A bully afflicts a boy, and a tougher kid full of congested fury comes to his aid. That’s the plot core, but Susanne Bier’s Danish movie is much richer than a PC tract about bullying. It shifts from Africa to Denmark and back, and the kids are as complex as …
A veiled re-enactment of the tempestuous relationship of Gloria Grahame and director Nicholas Ray, with Bogart standing in for Ray, and Grahame staying on as Grahame, and Ray directing. The Bogart character a hard-drinking, violent-tempered Hollywood screenwriter who is faintly amused to find himself becoming a suspect in the murder …
The immigrant experience in Manhattan, more precisely the Sheridan Family experience, as revised and related by Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, etc.). Never a dull moment, it would seem; or anyway never a relaxed, a calm, a common, a mundane, a prosaic …
Gender-bender comedy inspired by Tom Hanks's thanks to his gay high-school teacher during his Oscar acceptance speech for Philadelphia. What if a teacher "outed" on the Oscarcast were scheduled to be married at the end of the week? The movie has steady fun with sexual stereotypes, Hollywood types, TV types, …
The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer. Directed by Chris Nash, starring Ry Barrett, Charlotte Creaghan, and Liam Leone.
Sharp little showbiz story about Carol, a woman seeking to follow her famous father into the world of movie trailer narration. The King — gravel-voiced god Don La Fontaine — is dead, and the industry needs a new voice to tell the world about its latest girl-friendly action epic. Dad …
A trio of Palestinian women — straight-laced and veiled college student Nour (Shaden Kanboura), dauntless chain-smoker Laila (Mouna Hawa), and lesbian DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh) — share an apartment in Tel Aviv. The two who are party girls find their bookish roommate to be hopelessly square, and she returns the …
The former Soviet Union, 1992: A young turk whisks his high school crush to a clandestine spot and instead of stealing a first kiss, he gifts her with a gun. It’s a formidable shock, but one that never amounts to much as all we’re asked to do for another hour …
Writer-director Martin McDonagh, in his feature debut, dispatches two British hit men to lie low, after a job with messy collateral damage, in the “fairy-tale” Medieval town near the coast of Belgium, where one of them (the tousled Brendan Gleeson) is interested in seeing the sights while the other (the …
The endless “religious” hell of the Middle East, seen in the life of a Lebanese Christian woman (Lubna Azabal) who escapes to a better existence in French Canada. Her stunned offspring uncover the story of their Mother Courage, but director Denis Villeneuve piles it on as a pyramid of rape, …
A major snow job from fair-haired filmmaker Christopher Nolan, nominally a science-fiction thriller focussed on some sort of psychic superspy (Leonardo DiCaprio, fully earning the furrow between his brows), an expert in the gentle art of “extraction,” the stealing of conscious ideas from people when their guard is down in …
Joke documentary, wherein cameraman John Bailey purports to shoot a film called Herzog in Wonderland, a behind-the-scenes documentary on German filmmaker Werner Herzog, purporting to shoot a documentary-within-the-documentary called The Enigma of Loch Ness. Herzog does a convincing and an amusing job of being Herzog, but the rest is barely …
Michael Apted's documentary companion piece to his fictional Thunderheart: no permissive mysticism this time, and no tidy Hollywood ending either (though one can clearly see the leanings that would lurch all the way to the FBI-as-bad-guy conclusion of the fiction film). This is strictly true-crime stuff, re-examining the murders of …
A family is stuck in an infinite road trip setting these two parallel narratives on an unforgettable collision course. Director Isaac Ezban will in attendance for this screening and will participate in a Q&A.