A poetic ReVision of the award-winning Dalai Lama Renaissance.
Pretty girls go into a creepy old house, complete with a creepy old lady, dead flowers in the garden, a spooky cat, and visions of a young girl in an old-fashioned nightdress. Who needs English?
Bloody Sauerkraut Western about a revenge-driven loner who goes to extreme lengths to track down and brutally torture his victims. Too clever for its own sadistic good: one victim is dispatched with a spring-activated device that, when triggered, launches a board with two protruding nails in the general direction of …
Why would you go to see a movie about a museum exhibition about a musician? Well, maybe because the exhibition, currently touring the world, isn't stopping in your town. Also maybe because the musician in question wanted very much for his music "to look like it sounds." David Bowie understood …
Rise of the Planet of the Apes alone justified the advent of CGI. With it comes a worthy successor. No other-worldly Hollywood actioner of recent vintage come close to playing by the rules of the robust fantasy universe it puts forth like this pair of premium summer blockbusters. It's been …
This story of a blackface Halloween kegger-party at a fictional, racially divided university generates enough fertile insight to keep the heaps of dialogue compostable to the point where it helps to cover some of the script’s more familiar dirt. Justin Simien’s caustic attack on Ivy League racism frequently finds characters …
Demian Bichir (Dom Hemingway) stars in an Argentinean thriller about a detective who sends a handsome rookie cop undercover(s) in order to investigate wealthy (and quite possibly criminal) gays in '80s Buenos Aires. Directed by newcomer Natalia Meta. Spanish with English subtitles.
Scott Derrickson's latest foray into "based on a true story" exorcism-land — he broke through with 2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose — benefits from some creative setup (the demon arrives from the Middle East via Iraq vets who stumble upon an underground altar), some clever genre mashup (the film …
Pregnancy can be hell — hey-o! You know what would have made Rosemary's Baby so much more awesome? Found footage and more special effects. Yeah.
Cain and Abel revisited as two siblings — a doctor working to save the life of a young victim of a road rage and the lawyer assigned to defend the off-duty cop who shot him — push the limits of their rivalry when the son of one brother and daughter …
A brave dramatic premise: as the Allies approach Nazi-occupied Paris, the German military governor of the city prepares to follow his orders and blow up the City of Lights. But before he does, the Swedish consul-general pays him a surprise visit to plead for mercy. You probably know the ultimate …
James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain star as an asshat and botched suicide, respectively, whose marriage fell apart with the death of their young son. Producer Harvey ‘Scissorhands’ Weinstein took first time writer-director Ned Benson’s dolorous trilogy — combined total running time of 311 minutes — and sliced them down to …
A young woman trains as a warrior in the first installment of a series set in a dystopian future, eventually finding herself in conflict with the sinister Powers that Be. Divergent fairly begs to be measured against the Hunger Games series, right down to the sibilant similitude of the heroines' …
If you think weddings cost a lot, just wait until you get to the divorce!