A film from Kyoto Animation and Naoko Yamada, the director of K-On!
John Carney (Begin Again) once again tries to reheat a Once soufflé and instead serves up a flat, cheerily antiseptic period musical. Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (this year’s answer to Freddie Highmore) makes his movie debut as Cosmo, a well-scrubbed Dubliner who starts a band to escape the daily rigors of Mom …
Immediately following the accidental shooting of a young bird watcher mistaken for a deer, the phrase “Weeks earlier” appears onscreen to transition the story into flashback. It’s a rare moment of orthodoxy in a film that does its best to turn aside convention. Neither whodunit — there’s nothing mysterious about …
A bachelor party becomes a savage fight for survival when the groomsmen unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities. Starring Hannah Fierman, Chase Williamson, and Justin Welborn.
Summer, 1910. An impoverished family of cannibals living near the titular beach resort begin to literally have tourists for dinner in a new slapstick romp from Bruno Dumont. When was the last time you saw a comedy of physical absurdism that drew many a laugh from nothing more than its …
This film plays as part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival. According to the festival brochure, "Local filmmaker Luis Martinez’s latest project is a hilarious comedy about a man who enlists the help of his friend to win over the girl of his dreams. Things get complicated when he …
Oliver Stone serves up a sort of companion piece to Laura Poitras’s excellent documentary Citizenfour, which records whistleblower Edward Snowden’s hidden vigil in a Hong Kong hotel as his exposure of secret and illegal U.S. government surveillance becomes headline news. But it isn’t much of a companion: where the documentary …
Kalyan Krishna directs this story of a father who sets out to aid his son from beyond the grave.
Yulin Liu directs this story of two siblings' frustrating experiences with romance. Who talks any more? In Mandarin with English subtitles.
File under: reserved but not resigned. Writer-director Chloé Zhao tells a simple story: young man dreams of running away to a better life somewhere else, but the best laid plans etc., because life is already happening right here. Happily, she tells it clean and straight, and so calls to mind …
A pleasant surprise, even if it takes an unpleasant journey. (Hence the title: if North is up on a map, South is down, down, down.) The look and feel are that of an ‘80s throwback horror show, from the ominous synth to the (mostly) practical effects to the ragged AM …