Heavily impacted by his fellow veteran's suicides, George Eshleman (Angus Benfield), an Army Veteran, decides to help raise awareness for military member suicides by hiking the entire nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia. On the trek, he carries 363 name tapes from the uniforms of military members who …
Heavily impacted by his fellow veteran's suicides, George Eshleman (Angus Benfield), an Army Veteran, decides to help raise awareness for military member suicides by hiking the entire nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia. On the trek, he carries 363 name tapes from the uniforms of military members who …
A twelve-year-old Texan, after the death of his leukemic older brother, inherits the responsibility of keeping alive the oral history of their illustrious ancestor, the 11th-century Persian poet, astronomer, and mathemetician. Most of the film is made up of reverential re-enactments from the Great Man's life, not lavishly, but adequately …
"We're all niggers now," says bruised Georgia peach Augusta (Brit Marling), early on in Daniel Barber's (Harry Brown) rather literal take on Sherman's rape of the South. What she means is, when the menfolk are gone and the living's precarious, everybody's got to pitch in and do the dirty work, …
Edward Norton, making his directorial debut, shares screen time with Ben Stiller in the roles of boyhood pals who've gone separate but parallel ways -- priest and rabbi -- as hip, happening, new, now, popular, popularizing, palm-slapping types of clergymen. In short, "the God Squad." Then the Third Musketeer from …
There was a decent idea here: what if a couple of international superspies (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot, appropriately fabulous to behold) were forced to go undercover in the subtle social labyrinth of American suburbia? A place where you risked blowing your cover by not knowing which dress to wear …
Bar mitzvah mania, all for laughs and all for naught. Not so much as a snicker. Not so much as a snort. With Daryl Sabara, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz, Garry Marshall, Daryl Hannah, Doris Roberts, Cheryl Hines, and Richard Benjamin; directed by Scott Marshall.
For years, "The Reader" covered the local surf film festival before it became obvious that for every Big Wednesday and Storm Surfers 3D, there are an endless number of cookie-cutter variations content with placing a camera inside a curl and hoping for the best. It’s no secret that few provide …
Alan Hicks's documentary follows jazz giant Clark Terry over four years to document his mentorship of a 23-year-old blind piano prodigy, Justin Kauflin.
Boy (Thure Lindhardt) meets boy number two (Zachary Booth) while dialing for hookups, boy hooks up with boy number two and is then told not to get his hopes up, since boy number two has a girlfriend. But whaddya know, the boys eventually get together, and everything would be great …
Recipe for horror: Mix equal parts Saw, Halloween, Blair Witch, etc. with zero originality.
Lightly tweaked PR synopsis: Juliette Lewis is Kelly, a punk-rocker turned suburban mom who is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain about her future. Seventeen-year-old Cal (Jonny Weston) is frustrated because he's stuck in a wheelchair. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's …
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? You know — after dinner? How about watching Judi Dench in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale? Beats football.
“All great art has some element of humor to it.” These words-to-live-by come from art collector and publisher Peter Brandt when asked to boil down Kenny Scharf’s appeal. Scharf was a child of television cartoon culture, equal parts Bob Clampett’s Wackyland and what he liked to call “Hanna-Barbarism” mainlined through …