Volcanoes are responsible for creating the conditions for life to flourish on Earth, but they unpredictably still create through destruction. An adventurous photographer attempts a descent into a fiery crater.
It takes a strong couple to weather life’s battery of unfolding events, particularly when the topic shifts from the petty (pubic hair on a cake of Ivory) to what to do when one’s ex, and the absentee father of their son, is given a death sentence. If Chito refers to …
Another week, another celebrity documentary at the Ken. Z-z-z-z-z-z-z.
Adult Toy Story. Adult as in, the person playing with the toys is an adult: Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell), an artist who has lost both his memory and his ability to draw following a brutal beating that stems from his drunken barroom admission that he likes to wear women’s shoes. …
Why does beautiful boy Jonah hide under his bed at night to do his writing and drawing? Let’s see now. He’s a sensitive soul growing up in exile — macho Dad is of Puerto Rican extraction and vulnerable Mom is a white girl from Brooklyn, but the bunch of them …
A film about dementia that’s more than an Oscar-trolling showcase for its attached actors. First-time writer/director Elizabeth Chomko infuses her characters with varying degrees of impulsive unceremoniousness and unanticipated comedic curlicues that make it hard not to love watching this extraordinary cast get a handle on grief. (Not since Carl …
Bert Marcus and Cyrus Saidi's documentary explores the past, present and future of electronic dance music.
Romance blossoms in Nazi Germany when a bi-racial teen falls for a member of the Hitler Youth. Scott Marks is all over this one.
How did you misspend your youth? Richard Wershe Jr. (Richie Merritt) was a street hustler, drug dealer, and FBI informant. All he did it all before turning 16! Seasoned TV director Yann Demange tries his hand at a theatrical feature.
For his third outing as a director, Ralph Fiennes gives the title, star billing, and great majority of screen time to Oleg Ivenko in his turn as famed Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who also famously defected from the Soviet Union in 1963. But he keeps the keys to the …
A group of gangster widows, led with tigerish confidence by Viola Davis, find their husbands’ blueprint for a heist and decide to try their hands at robbery. Widows peaks when focusing on the crime at hand. Basing his story on a pair of six-part Thames Television mini-series from the 80’s, …