Frieza returns, and an epic rivalry is reborn.
It’s been decades since a film with “National Lampoon” in its title has been worth watching, let alone applauding. For the first 10 years of its existence, the humor magazine was my comedy Qur’an, a monthly dose of unrepentant shock and bad taste that merrily went out of its way …
Yes, it means what you think it means — but also more! Jack Black commits, wholeheartedly and straightfacedly, to the part of Dan Landsman, a Midwestern guy with an admiring boss, a great wife, and a good kid who is nevertheless obsessed with having some bros. Guy friends, like the …
Emma Thompson picks up her Victorian-era pen to take on the based-on-a-true story of John Ruskin (Greg Wise), a certain sort of aesthete — you know, the kind that might fall in love with an innocent girl, only to find himself horrified by her eventual womanhood and its dirty, dirty …
Documentarian Mark Hartley tells the story of the studio behind such classics as Death Wish II, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, among others.
Manolo Carlo writes and directs this story of a woman whose husband goes out for smokes and never comes back. In Spanish with English subtitles.
The reason for black and white — or one of them, anyway — in Cero Guerra’s tale of dual Amazonian explorations is clear from the get-go: the lack of color allows texture and light to come to the fore in spectacular fashion. The film can be savored (and almost entirely …
Remember novels? How about tape recorders? Wait, wait — what about famous writers? In 1996, the writer David Lipsky got Rolling Stone to let him join David Foster Wallace on the last leg of the author's book tour for his Big Novel, Infinite Jest. The article never ran, but Lipsky …
Romantic thriller from R. S. Vima.
Refuse to aim your snoot skyward when style and subject intertwine, and this nastily surreal descent into standup madness will deliver on its title. With his stringy, Dippity-Do-ed Zero Mostel combover and predilection for mucous-huffing mid-set, Neil Hamburger — a character comedian Gregg Turkington has spent the past 20 years …
Love can make you do stupid things. Like, say, move from Canada to Colombia to help your hobbled brother build a shack/shop on the beach while you give surf lessons, then start dating a pretty local who happens to be the niece of the most powerful guy in town, then …
Chito S. Rono brings you the story of five successful women who are all having affairs. Apparently, there are rules for breaking the rules.