The first of the Bond movies self-consciously to flout the tendency of some commentators to tsk-tsk about the sex and violence of the series, and the first of them to exhibit a formidable degree of self-assurance about establishing a separate identity from the Bond books. Aside from all that, and …
Austin Powers, a decent idea for a skit, was overextended in his first feature film, and every subsequent sequel can only extend the overkill. There is already, in just the second sequel, a "Twelve Days of Christmas" feeling of picking up baggage as we go. (Did we really need to …
The Little Fellow treks to Alaska, freezes, starves, consumes a boiled shoe sole, falls in love, choreographs a dance of dinner rolls, strikes it rich. Chaplin's fabled humanism does not inhibit him from apportioning all the heart, the humor, and the sympathy to his own character.
Here's the official plot synopsis: "The gang encounters with some spiritual bodies and finds out the truth about the Jamnadas Orphanage where they were brought up." Sounds like a Hindi variation on the Bowery Boys.
Worm’s-eye view of the Neapolitan underworld: obscure relationships and operations; occasional slaughter; broad expanses of banality. The unfamiliar actors and the vérité camera create a plausible impression that it’s all really happening, whether or not you can make much sense of it. Based on the nonfiction best-seller by Roberto Saviano; …
Directing debut of Ben Affleck, who stays behind the camera and cedes the spotlight to his younger brother Casey, in the role of Patrick Kenzie, the Boston missing-persons private eye ("I find the people that started in the cracks and then fell through"), along with his "snooty" partner Angie Gennaro …
A long and twisty argument for the notion that somewhere along the way, talented, high-style director David Fincher stopped liking people: the characters onscreen, the souls in the theater, even the abstract mass of humanity. Pathology still interests him, though, and so we get toxic parents, toxic lovers, toxic siblings, …
Hollywood imperialism in action: take a profitable little independent film (a car-chase thing from the speed-happy days of Vanishing Point, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Sugarland Express, etc., etc.), take it over, make it into a much bigger and even more profitable studio film. Thinking big passes as imagination nowadays. The …
When they arrive for their weekend getaway in a remote cabin in the woods, Kath (Winona Ryder) and Max (John Gallagher Jr.) find it occupied by a younger couple: Al (Owen Teague), who seemingly wants nothing to do with the intruders, and Greta (Brianne Tju), the level-headed girlfriend who convinces …
Famed nightclub performer Duke Mitchell is Paul, a paroled gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the Pope and 'charge a dollar ransom from every Catholic in the world. Filmed in 1976 but not released until 2010.
The most beloved movie ever made from a book by Margaret Mitchell, covering the fate of the Old South from ante-bellum days to post-bellum days. Birth of a Nation it is not. Southern belles flirt with their beaus, a pregnant lady tumbles down a flight of stairs, Atlanta burns, a …
The most beloved movie ever made from a book by Margaret Mitchell, covering the fate of the Old South from ante-bellum days to post-bellum days. Birth of a Nation it is not. Southern belles flirt with their beaus, a pregnant lady tumbles down a flight of stairs, Atlanta burns, a …