Filmmaker Kevin Miller sets out to survey the Christian (and non-Christian) world on the question of who, if anyone, is going to hell, and why a loving God would ever allow creatures made in His image and likeness to suffer such a fate. The chief debate is between those who …
Freshly divorced woman moves back in with Mom and takes up with a teenager. Complications ensue.
Filmed over 24 hours in 25 locations around the world and with the participation of over 12 surfers, Here and Now aspires to be the Life in a Day of surf movies. Shots taken from shore offer fairly standard glimpses. Only when the camera gets wet does the audience feel …
Thought experiment, possibly entertaining: view this film as if it were titled The Passion of the Kevin James. It's as much a Christ parable as Raging Bull, only "director" Frank Coraci doesn't know it. In order to raise the funds needed to save his school's music program, the nutty redeemer …
A woman discovers her lover’s ex living inside the walls of a lavish country manor, trapped in a secret vault built by one of Hitler’s engineers. If you can get past one cardboard characterization (a stereotypical cop) and a haphazard patch of plotting, there’s enjoyment to be found in this …
A rom-com with precious little com but plenty of unintentionally hilarious rom. Wes Bentley takes his perpetually perturbed mug south of the border to investigate the mysterious woman who stopped in at his dad's funeral and made everyone wonder if the old man had a piece of pollo on the …
A pair of enterprising young sativa scholars, destined to ace the principal’s newly announced mandatory school-wide drug test, decide to even the playing field by plying the entire graduating class with cannabis brownies. Without enough laughs and gags to support it, the solid foundation for a stoner comedy dissipates faster …
This fictional reenactment of Somali pirates kidnapping the crew of a Danish cargo ship probably would have played better had the Digital Gym not screened the documentary account, Stolen Seas, earlier that week. Instead of sticking to the drama inherent in the story — the filmmakers went to great lengths …
This fictional reenactment of Somali pirates kidnapping the crew of a Danish cargo ship probably would have played better had the Digital Gym not screened the documentary account, Stolen Seas, earlier that week. Instead of sticking to the drama inherent in the story — the filmmakers went to great lengths …
Instead of following author Stephen Rebello’s fine Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by turning out a procedural on the art of making a masterpiece, Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil) gives us a watered-down romcom directed in the style of an episode of Hitchcock Presents. (It’s ostensibly …
Any film with a lead character called “Charlie Bronson," whose father, played by Beau Bridges, is named “Clint," and who drives a mint '67 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors had best be an affectionate tribute to '70s drive-in fare. “Bronson” (Dax Shepherd) is a whistle-blowing retired getaway driver enrolled in …
More of the same from director Peter Jackson, here pulling a proper Lucas and giving us the first installment of a prequel trilogy to his earlier three-parter, The Lord of the Rings. (Then, he was adapting three books; now, he's stretching just one, packing a straightforward quest with all manner …