Lust for Life reimagined by Julian Schnabel and starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin.
Sappy but carefully crafted romance between the blind masseur of Bear Mountain Inn and Spa and a type-A architect from the Big Apple. Nice scene of experiencing a rainstorm from purely an audio perspective, and the experimental cataract surgery that confers sight on a well-adjusted blind man raises some interesting …
Out of this elegiac comedy on Old Age and the Changing Times, Burt Lancaster's fans ought to get the same sort of sentimental tingles that John Wayne's got from True Grit. His role here is as a small-time numbers runner (and part-time poodle walker) who disdains the swanky new casinos …
Imitation Jules Verne adventure yarn, spun from the Disney animation factory, about a pre-WWI expedition in search of the legendary sunken city. Sketchily drawn (in a deliberately retro style) and swiftly paced, but slowed down eventually by moral-mystical-political-anthropological grandiosity. With the voices of Michael J. Fox, James Garner, Cree Summer, …
The first installment of a story of a dystopian future, an adaptation of the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
More like At Middlington, amirite, fellas? Stolid dramedy that plays like a Boomer fantasy of what Gen Xers must be feeling now that their kids are heading off to college. Vera Farmiga, never less than fascinating, is in full wacky Diane Keaton mode as a free-spirit mom with a Type …
Director David Leitch has already worked on a film that expertly captured the look and feel of the ‘80s (or at least ‘80s movies): the straight-ahead revenge-on-the-Russians gun-show John Wick. He's at it again here, from the contrast of gaudy neon and severe concrete in late-Cold War Berlin, to the …
It must first be acknowledged that this self-proclaimed nuclear Reefer Madness is every bit as much a propaganda film as the 1940s and 50s relics it so confidently holds up to ridicule; and second be acknowledged that the assembled educational films, commercials, and newsreels, presented without commentary and without sufficient …
British, bookish period piece, from an Ian McEwan novel, about a young girl's misreading of the amorous activities of her elders, and its tragic consequences. (A mole on the right cheek links the three different actresses who play the role, Saoirse Ronan in the Thirties, Romola Garai in wartime, and …
A lethargic on-the-lam thriller revolving around a blond nineteen-year-old Parisienne who, smitten by the dark lean chiselled Arabic good looks of a secretive stranger, stands by him after he takes part in a fatal bank robbery. Or rather, runs alongside him. To Spain, to Morocco, to Greece. Set in 1975 …
Seated in a packed auditorium and just seconds away from receiving a prestigious award, a Palestinian doctor operating out of Tel Aviv takes a phone call from his wife. Upon returning home, he spies her purse and phone on the counter, thinks nothing of it, and heads to bed. Open …
Recycling corn is as essential to the narrative retardation of cinema as the regurgitation of cud is to a cow’s gastrointestinal tract. Hollywood’s overall abiding commitment to a lack of originality, and the consumers who lap it up like dog water, is a subject that demands far more time than …