A triumph of casting: the magnificently gaunt and haggard John Hawkes as talented, horse-addicted jazz pianist Joe Albany, and the touchingly vulnerable and longing Elle Fanning as his daughter Amy Jo. (Glenn Close also gets in some fine licks as Joe’s long-suffering, tough-but-tender Mama.) A triumph also of visual mood: …
Shame's the name. Shamus is the game. And it doesn't get much lower down. Crude, clunky, stupid-alecky. (Sassy secretary: "What happened to you?" Roughed-up gumshoe: "I went partying with Rodney King and Reginald Denny.") Directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans; with Jada Pinkett, Salli Richardson, and Charles Dutton.
Gully cricket stars Gethu and Anbu have an intense rivalry. Anbu's romantic involvement with Gethu's daughter escalates the clash. Their skills and emotions are put to the ultimate test. Directed by Tamizharasan Pachamuthu, starring Harish Kalyan, Attakathi Dinesh, Swaswika, and Sanjana Krishnamoorthy.
In a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: he is a sea monster from another …
The initial situation is quite fertile, grounded as it is in something so nearly universal as the Pygmalion impulse. A fourteen-year-old misfit -- academically "accelerated," a devotee of classical music, a connoisseur but not a collector of insects -- is the first person to lay eyes on the new girl …
What has more masked participants than an Eyes Wide Shut Halloween orgy? Lucha libre! Directors Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz play up the local color, moving from arena to arena in pursuit of today’s biggest names in the CMLL, Mexico’s World Wrestling Council. (The last half hour of my life …
Crowd-pleasing, or anyway crowd-courting, feminist fairy tale about the liberating experience of having your husband kidnapped: you meet such nice neighbors (a whitebeard Commie freedom fighter, a curly-headed calendar boy), and you have such wild and wacky adventures. This product of the advertised "Mexican New Wave" has less in common …
A psalm to the Strong Woman and to the force and ferocity of her love, based on a true story of a Resistance leader's wife who wrested her man from the clutches of the Gestapo. Writer-director Claude Berri (who has treated the WWII period before, in The Two of Us …
Go behind the scenes of the most infamous episode in game show history, as an ice cream truck driver harboring a powerful secret charms his way onto Press Your Luck. Starring Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, David Strathairn, and Maisie Williams. Directed by Samir Oliveros.