A young Filipino sailor is confronted with the stark reality of racial tension aboard a Naval ship.
Paul Schrader’s 2017 film First Reformed gave us a solitary man who is keeping a journal; who deals with an intense and intimate crisis before learning that the real enemy is larger, more powerful, and less personal; and who just might find salvation via a compassionate woman. Then, 2021’s The …
A network marketing scam reveals layers of corruption. The Korean action thriller was hailed by critic Joe Bendel as "the closest we'll ever get to seeing Lee Byung-hun playing Bernie Madoff."
If they’d spent half as much time on the jokes, relationships, characters, and yes, even plot as they did on the late ‘90s wardrobe, goofy hairstyling, and tacky makeup…it might have been a fun film about bumbling white trash looking to better its lot via $17 million armored-car heist. (Has …
A vehicle to showcase Dana Carvey's skills as a mimic: an Indian snake charmer, a human turtle, an English dowager, a suave Scotland Yard inspector, Al Pacino in Scarface, Robert Shaw in Jaws, George W. Bush (not nearly as authoritative as his Bush, Sr., on Saturday Night Live), and -- …
Prince Adam crashes to Earth as a child and is separated from the Sword of Power. Fifteen years later, he retrieves the sword, returns to a shattered Eternia, and joins forces with Teela and Man-At-Arms to defeat the tyrannical Skeletor. The live-action reboot of a vintage television cartoon series is …
Milap Zaveri directed and cowrote this Bollywood sex comedy starting Sunny Leone in a dual role. In Hindi.
Smarty-pants comedy-thriller written and directed by Richard Shepard. Pierce Brosnan, producer and star, further purges himself of James Bond (if The Tailor from Panama didn't do the trick) in his garish portrayal of "a facilitator of fatalities" who befriends a timid American businessman on a job in Mexico: "For an …
Above-average Almodóvar, about a perverse union of la petite mort and just la mort. It is not above average in laughs (female cop responding to a killingly handsome young man's self-accusation of rape: "Some girls have all the luck!"); it is above average by virtue of its lower overall voracity …
Stephen Higgins’s and Nina Gilden Seavey’s digital documentary on Spanish bullfighting, mostly on the individual quest of the young torero David Fandila, “El Fandi,” to become only the thirteenth in history to do a hundred corridas in a single season. Though the filmmakers aren’t there when he finally does it, …
Intimate musical documentary portrait of Maya Arulpragasam (aka M.I.A.), the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
Mateo’s refusal to listen to his younger sister Emilia’s (Tamara Rocca) voicemail or return a phone call finds the 17-year-old drawn to their Aunt Ines’ (Ana Brun) remote, well-timbered lodge while en route to her brother’s unknown whereabouts. Mystery surrounds Mateo: Emilia’s appearance at his workplace gives his suspicious boss …
One immediately senses something amiss when a violent, homophobic cop (Matthew Lillard) is called upon to chaperone his wife’s (Carla Gugino) dissertation interview with an eccentric, 70-year-old Juilliard dance instructor (Patrick Stewart). The cunning, double-dealing dialog held promise for a good thirty minutes into the show. Working from his play …
A movie to put a smile on your face, even if it can't keep it there: the gentle political comedy yields too graciously to the routine romantic comedy. Janeane Garofalo, a campaign worker for a Massachusetts Senator desperately behind in the polls, is dispatched to Ireland to trace the candidate's …