While investigating some realistic-looking forged bills, international thief Lupin III stumbles across a national conspiracy that dates back hundreds of years. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
The promise of a Polish musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s tenebrous fairy tale The Little Mermaid, set against the backdrop of a happening ‘80s strip club, proved too good to be true. Director Agnieszka Smoczynska acknowledges a side of the author that Disney dare not touch — “Mommy, how …
Under the rare "NC-17" rating, filmmaker Ang Lee shows his high-mindedness by keeping us waiting an hour and a half for the hot stuff (borderline hardcore action, laced with S&M;, the doll-faced newcomer Tang Wei as an unprotesting sex toy), and another hour and ten minutes still to go. What …
Kirk Douglas, typecast for anguish, as Vincent van Gogh; and Anthony Quinn, typecast for Best Supporting Actor Oscars, as Paul Gauguin -- an intellectual pair if facial hair is any indication. And director Vincente Minnelli, reputed to be a "painterly" colorist, proves it by gazing studiously at the famous canvases. …
A bust. The secret to the hidden gold of Chili Verde is tattooed on two different women's bottoms: a gimmick very similar was tried in the spaghetti Western, The Stranger and the Gunfighter. Whether this movie has matched that one by design or by coincidence, its aim was very low. …
Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther Vandross tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson, and Roberta Flack.
A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary. The film also …
Balky adaptation of a Nabokov novel, set in Italy entre les guerres, about an antisocial chess master whose head is turned by a pretty socialite on the eve of the World Championship. John Turturro seems just the right man for the job, had he been given anything to work with. …
What’s a luzzu? A traditional Maltese fishing boat, an opalescent vessel bedecked in polychromatic hues with two eyes poking out from the bow. Alex Camilleri’s Luzzu is a modern day neorealist masterpiece. Alone, in a sea of nowhere, Jesmark (Jesmark Scicluna) carefully unloops a net in the water that is …
A 75-minute crash course on the 62-year-old singer, poet, and performance artist for those, like me, familiar with the name but not the work. You’ve heard of New Wave? Lydia’s aggressively insane contributions to music — she champions “unlistenability and unpopularity” — fall under the category No Wave. It’s a …
When the Primm family (Wu, Scoot McNairy, Winslow Fegley) moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle - a singing crocodile (Mendes) who loves baths, caviar and great music-living in the …