Authentic and very unpleasant shocker from French filmmaker Gaspar Noé. A sort of Angry Middle-Aged Man tale, a Taxi Driver without star power, a rough cinematic equivalent of Céline, it pulls us into the life and mind of an unemployed butcher whom we cannot help but find repugnant. The seal …
Writer-director Matt Cooper sets Lysistrata in a small Texas town where the women decide to withhold sex until the men get rid of their guns.
Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but then, you knew that) sits down with famous old thinky-type Noam Chomsky and listens to him say, "Visual experience is just stimulations of the retina that we impose an extremely rigid interpretation on." To which Gondry hopefully replies, "Have you seen …
What’s buried in Grant’s Tomb? The headquarters of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, a non-existent but factual-sounding organization designed by husband and wife comedy team Jeanne and Alan Abel for this early entrant in the mockumentary market. A parody of Mondo movies, this hit at around the same time the …
Tear-jerking biopic based on the life of Christian music star Jeremy Camp. I've seen this trailer in the past few months more times than I have my hand and each time resulting in audible sniffles. When Kleenex won't do. Ushers should hand out bath towels.
But who still cares? Repetitive sequel tells of a couple of college girls who think the capital of Brazil is Rio, and who land in the middle of a killing field as a result. With Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, Freddie Prinze, Jr., and Matthew Settle; directed by Danny …
There are moments in Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a quaint-yet-cursed Maine village (Very Bad Things happen every 27 years, many of them having to do with kids) where the sights and sounds are enough. Those are 12-year-old kids up there on the screen seeing their worst …
Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra is one of baseball’s greatest. He amassed ten World Series rings, 3 MVP awards and 18 All-Star Game appearances. He caught the only perfect game in World Series history. Yet for many his deserved stature was overshadowed by his simply being himself and being recognized more …
The title refers to a Russian orphan, aged six, upon whom his fellow orphans confer the nickname "Italian" as soon as he is tabbed for adoption by a couple of that origin. During the waiting period prior to his departure for the sunny South, he, to the disbelief and dismay …
Danish romantic comedy made in strict adherence to the Dogma '95 guidelines for unwatchable cinematography. Pity, because the loose-knit cast of characters -- a widowed pastor, a cranky restaurateur, a shy hotelier, a clumsy baker, a somber hairdresser, and a sunny Italian waitress -- is not without its charms and …
High-tech tale of betrayal and revenge, lighthearted to the point of self-contradictory and callous (Charlize Theron does, at least, haul off and sock the man who murdered her father: that sure felt good), mechanically directed by F. Gary Gray. As remakes go, it has the advantage of coming from an …
Docu-trip about what is worth loving (and what isn't) in modern Italy.
Slender anthology of clips from old B-movies (and on down through Z-movies), assembled with a sort of Worst Films of All Time/Golden Turkey Awards mentality (indeed, the dreaded Medveds, Harry and Michael, are credited as consultants). Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Cheech and Chong, and John Candy appear as "hosts" in …
It’s one thing for a group of untried kid actors to take out a hydrocephaloid sewer clown. It was, by all accounts, a scarefree nap, but at best there was something this clown-hater found intrinsically inviting about the kids-in-peril novelty it waved. But watching a group of (mostly) well-paid (mostly) …