James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy always played as a kind of funhouse Avengers — while Iron Man and Captain America traded quips and jokes, the stories were superhero serious: half of all the life in the universe needed saving, and they were the only folks powerful enough, smart enough, …
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.
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.
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.
Very mild comedy-drama (first one, then the other) about a former First Lady and current Prima Donna -- capricious, temperamental, a handful -- and the by-the-book Secret Serviceman assigned to bodyguard her. Nicolas Cage's natural oddness is somewhat straitjacketed in the part -- Nicolas Caged, you might say -- and …
After an incident involving a water balloon, a third-story window, and a mother pushing a baby carriage, a single mom decides it’s time to send her youngest, Tomás (Sebastián Aguirre), to live with his older brother Frede (Tenoch Huerta). Handsomely shot by Damian Garcia in full-frame black-and-white, Güeros is at …
Alain Resnais inundates this pensive political thriller with homely details: the tidy and deliberate unpacking of an underground agent at the finish of a routine, eventless, perilous mission; the exchanged intimacies and cups of coffee among long-time comrades; their plain, quiet sweaters and overcoats. Of course, Resnais is interested in …
Katherine Hepburn's lily white niece falls for black man Sidney Poitier in Stanley Kramer's set-bound Oscar-winning slog. With Spencer Tracy in his farewell performance.
Basically a one-act, one-location play, with not enough material to justify its scant 74-minute running time. Jeff Daniels stars in and scripted this tale of Joseph Harris, an alcoholic (what else?) playwright who hasn’t produced bupkis in over 20 years. He agrees to mount his latest production (that has yet …
The tension between public perception and private history is always at the core of Egoyan’s work. Jim (David Thewlis) is a persnickety, permanently punched-in city health inspector. Though not a religious man, when his time came, the widower left instructions with his daughter Veronica (Laysla de Oliveira) that he be …
Two things just as sure as the turning of the Earth: the one-joke format is best suited for seven-minute cartoons, and no one made films about characters they didn’t like better than Hitchcock. When mixed together in Canadian writer-director-star Pat Mills’s (Secondary High) second feature, the results are anything but …