The setting is Rakhine State, Myanmar, a land of political repression where the majority of the population are Buddhists. The predominantly Muslim Rohingya that make up the rest of the citizenry lived peaceably side-by-side until 2016 when they became the target of an ethnic cleansing campaign by the Burmese military. …
Ditzy dipsomaniacs (Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick) bucking for a free Hawaiian vacation fill the need of the titular siblings (Adam Devine, whose performance fails to live up to his last name, and Zac Efron). The laughs never start as these four knotheads, whittled from the same block of wood, …
“Stop monologuing, you bi-polar f***!” could be the best career advice that anyone’s given Mark Wahlberg, even though it’s hard not to laugh when it’s John Malkovich speaking from under what’s easily the most outlandish toupee of his career. (Watch the way the filmmakers purposely compose around the Chia Whisk …
“Stop monologuing, you bi-polar f***!” could be the best career advice that anyone’s given Mark Wahlberg, even though it’s hard not to laugh when it’s John Malkovich speaking from under what’s easily the most outlandish toupee of his career. (Watch the way the filmmakers purposely compose around the Chia Whisk …
Support your local filmmakers! For most of his life, executive producer, cowriter (along with wife, Betty), and star Sid Burston has had an obsession with jazz great, Miles Davis. Often described as a Davis lookalike with a mustache, squint a little and one can’t help but see a little of …
If Peter Cattaneo’s The Full Monty had balls, it would have proudly displayed them in the film’s curtain shot. This time, with their husbands and lovers deployed in Afghanistan, rather than take a strip-tease show on the road, Cattaneo’s titular guardians of the home front, here bivouacked at a British …
Jon Hamm stars in this worked-over true story about a puffed-up, on-the-skids sports agent whose humbling necessitates giving birth to a Susan Boyle-inspired talent hunt for an Indian cricket bowler able to transition into an MLB pitcher. As live-action Disney sports comedies go, this makes for amenable if predictable summertime …
Mike (Armie Hammer) and Tommy (Tom Cullen) are Marine snipers who fail to neutralize their target. The disappointed voice at the other end of the walkie-talkie informs the pair that ground vehicles weren’t requested for their mission. The only way home is on foot through a mine-laden desert. For the …
A solar eclipse descends on Cupang. The heavens have yet to completely blacken, and already several of the more backward barrio locals begin to kiss civilization goodbye. One person’s Armageddon is another person’s cottage industry, which is precisely what the town emerges as after Elsa (Nora Aunor) envisions in the …
A severely deluded mental patient with whiskers to spare (Edmund Gwenn) escapes from an old people’s home and proceeds to convince the world that he’s none other than Kris Kringle — never mind his "latent maniacal tendencies" and penchant for wielding a cane. First off, if this really is Santa …
A 10-year-old girl, suddenly stricken with an intestinal disorder that blocks evacuation, endures more graphic onscreen medical procedures than did Linda Blair in The Exorcist before a three-story tumble down the inside of a hollow tree trunk literally knocks the crap back into her. Or was it a miracle? One …
Never judge a film by its trailer, except maybe consider making an exception in this case. If the thought of sexual stimulation involving oral contact with the anus in graphic close up goes down rougher than a popcorn husk lodged in the back of your throat, you might want to …
What’s the best way to cure Cameron’s (Chloë Grace Moretz, in full non-confrontational mode) attraction to members of the same sex? Send her to “God’s Promise,” a conversion therapy center, and stick her in a bunk with a lesbian roommate. Conveniently set in 1993, this dumb-as-a-post expose of self-loathing homophobe/Vice …
Over 50 writers and performers were interviewed for this “laughing heads” documentary, and the cumulative decades' worth of advice they have to offer makes it more a handbook for budding comics than the contemplation on the amount of pain required to make it to the pros that the title suggests. …