It’s early in the year, so that means it’s time for another Liam Neeson outing in which a lucky co-star will be kidnapped and/or killed in order to set in motion the perennial revenge formula. This time it’s a son who barely survives the credits before his snowplow-driving dad (Neeson) …
A new film starring Nicolas Cage? Where do I sign up?
Playing in conjunction with the 2019 Hola Mexico Film Festival Tour.
We descend from the clouds, an angel’s point-of-view guiding us through what was once the childhood home of Patricio Guzmán. It’s been over 40 years since the director left Chile, around the same time Pinochet came to power. Nothing about the Cordillera is revolutionary — it’s a veritable time machine …
Filmed in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, and set in summer 1988, Coup concerns a 22-year-old bank employee and family man who embezzles millions of dollars from his bank via a newly discovered security flaw that he exploits with an ingenious technique. Fleeing to Australia, he phones his girlfriend to tell …
The title of this documentary tells all. See it on the big screen. Directed by Peter H. Chang.
Luis Garcia (Lou Gossett), a once influential and now unresponsive Cuban musician living out his days in a dementia-induced fog, is afforded one last whirl at life when his nursing home places him in the care of callow, well-intentioned pre-med student Mina (Ana Golja). She replenishes his dietary regimen with …
A woman who had traveled some distance to New York to attend one of dancer-choreographer Merce Cunningham’s performances later contacted a music critic to complain. It seems the show was so bad that the amount it cost — train ticket, babysitter, etc. — left her feeling gypped. The critic agreed …
Dr. Strange, General Zod, Spider-Man, and Beast join forces to play real-life superheroes Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), Samuel Insull, (Tom Holland), and Nikola Tesla (Nicolas Hoult) in a race to introduce electricity to the civilized world. Vigilantly designed and lit, if not photographed; director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s …
The legend of La Llorona —the “weeping woman” who, upon learning of her husband’s infidelity, revenge-killed their two small children — is said to have been the foremost generator of nightmares among impressionable Hispanic toddlers. But when the two children of CPS employee Anna (Linda Cardellini) show up for school …