A Spanish English teacher who is just crazy about The Beatles sets out to meet John Lennon, who happens to be in Spain shooting How I Won the War. Along the way, he picks up a couple of young hitchhikers: a sullen mop-top, and a lovely girl in the family …
Directorial debut of screenwriter Richard LaGravenese (The Bridges of Madison County), a slightly fawning women's picture about starting over after the derailment of a sixteen-year marriage and striking up unconventional new relationships with a blues singer and a bereaved elevator operator. In the early going, LaGravenese does some creative things …
Black Pride fairy tale about an Atlanta "homeboy" whose dream comes true: he lands a job as a local newscaster, only it has the nightmarish drawback of turning him bit by bit into a white man. There's a chastening moral to the tale, and a contradictory (or amoral) happy ending. …
This star-studded tribute brings into focus Liza Minnelli's life starting in the 1970s, just after the death of her mother Judy Garland, as she confronts a range of personal and professional challenges. Over these years, Liza seeks out mentors: Kay Thompson, Fred Ebb, Charles Aznavour, Halston, and Bob Fosse. Includes …
Writer Bryce Kass cobbles together every juicy detail from the many theories regarding the 1892 real-life murder of well-to-do New Englanders Mr. and Mrs. Borden, quite possibly at the hands of their adult daughter Lizzie: the forbidden yearnings between Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) and the family maid (Kristen Stewart), Lizzie’s stigmatizing …
Werner Herzog turns his unsparing eye on the no-longer-uppercase (perhaps because of its unspecial ubiquity) internet. He starts with the good: never before have so many been able to share so much so easily. Heck, we’re crowdsourcing medical breakthroughs! Someday, we might make phone calls to a colony on Mars! …
Expands writer-director Yrgos Lanthimos's linguistic palette to include English, and widens his hermetic vision from a modest suburban household to an imperious resort, where recently dumped schlub David (Colin Farrell) joins a group of lonelyhearts with exactly one thing in common: they have 45 days to find a romantic replacement …
George Gallo’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film, extra-earnest, middling-maudlin, about a teenage old-fashioned representational landscape painter who nuzzles under the wing of a cantankerous old Russian impressionist, one summer in Pennsylvania in the mid-Seventies (that’s 1970s, not 1870s). It dishes out a lot of fundamental art talk, only once verging on the …
The plotline concerns the efforts of a Texas oil tycoon to purchase a Scottish fishing village, lock, stock, and barrel, as the site for a mammoth refinery. But plot is not the main thing here. This is a movie of character and, even more, of setting, and of the effect …
When Eddie (Bill Skarsgård) breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William (Anthony Hopkins), a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is …