A kidnap victim (Ashleigh Cummings), kept under lock and key in a spare bedroom by an experienced pair of married abductors (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry) slowly — and I do mean slowly — sizes up the couple’s relationship and decides to try pitting captor against captor to enable her …
Newlyweds Thao (Ngo Van Thanh) and Thanh (Tran Bao Son) had planned on making the large home situated in one of Saigon’s traditional alleys their happy-ever-after family dwelling. But then a miscarriage presents a life-changing dilemma. Racked with guilt and terrified of being alone, Thao can’t bring herself to give …
Let the grand guignol begin as Ridley Scott goes to camp in his first feature since swapping out Gettys in the scandal-plagued All the Money in the World. Once again the focus is on a notorious clan piloted by a gaggle of pricey lookalikes. Offscreen, Scott’s a stitch, but the …
Prominent designer, futurist, and second World President of Mensa Buckminster Fuller befriended Ellen Burstyn in 1972 and spent the last decade or so of his life sharing with her his philosophies on the care and nurturing of “Spaceship Earth.” A few of his concepts are repackaged for the masses in …
The screener didn’t arrive in time to make deadline, but I still feel it my duty to alert readers that the latest from madcap provocateur, Lars Von Trier, will hold its premier… for one night only? Matt Dillon stars as Jack, a super-intelligent career serial killer who spent the better …
An orphaned boy named Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro) is placed in the custody of a Warlock uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) who quickly proceeds to groom the lad in the art of sorcery. With the premise precariously set in place, director Eli Roth relinquishes control to the production designer and special …
An orphaned boy named Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro) is placed in the custody of a Warlock uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) who quickly proceeds to groom the lad in the art of sorcery. With the premise precariously set in place, director Eli Roth relinquishes control to the production designer and special …
An orphaned boy named Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro) is placed in the custody of a Warlock uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) who quickly proceeds to groom the lad in the art of sorcery. With the premise precariously set in place, director Eli Roth relinquishes control to the production designer and special …
An “eco-comedy” produced for television, this Canadian documentary began making the film festival rounds in 2010. Director, narrator, and all-around pervasive presence Jon Cooksey’s bombastically weisenheiming classroom film confirms how much fun saving the world can be, especially when armed with colorful computer graphics and ancient public-access television green screen …
At the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, while the government was scratching its head and wondering what to do with Americans dying off in record numbers, two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — stepped in and stepped up the medical breakthroughs in health care needed to …
For the subject of his latest documentary, Ai Weiwei takes on nothing less than the plight of the more than 65 million people worldwide forcibly displaced from their homes. Weiwei’s camera shepherds audiences through various recesses of the planet, his encouraging smile bringing comfort and optimism to the uprooted hordes …
It’s not often a director remakes their own film, and even rarer for a feature to be reimagined in short form. Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and The Human Voice both share as their source material Jean Cocteau’s one-act monodrama La Voix Humaine. With a …
Trump supporters are dropped in the middle of Arkansas, armed, and left to fend for themselves against a group of human-hunting liberal democrats. A spoiler alert might normally have been in order, but instead of adding an air of mystery and bolstering suspense by withholding any mention of political affiliation …
An entire town turns on one of its own when little Klara (Annika Wedderkopp) makes unwarranted accusations of sexual molestation against a teacher (Mads Mikkelsen). Though it is made clear from the outset that Lucas (Mikkelsen) is innocent, one can easily understand why the tyke picked the gawky divorcee as …
Past acquaintances want no part of Ashley (Andre Royo), yet the good natured career-schemer insists on living life as the cheeriest ex-con ever discharged from a three-year “vacation” in the pen. Ashley finds fresh blood in the form of bottom-feeder “Germ” (George Sample III), a copacetic cohort who makes cash …