Feng Xiaogang directs this story of a woman's tireless quest to bring the State to bear on her marital status. In Mandarin.
Director Raoul Peck takes African-American author James Baldwin’s notes for Remember This House — his unfinished “story of America” as told through the lives of slain activists Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evars — and fashions them into a freeform meditation on race and America, read masterfully …
Brutal aliens pursue a fugitive teen to Earth, a crisis that rouses his special powers. Directed by D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) from a popular young-adult novel, it has conceptual traces of Superman, the Twilight saga, and TV’s The Fugitive. It offers cute bodies, ugly creeps, a dog, high school clichés, dewy …
Queasy-making entertainment. And not only, or even largely, because of the jiggly, jostly, zoomy, freeze-frame-y camerawork under director Jessie Nelson. No: Sean Penn's impression of a mental defective, complete with a new whisk-broom haircut to add to his tonsorial portfolio, no doubt offers many rewards, not the least of which …
Documentarian Daniel Cross takes audiences on a tour of what's left of the performance venues that once comprised the legendary "Chitlin' Circuit."
A group of experts, including the Marian Fathers, analyze Greek texts of the Holy Scripture, revelations and the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The result is a new interpretation of passages of the Scripture revealing Mary, the Mother of Christ, and her role in the divine plan for the salvation …
The review should have been filed last week when the film debuted, but after learning it was a sequel — and given my anal-retentive bent — a look at the original was crucial. Pro-wrestler-turned-marquee-aspirant Stu Bennett’s gamble paid off with this followup to director Ross Boyask’s British thriller. (British thriller? …
There was a point in America’s history when you couldn’t enter a supermarket or flip the radio dial without hearing Helen Reddy's titular tune. I clicked on the screening link expecting to find another biodoc, but to my delight, what I watched was neither a rock concert pawning itself off …
Yibai Zhang directs this tale of two disc jockeys. In Cantonese.
Have you watched the trailer? You can't imagine.
MercyMe’s Bart Millard (John Michael Finley) is at the height of his success, facing a new crisis as he struggles with writer's block and his rebellious son Sam’s diabetes diagnosis. As Bart grapples with fatherhood pressures during a major tour, he finds mentorship in opener Tim Timmons (Milo Ventimiglia), who …
Breaking Bad, Italian-comedy style. Sydney Sibilia directs. In Italian with English subtitles.