A remake of a remake and its sequel. Who says Hollywood is starving for originality?
A remake of a Japanese film, Ju-On: The Grudge, which was not much good to begin with. Perhaps, there, a better-than-usual rationale for a remake, especially because the same man occupies the director's chair, Takashi Shimizu: a second chance to get it right. No change, either, in the Tokyo locale, …
Well-tailored frights in a disjointed narrative, fattening the portfolio of director Takashi Shimizu. Elegant Jennifer Beals, in the shorter of two intertwined (and ultimately knotted together) storylines, does everything asked of her and more. With Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Edison Chen, Joanna Cassidy, and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
A match between Rocky Balboa and the Raging Bull would have set box offices ablaze were it 1983, but back then, Robert “The Greatest Actor of His Generation” De Niro was too big to spar with a cauliflower-eared Rambonehead like Sylvester Stallone. With three decades and countless flops under their …
Sophia Loren, emigrated to Wabasha, Minn., to convert Chuck's Bait Shop into Ragetti's Ristorante, joins the Grumpy group in the effort not to act one's age. In her case, it's largely a matter of cleavage -- not bad for a woman of sixty, but hasn't a woman of sixty got …
Not so much a title as a "pitch." Lemmon, Matthau, together again, as a couple of post-retirement Minnesota ice fishermen who have been wrangling with one another for fifty-five years ("Moron!" "Putz!") and are wrangling now over the new widow on their block (Ann-Margret, not acting her age, but, in …
The film by Goya Productions depicts the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego. The narrative combines fictional reenactments of the Nican Mopohua, the original account of the apparitions from 1531 and research and testimonies of the powerful effect the Virgin of Guadalupe has had on Mexico, Latino …
On the road to Havana, with the body of Aunt Yoyita, in a relay-team of hearses. The final film of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (co-directing with Juan Carlos Tabia) shows clear signs of being a comedy, but none to laugh out loud at. The Cuban local color is small compensation. With …
Brendan Gleeson dominates as Irish country cop Gerry, a smart slob who loves whoring, drinking, shopping guns, and making funny quips. Like most of the Gaelic rustics, he is hip to American films and music, and in a mildly racist way, Gerry welcomes the stiffly formal FBI man — played …
Horror story about the violation of Yuppie Paradise: a canyon home once featured in Architectural Digest, an advertising husband and a designing wife, and a little bundle of joy called Jake. The violator, making the nameless governess in Turn of the Screw look like Mary Poppins, is an English nanny …
Before going to work, Carlos Spector feeds the gathering of birds that every morning congregates outside his door. If he’s in the mood for a brawl, rather than spreading the feed around, Spector stacks the grain in a neat pile for the birds to fight over. The fat fowl symbolize …
Director James Gunn brings the same brand of sweetness-amid-the-horror he peddled in Super to a big-budget Marvel Universe space saga. Put another way: this is an anti-Avengers. There, a disparate group of heroes had to look past their own individual excellences in order to come together as a team. Here, …
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill must rally his team to defend the universe and protect one of their own. If the mission is not completely successful, it could possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them. Directed by James Gunn.
More dick talk than most Marvel movies: “If what’s between my legs had a hand…,” references to engorged nether regions, “Yes, I do have a penis, and it’s a pretty good one,” etc. But what are you gonna do? We can’t all grow from our own cuttings like cute Baby …