Inbred Kevin Smith comedy arranges a kind of get-together of the casts of his four earlier comedies -- Jason Lee, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Shannen Doherty, Joey Lauren Adams, Brian O'Halloran, etc. -- but with the titular slackers (Jason Mewes, disturbingly credible, and Smith himself, disturbingly not) brought …
For some, a long-awaited sequel.
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and Jay & Silent Bob Reboot together again for the first time.
We begin with a flurry of performers introducing themselves, a handy visual aid given how many faces will pass our way over the next 90 minutes. 2020 marked the 50 anniversary of The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival aka Jazz Fest and directors Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern were …
Jazz never sounded like this -- and as long as they were going to drop Mammy from the original cast of characters, they could just as well have dropped, or changed, one word of the title. Neil Diamond, with his hair sculpted in the shape of a set of headphones, …
Martial-arts legend Jean-Claude van Damme, “the Muscles from Brussels,” casts himself in a new light: the comic-pathetic. Playing “himself,” in all candor a has-been Hollywood star, he first loses a custody fight in family court, then loses a role to Steven Seagal when the latter consents to cut off his …
The first of Claude Berri's two-part adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's two-volume novel, L'Eau des Collines. (The second part, Manon of the Spring, was shot simultaneously but released separately.) Unquestionably it's a quality production -- one of the discreet ways of saying, or avoiding saying, a somewhat dull and conservative one. …
Very pretty footage of undersea life.
Homage to the Jacques Demy of Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Young Girls of Rochefort, and A Room in Town, the connoisseur and custodian of the Golden Age musical. Co-directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau have taken from Demy the idea of a musical as a casual kind of thing, a form …
Jeanne Vaubernier (Maïwenn) is a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, using her charms to escape her impoverished life. Her lover, the Comte du Barry (Melvil Poupaud), wishes to present her to King Louis XV (Johnny Depp) and orchestrates a meeting through the influential Duke of Richelieu (Pierre …