The Jules Verne novel serves as a factual guidebook for a week of uncle-nephew bonding. The 3-D effects can be a bit crude (twice we get spat in the face, once drooled in the face), and it takes a while to reach the fun stuff (the flying fish, the flesh-eating …
A monk and his trio of disciples — Sandy, a giant, endearingly repulsive fish out of water; Pigsy, a porcine blunderer hiding beneath a porcelain mask; and the Monkey King, a scamp who would have served well in the winged army of Oz’s Wicked Witch – forge ahead in their …
Writer-director David O. Russell serves notice that there have always been multi-generational stories of strong women who figure out how to make their way in a so-called man’s world — on television soap operas. He even helpfully opens this (based-on-a-true) story of one woman’s (Jennifer Lawrence) struggle to become the …
A pretty dream, inspired by fact, of brotherhood on the WWI battlefield, with the French, the Scots, and the Germans all laying down their arms on Christmas Eve, 1914, and celebrating the holiday together. (Big treat for everyone: Diane Kruger, as a Danish diva, visits her lover in the trenches …
The gospel offspring of Sister Act and Burlesque, involving a choir rivalry between the church’s two top vocalists (Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah). Parton’s charm is masked by her cosmetic work — she has one expression, no matter the emotion. Latifah’s maternal dignity is the film’s saving grace, but the …
The debut feature from writer-director Saim Sadiq explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society. Gentle and timid, Haider (Ali Junejo) lives with his wife Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq), his father, and his elder brother’s family in Lahore, Pakistan. Following a long spell of unemployment, Haider finally …
One wondered how crude a movie would have to be in order for the National Lampoon people to remove their trade name from the title, although one had hoped that, with a female (and more or less feminist) director such as Martha Coolidge, the question would be not "How crude?" …
When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means …
A sort of retro-tech thriller, a nice change from high-tech thrillers, in which two brothers, driving cross-country in a vintage '71 Chrysler Newport equipped with a CB radio, play a practical joke on a trucker self-dubbed "Rusty Nail," sending him for a romantic rendezvous to the motel room of a …
A trip to China to rediscover roots goes terribly awry. Starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu.
A trip to China to rediscover roots goes terribly awry. Starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu.
Jeremiah “Terminator” LeRoy was a manufactured commodity, the wispy offspring of a prostitute mother that writer Laura Albert (Laura Dern) bamboozled the world into believing was real. Albert gave birth to JT by granting sotto voce phone interviews under the guise of her literary persona. Once her creation perched atop …
Cuban zombie thriller by writer/director Alejandro Brugués. Starring Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina and Andrea Duro. In Spanish.