Set in a 100-year-old ancestral house deep in the Mekong Delta, the film follows Mỹ Tiên (played by breakout Gen Z star Phương Mỹ Chi), a viral content creator from Ho Chi Minh City. Struggling with creative burnout, she travels to her family's old home to shoot a new series …
Having romped around the harmlessly inane world of local television news in the original, well-coiffed anchorman Ron Burgundy & Co. (Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, David Koechner, and Paul Rudd) enter a world that is much more serious and in much more need of lampooning: the nightmare of infotainment, pandering, and …
Promising comic premise -- a swinging single San Diego newsman in the Seventies, and his personal attraction but professional resistance to a female colleague -- subjected to a strategy of anything-for-a-laugh: wild exaggeration, improbability, impossibility, fantasy, absurdity, ribaldry, animal abuse, cartoon interlude, musical numbers, celebrity cameos (Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, …
Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as a couple of happy-go-lucky sailors with whom you would not be afraid to trust your sister. They take so shilly-shallyingly long to figure out who loves whom, and to land an important audition with Jose Iturbi, that you sooner or later get your fill …
Cave explorer Brian Kakuk follows expeditions to some of the world’s most astonishing caves in search of clues about our changing planet. The film takes viewers to the Nevada desert, the Yucatan in Mexico, and the deep, stunningly beautiful and treacherous Crystal Cave in the Bahamas.
Roger Vadim's update of his own 1956 film, but not of the haystack hairdo on the heroine -- now a budding rock-and-roll singer in New Mexico (and in fact, with that hairdo, she does look a little like David Lee Roth). In the thirty-year interim, Vadim has forgotten a lot …
This case against the American legal system is so ill-prepared and ill-presented that it ought never have been brought to court. Add to that the whimpering liberal piety of Al Pacino and the aggressive ugliness of the image, and you have sufficient cause to slap it with a contempt citation. …
Abbas Kiarostami's semi-quasi-pseudo-documentary sequel to his Where Is the Friend's House?, an all-day quest for the all-day quester of that earlier film (an equally Kafka-esque quest in its failure to satisfy our natural curiosity as to the outcome), in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake in the area. Complexities and …
The first movie of the Monty Python group is a scattering of scatter-shot comedy routines; and with fresh starts every few minutes, it boasts a few stretches of unflagging comic invention. There are also some sputtering routines -- more of that kind. And the dreary animation sequences are mainly for …
Plainly, if only partially, Claude Lelouch's title echoes that of his 1974 And Now My Love. The film as a whole echoes the other more faintly: two destined lovers on distant paths, a debonair British jewel thief and a soulful French cabaret singer, each as gaunt and haunted as the …
A cocky, heedless, high-dive stunt undertaken by Claude Lelouch, the object of which is to stretch a love story across the entire 20th Century and three hours of movie time. (The version for American release retraces the two roads, going back to the beginning of the century and the beginning …
Concert film directed by Sam Wrench.