Herein lies the problem: 19-year-old Ryder (Logan Miller) doth not protest enough when his California-phobic uncle’s (Josh Hamilton) false accusation of child molestation against the lad turns a Nebraska family reunion into a grievance-dredging weekend inquisition. Unless Ryder was meant to get off on being a tool in his perverted …
Documentarian Jesse Winton sets out to uncover the truth about why America wants to take away your guns.
Dear everybody: today is your lucky day. Now you can attend TED from the comfort of your local cineplex!
Still very much a live-action cartoon, but one with considerably more charm than its predecessor, thanks in no small part to the game commitment of everyone involved to making a film that feels remarkably like it was conceived and created by (as opposed to merely for) 12-year-old boys. It’s chiefly …
Ariel (Alan Sabbagh, Buenos Aires’ answer to Jonah Hill) quit believing the day his father Usher (Usher Barilka) chose the titular spot at a stranger’s minyan over a seat at his son’s grade-school pageant. Unless you count Eva (Julieta Zylberberg), the Orthodox and near-mute object of Ariel’s objectification, spirituality has …
Lone Scherfig’s adaptation of Lissa Evans’ better-titled novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, set in London during the early days of World War II, is as polite, charming, and English as its star Gemma Arterton, who sails through the chaos and calamity with the good sense, pluck, and grace …
Only in Los Angeles are prisoners afforded the luxury of a two-picture deal. Antonio, Jared, and Juan sign up for a 20-week screenwriting course and wind up not only writing a short, but starring in their own documentary feature! Ben Lear’s documentary never once questions the guilt of its subjects: …
Perhaps the most fascinating thing about watching philosophy professor Nathalie Chazeaux’s (Isabelle Huppert) life crumble is the utter lack of drama accorded to various disasters by both the film and its characters. (This is, one recalls, what’s meant by “taking things philosophically.”) Things fall apart, and as she notes in …
Jason Paul Laxamana directs this Filipino romance. In Tagalog.