A group of overlit, malformed, and oppressively upbeat FAO Schwarz factory rejects leave Uglytown for the Big World, an alternate universe populated by winsome, acromegalic Tootsie Pops who cringe at the very sight of them. In a word, fugly. Combine the suppleness of character detail often associated with a Cricket …
Howard Ratner’s (Adam Sandler) day is consumed with robbing Peter to pawn to Paul. His life is a constant juggling act, his desperate ploy a complex series of bets involving a multitude of moving parts. If he can distract his clients long enough to keep afloat everything, the rewards could …
Did you know that opera made its American debut in New Orleans (not New York), and that Cuba once referred to New Orleans as its long-lost sister city? The all-encompassing topic of the origins and history of New Orleans jazz demands an epic seven-part documentary series along the lines of …
Director Neil Burger’s remake of the French hit The Intouchables tells the story of Phillip, an unhappy (but fabulously wealthy) quadriplegic (Bryan Cranston) who decides to tempt fate by hiring the least competent life auxiliary he can find: Dell, a broke ex-con (Kevin Hart) who thought he was applying to …
Writer/director/producer Jordan Peele is a smart, ambitious, skilled filmmaker. All three qualities are on display in his second effort — the story of a vacationing family whose members find themselves set upon by scissor-wielding doppelgängers — but that doesn’t quite make it a successful film. The final reveal feels too …
Jordan Peele's long-awaited followup to Get Out stars Lupita Nyongo in a horror tale about a family being terrorized by a group of doppelgängers.
John Ford shot nine films in Monument Valley causing Peter Bogdanovich to remark, “It has become so identified with him, other directors are convinced that using it for a location would be plagiarism.” That didn’t stop Sergio Leone from doing his best work there and now it’s Lech Majewski’s turn. …
The director as performance art. Two-part TV special places Agnès Varda center seat on a theatre stage where she uses photos and film excerpts to add insight into her life and career.
A round-cornered, black-and-white kinescope opens this resourceful return-to-the-’50’s sci-fi. A pair of small town audio enthusiasts with a newfangled reel-to-reel tape machine in tow — Everett Sloane (Jake Horowitz), a magnetic radio DJ and master of excessive amplitude modulation, and his adoring young switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) — spend …