Why, Wong Kar, why is every major Asian action director compelled to bring forth a stodgy historical epic? As if Wilson Yip’s two exceptional biopics on martial arts legend Ip Man weren’t enough, Wong Kar-Wai, a legend in his own right, offers this disordered, sorely cheerless elucidation. It’s a kung-fu …
Filmed during the practice sessions for and the actual running of the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix, the immediacy of the camerawork became such a huge contributor to the narrative force that the film still cries out for a big screen treatment. And not the comparatively puny and nightmarish IMAX shoeboxes …
An Irish fable about how much joy and satisfaction an Irishman takes in a hard day's work. How much? So much that a man (Brendan Gleeson, looking beardy) will spin lies in every direction just to punch a clock: to the oil company he needs to choose his town for …
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, two out-of-work actors, Sam and Mark, face a bleak future. Desperate for purpose, they stumble upon an idea: stage Shakespeare's Hamlet within the ultra-violent world of Grand Theft Auto Online. Directed by Pinny Grylls, starring Jen Cohn, Mark Oosterveen, and Sam Crane.
In 1917 Burma, a British civil servant abandons his fiancée—only to find her relentlessly chasing him across Asia. Directed by Miguel Gomes.
Three young people chasing big (or at least medium-sized) dreams in a Middle American small town. It was inevitable that a movie sooner or later would utilize MTV videos as a format for the fantasies of a Young Walter Mitty, and the couple of parodies (or remakes) of music videos …
Pamela Yates returns to bloody Guatemala, where her When the Mountains Tremble (1984) helped alert the world to military persecution, even genocide. Mayan activist Rigoberta Menchú rose to a fame that led to her Nobel Prize. Yates revisits the endless struggle — a racial and class conflict — and her …
All that holds writer-director Angel Manuel Soto’s three barely converging plot lines together is an obvious, “Gee, ain’t drugs bad?” message. The stories, one more exploitable than the next, focus on an adolescent scrapper who, in order to box his way to the top, must first assist in settling a …
Kiro Russo is the man with a movie camera who, like Dziga Vertov who came before him, whisks us on an exhilaratingly detailed journey through a city and its surroundings. With jeweler’s eye precision, a complex series of compressed telephoto images moves us from the general to the abstract. Slowly …
Made-for-TV drama directed by Jorge Ramírez Suárez.
Clint Eastwood, director, serves Clint Eastwood, actor, a nice fat one, a softball lobbed right down the middle of the plate and effortlessly belted over the fence: a sort of Grumpy Old Man version of Dirty Harry, a scowler and a growler (looking and sounding uncannily like a dog in …
The ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver. Based on a true story. Directed By: Neill Blomkamp, starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Darren Barnet, Thomas Kretschmann, Djimon Hounsou, and Orlando …
The ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver. Based on a true story. Directed By: Neill Blomkamp, starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Darren Barnet, Thomas Kretschmann, Djimon Hounsou, and Orlando …
The ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver. Based on a true story. Directed By: Neill Blomkamp, starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Darren Barnet, Thomas Kretschmann, Djimon Hounsou, and Orlando …
The ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver. Based on a true story. Directed By: Neill Blomkamp, starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Darren Barnet, Thomas Kretschmann, Djimon Hounsou, and Orlando …