A trained assassin (Simon Pegg) looks on as a dentist (Sullivan Stapleton) and his wife (Teresa Palmer, slowly going from drab to fab) kill a patient (Alice Braga) to cash in on an insurance policy switcheroo. Director Kriv Stenders divulges the murder, chases it with a discursive second act flashback, …
An art dealer (Uma Thurman) teams with a hitman (Joe Manganiello) and his boss (Samuel L. Jackson) for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
Jonathan Hensleigh reheats the old pasta of Coppola and Scorsese gangster films. He adds meaty Irish stew: Danny Greene, a slab-fitted Cleveland thug and “friend of the working man.” Ray Stevenson plays him with steamroller force, though his sensitive eyes make him seem like an odd merger of Colin Firth …
San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb sparked furious debate when a piece he wrote alleged that Nicaraguans, hired by CIA-supported Contras, smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was later transformed into crack and distributed in African-American communities. (The story broke in January 1998, but was overshadowed by headline-grabbing …
A commanding title with a game cast, slugging their hearts out to bring a fascinating, seldom-told story to life. But all first-time writer-director John Krokidas can spoon up is detached melodrama. In 1944, Lucien Carr (Leo DiCaprio’s eerie "evil twin," Dane DeHaan), one of the forgotten members of the "Beat …
Eugene Domingo does double duty as Dora and Kimmy in this tale of a haunted girl who will herself haunt your waking dreams.
Tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small and slightly dubious Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” But what starts as an homage to cinema quickly becomes a rescue …
While checking out an abandoned building, Eli (Myles Truitt), a 14-year-old scrap metal thief, happens across a decapitated alien (with neck-embers still aglow) clutching an intergalactic weapon the size and shape of a Casio keyboard. It’s now up to the writing-directing team of Jonathan Baker and Josh Baker to build …
Unsteady balance of very light comedy and moderately heavy drama, to do with a tough cop under cover as a kindergarten teacher. Arnold Schwarzenegger, slow on the double-take, slower still on the punch-line, does little to hold up comedy's end. Carroll Baker, however, has ripened beautifully into a battleaxe role …
A teacher discovers that one of her students is a prodigy, and sets out to nourish his gift. Complications ensue. Directed by Nadav Lapid. Subtitled.
The film follows a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined …
The film follows a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined …
Three troubled Israeli siblings get a little more troubled when their mom dies and then their dad tells them that he might not actually be their dad. Road trip! Written and directed by Shemi Zarhin. In French and Hebrew with English subtitles.