Bennie's daughter is on her way home for the holidays. However she surprises him by arriving with her brand new boyfriend - an uninvited gringo. Starring George Lopez.
A career gigolo is about to get his comeuppance in what appears to be a legitimate attempt to enkindle a screwball comedy. Starring Eugenio Derbez, Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe, and Kristen Bell. This marks actor Ken Marino's first time in the director's chair.
“Why are we embarrassed to admit that we are single,” asks narrator-star Dakota Johnson at the outset of this muddled valentine to self-discovery, when singledom is “when our real life is happening, maybe?” So committed is the film to musing on this point that it eventually hollows out nearly every …
Dan Villegas cowrites and directs this movie about young lovers struggling to reconcile their professional and romantic lives. In Filipino and Tagalog.
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.
An “eco-comedy” produced for television, this Canadian documentary began making the film festival rounds in 2010. Director, narrator, and all-around pervasive presence Jon Cooksey’s bombastically weisenheiming classroom film confirms how much fun saving the world can be, especially when armed with colorful computer graphics and ancient public-access television green screen …
A woman who makes her living off of breaking up romances decides to ply her trade to her sister's relationship. This looks to target all the douchebags who find brilliance in Bridesmaids.
Save the whales! Save the whales? Save the whales. Documentary covers the story of Greenpeace's effort to get people interested in preserving the environment, whales included. Directed by Jerry Rothwell.
A ninety-minute Buddhist retreat under the spiritual guidance of chef Edward Espe Brown, author of "the Bible of bread making." Or in other words: the dharma made palatable, even delectable. The focal point of German filmmaker Doris Dörrie (Enlightenment Guaranteed) ripples outward from personal matters like anger and confusion to …
Inoffensive teen romance given instant and ongoing credibility by the presence of Allison Janney as the heroine's recently divorced mother. (A credibility that must withstand the angry-woman cliché of chopping up phallic vegetables for supper, as well as the slapstick indignity of getting humped by the in-laws' dog.) Peter Gallagher, …
Writer and director Bruce Robinson has got himself so worked up about advertising, much as Paddy Chayefksy got himself about television (Network), that he has taken leave of many of his senses -- particularly his sense of humor. Though he fancies himself here to be "savagely" satirical, he's really just …
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday by drinking, clubbing, and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives. Written and directed by Molly Manning Walker, starring Anna Antoniades, Mia McKenna-Bruce, and Lara Peake.
Documentarian Mark Wexler travels the world, talking to old-timers and scientists about the secrets of staying alive and well preserved. The old-timers mostly offer sweetness and bromides — exercise and enjoy life! The scientists offer a shotgun spray of possibilities: hormone replacement, organ replacement, cryogenics, reduced calories, etc. The journey …
The hot-shot ad exec will win the big diamond account if he can first win the private bet that he can make any woman fall in love with him in ten days. But his competition for the account knows that the chosen woman is writing a first-person magazine article on …