Drama based on the infamous 1978 prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison. Dwight H. Little directs Heather Graham, Molly C. Quinn, Robert Patrick, and, in of his last performances, John Heard.
A lost film buried beneath the Killing Fields reveals different versions of the truth. Subtitled.
Marty Feldman, making his directorial debut, borrows heavily from others (especially from Mel Brooks, whose fervent love of old movies drives him to rape and pillage them), and he borrows from himself as well (once he uses a joke, he is more than likely to use it again). If he …
A Chicago furniture salesman books a family vacation in what turns out to be a tropical sex club. The place is run by a lot of Frenchmen whose English fails them whenever convenient; and there are armed guerrillas lurking in the jungle outside barbed-wire barriers. Bravely anachronistic comedy, with Charles …
Facing the realities of life’s ups and downs, three sisters reunite, after years of estrangement, to complete their beloved Grandmother’s pilgrimage through rural Mexico. When Maria (Marta Méndez Cross), the eldest, discovers that she has breast cancer, she cooks up a plan to bring her sisters Lucia (Valeria Maldonado) and …
American cyclist Greg LeMond is considered to be one of the greatest cyclists of all time, one who defied the odds for one of the most triumphant comeback stories in sporting history. The first, and only, American to win the Tour de France, LeMond came back from the brink of …
A 50-year-old man returns to the sport of bull riding after a crisis strikes his family.
Tom Cruise as "one of the most decorated warriors this nation has ever known," circa 1876, a tormented Civil War vet and Indian fighter who is hired as a mercenary to train the troops of the Japanese emperor to combat a renegade samurai, and who is then taken captive by …
Another (after Kill Me Again and Red Rock West) homage to film noir by John Dahl. More narrowly, an homage to the resident femme fatale (Linda Fiorentino, with hooded eye, clamped jaw, uninflected voice -- a cartoon figure). So awed is the filmmaker that he can throw up no resistance …
The basic situation -- that of an Anglo-Irish aristocracy whose long tenure in County Cork causes them to sympathize and identify with the Irish in their fight for independence, post-WWI, even though the Irish natives do not return the affection -- is inherently interesting, and is made more so, or …
Pamela Anderson stars as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Directed by Gia Coppola.
Miley Cyrus gets to shed her Hannah Montana alter ego for an insipid summer romance, thick with pop songs and montages, from the sparkless pen of Nicholas Sparks. The central character, a one-time piano prodigy accepted into Juilliard on past performance, though she hasn’t touched a keyboard in years, goes …
Weary screen warrior Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to Hollywood in a film about a cop who got old and left LA for an Arizona border town. But this being Arnold, trouble finds him. And this being Arizona, it's Mexican trouble (though — ha ha — this time it's a Mexican who …
Light sport made of a great figure, Tolstoy in his “eccentric” later years of anti-materialism, nonresistance, celibacy, vegetarianism, or, in short, Tolstoyanism. Under the starry eye of the author’s new secretary, a battle of wills, including a battle over the literal will, boils up between his leading disciple and his …
The second-best film to be made about a Holocaust survivor in the early stages of dementia (in this case an Argentinian named Abraham, played by Miguel Ángel Solá) who undertakes a perilous pilgrimage looking to come to terms with a moment in his past. Unfortunately there are only two films …