When Mara (Deragh Campbell), a young creative writing professor, reunites with Matt (Matt Johnson), a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction. Bonded by their history and shared interests, the two grow closer, while Mara contends with her …
An eccentric tycoon enlists a lowly waiter to be his personal taster, ostensibly to protect him from fish and cheese. But what's his real game? Vaguely intriguing psychological thriller, never very believable but never truly tiresome. With Jean-Pierre Lorit, Bernard Giraudeau, Florence Thomassin, Charles Berling, Jean-Pierre Léaud; directed by Bernard …
One might have hoped that if anybody could discipline Liza Minnelli, it would be her father. Unhappily, he only indulges her, giving her preposterous dream scenes and handsome escorts and gowns cut deep to the bust of her pudgy, rubber-doll figure -- the very things he gave to Barbra Streisand …
Directed by Jeremy Snead, this sci-fi drama, which also stars Ali Astin and Myles Erlick, follows a video game designer who acquires a device capable of stopping time
An unsentimental but emotional film for anyone who suspects in their heart of hearts that suffering really is the only thing that makes anyone worth a damn. Particularly if it is borne gracefully, but also if it’s not. Sometimes, it’s enough to simply remain in its presence. “Maudie” is Maud …
The Ivory-Merchant team, straight from their treatment of E.M. Forster's Room with a View, have moved on to his posthumous novel about a proper English gentleman who gives in to "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" (or "Oscar Wilde's disease") while at Cambridge in 1909, loses his initiator to a …
‘This is a true story.” The presence of this disclaimer (or a reasonable variation thereof) at the outset of a picture suggests a license to speak truth to power. But a corking yarn without a storyteller to spin it is a recipe for a flat soufflé. On paper, The Mauritanian …
Facetious Western travels through the familiar landscape of the genre, albeit with the figures in the landscape masked in inexplicable shade under bright sunshine and in mushy, brownish photography. It bypasses, meanwhile, the familiar moods, attitudes, emotions ("Amazing Grace" will get sung at a graveside, but only in jest), en …
The fight for individuality, for vive-la-différence, waged on a far-fetched battlefield: a seven-year-old boy who is adamant that he was meant to be a girl. Cute kid (Georges Du Fresne); credible mom (Michele Laroque); splashes of color and imagination. Directed by Alain Berliner.
It's hard to criticize a film like Max, which tells the story of a military dog (!) who develops Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after his Marine master is killed in ugly circumstances (spoiler!), and is eventually entrusted to the Marine's sulky younger brother. (You might sulk too if your big …
This could be lumped together with Only When I Laugh and I Ought to Be in Pictures, to form a sort of Generational Estrangement trilogy by Neil Simon. The surface is slick enough, but the fairy-tale storyline -- a drop-out father drops back in after twenty-eight years, bearing a briefcase …
Van Damme as twins again (remember Double Impact?), but mainly as a morose French cop who doesn't meet his mirror image until the latter is under a sheet, and who then sets out to get to "know" his brother and simultaneously to find his killers (Russian mobsters, rogue FBI men). …
Inspired by his bestselling book, author Max Lucado invites you and your family to experience the Christmas story from a different perspective in Nashville, Tennessee. This event will remind audiences that the spirit of Christmas is much more than a pretty tree with presents piled up underneath, but a time …