More than the direction and screenplay, the bulk of the praise for the overall look and polish of the staging deserves to be shared by cinematographer Alice Brooks, production designer Nelson Coates, and location scouts Kendall Waldman and Matthew H. Wiesner. This is how to open up a play for …
More than the direction and screenplay, the bulk of the praise for the overall look and polish of the staging deserves to be shared by cinematographer Alice Brooks, production designer Nelson Coates, and location scouts Kendall Waldman and Matthew H. Wiesner. This is how to open up a play for …
Thinking he’s a shoo-in for the second-in-command spot at a deluxe French resort, a designing lawyer (Guillaume Canet) whose ambitions far exceed his needs finds his allegiance to his biggest client and boss (Catherine Deneuve) pushed to the limit after another is hired in his place. Skillfully playing mother (Deneuve) …
There is a spot on God’s green earth, Ukerewe Island in Tanzania to be exact, where witch doctors continue to prescribe the severed limbs of albinos as good luck charms to patients looking for eternal prosperity. After a rash of 43 murders, two men with albinism — Vedastus, a teenager …
An unnatural disaster in which a ragtag team of professional storm chasers joins forces with other recent graduates of a drama workshop to prove once and for all that stick figures can survive a series of green screen tornadoes. Director/CGI chaser Steven Quale’s fetishistic found-footage approach leaves plenty of room …
Melodrama combines with a scarcely populated subgenre of my own creation — narratives that don’t get around to flipping their hold cards until minutes before the house lights rise — to fashion a 66-minute masterwork that, in its own subtle fashion, ponders the emboldenment of humanity. The audience is hit …
Charlie (Dennis Quaid), a locked-and-loaded delusional narcissist whose view of life is shaded by a red baseball cap, refuses to budge from his property even after its sale to a young couple (Meagan Good as Annie and Michael Ealy as Scott) has been finalized. Who can blame a guy if …
Too long since your gut’s had a good churning? The Invitation was sent out for a tight-knit group of friends (and a couple of hand-picked interlopers) to gather at a dinner party that initially had all the makings of a crisis intervention. Crisis, indeed! Arbitration? Not likely. It takes about …
With charisma to spare, the ever-appealing Donnie Yen returns in the continuing saga of martial arts grandmaster Wing Chun. Part 3 finds Chun using his formidable might to help save a local school from falling into the hands of crime lord Mike Tyson, who comes off remarkably well until called …
During his fight against the Nazis, Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) forced a pair of enemy soldiers to dig a hole that, in the few seconds it took to fire off a few rounds, became their eternal resting place. Little did the soldier know at the time, but this “follow …
A big time political strategist (Steve Carell), still stinging from Mrs. Clinton’s loss, spends the summer in South Carolina, helping to turn a retired veteran (Chris Cooper) into the Democratic mayor of a small conservative town. If you’re determined to pattern a Red State/Blue State variation on Frank Capra, there …
To answer Rodgers and Hart’s titular query, not in the least bit. A face-plant into a subway I-beam ushers in the premise of living life in a PG-13 rom-com, but not before Natalie (Rebel Wilson) brings work buddy Whitney (Betty Gilpin) up to speed on her contempt for the genre. …