Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to escape from their depressing jobs and face the question of what to do with their time. Directed by Eduardo Williams.
A weekend round of "clubs, drugs, pubs, and parties." In-your-face youth film from Wales, light, playful, sloppy, and inconsequential. In their face as well, with a wide-angle or fish-eye lens. All of them are prone to show off in front of it. John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes, Danny Dyer, …
It’s not often a director remakes their own film, and even rarer for a feature to be reimagined in short form. Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and The Human Voice both share as their source material Jean Cocteau’s one-act monodrama La Voix Humaine. With a …
Based on the novel by Sandro Veronesi, this is the tale of the life of Marco Carrera (Pierfrancesco Favino), known as Colibrì, “the hummingbird”: a life of fateful coincidences, loss, and stories of undying love. The plot moves forward on the strength of recollections that allow us to leap from …
Never has the race to build a thousand-mile tunnel for fiber optic cable been so thrilling. Kim Nguyen directs Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, and Salma Hayek.
IMAX film on "the largest, most majestic creatures" — humpback whales. Narrated by Ewan McGregor.
A single humpback whale song may last for 20 minutes, or half as long as this film.
Disney animated literary adaptation, with songs. And, despite the track record of Victor Hugo as a begetter of hit musicals (Les Miz), not a good idea. Not even if you have the "vision," the nerve, the self-servingness, to see clear to how the twice-told tale of the bell-tower hermit Quasimodo …
Noted down-home small-towners Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey produce traditionally minded director Lasse Hallstrom's (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules) film version of Richard Morais' novel about a displaced Indian family ("There was an election of some kind.") who decide to open a restaurant in a French village, right across the …
In this 19th century, supernatural comedy, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper when he loses his whole operation in a fire and is stranded in the wilderness. Now facing starvation, he must survive in a surreal winter landscape surrounded …
This works hard to obscure the fact that it is a vampire movie (the fearful word is never uttered). But it will not manage to fool those who don't care for this sort of thing, and will manage only to irritate those who do. The maintenance of a Beautiful People …
In the future, rebel districts are punished by the Reaping: every year they have to send a couple of teenagers to the Capitol. There, the kiddies fight to the death in a regulated, televised competition. Sloppily directed by Gary Ross, it’s more games than hunger and more a comment on …
In the future, rebel districts are punished by the Reaping: every year they have to send a couple of teenagers to the Capitol. There, the kiddies fight to the death in a regulated, televised competition. Sloppily directed by Gary Ross, it’s more games than hunger and more a comment on …
Katniss Everdeen won her murder tournament in The Hunger Games. Now she has to deal with the aftermath. Once again, the best reason for seeing a Hunger Games movie is star Jennifer Lawrence, whose protean, Old Hollywood visage brings to mind the line about how They Had Faces Then. And …
For a film about rebelling against the oppressive overlords who just want to drain your precious resources for their own benefit, it's awfully greedy with your time and treasure. You know, because, in an effort to make two movies from one very popular book, they've padded out this installment — …