This fictional reenactment of Somali pirates kidnapping the crew of a Danish cargo ship probably would have played better had the Digital Gym not screened the documentary account, Stolen Seas, earlier that week. Instead of sticking to the drama inherent in the story — the filmmakers went to great lengths …
This fictional reenactment of Somali pirates kidnapping the crew of a Danish cargo ship probably would have played better had the Digital Gym not screened the documentary account, Stolen Seas, earlier that week. Instead of sticking to the drama inherent in the story — the filmmakers went to great lengths …
The screen biography of celebrated cellist Jacqueline Du Pré, dead of multiple sclerosis at age forty-two, has been a bit battered on musical grounds over the fact that it had to make do on the soundtrack with a cellist other than Jacqueline Du Pré, and make do on screen with …
Growing up impoverished in small-town Texas, young Rickey Hill shows an extraordinary ability for hitting a baseball, despite being burdened by leg braces from a degenerative spinal disease. His stern, pastor father (DENNIS QUAID) discourages Rickey from playing baseball to protect him from injury, and to have him follow in …
Dinesh D'Souza brings his documentary-making prowess to bear on Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — and the Democratic party in general.
Growing up Opie, the closest Ron Howard came to an addictive personality was town drunk Otis Campbell. Considering the amount of time Howard spent in Mayberry — and with almost three-dozen benignant features to his credit — one would be wrong to expect more spit and less polish in this …
Why can’t twelve-year-old Myung-eun have a different family? A mother who is more elegant and not so stingy; a father who has an office job and doesn’t get up late every day – in short: a family you don’t have to keep secret at all costs. A film by Lee …
A clan of modernday cavemen in the American West besets an Ohio family whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere. The starving savages, wearing animal pelts and bear-claw necklaces and communciating via walkie-talkies, have their greedy eyes not only on the refrigerator in the RV, but also …
At first blush, a slick remake of the schlocky Wes Craven gorefest of 1977. But because the director (Alexandre Aja) is French in origin, besides being the offspring of a film director and a film critic, perhaps it's also an hommage. Perhaps, too, there's something of significance to be read …
A new motion-picture genre: the theatrical worship experience.
Undeniably a cowboy movie, though not exactly a Western, set as it is in New Mexico circa World War II. At many points it may look and feel like a Western, with fine nostalgic images of men on horseback, occasional (possibly too frequent) splashes of calendar-art Southwest landscape, an idiomatic …
Studious plodder about the generational clash among Tibetan tribesmen: rival caravans of salt-packing yaks, driven through perilous mountain passes, one by superstitious elders, another by agnostic juniors. It's a kind of cattle-drive Western, except that it's the East, it's yaks, it's mountains, and (aside from those mountains) it's unexciting. Directed …
The lives of a doting father and his six-year-old take a drastic turn when the woman he loves marries someone else. Directed by Shouryuv, with music by Hesham Abdul Wahab.
Prequel to Hindi XXL?
A story about hip-hop starring Affion Crockett, Cedric The Entertainer, Damaine Radcliff, Lil Rel Howery, Damien Wayans, Craig Wayans, Jevin Smith, and Johnollie Nelson.