No disrespect is meant in describing this as a consummate "women's picture." But inasmuch as the major-studio women's picture is practically a thing of the past, it will have to be a high-toned, high-flown one with illustrious literary connections. Two such connections, to be exact, the first to the Pulitzer …
What did John Lennon and the Beatles' homosexual manager Brian Epstein really get up to on those four days of R&R; in Barcelona in the spring of 1963? Smoked a lot of cigarettes, played a spot of cards, went to Bergman's The Silence, strolled in the park, visited a gay …
Unfrightening horror laced with unfunny comedy and sprinkled with unrevealing glimpses of the Vietnam War -- an unbeatable combination. Still, after so many psychopaths and dropouts and whatnot among Vietnam vets, it was about time for a ghost. With William Katt and Kay Lenz; directed by Steve Miner.
Kids-on-top pipe dream that pictures the grownups locked in the cellar till they learn their lesson. TV-grade comedy by a TV-graduate director, Harry Winer. With Kyle Howard, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Jennifer Tilly, Wallace Shawn.
Because this is what you do when you've made it as an actress these days, Jennifer Lawrence dons a tank top and stars in a horror film.
Bimbo comedy about an evictee from the Playboy Mansion (a frisky Anna Faris) who becomes house mother to the misfits of Zeta Sorority, helpfully dumbing them down. Admittedly, the anti-intellectualism is balanced by an attempt at smartening up the bimbo, but there is, in every sense, nothing to it. With …
Uncomplicated romantic comedy about a widowed doctor whose Second Youth is jeopardized by a fortyish divorcee who plays only for keeps. Both of them are presented uncritically, and a bit too sweetly, as "good catches." The waggish dialogue by a foursome of scriptwriters and the deft playing by Walter Matthau …
Killer house horror comedy from Japan that's amassed quite a cult following.
Long-winded, high-colored family chronicle about the Italian-American wife who is "won" in a pinochle game, and the daughter who throws herself into religion without any encouragement from her parents: "Nuns are sick women," instructs Papa. The movie loses a lot, around the halfway point, with the death of the superstitious, …
Newlyweds Thao (Ngo Van Thanh) and Thanh (Tran Bao Son) had planned on making the large home situated in one of Saigon’s traditional alleys their happy-ever-after family dwelling. But then a miscarriage presents a life-changing dilemma. Racked with guilt and terrified of being alone, Thao can’t bring herself to give …
Claude Berri's film has all the qualities you could want in a housekeeper if not all you could want in a film. Efficiency: the "exposition" is taken care of in the fully explored messy apartment during the opening credits. Attention to detail: the bourgeois divorcé tidies up the place beforehand …
Bill Forsyth, the Scottish filmmaker of Local Hero and Comfort and Joy, has quitted his native land for someplace else with plenty of weather, the Pacific Northwest. And he has packed along most of his sense of humor and of his sense of magic. The story he tells, from a …
Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend's two daughters: tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. Directed by Goran Stolevski, starring Alina Serban, Anamaria Marinca, and Samson Selim.