Amusingly positive account of the unfortunate life led by Whitney Houston, from New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, to a crack addict dying in the bathroom. Directed by Kasi Lemmons, written by Anthony McCarten, produced by music executive Clive …
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At what point in recent history were rom-coms obfuscated by chick-flicks? I Want You Back welcomes the return of the romantic comedy. Two people, recently dumped and drawn together through logical coincidence, conspire to excise their replacements and permanently win back their exes. Emma (Jenny Slate) and (Charlie Day) meet …
After a Kurdish gigolo and an airline pilot meet at a Turkish resort, their lives change in unexpected ways. Given the opportunity to study and work in Germany, Baran moves from a troubled past to a complicated present, with the prospect of a promising future not far from his grasp. …
Astonishingly billed as the highest-grossing Irish independent film in history. Astonishingly, anyway, until you try to remember what you would have thought was the highest. It puts together a couple of fresh faces, the lumpily irregular one of newcomer Peter McDonald and the saggingly lived-in one of Brendan Gleeson, and …
The film history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana includes many Cajun and Zydeco greats, featuring Michael Doucet and BeauSoleil, Clifton Chenier, Marc and Ann Savoy, D.L. Menard, and many others. A film by Les Blank and Chris Strachwitz.
A wise film from director Hirokazu Koreeda, one that knows kids for what they are: not miniature adults, not the masters of their own magical kingdoms, but newcomers struggling to navigate by their own imperfect charts. Twelve-year-old Koichi dreams of reuniting his divorced parents -- the pain of his family’s …
Ixnay on any aughlays in this dilatory drama about a 17-year-old Guatemalan girl who, though spoken for through an arranged marriage, finds herself pregnant with another man’s child. First time writer-director Jayro Bustamante’s opening salvo lobs metaphoric bricks out of a tennis cannon: an unbroken long take of our virginal …
A pretty, slightly precious punk trifle with blood on its white tux jacket. Writer-director Christian Papierniak’s debut feature about a young woman desperate to traverse Los Angeles so she can crash the engagement party of her ex and ex-best friend has charm, thanks in large part to the charisma of …