Sacha Gervasi’s wily documentary on an obscure Canadian metal band, still sticking together and struggling for acceptance twenty years past their stumpy peak. It would no doubt have brought to mind Rob Reiner’s rock mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap, even had the drummer in Anvil not been named Robb Reiner, …
Anxious Nation takes a deep look into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially its crippling impact on kids and families. The film gently sets out to lift the veil of shame off talking about mental health, giving insights into how and where anxiety shows up in …
West Hollywood, 1979. A carefree female impersonator (Alan Cumming) and a closeted D.A. (Garret Dillahunt) engage in a one night stand, and in no time they’re a couple immersed in a custody battle to adopt a 14-year-old (Isaac Leyva) with Down Syndrome. (The boy’s mother is serving time for drug …
Oliver Stone's blitz of professional football. Long (almost three hours long, almost JFK and Nixon long), loud, hyperbolic, frenetic, chaotic, trite, cynical, sentimental, sanctimonious. And ill-informed. Stone seems to believe that a touchdown counts seven points; that playoff stats are added on to regular-season totals; that both sides in a …
Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) look like the perfect couple. But after an amazing first date, something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults …
Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) look like the perfect couple. But after an amazing first date, something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults …
Bea (Sydney Sweeney) and Ben (Glen Powell) look like the perfect couple. But after an amazing first date, something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold - until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults …
Custom-made platform for the ingratiating Isabel Rose (who co-wrote the screenplay with director Robert Cary), as a small-time, starry-eyed cabaret singer who styles herself after the Golden Age goddesses of the silver screen: Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, whoever suits her mood. She comes in for plenty of sympathy, some of …
Although centered around Jason Biggs, this is still, inimitably, a Woody Allen film. Billie Holiday on the soundtrack. Diana Krall right up there on screen (flatteringly shot against a backdrop of molten red). Allusions to Camus, Sartre, Dostoevski, Auden, Fitzgerald, etc. Usages of "polymath," "paucity," "porcine," "homunculus" (in reference here …
One long string of banalities about the mortification of being a studious quiet high-school girl with a flighty brassy pushy mom. (Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon, respectively.) The slums-of-Beverly-Hills milieu was better captured in The Slums of Beverly Hills, as was, for that matter, the feeling of adolescent mortification. The periodic …
Same which way as Every Which Way but Loose; in other words, no which way but lousy. There is, though, a fairly nice introduction and buildup of the chief antagonist, played by William Smith, who is named the same as, and even looks a bit like, the Jack Palance character …