Filmed over 24 hours in 25 locations around the world and with the participation of over 12 surfers, Here and Now aspires to be the Life in a Day of surf movies. Shots taken from shore offer fairly standard glimpses. Only when the camera gets wet does the audience feel …
Thought experiment, possibly entertaining: view this film as if it were titled The Passion of the Kevin James. It's as much a Christ parable as Raging Bull, only "director" Frank Coraci doesn't know it. In order to raise the funds needed to save his school's music program, the nutty redeemer …
Writer-director Ari Aster’s debut feature is not coy about its intentions: it opens on an obituary and then gives us mourning(?) daughter Toni Collette at her mother’s funeral, noting all the strange new faces present and also, oh yes, Mom’s “secret rituals.” (Some mention should be made of Collette’s go-for-broke …
Set course for schmaltz when Billy Crystal puts his mind to dementia. They say inside every comedian is a serious dramatic performance bursting to get out. Lucille Ball (Stone Pillow), Jerry Lewis (The Jazz Singer), and Kevin James (Becky) all set out to prove their dramatic skill and instead rewarded …
Hugely expensive Chinese export, hugely profitable at home, clearly wants to get in on some of that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon action, that flying, floating, backflipping, corkscrewing, slow-motion martial-arts action, an ambition as unexpected from Zhang Yimou as it was from Ang Lee. The hero in question goes by the …
A not neat union of Capra sentiment and Preston Sturges satire, the prime targets of which are the media and the fame game. A petty crook, on the eve of his incarceration, foot-draggingly saves fifty-four passengers trapped in a downed airplane, and then skulks off into the night. An imposter …
A somewhat different Chuck Norris: recurrent nightmares, expectant fatherhood, a comical swoon at the hospital reception desk, and modesty about his heroics (well, he's always been modest, but he is more boastful about it now). Not different enough, however. After all the psychological (and even mythical) buildup, the routine exhibition …
Starring Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung, scored by Wai Lap Wu.
It is quite understandable when a performer signs on to star as the self-destructive, hot mess in a fictionalized biopic of an arrogant frontwoman for an out in front punk band. Think of all the center-of-attention scene-chewing it affords. To that extent, few have been pulled through the rock ‘n’ …