Matthew Vaughn, producer of Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, tries his own hand at directing one of these tough and tricksy British crime thrillers: a brutal cutie. Well played by Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, George Harris, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Michael Gambon, among others, but …
Mark Duplass is not about to let his pretty lady Olivia Wilde die; not when he can pump her full of his Lazarus serum.
A friendly alien transmission arrives in 1977, and with it comes a keen-o indestructible superhero costume. For whatever reasons, the delivery is intercepted by four slobs; each finds himself the bearer of one piece of the armor. Though it arrived under the aegis “A YouTube Original” (oxymoron, anyone?), nothing prepared …
Instead of presenting a sweeping biographical portrait, Rob Reiner confines his narrative to the chapter in Lyndon Johnson’s life dealing with the Civil Rights Act, thus reducing the landmark decision to a plodding parable for our times. For suspense, Reiner intercuts the first half of the movie with Kennedy’s ill-fated …
Director and co-writer Alejandro Iglesias Mendizabal presents an everyday life epic in nine chapters. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Documentary covering the history of baseball's Negro League through the first half of the twentieth century. The story is told through previously unearthed archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with legendary players like Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil – whose early careers paved the way for the Jackie Robinson era – …
Yet another comic-book movie ("graphic-novel" movie, anyway), with no relation to the 1960 British caper comedy, The League of Gentlemen. The present gents, and one lady, are assuredly out of the ordinary, a Dream Team of Victorian fictional characters assembled to save the Empire from early termination: a senior-citizen Allan …
Jet Li stars in another entry in the "Chinese cinema just has more fun" category. Directed by Koan Hui and Vernie Yeung. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
If you know the difference between a quadrakill and a pentakill, you may enjoy this video game showdown.
Glistening vein of ore uncovered in sports history: the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, formed when the boys were away for World War II, and continuing for ten years after the inaugural year chronicled here. Unhappily, the pickaxe is in the hands of Penny Marshall, with her penchant for forced …
Andy Goldsworthy has formed such a bond with nature that he refers to tree trunks as phantom limbs. Using overcast days as his canvas, the environmentalist once again partners with nature for a belated follow-up to his influential, vastly regarded documentary Rivers and Tides. Whether crowd-surfing atop prickly branches or …
True story of the "nonpermissive" -- some would say "fascist" -- New Jersey high-school principal, Joe Clark, whose tough anti-drug stance is backed up with a Louisville Slugger. Morgan Freeman, a fine actor fully capable of playing a human being, is engaged instead to play an unqualified hero figure, a …
Helping a stranger change a flat tire results in a summer job at a racetrack for Charley (Charlie Plummer) in this well made but seriously downbeat tale of a teenager who learns the hard way that quarter horses and housepets don’t mix. (And those looking to pursue a career at …