Gone is co-screenwriter Rob Lieber (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) and in his is place freshman scribe Patrick Burleigh. Lieber brought a sense of uncontrollable mayhem to Beatrix Potter’s bucolic landscapes and the mixture of live action and CG animation had reached such a level …
A little girl walks down a hospital corridor, stopping in every room to exchange brief goodbyes with the patients. Her grandmother passed and Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) is accompanying her parents to help gather her belongings and clean out the family home. That night, Nelly’s mother (Nina Meurisse) puts her daughter …
It’s a romance that could have begun by answering an ad in the personal section: “Man in wilderness seeks the companionship of a foraging pig.” Somewhere in the woods of Washington State, Robin Feld (Cage) lives a life of mangy-haired seclusion. His sole source of companionship is his pet pig. …
Two calves butt heads just long enough for momma cow to move in and drive them apart. Even Hitchcock couldn’t have directed cattle to perform with such unrehearsed ease, yet it’s a wise director who sees in this happy accident a foreboding preamble for the tension to come. Montana, 1925. …
The story of two people whose lives could intersect. German language film directed by Lisa Bierwirth, starring Àlex Brendemühl, Hanns Zischler, Passi, Ursula Strauss, and Victoria Trauttmansdorff.
Sara is a gender fluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity Robson by day while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in the northeast of Brazil. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave …
Violence erupts between red sandalwood smugglers and the police charged with bringing down their organisation in the Seshachalam forests of South India. Directed by Sukumar, starring Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, and Fahadh Faasil, Sunil.
Helen (Ellen Burstyn) has been on her own since her husband passed three years earlier. She’s relatively self-sustaining and as sharp as the proverbial tack, give or take a nasty habit of locking herself out of the house. It’s one thing to make a mistake in the morning, another to …
This is the true story of several strangers who found out what happened when a group of ordinary, ecocide-fearing British citizens stopped being polite and started getting real with Rebellion, a movement committed to non-violent civil disobedience. It took some time for the group to gain momentum. When Sam originally …
In the spirit of Cecil B. DeMille comes a western saga of unbridled, albeit softcore, lust that caps a sinful 145-minute running time with just enough redemption to justify an appeal to Christian audiences. There’s one in every brothel in the old west: the dirt-poor farmer quick to excuse a …
Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds star in what appears to be a Frankenstein creation composed of bits and pieces of every action film produced over the last twenty years. The trailer is pitched strictly to die-hard fans of The Rock, and by that, we mean members of his …
After 17 years in the business, Mikey (Simon Rex) had more bangs to his credit than the Big Bay Boom. The Los Angeles-based porn star vowed never again to set foot in Texas, but the universe, and a fickle industry, monkey-wrenched his plans. In lieu of conversation, rapid-fire Mikey riot-hosed …
A waterlogged Miami (“the sunken coast”) provides a sensational special effects backdrop for this otherwise routine noir merger of Altered States and Strange Days. Stock fatalistic narration leads the way: “We don’t haunt the past, the past haunts us.” Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) is a tour guide of the mind, …
A waterlogged Miami (“the sunken coast”) provides a sensational special effects backdrop for this otherwise routine noir merger of Altered States and Strange Days. Stock fatalistic narration leads the way: “We don’t haunt the past, the past haunts us.” Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) is a tour guide of the mind, …
Produced under the banner of Paul W. S. Anderson’s Constantine Films, Johannes Roberts’s reboot is less interested in Anderson’s surprisingly seductive horror franchise than it is exploring the beginnings of the video game that spawned it. We passively observe the action from the various characters’ points-of-view. With guns drawn, the …