They cast wasn’t kidding when they sang S.O.S., because if ever there was a case of same old shit, it’s this. Like being forcibly breastfed impalpable cheer for two hours, Mamma Mia! was a colorful travelogue bestrewn with sweeping shots of movie stars vacationing on Universal’s dime and doing calisthenics …
They cast wasn’t kidding when they sang S.O.S., because if ever there was a case of same old shit, it’s this. Like being forcibly breastfed impalpable cheer for two hours, Mamma Mia! was a colorful travelogue bestrewn with sweeping shots of movie stars vacationing on Universal’s dime and doing calisthenics …
Roundabout romantic comedy starting with a travelling saleslady at a mom-and-pop-and-son motel in arid Arizona, where she catches the eye and the fancy of the socially inept son. The operational details of the Kingman Motor Inn are ingratiating, but the relationship details are grating. Steve Zahn’s “growth” from a stunted …
Chandra Sekhar Yeleti directs and cowrites this tale of a supermarket assistant manager. There's more to it than that, but that's definitely part of it. In Telugu.
With this, his sixth feature, the previously unknown Claude Lelouch became the Grand Prize recipient at the Cannes festival, an Oscar winner in the Foreign Film category, one of the most financially liberated of filmmakers, and a stylist — shooting quickly, mobilely, on the road, and from the hip — …
Those who always thought that A Man And a Woman was little more than a soap opera will find much evidence here to support their claim, although they will not have persuaded some of the rest of us that that is a bad thing. The idea of picking up a …
When a lonely goatherd discovers that he has been cursed at birth to never take a wife, he makes a bargain with a reclusive witch to reverse the spell, only to find that if he can't complete her three impossible tasks, he will never find true love. Featuring Sean Astin, …
Depressingly low-ambition action film about a muscle-bound DEA agent on the trail of revenge for the cross-fire murder of his wife. Or more realistically, about Vin Diesel on the trail of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, take your pick. (The bass tones and the …
A test of stomach-strength: cold-blooded serial murder, a vat of gore, a bucket of vomit. Any takers? The story is told through the lens of a low-budget documentary film crew (grainy black-and-white), following the killer on his rounds. The complicity of the filmmakers-within-the-film and the personality of the protagonist -- …
A stark naked Richard Harris, scampering around the glorious American West landscape, is a bit too aggressive a beginning. But the story of a lordly British hunter who is taken captive by Indians and climbs up the tribal social ladder is written by Dorothy Johnson, and consequently it works its …
Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks) is a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. Otto is ready to end it all, but his plans are interrupted when a lively young family moves in next door, and he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol. …
What is a cynic other than a failed romantic? Director Hannes Holm adapts Fredrik Backman’s popular German novel about a know-it-all curmudgeon (Rolf Lassgård) who, after being let go from 43 years on the job, turns his attention to the project of making the lives of his fellow condo association …
Some films you watch to escape from the frequently painful and/or difficult reality of life. Pacific Rim, perhaps. Some films you watch to impose a satisfactory narrative onto the seemingly random chaos of life. Casablanca, maybe. And some films you watch to enter more deeply into life — the difficulty, …