Score one for conventional what-about-the-children morality, as represented with towering dignity and withering scorn by Isabella Rossellini in director Chanya Button’s account of the swooning, seething, but decidedly unloving romance between literary author Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki, willowy) and popular author Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton, sartorial). Both women are engaged …
Mark Rylance stars as an insouciant Magistrate With No Name, stationed at the outpost of an unspecified border, whose only brush with justice involves a case of pig-poaching. Light carved through a square in the Magistrate’s ceiling heralded a talented eye behind the lens, but nothing prepared me for shadow-sculptor …
World wide production commences on giant thrusters to move Earth out of the path of the dying sun and sail it to a new star system. This Chinese sci-fi epic is directed by Frant Gwo.
The pounding hooves that whisk us through the pre-credit montage recall the manner of storytelling audiences lapped up throughout the ‘60s, but which is now the stuff that Hallmark Channel dramas are made of. Produced on the cheap, though it seldom shows, first time director Swati Bhise cushions the history …
Four orphaned Japanese teenagers who meet at the crematorium on the day of their parents’ incineration go on to form a rock band. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Why must a tale of at-times-unrelenting despair be cast in shades of an overcast winter’s day? Prepare for a chromatic …
Through rain, fog, blistering sunlight, and dead of night, cinematographer Giles Nuttgens’ strong-willed, yet delicately lit lens doggedly pursued the inscrutable stranger (Dev Patel) as he journeyed from his British homeland through Pakistan and India. A 20 minute, near dialog-free opening passage presented ample time to observe our traveller before …
From the director of Legally Blonde (and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton and Monster-in-Law) comes a romcom starring Sarah Hyland as a woman with commitment issues who, along with her boyfriend, attend 7 weddings in one year.
Bruce Springsteen makes his directorial debut on this western/documentary adaptation of his latest release.