Anna and Ben (writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally) are a married couple so well-versed in the art of bickering that their verbal fisticuffs end with “F.U.’s” exchanged in unison. So it's not super-suprising that recycling arguments by setting them to music turns out to be a perfectly logical way …
Sledgehammer blows of feminist fury — from India, of all unlikely places. Dirty talk and bloody violence galore, in a "true story" spanning from 1968 — and one of the longest pre-credits sequences on record — to an up-to-date coda. For foreign-film buffs acquainted with Indian cinema chiefly through the …
A crime-does-pay comedy, told in flashback, following the transparent bluff that the two bank robbers known as the Sleepover Bandits (Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton) have now been shot dead. Their getaway driver's sideline as a would-be Hollywood stuntman provides a dead giveaway to the "surprise" ending. Mid-spree, they pick …
Rock-and-roll fantasy, as narcissistic as they come, about a women's-prison pickup band called Bandits ("Band plus tits") who fly the coop at the Policemen's Ball. Made in Germany, but no less commercial for the subtitles. With Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz, Jutta Hoffmann; directed by Katja von Garnier.
Slack, poky, capricious, meandering improvisation on an American crime novel by Dolores Hitchens, one of the more -- one of the many -- ephemeral efforts from the salad days of Jean-Luc Godard. (Or, as he is credited here, Jean-Luc Cinema Godard.) To see this film today is to understand perfectly …
Mod Squad for the Eighties, except that there are now five of them (like the fingers of a hand, see). The executive producer, Michael Mann, is the executive producer of Miami Vice; and the director, Paul Michael Glaser, used to be one or the other of the title characters on …
Squeaky-clean teen musical culminating in a battle of the high-school rock bands. The music competition proves to be a bit less intense and thorny than the romantic competition, but nothing, either way, that can’t be smoothed out amicably by the final curtain. In the hands of director Todd Graff and …
Title tells all.
To be specific, the Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra, an octet costumed in robin’s-egg blue, visiting Israel for the inauguration of an Arab Culture Center, but taking a wrong turn to a sound-alike destination in the middle of nowhere, spending a night, getting to know the locals and vice versa, bridging …
A candy-colored Inside Show Biz musical, directed by Vincente Minnelli. The private jokes, the campy parody, and the cheerful cynicism give the movie its air of knowingness; but the disruptively dazzling musical numbers are never brought together into a stable framework or consistent style. With Fred Astaire as an aging …
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Bommarillu Bhaskar directs the Tamil version of the Malayalam rom-com Bangalore Days. In Tamil.