Jiri Menzel, missing in action since the Czech New Wave of the Sixties (Closely Watched Trains, Capricious Summer), has actually ground out over a dozen films in the interim, before this one got tabbed for U.S. distribution: a literally Little Man comedy, consistent with the pitying humanism we remember, about …
Does the lamb lie down on Broadway? I thought Phil Collins and the boys broke up years ago. Wait. It's not that Genesis? This Genesis brings one face-to-face with the earth-shattering titular question.
Of course it's history. Phil Collins left the band over two decades ago. Oh, wait. It's a Fathom event about the most controversial book in the Bible. Never mind.
Twin sisters Racine and Anaia bear severe physical and emotional scars from a house fire their father intentionally set when they were children. Nearing the end of her life, their mother tasks the now-grown women with a final, violent quest: hunt down the abusive man who ruined their lives. Based …
This could be about no one but Valerie Solanas, the militant lesbian, founder of the one-member Society for Cutting Up Men (S.C.U.M.) and author of its "manifesto," would-be playwright, part-time panhandler and streetwalker, full-time chainsmoker, who in 1968 pumped a couple of slugs at point-blank range into the then King …
A contentedly conventional comedy, and to all appearances a properly modest one (never mind the staggering budgetary reports), it updates the old "Road to" formula with Dustin Hoffman more or less in the Bing Crosby role (oily, guileful) and Warren Beatty more or less in the Bob Hope one (oafish, …
Thoroughly preposterous, and almost as thoroughly appealing, story idea about an investigative reporter who drags along his twelve-year-old son on a probe of fishing-boat disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, and falls prey to a ragtag band of island outcasts carrying on in the glorious tradition of the buccaneers, or as …
The beginning takes place in the vicinity of an Orwellian dystopia, where a closely monitored populace ("Sodium Excess Detected," reads out a urinal at a morning pee) must live in regimented drudgery and sterile isolation, under stricter rules against intergender "proximity" than at a Catholic-school dance, and with the desperate …
Pimpaka Towira directs and co-writes this story of a city girl's eye-opening trip out into the countryside. In Thai with English subtitles.
Second remake, at the least, of the H.G. Wells fable of the beast in man and vice versa, originally made in the early Thirties under the name of Island of Lost Souls. Marlon Brando, as the mad doctor-slash-dictator, makes a splashy entrance half an hour into the action, in Tiny …
What is the law? Are we not men? Have you forgotten the house of pain? Is that Bela Lugosi underneath all the weremonkey makeup? The answers to these questions and countless more will be revealed if you dare to see Island of Lost Souls.
Made-in-Spain shocker with a sorely underdeveloped and underexplained idea about the children on a remote, hot, all-white island waking up in unison one night and banding together gigglingly in a game of adulticide. With Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome; directed by Narcisco Ibanez Serrador.