One of those movies that makes you embarrassed to be an American (but glad, at the same time, no longer to be a teenager). An Air Force fighter pilot, on routine maneuvers, is forced down by an unnamed Arab nation and sentenced to hang. Surely the President will do something …
Animated sci-fi fable, set in the Fifties and drawn in a retro comic-book style, though the anti-violence message (specifically anti-nuke message) is hardly dated at all. The saccharine relationship between an overimaginative boy and a humongous metal-eating robot from outer space is in the Spielberg vein (specifically E.T. vein); as …
Animated sci-fi fable, set in the Fifties and drawn in a retro comic-book style, though the anti-violence message (specifically anti-nuke message) is hardly dated at all. The saccharine relationship between an overimaginative boy and a humongous metal-eating robot from outer space is in the Spielberg vein (specifically E.T. vein); as …
Animated sci-fi fable, set in the Fifties and drawn in a retro comic-book style, though the anti-violence message (specifically anti-nuke message) is hardly dated at all. The saccharine relationship between an overimaginative boy and a humongous metal-eating robot from outer space is in the Spielberg vein (specifically E.T. vein); as …
Brad Bird's directorial debut gets a loving update. Two new scenes!
Britain’s greatest prime minister since Churchill is seen through a glass, darkly — the darkness of dementia closing in. Her bouffant crown of hair is gone, but flickering memories turn into brisk flashbacks of the glory years. Meryl Streep is quite touching as Margaret Thatcher in retirement and is a …
Marvel Comics superhero (vintage 1963) rerouted through present-day Afghanistan. Weapons manufacturer Tony Stark, alias “The Merchant of Death,” learns first-hand that his products sometimes land in the laps of America’s enemies, and to combat this he devises a personal suit of flying armor (a gold titanium alloy, actually, not iron), …
It serves a sequel’s purpose; it gives the sheep somewhere to go and get clipped. No one can reasonably complain about Don Cheadle taking over the supporting part of Col. "Rhodey" Rhodes from Terrence Howard (otherwise same principal cast and director, Jon Favreau), and Scarlett Johansson ingratiatingly prostitutes herself to …
A hot mess. Iron Man 3 does what a third installment tends to do: revisit the themes of the first (personal failings giving rise to public disasters), make everything bigger and more complicated, and then deliver some kind of grand resolution. And while director Shane Black brings a manic energy …
A hot mess. Iron Man 3 does what a third installment tends to do: revisit the themes of the first (personal failings giving rise to public disasters), make everything bigger and more complicated, and then deliver some kind of grand resolution. And while director Shane Black brings a manic energy …
Rashomon replanted in a depressed Pennsylvania steel town and transformed into a conventional mystery told in flashbacks: Who popped the Japanese entrepreneur and why? Not much interest there, but some potent images of America-the-Dilapidated. Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami; directed by Hiroaki Yoshida.
Documentary about train life in modern China, directed by J.P. Sniadecki (Foreign Parts). In Mandarin with English subtitles.
Eighty-some minutes of martial-arts inanity, an earlier, unearthed directorial effort by the fight choreographer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yuen Wo Ping. No doubt we have the Ang Lee film to thank (if so inclined) for its exhumation, and perhaps also for its wide release with English subtitles in place …