Or, One More Reason Why the Middle East Hates the West. Back, back, back to the 12th Century, back to before the Third Crusade ("To kill an infidel is not murder, it is the path to heaven"), equipped with cultural relativism, vats of blood, miles of slow-motion, and wave after …
The bad guys are winning. The disappeared get dissolved in diesel. And yet some folks keep fighting. Written and directed by Bernardo Ruiz.
Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that …
Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that …
Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that …
Efficient little horror movie, in the creepy-crawly genre, keeps a level head and doesn't let matters get out of hand until nearly the end. Throughout the tightly regulated buildup, the most admirable quality on display is the towering dignity of Woody Strode, a weary rancher out of a Walker Evans …
Or, Heavy Hangs the Head That Used to Wear the Crown. For 40 years, starting in 1970, chef Georges Perrier held court in his private, prosperous kingdom: Le Bec Fin, a classic French restaurant in Philadelphia. The kind of place where the sauce is everything, and butter and cream are …
The thesis, so to speak, of one of the Danish founding fathers of the Dogma 95 school, Kristian Levring: a kind of survival tale in which a busload of travellers from a broken-down airplane are driven the wrong way into the African desert in the dark, where they run out …
The 1933 original by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (gorilla by Willis O'Brien) about the mammoth jungle beast brought back, in harness, to sophisticated Manhattan, where it throws a fit and gets pounded into the pavement for its natural impulses. The film has been matched in situation and …
King Kong and Godzilla have been the subjects of many "who would win" debates and the two fight their way across Japan, leaving a lot of damage in their wake. Released in the U.S. in 1963 by Universal Pictures.
Twelve-pound ham: Michael Douglas, looking like an escapee of Treasure Island, as a bipolar jazzman dragging along his long-suffering daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) on a quixotic quest for a buried cache of 17th-century doubloons. The background music keeps insisting, to no avail, that this is a romp. Colorful bit part …
Nice idea; nice execution. A self-styled but totally untested comic named Rupert Pupkin and a female groupie named Masha kidnap a Johnny Carson-ish late-night talk-show host, each for their own private ends, Pupkin to extract a fifteen-minute guest spot on The Jerry Langford Show and the groupie to fulfill her …
One of Philippe de Broca's sticky confections. Music-box melodies, fairy-tale costumes, and prance-y performances are enlisted to demonstrate that war is not nice and that the inmates of a funny farm are saner than the people wheeling and dealing in the real world. With Alan Bates.