Claude Sautet's portraits of the French bourgeoisie are sometimes accused of being rather more celebratory than critical of "the good life," but the truth is he's not interested in propagandizing one way or the other. The compassion in his point of view is a measure of his refusal to divorce, …
There will be fighting!
Three college buddies - Manoj (Ram Nithin), Ashok (Nithin Narne), and Damodar (Sangeeth Shobhan) - navigate campus life and get into wild adventures. Starring Narne Nithiin, Sangeeth Shobhan, Ram Nitin, Priyanka Jawalkar and others. Directed by Kalyan Shankar.
Three happy-go-lucky guys - Manoj (Ram Nithin), Ashok (Narne Nithin), and Damodhar (Sangeeth Shoban) - are studying in an engineering college. They kill time by being involved in petty fights. Manoj falls for Shruthi (Gouri Priya), while Jenni (Ananthika) loves Ashok. Damodhar is the kind of guy who isn’t interested …
The original title, Jane Austen's Mafia!, was shortened for the publicity campaign, although the whole of it still appears on screen in the final print. We may presume that this joke did not "score" particularly well with the test-screening audiences or market-survey groups (giving them false expectations, perhaps, of a …
A suburban mom unexpectedly inherits her grandfather's Mafia empire. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, and Sophia Nomvete.
Alberto Lattuada's "Family" film. It tells of a toplofty foreman at a Fiat factory in Milan, portrayed by that Italian national icon, Alberto Sordi (Fellini's The White Sheik and I Vitelloni, most prestigiously), whose balloon-like ego, perilously puffed up and easily pricked, stretches well across the border between comedy and …
Killian Maddox is consumed by his dream of becoming a world famous bodybuilder and one day gracing the cover of fitness magazines. He lives a lonely, regimented life, and his relentless drive for perfection only pushes him deeper towards self destruction, but beneath his tenacious pursuit of superstardom lies a …
Something more for the Catholic Church to endure: a crusading exposé of the workhouses for "fallen women" run by Irish nuns. (Laundries, more exactly, but that can't justify the washed-out color.) Set in the mid-1960s, it follows three girls into captivity: a rape victim (in a well-staged opening scene at …
Come for Arnold Schwarzenegger's wrinkled visage and grizzled beard; stay for Abigail Breslin's fine teen-facing-death pathos. The killer disease is the necroambulatory virus; she's slowly turning into a flesh-eating zombie, and everybody knows it. What to do in the meantime is hard to figure out, but the harrowing events — …
Maggie’s (Greta Gerwig) plan is to get the man (Ethan Hawke) who left his wife for her to go back to said wife (Julianne Moore). Also starring Maya Rudolph and New York City. Adapted and directed by Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack and Rose).
The old gimmick of the ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, good enough for a short-story segment in Dead of Night, good enough for a Twilight Zone episode, but blown up here to feature length and rather maddeningly devoid of any invention or embellishment which might justify such …