The anime adventures of anime schoolgirls, based on the popular television series.
The grief-sticken widower of a carbon-monoxide suicide (he cannot bring himself to read her note) takes up the hobby of sniffing gasoline, and then the hobby of remote-control model airplanes (initially as a cover for the smell of gas around the house). An emotionally unrestrained but nonetheless static little film, …
Women's-issues forum on body image, sexuality, maternal instinct, career, the whole can of worms. Issues, it would be fair to say, in search of a movie, if not in search of characters. Brenda Blethyn is the middle-aged mother whose two biological daughters have flown the nest, though not as far …
Fourteen-year-old rape and murder victim, marooned in “the in-between," a/k/a "the blue horizon" dividing life and afterlife, continues to watch over her family, friends, and unapprehended killer, a quintessential creep who looks to be guiltily, self-incriminatingly, in disguise: Stanley Tucci with a blond comb-over hairpiece, paste-on matching mustache, aviator glasses, …
The newly married Molly (Gretchen Lodge) goes back to her dad's old home and is freaked by old memories that have turned supernatural. The low-budget spooker was directed by Eduardo Sánchez.
Rita, a wilful and unruly teenager, is on the verge of womanhood. Her sexual awakening leads her to intimacy with a schoolboy, too young, and a bus driver, too old. Rita’s efforts to break out of her solitude and claustrophobic environment isolate her even more, until one day she crosses …
Two schoolchildren, bound together by a spirit of anarchy and a never-ending game of "dares," can't escape the binds as they go their separate ways into adulthood: an unwinning combination of the cute and the cruel. The most "daring" escapade is perhaps the pillow fight that has the nerve to …
If you're going to do a biopic of Brian Wilson, the musical mind behind an unconventional album like the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, you probably ought to break convention, even if it's just a little bit. Director Bill Pohlad serves up a healthy portion of the standard stuff: bad dad, …
The introductory sequence, in which the rhythmic noises of early-morning Paris are worked into a massive musical number, is in the style of Disney's Silly Symphonies. In most other areas, this Rouben Mamoulian musical is in the style of Ernst Lubitsch (Mamoulian's musicals skip wildly in style, from the gritty …
A telegraphed musical romance clean enough and sweatless enough for the Lifetime Channel. Maybe also the Hallmark Channel. A slim, pretty, blond schoolteacher, saddled with a preoccupied, stocky, bald fiancé, finds a new love and a true lover when a hearing-impaired swing dancer visits the school for a motivational speech. …
The story of two lonely and impoverished elderly lovers. Directed by Han Yan, starring: Ni Dahong, Kara Hui, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Cecilia Yip, and Cheng Guo.