Far in the future, a young boy named Simon digs holes in an underground settlement called Giha Village. With his older brother figure Kamina and a young woman named Yoko who’s fallen underground from the surface, the three set out to pursue their dreams of the surface world. As the …
Dance instructor from India (a specialist in the macarena) chases the American Dream in New York, where he falls by accident into the role of high-society swami, under the philosophical tutelage of an unsullied porn actress. A roundabout path to a trite and tacky romantic comedy, completely indifferent to the …
A look inside a remote ashram in southern India — students spend anywhere from 3 months to 3 years studying the ancient wisdom of Advaita Vedanta from Swami Dayananda Saraswati — that’s a feast for the senses. Opening opposite one of the summer’s big event movies, Gurukulam is hardly the …
A young man who is set to get married but due to a web of unforeseen bad luck and circumstances, he marries a woman who hates him and has to suffer her wrath over it. Directed by Vipin Das.
The naked truth about Rev. Jim Jones and his Jonestown colony, or at least the truth scantily clothed in such pseudonyms as Rev. James Johnson, the not especially euphonious Johnsontown, and so on down the line. One could justifiably describe it as a surprisingly tame, though in no sense a …
Remember the first First Blood movie? You know, the one in which America was shown to be rotten for how it treated its returning vets, but hot damn, America sure did produce some badass military heroes like John Rambo. This is a bit like that: America signed up a whole …
A nothing, or close enough to make no difference, about a groom-to-be who wakes up after his bachelor party with a Tiki Girl in his bed. The Tiki Girl turns out to be the bride-to-be's cousin. An attack of the crabs, a simulated bout of diarrhea, a pair of "dirty" …
Sean Barker (Jack Armstrong) is a college student who discovers the "Guyver", an alien mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a super-powerful cyborg fighting machine. The device belongs to Chronos, an evil corporation run by human mutants that metamorphize into monstrous soldiers called "Zoanoids". Chronos …
Gyeong Ah works as a caregiver and lives alone. The only one she can rely on is her daughter, Yeon Soo, but they barely meet after Yeon Soo moved out. One night, Gyeong Ah receives a shocking message from a stranger. Directed by Jung-eun Kim, starring Kim Jeong-yeongHa and Yoon-kyung.
Eva is a dreamer in a world of assimilated perspectives. Her workday consists of sewing in a factory, but her ambition is to become a famous fashion designer. Enter Jorge, a well-to-do charmer whose world-weary aesthetic provides Eva with just the escape she needs. Unfortunately, the performances do not live …
There was a time in the mid-’90s when it seemed like every other indie release owed a debt of originality to Quentin Tarantino. Hell, he produced half of them! The studio press release for Habit, the latest streetwise and cinema foolish grimefest starring Bella Thorne, pays its dues in the …
The people who occupy a single bedroom at various key moments in Mexican history form the basis of this ambitious but gimmicky omnibus picture. According to Variety, the creative force behind this one appears to be producer Edher Campos, who asked screenwriter Maria Diego Hernandez to create eight stories for …