Set in the aftermath of a riot, three friends trapped by their economic, ethnic and community circumstances navigate the escalating urban discontent. But, with tensions still high and the threat of violence ever-present, the trio drift towards an increasingly dangerous destiny. Starring Vincent Cassell, Hubert Koundè, and Saïd Taghmaoui.
A skit comedian who works best in five-minute spurts produces and stars in a feature length film based on a short story. It’s The Children’s Minute when a pair of spiteful teenage girls play matchmaker for one of their fathers (Guy Pearce, as a nowhere-near recovering alcoholic) and an invisible, …
The story of one of the most popular bands that most people claim to hate.
An African-American student's beliefs are rattled to the core when she witnesses her best friend gunned down by a cop. George Tillman Jr. (Barbershop, Notorious) directs.
Gene Wilder's spoof on the Old Dark House genre, a genre which seems to run to spoofs more often than not. John Morris's music is the only part of it that runs straight, and is paradoxically the most amusing part. All of the old familiar elements are here, as well …
Upon moving into the title abode, Damon Wayans purchases a video camera and promises girlfriend Essence Atkins that he’s going to “film everything: Christmas, New Year’s, vagina.” One of the first images Wayans's camcorder captures is the imprint of Atkins’ rear tire just moments after it ran over his pooch’s …
More haunted hijinx from Marlon Wayans & Co.
Mere months after Pirates of the Caribbean, the Disney studio guides us across New Orleans Square (seceded from Frontierland) for another Disneyland ride-turned-movie: a slender thread of storyline -- "We have to break the curse!" -- on which to hang the special-effects baubles. (When do we make our way to …
Ostensible remake of Robert Wise's ghostly classic of 1963. Certainly there looks to be a lot of similarity in the basic configuration of four people — two men, two women, one of the former a research scientist, one of the latter a lonely shut-away who has only recently been liberated …
Robert Wise's filmization of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and a personal retreat to his earliest directing jobs for producer Val Lewton: small, literate, understated horror films. The scope of this one, after a tempestuous prologue, is small to the point of claustrophobic: an assembly of assorted psychics …
A bedevilled family housed in a converted funeral home: flickering lights, banging doors, charbroiled ghosts, a malignant shower curtain, and whatnot. It has the advantage of being a “true story,” thereby curtailing certain kinds and degrees of excess. There is, even so, a routineness and a staleness about it; and …
Mystery set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve featuring the return of sleuth Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the …
Mystery set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve featuring the return of sleuth Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the …
Mystery set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve featuring the return of sleuth Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the …