There’s a real story here, a struggle of nature and nurture that has genuinely apocalyptic stakes, since the titular critter is prophesied to bring about the firey, blood-soaked end of the world even as he’s been raised to protect and defend that self-same world from the forces of darkness. (Also, …
A black mark on the record of director Guillermo del Toro, whose record, which started out so clean with Cronos in his native Mexico and Mimic in the Hollywood system, looks now a bit ink-stained: Blade II, the first and second Hellboy, and nothing else that comes close to those …
There’s a real story here, a struggle of nature and nurture that has genuinely apocalyptic stakes, since the titular critter is prophesied to bring about the firey, blood-soaked end of the world even as he’s been raised to protect and defend that self-same world from the forces of darkness. (Also, …
Angry co-titular adolescent, check. Dead mother, check. Widowed, alcoholic/negligent co-titular father, check. Rural Southern milieu, check. Custody battle with CPS, check. Sports (in this case, Motocross) as a means of redemption/escape, check. Gun in Act II, check. Trendy, tripod-free presentation, check, check. It’s a network pilot minus profanity! Dad (Aaron …
The contented suburban housewife of an ambitious plastic surgeon chokes to death on a South Korean chicken ball, and her sister, a dabbler in the occult who has come into possession of a copy of The Wisdom of Catagonia, raises her from her grave a year later -- not as …
Let’s open with trivia: what was the first film to be released on VHS? In actuality, there were 50, all 20th Century Fox titles licensed by Magnetic Video, and Hello, Dolly! was among them. Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau star, and it’s fun to try to spot signs of their …
24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Hechinger) arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.
Freshly divorced woman moves back in with Mom and takes up with a teenager. Complications ensue.
Joy and Ethan’s love story unfolds once again. Starring Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards and directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana.
Apparently, so many resources went into creating Sally Field’s late-period showcase role that there wasn’t much left over for the plot, or the other characters. And it is a showcase: Doris is a woman for whom life begins again just as she reaches retirement age. Mom’s death releases her from …
This plays as part of the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival. The program notes describe it as, "Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and best-selling author Sebastian Junger and his Emmy-winning filmmaking partner, Nick Quested, chronicle Syria’s descent into the unbridled chaos that allowed the rise of the Islamic State, better known …
The stars align in the Western sky. Hell or High Water is the sort of film that tempts the critic — well, this one, anyway — to start writing the sort of copy that might end up as a promo-poster pullquote. “Timeless and yet supremely timely,” “A movie with tremendous …