An all-night rave in a San Francisco warehouse, with an ensemble of unfamiliar faces. Vastly knowledgeable, thinly informative, nowhere near as slick and entertaining as it means to be. With Mackenzie Firgens, Lola Glaudini, Denny Kirkwood, Hamish Linklater, Rachel True; written, directed, and edited by Greg Harrison.
Ostensibly a takeoff on television, this collection of Ken Shapiro skits, transferred to film from underground TV, strays way beyond the actual and the probable in search of laughs (a kiddie show with storytime pornography readings, sports coverage of the Tijuana Sex Olympics, etc.). So, what it has to do …
Inspiration for the callow, shallow dollar-chaser who wants to believe he can have great success and prestige and still be a smart-mouth and a screw-off along the way. Oh, and shoot some baskets too. The specific setting is med school, so there's particular inspiration for those whose total esteem for …
In sharp contradiction of its title (translated Dead Tired), this is a frisky and reckless bit of cinephiliac fun, written and directed by, and starring, Michel Blanc. As himself. The premise sets up like so: Blanc's life and work have started to be disrupted (a middle-of-the-night rousting by the cops, …
A hip, flip, deadpan comedy which washed through the Tarantino floodgate. The hero is a professional hitman in career crisis ("I don't think necessarily what a person does for a living reflects who he is") and in therapy with a psychoanalyst who is terrified of him. A new assignment -- …
A going-through-the-motions Pittsburgh weatherman (Bill Murray, letting plenty of antipopulist snarl and sneer show through), covering the annual Groundhog Festival for the fourth consecutive year in rustic Punxsutawney, Pa., is obliged by an unforecast blizzard to spend another night in the same damn bed-and-breakfast. He wakes up the next day …
A going-through-the-motions Pittsburgh weatherman (Bill Murray, letting plenty of antipopulist snarl and sneer show through), covering the annual Groundhog Festival for the fourth consecutive year in rustic Punxsutawney, Pa., is obliged by an unforecast blizzard to spend another night in the same damn bed-and-breakfast. He wakes up the next day …
A going-through-the-motions Pittsburgh weatherman (Bill Murray, letting plenty of antipopulist snarl and sneer show through), covering the annual Groundhog Festival for the fourth consecutive year in rustic Punxsutawney, Pa., is obliged by an unforecast blizzard to spend another night in the same damn bed-and-breakfast. He wakes up the next day …
Meet parents, scientists, doctors, farmers and individuals across the political spectrum decrying the energy extraction process known as fracking that puts profits over people. This documentary tracks a grassroots movement exposing dangers to clean air, water, and civil rights. Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson paves the way forward globally with …
An in-depth look at the 2021-22 big wave season through the eyes of Nic Von Rupp, Kai Lenny, Matt Bromley, Torrey Meister, and pioneering female surfer Bianca Valenti, along with an appearance by Vini dos Santos.
Australian anti-nuke thriller builds up a high moral dudgeon but, despite the assurances of the background music, little real suspense: the governmental cover-up comes uncovered with too much help from divine intervention. Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence; directed by Michael Pattinson and Bruce Myles.
When Terrance, a Black Ops soldier, goes under an experiment to create a better life for him and his fiancée, his homecoming turns tragic when he stops taking medication, descending into feral madness. Written and directed by Acoryé White & Patrycja Kępa, starring Acoryé White, Carl Anthony Payne II, Psalms, …
DJ Pooh (The Wash) back in the director's chair for this 420 approved comedy starring DeRay Davis, Snoop Dogg as Himself, Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Doobie, George Wallace, and Charlamagne Tha God as Black Jesus.
Five tired comic actors (Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, David Spade, in approximate order of increasing lassitude), in a matchingly washed-out image, assemble for the funeral of their childhood basketball coach, panning for a few grains of middle-aged masculine truth and coming up completely empty, everything strained, …
Adam Sandler tries to prove that you can, after all, go home again. Take that, Thomas Wolfe!