Bill (son of Burt) Lancaster's script takes an aloofly adult, isn't-that-cute view of a Little League pennant race. (And the use of Bizet's music as counterpoint to the kids' struggles is something that might have been thought up by the pompous CBS sports department.) No matter how condescending the treatment, …
The remake of The Bad News Bears, minus the definite article, plugs in Billy Bob Thornton in the Walter Matthau part, a former professional baseball player and current full-time drunk, enlisted to coach a team of Little League rejects (now sponsored not by Chico's Bail Bonds, though that establishment gets …
Having exhausted their fund of profanities, boners, and late-inning miracles in their two earlier outings, the precocious Little Leaguers are shifted into the background in order to convert this sequel into a Tony Curtis vehicle. Curtis is mostly unfunny, but not unaffecting, as a middle-aged, graying, and increasingly desperate version …
A comedy inspired by true events concerning two sophisticated Punjabi men and a Christian-Hindu girl. One of the men has a one night stand with the girl, and craziness happens when she is unexpectedly pregnant. Directed by Anand Tiwari and starring Vicky Kaushal, Triptii Dimri, and Ammy Virk.
Frontwoman of the Blackhearts, Joan Jett, receives a documentary all her own. Kevin Kerslake directs.
Sick and twisted (and goddam proud of it) Christmas comedy by Terry Zwigoff, whose Ghost World instantaneously takes on the appearance of a fluke. It was the characters, even more clearly now than before, who "made" Ghost World — them, and their literary or quasi-literary creator, the graphic novelist Daniel …
Mark Waters directed Mean Girls. He also directs this story of a Santa who swears. A man of many talents.
Akira Kurosawa's sortie into the chilly white-collar world of corporate corruption is an uneven mixture of muckraking journalism and hysterical revenge tragedy. But the opening segment at least -- twenty minutes on a talk-of-the-town wedding celebration -- is unbeatable in its use of wide-screen space, as it jumps between dense, …
Said to be a true story inspired by an untrue story, a stifling summer hits a suburb outside of Rome, and the desperation and repressed rage of children explodes and cuts through the grotesque facade of the small suburban community. Directed by the D'Innocenzo Brothers, starring Barbara Chicarelli, Lino Musella, …
Poor Elizabeth Halsey. She needs $10,000 for new boobs, the kind big enough to attract a sugar daddy by sheer gravitational pull. But, alas, she’s just a poor teacher, in every sense of the word. Whatever will she do? Doesn’t matter, really: the point here is hearing Cameron Diaz talk …
In 2012, writer-director Drew Goddard took a bunch of teens to a Cabin in the Woods for a rollicking nightmare subversion of the horror genre. Here, he takes a bunch of strangers — Jeff Bridges’ confused cleric, Jon Hamm’s slick salesman, Dakota Johnson’s haughty hippie, and Cynthia Erivo’s suffering singer, …
The mystery element, which doesn't claim our attention until very near the end, has to do with what really happened to Theresa Russell, who spends the length of the movie in a hospital emergency room having her stomach pumped, her throat perforated, her vagina sampled, etc., while we get bits …
There have never been female Jackasses or Jackasses of color, an oversight that Bad Trip, the latest hidden camera road movie from producer Jeff Tremaine (Bad Grandpa), is about to set right. We follow director Kitao Sakurai’s squad of plucky pranksters — co-writer Eric André, straightman Lil Rel Howery, the …