Ashley Judd, under a blanket of makeup, stops making cute faces and starts making other kinds of faces after her picture-perfect husband (Jim Caviezel) is hauled before a court-martial for the long-ago massacre of nine civilians in El Salvador. Seeing as she's a hot-shot Bay Area attorney, she elects to …
Corinne (Vera Farmiga) desires total submission to Jesus Christ. She also wants loving support, adult discussion, and a vent for her talent as a thoughtful speaker. As director, Farmiga never caricatures fundamentalism and never pegs the main males as dim fools, just patriarchal and defensive. Corinne seeing bestial spirits feels …
The American college campus (fictitious Columbus U., after Christopher, not the city in Ohio) as microcosmic melting pot. Or better, boiling pot, with little actual melting taking place. Racial and ethnic separatism; feminism; neo-Nazism; competitive athletics; dormitory stereo wars; date rape; sexual disorientation; etc. Those who were overhasty about exalting …
Documentary about cryptocurrency and Richard Heart, who gained notoriety over the Hex Token.
Cool-cat comedy centered around the owner of a used-records store called Championship Vinyl, his love life past and present, and his two nerdy clerks. The arcane shoptalk will perhaps be of interest to those who can decipher it, but it makes no noticeable effort to engage the outsider. The musical …
An A380 on an international flight has been hijacked! The violent hijackers are demanding $500 million, holding the passengers hostage. International security expert Andy Lau steps in to save the day.
A dish of Almodóvar's cold and insincere sensationalism. Mother and daughter, a pop singer and a TV anchorwoman respectively, reunite after a separation of fifteen years. Daughter is now married to one of Mother's old flames. It's all rather ungripping, excepting the loud and aggressive color, till it turns positively …
Satire with a soft spot. Which, normally, is something about as useful as a Spalding baseball with a soft spot, something to be pitched into the trash can before the entire hide peels off. But High Hopes is nothing at all normal, and it would be foolish to let an …
Michael Moorcock (or someone in that clan) meets MTV. Sword-slinging demigods, centuries old, come together in contemporary New York -- what has been prophesied as "the gathering" -- to decide the fate of the world. They do so amid warped and rubberized images, billows of steam, shafts of light, bolts …
Christopher Lambert is back as the immortal French-accented Scotsman from the 16th Century. And guess what? "Great danger lies ahead, Highlander," his Japanese martial-arts master informs him. By name, the danger is one Kane (Cane? Caine?) -- not the philosophical wanderer of TV's Kung Fu, but a black Oriental warlord …
A candid look at the rise-and-fall story of one of the most influential names in couture fashion, from Academy Award-winner Kevin Macdonald.
The thinking man's Western by Carl Foreman, writer, and Fred Zinnemann, director, rounds up a basic unit of stereotypes — the legendary aging lawman, his pale-skinned pacifist wife, the dark-complexioned shady lady from his past, and a band of desperadoes with a score to settle — and nearly paralyzes them …
The personal assistant (Dakota Johnson, relaxed and confident) to a megastar headliner (Tracee Ellis Ross, peerless-ish) at the crossroads of Vegas residency and cutting a live greatest hits album tries branching out by guiding the career of a promising singer (Kelvin Harrison Jr.). Considering the error margin potential inherent in …