With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small-town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been — the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away.
An uprooted tree in a suburban backyard opens the portals for "the Old Gods" — those pre-Biblical demons who've been lying low and awaiting their chance to establish Hell-on-Earth. And on a weekend when the grownups have gone out of town, too! The liner notes of a heavy-metal rock album …
In an unprecedented move, documentarian Dror Moreh assembled the six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, to speak publicly of their work for the first time. It’s surprising to find out just how critical they all are of the Israeli government. Equally astonishing is the lackluster treatment Moreh …
A hatchet job on pet cemeteries, a well-marked target already (The Loved One, etc.), and a pitifully vulnerable one. Errol Morris, a Werner Herzog protégé, with his master's taste for the grotesque, keeps himself hidden in every sense as he lets the cemetery impresarios and bereaved pet owners address a …
Cold, dry, serious, even somber piece of science fiction, though all of those attributes may seem somewhat exaggerated as a result of the musical score by Michael (Monotonyman) Nyman, who repeats a cluster of half a dozen notes, very slowly, with slight variations, over and over, until you want to …
An unintelligible and all but imperceptible storyline about police corruption runs underneath an exhausting series of splashy action scenes. In these, the favorite idea, used three times, is to have a brigade of policemen line up like Eisensteinian shock troops and rain bullets on some guiltless sitting duck. Clint Eastwood, …
Based on one of the greatest stories never told, this historical drama chronicles the life of a South Indian ruler of the Satavahana Empire in the 2nd century CE. Krish Jagarlamudi directs.
The famous DJ Faris encounters a number of funny situations as he is unable to confess his love to the girl of his dreams for fear of losing her because of a scheme devised against him that leads to any girl to whom he confesses his love getting married. Directed …
It took time, but this ‘catfishing’-style doc eventually reeled me in. Amina, author of the wildly popular titular Syrian blog, disappeared from sight, but not before exchanging heated love letters with Canadian Sophie Deraspe, a fan she’d never met. There are a lot of lonely, desperate people online and hell …
Afflicted with a rare and fatal condition that affects her ability to perceive time and causes sudden blackouts, single mother Frankie Rhodes relies on self-recorded cassette tapes to help her navigate the world. Desperate to make ends meet while she fights for custody of her young daughter, she accepts a …