Aimless, almost effortless rock documentary, shot at a moldie-oldie concert in New York (Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, the Shirelles, etc.) and riddled with small doses of unidentified Fifties data (newsclips, TV shows, movies). It constantly reminds you of pleasurable entertainments you would rather be watching than this one; and the …
When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s wealthier residents, parents, students and educators fight for the elementary school’s survival.
Why retire at 70, particularly when you’re Pulitzer Prize-winning Alice Hughes (Meryl Streep) and you have a manuscript that’s due soon — though nowhere near completion — and a new literary agent (Gemma Chan) with fingers crossed that it will be a followup to your most famous work? Perhaps a …
It's produced by Sean Hannity. Enough said.
Bullied blond Swedish schoolboy meets dark and dusky Miss Tween Vampire. Slow, almost ludicrously sensitive, ninety-five-percent realistic and unfantastic. The other five percent houses some mild chills: the girl’s monkeylike shimmy up the outside wall of a hospital; the mass cat attack on a new vampire convert; the sweat and …
There’s a very good chance that the love of Isabelle’s (Juliette Binoche) life will always be someone else. The divorcee goes through men quicker than Billy Jack could kick apart a patient procession of would-be attackers, and that includes her ex-husband (Laurent Grévill). There’s the piggish banker (Xavier Beauvois), whose …
The Tri-Oceanic Mining Corporation stumbles (literally) onto a sunken Russian ship and a buried experimental treasure: Homo aquaticus (part-Dracula, part-Body Snatcher, part-Alien, part-Creature from the Black Lagoon). Rudimentary monster movie, with a leisurely start and frantic finish. Peter Weller, Amanda Pays, Richard Crenna; directed by George P. Cosmatos.
Two gay teenagers, Naim and Ryan, live in a devoutly religious small town. After their relationship is discovered, a "deliverance healer" casts a curse on them, forcing the boys to escape a violent, shape-shifting entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other. Australian supernatural queer …
A falsely modest title, or falsely lightweight, for a pious parable about a contrite murderer in quest of atonement: cozying up to his victim's sister after twenty-three years in confinement, carrying her groceries, presenting her a rose, keeping his identity to himself. Billy Bob Thornton plays the slow-witted, humor-impaired protagonist …
Ain't no "will they or won't they" like a "will they or won't they" about a couple of Brits (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) spending a weekend in Paris, precisely 30 years after their honeymoon visit to the City of Light. It turns out the problem with going on vacation …
The title character in this animated feature is voiced by Erick Elias, the actor whose pipes previously graced the Spanish versions of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and its sequel, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. This will be Elias' first dubbing role in a Mexican animated film.
Alberto Rodriguez directs and co-writes this fourth installment in the animated Leyenda series. In Spanish with English subtitles.