Martin Scorsese continues to suffer from a form of elephantiasis, compounded by a touch of Oscaritis: a pushing-three-hours epic on the tumultuous career of Howard Hughes (the eternally boyish Leonardo DiCaprio, deficient in gravitas even with the added mustache midway through) in the parallel worlds of filmmaking and aeronautics circa …
Charlton Heston as a modern-day Egyptologist, who, if he had spent less time with library book and pickaxe and more time watching mummy movies, would have had better sense than to violate a tomb inscribed "Do not approach the Nameless One, lest your soul be withered." Some very good moments …
Well, now. A pretty English ghost-hunter (or rather, hoax-hunter) journeys to an English boarding school where the boys keep going missing. Can it be that her faith in science will prove insufficient in the face of the terrors she encounters there? With Rebecca Hall, Dominic West.
A dose of humanistic treacle to do with the temporary revival of catatonic patients through the experimental administration (this is in 1969) of the wonder drug L-DOPA. ("Dr. Sayer!" "What is it?" "It's a fuckin' miracle!") The plural of the title is not solely because there is more than one …
Co-directors Paola DiFlorio and Lisa Leeman take on the daunting task of telling the story of a spiritual man’s material life. Paramahansa Yogananda is probably best known as the author of The Autobiography of a Yogi, and as the Indian Swami who introduced yoga and meditation to mainstream America in …
Director Sam Mendes travels the sunnier side of Revolutionary Road, travels it, together with a playful, lovey-dovey, loosey-goosey couple expecting their first child and looking for a spot to put down roots, to Phoenix, to Tucson, to Madison, to Montreal, to Miami, evoking little sense of place anywhere outside of …
An awfully oversized title for the adventure of a starry-eyed innocent in the jaded world of British repertory theater, post-WWII. Between the accents, the argot, and the circumlocutions, it's a bit tough to penetrate. And even for theater people, the performances are unbearably theatrical. Georgina Cates, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, …
Screwball comedy, screwed down more tightly than most, about a divorced couple who take the long way around to realizing how good they had it. By the beautifully crafted finale, the only things standing between them are an unsecurely closed door and a napping cat. And as long as you …
A film from Kyoto Animation and Naoko Yamada, the director of K-On!
Animated feature about 17-year-old runaway Yui and 8-year-old Hiyori, who lost her family and her voice. They have no place to go when they run into Kiwa, a strange old lady. She offers them a place to stay, in a slightly banged-up old house overlooking the sea. Despite joining Kiwa …
Japanese animated space Western action film, set within but also slightly apart from the hit animated TV series, about a terrorist threatening to destroy the population of Mars via a deadly pathogen, and the bounty hunters hired to thwart the plot.
The final chapter of BABYMETAL's world tour, the first Okinawa performance, is captured on film for theaters.
Japanese animated space Western action film, set within but also slightly apart from the hit animated TV series, about a terrorist threatening to destroy the population of Mars via a deadly pathogen, and the bounty hunters hired to thwart the plot.