A recruitment film of sorts that asks where protest ends and vandalism begins? The elfin Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a group of eco-terrorists, resented the Agriculture Department’s chopping down hundred year old trees to transform into nursery furniture. ELF began by building a drawbridge to block sawmills from gaining access …
A young pregnant woman (KiKi Layne) fights to prove her beau (Stephan James) innocent of a crime he did not commit. If Beale Street could talk, it would no doubt inform Barry Jenkins that film is a director’s medium and suggest that he move his camera back ten feet so …
A cosmetic company employee (Amy Schumer) with subterranean self-esteem sees herself going from "not" to "hot" after a blow to the head deludes her into thinking she’s Aphrodite. One of two things is needed for this single-joke premise to work: a seven-minute running time (as in a cartoon) or a …
Adolescent bedtime story about a high-school low-achiever who, while on a European field trip with the French Club, is mistaken for a secret agent and, aided by a James Bondian arsenal of gadgets, meets every challenge. Sweet dreams! With Richard Grieco and Linda Hunt; directed by William Dear.
From the producers of Underworld and one of the the scripters responsible for Pirates of the Caribbean come...frankly, if that ignominious ancestry doesn’t scare you off, nothing will. After centuries spent battling anonymous creatures, Frank Jr. finds himself in the middle of a confrontation between the gargoyles and the demons. …
The final chapter of Feng Xiaogang’s classic movie features the same cast and sense of humor as the previous installments.
The final chapter of Feng Xiaogang’s classic movie features the same cast and sense of humor as the previous installments.
...will anyone care? That's the question posed by this friendly, gently moving documentary from Patrick Creadon (Wordplay) as it follows Matthew and Emily, a couple of designer-builders (who are also a couple), as they implement a design and build program at a high school in poverty-stricken Bertie County, North Carolina. …
Offbeat youth comedy, not offbeat to the exclusion of incessant pop songs on the soundtrack, but offbeat in the extremeness of family dysfunction, or human-race dysfunction -- out there on the path of Todd Solondz and Wes Anderson. First-time writer and director Burr Steers, nephew of Gore Vidal, shows off …
Punk isn't dead, but it is 69 years old.
Philippine filmmaker Paolo Dy writes and directs this biopic of the saint who founded the Jesuits.
Camped-up computer cartoon about a humpbacked lackey who bucks the class system in the land of Malaria and aspires to be an evil genius instead of just the lisping, switch-pulling assistant. The backdrops are sufficiently Gothic, but the figures are ghastly, and not in a good way. With the voices …
Known as America’s Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow leads an idyllic life – until the day his world is shattered by tragedy. With a nation divided by Civil War and his family torn apart, Henry puts down his pen, silenced by grief. But it’s the sound of Christmas morning that reignites …