Imagine Dragons enlisted the LA Film Orchestra to perform their biggest hits and new chart-topping songs against the backdrop of the iconic Hollywood Bowl. During a nearly two-hour concert, the band fuses their explosive, cathartic sound with gorgeous, intricate symphonic arrangements played on stage by over 50 musicians.
Welcome to the new age...of concert film experiences!
In its timing -- close on the heels of a most uncomplimentary biography by Albert Goldman -- this has the effect of a damage-control documentary, a straightforward tribute, not a probe, assembled from home movies, family photos, concert footage, newsreels, interviews (notably not with the other ex-Beatles), and assorted detritus. …
The writing and directing debut of Ol Parker is a lightweight love-at-first-sight lesbian romantic comedy about the instantaneous connection between a bride midway up the aisle and the nuptial flower arranger. Piper Perabo and Lena Headey are attractive, sympathetic figures from any sexual perspective; and Matthew Goode as the bridegroom …
Investment advice from the mouth of a seven-year-old babe, relaying tips from invisible friends beneath a security blanket. Eddie Murphy, as the profiting father who learns to value his daughter for more than money, seems often foolish, occasionally peevish, never actually funny. With Yara Shahidi, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari …
Michael Tuviera directs this Filipino romance. In Filipino.
A prince who dreams of the perfect love, Prince Siegfried must choose a bride during his birthday celebration. And one day, on a dream getaway, the prince meets Odette - a princess who has been transformed into a swan by the powerful sorcerer Rothbart. The love-struck prince promises to save …
Something like the twentieth feature film of the nonagenarian Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, still largely unknown in the U.S. In the circumstances, it would be churlish to say that it's a trifle boring: far better to be bored by a ninety-three-year-old who makes a film to please only himself …
Ja Rule plays a rich dude with a checkered past who wants to get with a girl who goes to Bible study and has parents who pray for a godly man to show up in her life. More importantly, Stephen Baldwin!
Or, If it Hadn't Been for Schoolboy Bullying, We Might Have Lost the Second World War. Alan Turing famously invented something like the world's first computer as part of the British effort to crack the code employed by Germany's Enigma machine. And this is the story of that, told with …
Alien lands on Earth in the shape of a young woman and is taken in by Iranian immigrants. The sci-fi drama is directed by Natasha Kermani.
Douglas Sirk's unsettlingly slick and glossy treatment of race relations in America: the old Fannie Hurst chestnut about a lifelong friendship between a white and a black woman. The cast is worse than usual (John Gavin worse than Rock Hudson, Lana Turner worse than practically anyone), and the passage of …