So what connection do you think there could possibly be between UFOs and heroin? You'll never guess -- or rather, you'll never know. Whatever it is that the extraterrestrials need with narcotics (a need that is expressed in the psychedelic optics of the late Sixties), it is satisfied just as …
Mischievous-teenager thriller, in the I Saw What You Did mode: mechanical, but well-built and well-operated, with gentle pressure on the gas pedal until finally flooring it at the climax. The perky teeny-boppers and the smiling psycho (known to the newspapers as "the Candlelight Killer") are straight out of cookie cutters, …
A misunderstood teenager finds happiness with her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse. After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness… and a few missing body parts along the way.
Film document of the concert tour that took place from September to December of 2023, featuring LiSA's 6th original album Lander with 19 dates across all across Japan.
A pleasingly modest debut from writer-director Khalil Sullins: if you can't afford to depict a Tony Stark-level laboratory, you can rejoice in the fact that Steve Jobs built the first Apple computer in his garage. The (literally) hungry young inventors in this case are working on a brain patch that …
Rabid underdoggism in "the scariest, most fascinating sport on the face of the planet" -- namely, college debate; more namely, two freshmen from little Kenmont up against mighty Harvard, on national TV in front of the U.S. Supreme Court (topic: abortion). What passes as intellection ("I'd like to sum up …
Marlon Brando left behind hundreds of hours of audio-taped autobiography (and some home movies) for documentary director Stevan Riley to effectively make over as the world’s first talking cyber-head documentary. What appears to be an unfledged 3D recreation of Brando’s head informs us that before his death, the actor posed …
John Huston tries his hand at a much softer-boiled detective story than The Maltese Falcon, a more genteel one, a mere gambol. (And his attitude in Falcon had already been overly sportive.) The "classical" sleuth (George C. Scott) is on the trail of a Master of Disguise, and several heavily …
What happens when an underprivileged teen becomes surrogate son to the mother whose boy he haphazardly kills? First time writer-director Sara Colangelo explores the aftermath of several little accidents as seen through the eyes of three generations of mining families wracked by a tragic explosion and soon braided together by …
Scriptwriter Philippa Goslett and director Paul Morrison ask us to take an interest in three pretentious students in post-WWI Spain on the grounds that their names are Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, and Salvador Dalí. Inasmuch as all three are dark young men of similar age, it would be difficult …
Family pablum about an eleven-year-old baseball fan (Luke Edwards) who inherits the Minnesota Twins from his granddad, installs himself as their manager ("It's the American League. They got the DH. How hard can it be?"), and learns that he wants still to be a kid. High on decency, low on …
Dustin Hoffman is a Wild West schlemiel accompanied by a funky guitar through a Jerry Lewis-Peter Sellers-type Man of a Thousand Faces performance. Everything about this debunking of frontier mythology is extremely broad -- the acting, the humor, the satirical targets, and the balanced, bowl-shaped, conventionally Romantic landscapes. Director Arthur …
A teacher gives her all for her five impoverished kindergarten students in Hong Kong. Directed by Adrian Kwan.