Agreeably profane caper comedy from Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) a man who tosses off the c-word as casually as you or I would sound asking a dinner companion to pass the salt. Matthew McConaughey stars as an American expatriate pot farmer in England, minding his …
You can’t keep a good Nazi down. It’s 1960, and Dr. Josef Mengele is alive and well and living in a scenic Argentine bed-and-breakfast run by a family whose individual shortcomings and/or physical frailties transform the retired war criminal into a walking Make-A-Wish Foundation. Without Doc’s help, dad’s dream of …
Who'd have thought spending 90 minutes in a car with Selena Gomez could be this stagnant? A disembodied voice orders a former race car driver (Ethan Hawke), whose wife he holds hostage, and a banker’s daughter (Gomez) to do his nefarious bidding in this extended commercial for the Shelby Super …
He doesn’t drink, cheat, gamble, or raise a hand to her, so why is the rabbi’s wife so intent on getting a divorce? In a culture where the man is always given final say, the Israeli brother and sister writing-directing team of Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz (also starring as …
With their best days residing down memory lane, producers Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd resort to recycling their own garbage. Fanboys were outraged and feminists thrilled over news of an all-girl remake of the alleged comedy classic. Credit the filmmakers with neither group leaving hungry. A pussy fart joke replaces …
We open on gadgets, effects, and a chase filmed in jiggly close-up that makes it impossible to discern what’s going on. The image eventually stabilizes which is more than can be said for an insufficient script that too often relies on CGI patchwork to draw attention to its lack of …
What’s harder to find than a pack of wild unicorns? The script Nicolas Cage turned down. Cage returns as the flame-retardant figment that’s as indestructible as Daffy Duck’s beak. One good joke concerning the shelf life of a Twinkie does not a movie make, and even the least discerning Comic-Con …
Get ready to grab the armrests with this sufficiently spooky (and funny) horror comedy triptych from England. When told that all the supernatural phenomena that he’s spent years trying to debunk on the successful reality series Psychic Cheats are in fact real, devout skeptic Phillip Goodman (co-director and co-writer Andy …
An honorable, emotionally attuned drama about a boy who refuses to allow others to determine his sexuality for him. After an evening spent celebrating his 17th birthday, Franky (Josh Wiggins) awakens in the arms of his lifelong friend Ballas (Darren Mann). It’s Ballas who starts the gossip mill churning by …
For his directorial debut, Joel Edgerton weaves a subversive edge-of-your-seat suspenser that will knot stomachs tighter than a sack of White Castle hamburgers. Jason Bateman (assuredly cast against type as an arrogant Republican) and Rebecca Hall play a presumedly happily married couple who are hoping for a baby to make …
The other characters can’t stop talking about how prodigious Mary (Mckenna Grace) is, but with the exception of the occasional polysyllabic word peppering Tom Flynn’s dialogue (and a 9-year-old actress who shatters all levels on the precocity scale), there’s nothing particularly exceptional about the kid as presented. Of course, that …
How did I live to be this old not knowing that G.I. Joe is the code name for a special missions force, not an individual or a 12 inch action figure? Prior to this, my familiarity with the character was limited to William Wellman’s The Story of G.I. Joe, an …
Wanting to avoid a lawsuit, then-19-year-old musician Ron Asheton called Stooge ringleader Moe Howard, asking if it would be alright to name his band the Stooges. “I don’t give a fuck what you call them,” growled the kiddie-TV favorite, “so long as it’s not the Three Stooges.” That’s just one …
Urban romantic crime comedy about a pair of Brooklyn aerosol paint pundits (rookies Tashiana Washington and Ty Hickson) who need $500 to make their dream of "bombing" the Mets' home run apple a reality. From its opening long-take robbery of a paint store, backed by King Coleman’s "Let’s Shimmy," one …