Rome's greatest general, Maximus, reduced to a slave (Minimus, that would be), then resurrected as a star of the sporting arena (not necessarily Circus Maximus). Throwback historical epic with all the modern amenities: overamplified digital sound, computer-generated sets, blue-rinsed and butter-basted photography, herky-jerky hallucinatory slow-motion, time-lapse clouds, music-video-style dream scenes, …
Years after witnessing the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius must enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer his home. With rage in his heart and the future of the empire at stake, he looks to the past to find the strength and …
Years after witnessing the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius must enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer his home. With rage in his heart and the future of the empire at stake, he looks to the past to find the strength and …
A portrait of film composer Ennio Morricone, featuring never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with filmmakers and musicians including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Quentin Tarantino, and Clint Eastwood.
Perhaps there really is such a thing as a fickle Muse; a spirit of genius that sometimes alights upon the artist like a butterfly upon a leaf, but then, suddenly and inexplicably, flies off again. How else to explain writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s decision to sully two fine films that …
The latest (and greatest) from Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, I Am Not a Hipster) is a moving melodrama graced by an insider sense of humor that can only come from an author who endured every square inch of pain that it took in order to survive her childhood. …
Slow-moving, contrived, and (to make matters worse) obvious thriller about two powerless orphans (particularly the lightbulb-fragile Leelee Sobieski), their $4 million inheritance, and their scheming guardians. With Stellan Skarsgard, Diane Lane, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker; directed by Daniel Sackheim.
For all those in despair over the quality of language in American films, all those unconvinced that what Sam Shepard writes is "poetry," all those who periodically stretch their arms out at their sides and cry to the heavens in Job-like tones: "Why, oh why, doesn't someone do a definitive …
In the follow-up to Rian Johnson's Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.
Two idealistic outcasts in the County Sheriff's Office, the first black deputy and the first female deputy (the cherub-faced Michael Boatman and the pixie-haired Lori Petty), pool forces to unmask police corruption, racism, sexism, the whole ball of wax. The churning, slow-going exposition works its way into a pretty jittery …
Perhaps there really is such a thing as a fickle Muse; a spirit of genius that sometimes alights upon the artist like a butterfly upon a leaf, but then, suddenly and inexplicably, flies off again. How else to explain writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s decision to sully two fine films that …
Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease and handed a five-year death sentence, then 34-year-old former New Orleans Saints defensive back Steve Gleason began a video diary for his unborn child. Not content to wallow in self pity, Gleason picks up where Jerry Lewis left off, working hard to find a cure …
The ancestral muse for this is choreographic-editing wizard Busby Berkeley. There seem to be about two million shots, each designed to arrive in perfect sync as a snap, pop, and crackle of Gleek delirium. The big-cult TV show spawned a touring concert event, filmed in 3-D at New Jersey venues. …
This unpenetrating gaze into Earth's future stops at rather sophomoric ironies, but the imagination level hardly matters, in light of the irritating piccolo-voiced hero and heroine who represent Adam-and-Eve innocence in the New World of post-nuclear holocaust, the color that looks as if it has soaked through a Viva paper …