Plain and simple account of plain and simple folk in rural Idaho, a single mom and a brood of six, "the Lacey tribe," as she dubs them, struggling to construct a dream house out of little more than a teepee. Screenwriter Patrick Duncan ("This is a true story," says his …
To her already multi-media stage show, Laurie Anderson has added some movie cameras out front, to record it for posterity -- it and her white shoes and dimples and all the rest. But the mere servant status accorded the cameras ensures that the cinema will be low medium on the …
Going-through-the-motions Disney cartoon, a facetious, feminist (or cow-power) anti-Western wherein three heifers set out to capture Alameda Slim and save their dairy farm from foreclosure: "Huh! Bovine bounty hunters! Now I've seen everything." Voices of Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, and Cuba Gooding, Jr.; written and directed by Will …
The Searchers houses one of the most famous (and dramatic) camera movements in cinema history, a swift dolly-in on John Wayne’s evil-eyed examination of young women ravaged by the Comanche. At its best, The Homesman adds credence to the Duke’s towering look of disgust. Tommy Lee Jones directs and co-scripts …
A nuclear bomb is detonated in Los Angeles, and the nation devolves into unprecedented chaos. Ex-Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family escape to The Homestead, an eccentric prepper’s fortress nestled in the mountains. As violent threats and apocalyptic conditions creep toward their borders, the residents of The Homestead are …
A nuclear bomb is detonated in Los Angeles, and the nation devolves into unprecedented chaos. Ex-Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family escape to The Homestead, an eccentric prepper’s fortress nestled in the mountains. As violent threats and apocalyptic conditions creep toward their borders, the residents of The Homestead are …
Remake of just plain The Incredible Journey. Two dogs and a cat, stashed away on a Montana ranch while their family sojourns in San Francisco, take it into their heads to "go home" -- over mountains, across rivers, down waterfalls, around grizzly bears. That's not the worst of their troubles. …
David Mamet, director and writer, describes an existential identity crisis under the guise of a hard-boiled policier. Such a thing could easily have turned pretentious if the plotting and scripting had been less nose-to-the-grindstone. To be more exact: the identity crisis is at no point extracurricular to the police work …
A comedy about a third term congresswoman named Joo Sang-sook (Ra Mi-ran) who is an expert liar, but one day she can’t lie anymore, with only a day to go before the elections. Starring Ra Mi-Ran, Kim Moo-Yeol, Na Moon-Hee, and Yoon Kyung-Ho.
Referred to as “the man who puts the fear of God into psychics,” retired magician James Randi could just as easily have made a name for himself bilking money out of seance-happy oldsters eager to be reacquainted with their dead pets. He has instead spent the greater portion of his …
No, not a dramatization of the Bobby Goldsboro tune. Rather, the big-screen coming-out party for TV's Dark Angel, Jessica Abs -- oops, Jessica Alba -- as a nightclub bartender, record-store clerk, and hip-hop instructor who dreams of making it in music videos. First-time director Bille Woodruff, who has already made …
Shia LaBeouf’s self-penned biopic turns out to be the biggest surprise of 2019. With expert assurance, the opening shot yanks us into the action without even bothering to use a stunt double.A simulated blast sucks tethered movie star Otis (Noah Jupe, age 12; Lucas Hedges, age 22) deep within the …
John Sayles, with his modicum of cinematic acumen, fantasizes a turning point in popular culture, at the Honeydripper Lounge, a roadhouse-of-blues in rural Alabama, 1950, unable to compete with the new jukebox in the joint next door, till the arrival of a train-hopping vagabond toting a homemade electric guitar. The …