Family drama from Vietnam directed by Quang Dung Nguyen.
The directorial debut of Clive Barker, touted as the Stephen King of England. It's something to do with a fleshless man who occupies the attic above his brother and sister-in-law; he's been reduced to that state by some dough-faced ghouls called Cenobites, who can be summoned by a sort of …
He who summons the magic, commands the magic. Unless he's a film director, and slave to special effects, whose name is removed from the credits and replaced by the fictitious "Alan Smithee." With Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, and (once again as Clive Barker's Pinhead) Doug Bradley.
Cub reporter (and intrepid Gothic heroine) is hankering after a hot story when she witnesses a man explode on a hospital gurney, with electrified chains standing straight out from his body. Surely there must be a story there. Not much of a one, as it turns out, but a lot …
The directorial debut of Clive Barker, touted as the Stephen King of England. It's something to do with a fleshless man who occupies the attic above his brother and sister-in-law; he's been reduced to that state by some dough-faced ghouls called Cenobites, who can be summoned by a sort of …
Writer and director and co-star Larry Bishop officiates a shotgun marriage of the biker film and the spaghetti Western: a pig-in-shit frolic. Executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino, Keeper of Low Standards. With Michael Madsen, Eric Balfour, Vinnie Jones, Dennis Hopper, and David Carradine.
Audrey Tatou, the jug-eared gamine of Amélie, the new Geneviève Bujold, appears to have here a role to bring out all of her demented pertness: an over-the-moon loon patiently waiting for her adored cardiologist to dump his pregnant wife and give his heart to her alone. We soon begin to …
The young white ladies of Jackson, Mississippi (circa 1960) install additional bathrooms to avoid sharing a seat with the colored waitstaff. As a result, crusading young writer Emma Stone pens a tell-all, blasting the lid off bigotry. Working from a best-selling novel, writer/director Tate Taylor reduces all blacks to angels, …
Picturesque, flaccidly erotic film of Hemingway’s posthumous novel. Virile charisma seems to drain out of handsome Jack Huston as the Hem-like writer, once his hair is dyed blond to match minxish wife Mena Suvari. The movie toys with androgyny and shows off the body of Latin sexpot Caterina Murino in …
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai is the co-author of the bestselling memoir I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by The Taliban. Davis Guggenheim's (Waiting for Superman) prettily padded documentary/advocacy alert tells the story of before and after that violence, placing special emphasis, as the …
History may be written by the winners, but the losers have the better story. In this case, it's a Philippine general going up against the United States and also his own people. Directed by Jerrold Tarog. Subtitled.
The familiar storyline of a woman's sexual awakening is apt to feel like a long slog to any spectator not as enchanted with the woman as is the director. Since the woman in question happens to be Anais Nin, the director in question, Philip Kaufman, can count himself a member …
At two hours and a quarter, this should be an especially big treat for the thirty-four fans, nationwide, of Hal Hartley's stilted and persnickety whimsy. Others will be ready to leave after maybe ten minutes: the precise minute, that is, when a trampy teenager drops her drawers in the neighborhood …
The new homeowner just wants to be left alone to drink himself to death, but his next-door neighbor sees the face of God (subtly rendered) in the water stain on the re-stucco. Is it a miracle, a new beginning? Is it significant that the pretty single mom on the opposite …