poet Emily Dickinson (played mostly and hauntedly by Cynthia Nixon) into an unenthusiastic but unshakable martyr for her sex. It’s not that she doesn’t want the piety and domesticity expected of women in her place and time; it’s …
Stephen Hopkins’ account of track and field legend Jesse Owens and the controversy surrounding US participation in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 is overstuffed, muddy-headed, heavy-handed, derivative, and weirdly sanitized — and yet it almost works, because who wouldn’t thrill to see a black man take on Nazi ideology on …
…aka Waiting for Metallica. A man can endure a great deal for the sake of a dream. But expat Iranian novelist Hamid (the spectacularly coiffed Mohsen Namjoo) candidly admits that he has no dreams of his own, that his current mission — to bring together Afghani rock band Kabul Dreams …
Not unlike their idols, George and Steve, whose Raiders of the Lost Ark stemmed from misty-eyed memories of the lumbering Republic Serials they grew up on, childhood (and childish) xerographers Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb were weaned on crap. Why else would the trio devote eight summers of …
Jackie Chan's third collaboration with director Ding Sheng (Little Big Soldier, Police Story 2013) is a comedy/adventure war epic about a railroad worker in 1941 China who leads a team of freedom fighters to help feed the poor.
Kevin Munroe and Jericca Cleland bring you the animated story of an unlikely hero and a rackety robot who team up to stop an evil mastermind's dastardly plot — in space!
If you’re going to strip away the dialogue from your animated castaway story and then use it to tell a bare-bones (hollow-shell?) fairy tale, you had best be offering some arresting visuals. And also maybe some stirring personal relationships. And a little quiet comic relief might be nice. Happily, director …
Not everybody loves Renoir.
Documentary on the famed American Ballerina Wendy Whelan.
Faith-based comedy about a washed up actor whose life changes when assumes the role of Jesus Christ in a Church's annual Passion Play.
In a rare slip, critic Scott Marks suggested that the original Ride Along was" enough to put the freeze on any man’s career." Instead, it pulled $134 million domestic on a $25 million budget. So what do you know, there's a sequel. Ice Cube and Kevin Hart return, as does …