Wry and dry comedy about a team of Swedish efficiency experts who descend upon a Norwegian village to study scientifically the kitchen habits of bachelors. The observers are to perch on a high chair in an out-of-the-way corner of the room, under strict instructions never to interact with their subjects. …
From the Khaled Hosseini novel, directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction), a story about a storyteller, and in large part a story truly worthy of a storyteller. The remaining parts are hackneyed and/or hokey. Main elements: two boyhood pals in Kabul, 1978, the sons of master and …
Social consciousness for kids, an orgy of benevolence, generosity, trust, fellowship, and so on, among the needy in Depression-era Cincinnati, with a few not-very-nice party poopers thrown in as object lessons. The lachrymose Abigail Breslin, in the title role of a ten-year-old cub reporter, has plenty of opportunity to promote …
Akiyuki Shinbo and Tatsuya Oishi direct this vampire hunter anime tale. In Japanese.
The starting point of NISIOISIN's MONOGATARI series.
The title translates as Wound Story Part 1: Iron Blood. A young man offers his blood to save a vampire's life. Then things get crazy. Directed by Tatsuya Oishi. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Recorded live on May 28 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN, it's the only fan-voted award show in Christian entertainment.
Documentary covering a two-night gospel concert event in Colorado.
Jane Fonda is allowed to talk out much of her characterization of a pricey Manhattan call girl, by way of tape recordings, phone calls, psychiatric sessions. But while maintaining a sympathetic and an open ear, director Alan Pakula appears to be distracted by the problems of fitting her, just so, …
Perfect strangers all over Madrid are making appointments to meet at Puerta del Sol on a scorching summer day. A comedy of missed connections and mistaken identities -- slight, sleazy, unamusing. With Carlos Fuentes, Mercé Pons, Jesús Cabrero, Alberto San Juan, Concha Valasco; written and directed by Juan Luis Iborra …
When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother …
A winning political strategist (Rob Lowe) is taken by a sudden case of the guilts in this lumpy, predictable comedy. An attractive cast does its best to buoy the political satire, but writer/director Bill Guttentag has other plans. According to Lowe, “To win in politics, you have got to be …
A campy, knife-wielding maniac mystery set 40 years in the past gets in the way of what might have been an otherwise provocative romance between low-rent Parisian pornographers: producer Anne (Vanessa Paradis) and her editor/at odds lover Lois (Kate Moran). A leather-enshrouded phantom, armed with naught but a switchblade dildo …