A cup of weak tea indeed from director Joe Wright, one that sorely needs a shot of something stronger to brace it for the unenviable task of manufacturing drama out of the question of whether Prime Minister Winston Churchill will take Britain into war with Germany or sit down for …
Another week, another comic book adaptation this one from the pen of Stephen King. Act fast if you want to catch it on the big screen. Given its lack of box office appeal, this one won't be around for as long as anticipated.
This year's SXSW Audience Award -winner, The Dawn Wall, documents the unbelievable story of free climber Tommy Caldwell’s attempt to scale the most difficult section of the iconic granite mountain face, El Cap.
A middle-aged bachelor, A thief, A young spiritual guru and a frustrated techie wade through a journey of self discovery that aligns them together in it's penultimate phase.
Pull up a front-row seat at the 2017 Drum Corps International World Championship Prelims.
A textbook example of why you should never watch a preview prior to seeing the picture it’s hyping. We open on a mind-boggling performance by card mechanic Richard Turner. (Fair warning: here comes the surprise unveiled by said preview.) Imagine how much more boggled you might have been if the …
Brutal dictators and their conspiratorial would-be successors — they’re just like us! Read: grasping, vain, selfish, petty, blind to their own weakness and stupidity, and only too willing to let others suffer as long as they prosper and advance. Director and co-writer Armando Iannucci puts it all on black (comedy), …
Scott Freiman lectures on, "A fake band, where the Beatles can pretend to be someone else... and try lots of different things."
“Dear Uncle, why should we want to live?” writes Buddhist priest Ittetsu Nemoto in a letter to the man who killed himself while Nemoto was a boy. It’s an especially poignant question, because it’s one that he answers every day, over and over and in various ways, in his life’s …
The film opens on a telling moment: a mistress gives her domestic Teresa (Paulina Garcia) a manicure so that her mitts might look spectacular when they receive their owner’s walking papers. We know very little about Teresa except that she has killer nails and a desperate desire to recover a …
Three times the despicability and — for the first time in franchise history — shot in widescreen! That oughta impress the kids.
Remember the torture, er, enhanced interrogation scene in Zero Dark Thirty? The one that produced good intel that ultimately aided in the detection and subsequent elimination of Osama Bin Laden? Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal are happy to repeat the theme here, as light-skinned folks once again abuse …
Chinese adaptation of the Japanese novel The Devotion of Suspect X. Alec Su directs.
After an incident involving wimpy kid Greg (Jason Drucker) and a dirty diaper goes viral, the red-faced lad takes to the road in the backseat of his parents’ car in this family-friendly alternative to National Lampoon’s Vacation. Director Thor Freudenthal was the first to adapt one of Jeff Kinney’s tales …
This big-screen adaptation of Herman Koch’s Dutch novel was originally scheduled to be Cate Blanchett’s directorial debut. Instead, the job went to screenwriter Owen Moverman, and we’re left to wonder what if. A pair of privileged cousins film the murder of a homeless woman whom they decide to torch pretty …