Same dross, different gender. Danny Ocean’s kid sister Debbie (Sandra Bullock) whiles away a five-year stretch in the pokey by conspiring to knock over the annual Met Gala. Her seven same-sex associates are all assigned one function/trait needed to advance the plot: Rihanna as the spliff-rolling hacker (with the floating …
Same dross, different gender. Danny Ocean’s kid sister Debbie (Sandra Bullock) whiles away a five-year stretch in the pokey by conspiring to knock over the annual Met Gala. Her seven same-sex associates are all assigned one function/trait needed to advance the plot: Rihanna as the spliff-rolling hacker (with the floating …
Same dross, different gender. Danny Ocean’s kid sister Debbie (Sandra Bullock) whiles away a five-year stretch in the pokey by conspiring to knock over the annual Met Gala. Her seven same-sex associates are all assigned one function/trait needed to advance the plot: Rihanna as the spliff-rolling hacker (with the floating …
“Minor work” is a generous classification for this, Studio Ghibli’s only made-for-TV offering, and one of the few Ghibli productions that animation guru Hayao Miyazaki didn’t have a hand in. Heckle & Jeckle had it right: “We cartoon characters can have a wonderful life. We can do anything we think …
According to the opening crawl, the murder rate during Enrique Peña Nieto’s six-year stretch as Mexico’s President was such that in the time it takes to watch the movie, six people would have died. The set-up continues to tempt: we observe from a distance as Aurelio’s (Noé Hernández) son is …
Hanna’s parents finally get around to telling their 19-year-old daughter, the survivor of a failed abortion, that she was adopted. Forget what side of the debate you're on: a bad movie is a bad movie, and this escapee from the Hallmark Channel is strictly amateur time. If you’re not sure …
For those who prefer battery acid to Visine comes a blindsiding horror bore. What should one expect from a film whose poster screams, “From the producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious"? There’s an element of suspense in the form of fragmented sentences (“You haven’t been here since…,” "We should try …
It’s awards season, and the duo responsible for Blades of Glory and The Switch, virtuoso hacks Josh Gordon and Will Speck, earn a nomination for one the year’s gloomiest comedies. Box office anathema Jennifer Aniston stars as a CEO threatening to shutter her sybaritic little brother’s (T.J. Miller) failing branch …
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, a legacy-minded pharmaceutical tycoon (José Luis Gómez) with billions to spare, and not a dime’s worth of prestige, toys with leaving behind a bridge to better humanity, before optioning the rights to a big screen adaptation of a Nobel prize-winning novel he's never …
The most famous female whistleblower this side of Erin Brockovich finally gets her day in the multiplex. Guilty or not guilty? Before Katherine Gun (Keira Knightley) can cop a plea, we flashback to the year-long terrorization of the young translator whose biggest sin was blowing the whistle on the Bush/Blair …
The devil comes to Colombia in the form of a dog whose rabid bite infects the blue-blood of a teenage, red-haired Rapunzel (Eliza Triana). Abandoned at a hellish convent by her father, the young girl eventually falls in love with her exorciser (Pablo Derqui). Many have tried, but when it …
A forlorn office worker (Shinobu Terajima) takes an English class (taught by Josh Hartnett) where role-playing proves to be the key to unlocking her titular second self. We open on an elevated platform where a man standing behind our heroine whispers a goodbye before jumping into the path of an …
While on tropical holiday, a diverse gathering of the idle rich find themselves trapped inside a paradisiacal cove where they age at such an accelerated rate that their offspring meet, date, mate, and conceive before the sun sets. Perhaps the best way to approach this overlong Twilight Zone variation on …
In flashback, young Christina looks on at an exorcism being performed on her mother. Years later, American citizen Christina’s (Brigitte Kali Canales) career as a crusading newshawk lands her in Veracruz to investigate numerous reports of hocus-pocus-dominocus. It’s here in her hometown that she is kidnapped and held hostage by …
Olga’s (Anastasiia Budiashkina, a real-life gymnast playing a fictional character) reason for leaving Ukraine has as much to do with realizing her dream of making the Swiss Olympic team as it does with personal safety. Ukraine doesn't allow dual citizenship, and the 15-year-old athlete is going to have to follow …